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by sida 12y ago
This is pretty cool. But seriously, this is way too hard
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by sida 13y ago
dang, this is not just to sign up for. The project is actually fully functional. The link links to the front page, but if you see the top tab, you will both the API documentations and the blockexplorer.
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by sida 13y ago
That should already be supported. Are you having issues?
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by sida 13y ago
We are about to release a webhook feature which you can register your deposit addresses (you can also set it at a predetermined confirmation count). That way at least you will get notified immediately (so you can confirm it with your custom
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by sida 13y ago
Do you mean the HTTP webhook for notifications of transactions?
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by sida 13y ago
That is true. I can certainly see that. If enough developers want support for altcoin. I think that wouldn't too hard to do
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by sida 13y ago
Which altcoin would you like to see support for? Although, given the similarities, if we can probably support all the popular altcoins if we do decide to extend support.
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by sida 13y ago
In particular, these endpoints are designed to be used as part of the 'before hook' in your integration tests so that you can start with fresh testnet coins in every test.
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by sida 13y ago
We already collect that information about relaying IPs (although you can never really be sure who is the originating IP). We have custom nodes that specifically listen for that information. However, we decided this wasn't useful enough
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by sida 13y ago
Glad you brought this up. Prior to building helloblock, I built a couple of other open source apps (tippercoin / sparecoins) which used the blockchain.info API. There were a few problems that I encountered. Blockchain.info is focused o
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Show HN: HelloBlock – Focus on building Bitcoin apps, not infrastructure(helloblock.io)
34 points by sida 13y ago|27 comments
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by sida 13y ago
"Start ups tend to focus on signups / daily active" when they could be focusing on retention. Could not agree more. Although retention is indeed very hard to measure, and things like net promoter score seems a bit flaky at be
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by sida 13y ago
Bitcoin wasn't even around in 2006.
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by sida 13y ago
-- you're making money off the storage of 1000s of people like me running bitcoind Not making any money actually. Project is open sourced too -- OP_RETURN Will probably move on the weekend.
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by sida 13y ago
This is actually not possible with this particular system right now. Because you will need to send to particular outputs for messaging. But if you do it with OP_RETURN then yes, you should be able to do that.
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by sida 13y ago
We were aware that some miners did mine OP_RETURN. We do have plans to move this. We previously decided against because we felt it might take too long for the transaction to get confirmed and wanted to at least wait til there is at least 50
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by sida 13y ago
Umm, good point. I don't have an answer for that. But considering it will cost you about 60c to store a 100 byte payload, I am not sure what copyright infringment material you can put in there. Probably none. So for now, I will say I d
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by sida 13y ago
I must say I disagree with you although I do see your point. I don't believe that people will use the Blockchain for messaging. It will cost you 60c per message. I certainly wouldn't use it for messaging. I think the implication i
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by sida 13y ago
Well, This was inspired by the upcoming v0.9 release which makes OP_RETURN (allows you to create immediately prunable output to attach message bytes) a standard transaction output in Bitcoin. And when does get released we will move to use O
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by sida 13y ago
hey, that's a good question. Each standard Bitcoin address is a derivation of the 20 bytes `hash160`. This allows us to embed an arbitrary 20 bytes message in each output. When you put together a message, we build and propagation a tra
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by sida 13y ago
If only HN had a comment streaming API! PG, time to add some more features to hacker news
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by sida 13y ago
The beautiful thing is that tipping real money kind of doesn't feel right. Like, "hey ryan bates, good job on the railscast, here is a dollar" But, personally, when it is in cryptocurrency it feels very different.
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by sida 13y ago
I am so surprised that dogecoin took off! haha
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by sida 13y ago
haha nice. We should definitely look into dogecoin. I honestly didn't take dogecoin seriously until we got so many dogecoin requests today! Have you tried, 1 Beer (4 USD worth of BTC) or 1 Internet (1.337 USD worth of BTC) ? :P http:&
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by sida 13y ago
I agree. I also find it's easier to tip Bitcoins. Emotionally, it doesn't feel like I am spending money, and as a recipient it also feels more novel (we got a few donations for some of our other projects). It is almost like a star
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by sida 13y ago
Yeah, as locksley said you can use coinbase for over the email BTC transfers. The original intend for building TipperCoin is for tipping and supporting open sourced projects. To send a tip / act of gratitude to people that built cool s
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Show HN: TipperCoin - Send Bitcoins over Twitter(tippercoin.com)
34 points by sida 13y ago|30 comments
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by sida 13y ago
what is with these cliffs haha
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Newsweek in 1995: Why the Internet will Fail(thenextweb.com)
7 points by sida 13y ago|4 comments
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Show HN: A Chrome Extension Wallet that makes small BTC transactions super easy(sparecoins.io)
10 points by sida 13y ago|1 comments

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