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by simondlr 13y ago
Micropayment channels do provide very small payments without flooding the network: https://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/wiki/WorkingWithMicropaym...
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by simondlr 13y ago
Yes, exactly! It's all just a network effect of value. Read my post here: http://simondlr.com/post/70089813484/in-the-future-everyone-... . I believe, if go forward with what this entails, everyone will have t
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by simondlr 13y ago
Dogecoin's transaction volume has been higher than Bitcoin for the past few days: http://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-btc-doge.ht... . Of course, Bitcoin doesn't take into account off-chain transa
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by simondlr 13y ago
Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrencies personally. I battled with the concept of altcoins: why they have value, and whether they aren't just taking away the value from one cryptocurrency. The change it instilled is that cr
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by simondlr 13y ago
Nope. On Cryptsy it has a 24 hour, 2900 BTC trading volume so far.
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by simondlr 13y ago
Unless altcoins can freely float with any other altcoins. Then an altcoin simply becomes a stock in a network effect that altcoin can sustain. There's a reason why Dogecoin (as a "joke" as it is), has almost a $10 million mar
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by simondlr 13y ago
Agreed. By the end of next year there will be thousands of altcoins. By 2015 when it gets easier for anyone to create and sustain one (including the problem of securing small chains), there will be an explosion. Millions of coins. There wil
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Announcing Simoncoin - world's first individual altcoin(simondlr.com)
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In the future, everyone will have their own cryptocurrency.(simondlr.com)
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by simondlr 13y ago
So, in short, they are still allowed to trade with it and use it, as long as they are 'okay' with the 'risk'. It's only financial institutions that can't work with Bitcoin anymore? Is this right?
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by simondlr 13y ago
Thanks. Link 2 works. What's the legend? What's the difference between green, black and blue stripes?
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by simondlr 13y ago
This is beautiful. Earth is just black though. Not seeing any countries. Is this intentional?
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by simondlr 13y ago
For remote work: I've heard good things about Sqwiggle. https://www.sqwiggle.com/ .
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by simondlr 13y ago
I was watching this through the year, wondering if the decline was due to people moving over to web wallets. Clearly not. I bet this is a good indication of price. The more there is online, the more natural interest there is. I think over t
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by simondlr 13y ago
Yes. That's correct. You would've had to find a miner to include the transactions in the blockchain. However, in upcoming versions, setting output as OP_RETURN (which basically allows you to embed additional data) will be a standa
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by simondlr 13y ago
More and more off-chain transactions are happening as well: moving between accounts on exchanges, or moving between accounts on sites such as Coinbase.
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by simondlr 13y ago
There's similar ideas being thrown around in the Bitcoin community by using the network to create identities that is cheap for good users, but expensive for spammers, by sacrificing a portion of BTC to the miners of the network (and th
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by simondlr 13y ago
It seems this rally has stronger market support on the downswings (ie doesn't crash completely). I'd take that as a good thing?
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by simondlr 13y ago
Considering that images were now auto-displayed, wanted to make something where you can tweet text as an image. It seems that Twitter doesn't auto-display pics from 3rd-party apps (which seems like a reasonable measure). So it is not a
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Show HN: Quick side-project. Tweet text as an image.(tweetimg.com)
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Rethinking organisatoins: Hat-tips from open source and decentralization.(simondlr.com)
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by simondlr 13y ago
Clever little niche! Well done.
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by simondlr 13y ago
I created http://www.twimemachine.com . Costs only about $6 a month to run (S3 static costs). And I make between $70 - $100 a month from just the one ad box on it. Pocket money that usually goes into buying some more Bitcoin.
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by simondlr 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote, or anywhere really. South African, just finished Masters degree in Socio-Informatics. Keen to travel. Jack-of-all-trades. Studied computer science, business finance, marketing, systems science, organisation theory and
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by simondlr 13y ago
Besides dodging bullets, it amazes me that Satoshi had the foresight to include a scripting language into the outputs of transactions, envisioning a future where contracts could be built onto the blockchain. For a proof-of-concept, Bitcoin
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by simondlr 13y ago
Love the idea of Bitcoin Agents. Been reading up heavily on schemes to automate transactions on a trust-less level, including proof of sacrifice to establish automatic identities ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1407
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Selling a side-project. Any advice?
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by simondlr 13y ago
Anyone care to explain in more simpler terms?
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by simondlr 13y ago
A friend told me this the other day as well. It is rather limitless... and sounds amazing to code in. You could even have great visualizations for things such as working with the different branches of code. As in the "zone" as you
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by simondlr 13y ago
Don't recall who said it, but powerful disruptive innovations are overhyped in the short term but under-hyped in the long term. That's how I feel about Bitcoin. Circulation might not be a lot, and signs probably show that is not

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