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by smaps 10y ago
The correct way to be neutral in english would be "tuned to their needs"
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by smaps 10y ago
That is a good point to add! With my comment "a competitor calling his competition a bust" I just wanted to make sure people took what he said with a grain of salt. If you hadn't read up on Bitcoin/blockchains/Ri
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by smaps 10y ago
> “Blockchains are a pain to work with,” wrote Thomas, the chief technology officer of Ripple Labs. One thing to note is that he works for Ripple Labs, which created another protocol that is similar to Bitcoin/anything blockchain ba
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by smaps 10y ago
You're definitely right about the consolidation of influence... as someone who was a mod on bitcointalk.org and /r/bitcoin for years I hate it and it drove me to leave both of those behind.
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by smaps 12y ago
The image up top on http://rawspicebar.com/how-it-works/ is clickable, just FYI. It seems to be the only one that's like that. Also, cool idea overall. I'm thinking I may have to give this a shot as I don&#
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by smaps 12y ago
The pajama idea seemed to play pretty well for you, I noticed it when watching the episode. All of the sharks seemed surprised by both of your backgrounds after the first impression. How much of a bump in sales/interest have you gotte
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by smaps 12y ago
I hadn't heard of Lux before, but I've been using Twilight on my Android and I like it. Will have to check out Lux to see if it's better.
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by smaps 12y ago
I don't think they are selling anything right now, so they don't need to be saying much yet.
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by smaps 12y ago
>There is one transaction block issued every 10 minutes. Just to clarify for anyone new to bitcoin... blocks aren't "issued" every 10 minutes exactly. On average there is a new block found every 10 minutes (or so).
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by smaps 12y ago
I think it's possible to do that, though that wouldn't really be Bitcoin anymore. If the difficulty were fluctuating with the same amount of computing power out there, the block time would be changing a lot. This would make for d
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by smaps 12y ago
The big value is not having to completely trust the person holding the money. As of right now if you do escrow you transfer money to a third party, who has the option of taking it and running. With a correctly setup transaction, bitcoins c
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by smaps 12y ago
Is this a new thing? I haven't seen a comprehensive list like this for bitcoin tech specs before, and I do follow bitcoin waaaaaay too much. Seems like this will be a very useful thing with more people starting to use bitcoin!
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by smaps 12y ago
This was my first thought as well. They have tons of merchants using them, but I don't think a big percentage are high volume. So it could easily be that 50% of merchants keep some bitcoin, but only 2% of volume is kept that way.
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by smaps 12y ago
Not sure if serious...
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by smaps 12y ago
So you know for the future, it's 'good riddance'.
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by smaps 12y ago
I am a mortgage company underling and can confirm that almost everyone at my company, and the realtors we deal with, use tons of emoticons. I think it's the only way everyone manages to stay sane in this business.