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by timeal 10y ago
Mass market? Today the Pixel brand regroups only high-end products.
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by timeal 10y ago
Cooling 1000W of electronics in a vehicle is a tough problem. I don't know why you'd think it's easy.
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by timeal 10y ago
Actually it's the Bitcoin Price Index ATH that was $1165.89 (Nov 2013), while the Coinbase ATH was $1175 (Jan 2017). Both ATH were surpassed in the last hour.
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by timeal 10y ago
It's clear where it's headed on the log chart. Up! https://blockchain.info/charts/market-price?scale=1&timespan...
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by timeal 10y ago
Bitcoin is within 0.4% of its all-time high ( http://www.coindesk.com/price/ - peaked at $1165.89 in 2013). ATH breakout could and probably is going to happen any minute now... In fact many exchanges have already reache
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by timeal 10y ago
This attack is applicable to SSL certs. Not most CAs as they have deployed counter-measures (such as using a long, random serial number) after the publication of the colliding MD5 rogue CA ( https://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash&#
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by timeal 10y ago
There are plenty of signals. Price is rising. Activity on Bitcoin forums is growing (r/Bitcoin users grew from 173,000 to 198,000 in a year, bitcointalk.org activity grew from 5900 posts/day to 6700 posts/day in a year, etc).
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by timeal 10y ago
The trans rate grew by a factor 10 over the last 3 years. Surely a non-zero fraction of this growth comes from new users.
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by timeal 10y ago
I am not sure there is any utility in differentiating between these 2 types of increased use. Either way it's increased use, and either way it's good for Bitcoin. Nowadays the peak trans rate is in fact 3.7/second [2200 trans
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by timeal 10y ago
Number of trans/block has been very smoothly increasing for many years now - single best indicator of increasing adoption: https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions-per-block?days...
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by timeal 10y ago
That guy shouldn't. But do you realize that this flaw exists in today's presidential election system? If in the entire state of California, only 1 voter casts his ballot and the millions of other don't vote or can't vote
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by timeal 10y ago
His point is that the 3/5th compromise doesn't count people equally, like today where all votes aren't equal.
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by timeal 10y ago
You can be sure that this vulnerability was probably discovered by some researcher, then sold to grey markets like https://www.zerodium.com or https://www.exodusintel.com/ (they pay up to $1 million for a highpr
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by timeal 11y ago
You can't. The scrypt hash should be protected by HTTPS the same way a website password is protected by HTTPS.
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by timeal 12y ago
Why so many negative comments? Japan certainly seems to outshine the US according to multiple metrics, so they are doing something right: Japan's unemployment rate is 3.6% vs 5.5% for the US: http://www.stat.go.jp/engli
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by timeal 12y ago
I don't understand. Girls are watching these shows, and this is raising their awareness of pregnancy?
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by timeal 12y ago
> Go forth and compare https://blockchain.info/charts ignoring that the fact that they didn't mention sales at all is a pretty good indication. These charts do NOT show Bitcoin Black Friday sales, but all worldwide
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by timeal 12y ago
> Fewer transactions and lower volume than last year. Again, for the 4th(!) time, you have no data proving this. > Multiple vendors on /r/bitcoin claiming little to no volume either compared to last year. A few anecdotes !=
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by timeal 12y ago
> Notice they changed the metric from the number of sales to the number of merchants? Because it was a huge flop. Most likely they quoted this number because 10 or 20 or 30% "increased sales" sounded less impressive. It doesn&#
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by timeal 12y ago
> Bitcoin Black Friday 2014 being a huge failure No, BBF 2014 was a huge success: "we saw an 82% increase in the number of merchants who completed transactions compared to last year’s BBF", "Both Gyft and NewEgg experience
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by timeal 12y ago
In San Francisco, average gas prices went from $4.33 to $2.92 ( http://www.sanfrangasprices.com/retail_price_chart.aspx ). That's a 33% decrease - matching quite closely the crude oil decrease of 40%. But as someone said
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by timeal 12y ago
This story needs to be upvoted 1000 times. Why are financial institution so _bad_ at password policies?