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by user24 13y ago
so in other words, XBT behaved exactly as you expected XAU would in the same situation, yet somehow to you that reflects badly on XBT but not on XAU.
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by user24 13y ago
> "we need a new journalism to explain what is really going on." I have high hopes for the Greenwald/Omidyar venture
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by user24 13y ago
> dismissing falls/rises of 20% in hours as normal That is pretty normal for bitcoin though isn't it?
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by user24 13y ago
What do you think would happen to the XAU/CNY rate if China announced that gold was no longer accepted in banks?
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by user24 13y ago
bounced back pretty quickly: http://bitcoinity.org/markets/btcchina/CNY
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by user24 13y ago
don't understand why multi signature isn't more commonly used.
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by user24 13y ago
I undestand (and somewhat agree with) your reaction - but only if the photos/videos are anonymous. I don't like the idea of someone getting off to pictures of me, but so long as it's completely disassociated from my real life
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by user24 13y ago
I'm not sure escrow services exist (yet). I don't know how exchanges work, having only bought on bitbargain, and never sold.
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by user24 13y ago
I had a good experience buying via: http://bitbargain.co.uk
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by user24 13y ago
I was with you until the final sentence, which makes you sound emotionally involved rather than putting forward a logical argument. That aside, let me retort; > Its supposed to be easy but it isnt I agree, and I'll be hugely surpris
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by user24 13y ago
> Why pay transaction fees to an exchange if ... Because you want to support bitcoin. If you don't want to pay with bitcoin, don't. If you do want to support bitcoin but don't want to erode your savings, then do this.
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by user24 13y ago
This question comes up frequently. The best thing to do if you want to buy something for $500, is buy $500 in bitcoin and then pay with bitcoin. This way your 'stash' isn't eroded and you contribute to the bitcoin economy.
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by user24 13y ago
No worries. Can you link/write a howto for that?
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by user24 13y ago
> I etched my addresses onto metal dogtags you mean you etched your keys, right? Nice idea.
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by user24 13y ago
> Can we automatically downvote all Bitcoin news please? Good idea. An entirely decentralised, pseudonymous, secure way of exchanging money is not something hackers are interested in.
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by user24 13y ago
except it barely mentions mtgox. If it wasn't in the title of this submission, I wouldn't know it was by mtgox.
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by user24 13y ago
Then I am wrong.
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by user24 13y ago
That didn't stop TIME magazine in 2011 ("The Protestor"), or 2006 ("You").
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by user24 13y ago
> Hitler was TIME's "Man of the Year" in 1938. - after the Munich Agreement wherein Hitler agreed peace with Chamberlain. Ok he reneged, but that's not the point.
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by user24 13y ago
Are these polls typically good indicators of TIME's official choice? Or is this going to be a way of making Snowden "the people's POY" without TIME officially making it so?
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by user24 13y ago
I have spent a little at http://takeaway.com in the UK, but I'm primarily seeing it as an investment. I know that we also need to start spending it for it to have any real value, so my wife and I agree that as of January we
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by user24 13y ago
No, I'm saying that when people realised that there is a hypothetical attack that undermines bitcoin, if you have 51% of the power, that realisation didn't kill bitcoin.
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by user24 13y ago
Bicycle. New problem created.
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by user24 13y ago
That's more specific SQL than a simple gag would require... story?
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by user24 13y ago
Agree. I saw some guy's hellbanned account who was happily commenting for over a year on HN - again nothing abusive I could see. I tried to message him on twitter but no reply.
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by user24 13y ago
I think you're wrong about that. 51% attack publication didn't kill it. Silk road bust didn't kill it. Selfish miner attack publication didn't kill it. I'm not saying that a flood of sellers won't lower the pri
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by user24 13y ago
Agree. All these companies "accepting" bitcoin are actually just accepting USD and "converting" bitcoin.
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by user24 13y ago
It is not smooth at all: https://bitbargain.co.uk/trade-bitcoins-app Not to mention the 0.4XBT non refundable seller application fee. For a one-off "I want to cash out" use case this is completely unworkable.
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by user24 13y ago
The problem as I see it is that, contrary to popular belief, sending spam is not free, so this merely increases the cost a little. The difference between free and $n is greater than that between $n and ($n * 2).
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by user24 13y ago
If you put the bands here instead, you get a whopping 54% of the points, http://imgur.com/kkqdyNR So, I'm not convinced. Other than a slight void in the centre and at the edges, it looks like a fairly random distributi

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