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by walden42 13y ago
I'm using KeePass on Linux and it integrates flawlessly with Firefox and Chrome, just like LastPass does.
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by walden42 13y ago
How does that work? The client specifically notifies odesk that they're making a hire, and they charge the freelancer 10%? When does he have to pay?
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by walden42 13y ago
The fact that coinbase has bad customer service is not new. You and anyone else upset about it can simply not use their service. Adding regulation only makes the barrier to entry worse for new companies. You can be sure that Coinbase would
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by walden42 13y ago
Exactly, people need to differentiate between the unit and the network. One has intrinsic value and the other does not, but they are also intrinsically connected.
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by walden42 13y ago
> Take the regulatory arbitrage away and AirBnB isn't a technical startup or a market disruptor; it's just another VRBO site with pretty CSS. Apparently a lot of people are attracted to AirBnB for this very reason. This shows h
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by walden42 13y ago
> They are even being broadcasted to the P2P network when you create them. What is the purpose of this?
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by walden42 13y ago
Yahoo here. How the hell did the hackers get the passwords in plain text? Were they seriously unencrypted?
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by walden42 13y ago
The only problem I've found with this method is the spammers that try to guess your email, so they end up sending emails to "admin@domain.com", "webmaster@domain.com", etc. The catch-all forwards them all to me. The
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by walden42 13y ago
> It's pretty dumb to actually spend bitcoins if you could just hold onto them and sell a week or two later at twice the price Similarly it's pretty dumb to hold on to dollars if you know you could double them in a week by buyi
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by walden42 13y ago
How is that even a fair comparison? Mining isn't just "creating" new bitcoins, it's verifying the transactions of the whole network. To make a somewhat fair comparison we'd have to include the electrical costs of al
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by walden42 13y ago
Technology evolves over time as does bitcoin's use. Hard drives are becoming cheaper and cheaper, for example. Bandwidth is also a non-issue, as the typical transaction size is less than a KB. However, there's also the fact that a
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by walden42 13y ago
At today's rate... millions.
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by walden42 13y ago
No problem!
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by walden42 13y ago
This might change after enough bitcoin applications implement CoinJoin, a type of mixer.
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by walden42 13y ago
Negligent behavior. Bitcoin implement bank-level security, so anything stolen is negligent behavior. The vast majority of articles about wallets being stolen is when bitcoins were held in a third party online wallet, which was hacked. Keepi
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by walden42 13y ago
> The same cannot be said of paper money as from the moment of its inception and for many long years thereafter it was redeemable in gold But since the dollars themselves had no inherent value, its value was derived simply from the cumul
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by walden42 13y ago
> Shopify might be looking for ways to obtain discounted bitcoins They're using BitPay's service to instantly convert to fiat, so they're not getting any bitcoins.
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by walden42 13y ago
Considering they do pretty much all the work for you, that doesn't sound too bad.
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by walden42 13y ago
I wonder what the legal implications are, as the money isn't exactly being sent to the escrow agent, and the agent doesn't have the ability to steal the funds for himself.
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by walden42 13y ago
In this early stage, the point is to support an idea you agree with and help it grow. It can't change "soon enough" without the initial users.
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by walden42 13y ago
How micro are we talking about here? The default transaction fee is 0.0001 BTC per kilobyte, or about 1 cent, and it's usually the amount you need to pay. Hardly the expensive transaction. Yes, handing someone some cash is cheaper, but
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by walden42 13y ago
> Don't login to anything from other people's computers (net cafe, shared computer in a hotel, etc) Even over SSL connections?
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by walden42 13y ago
> it's about iterating around different things to see what sticks until you find something that works. There's no other way. I found a lot of useful nuggets in the article, nevertheless.
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by walden42 13y ago
Wire transfers aren't reversible.
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by walden42 13y ago
Of course they can't, but they can regulate its use and acceptance in their country. Eg. more paperwork/licenses required to accept them, a more difficult taxation process, etc.
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by walden42 13y ago
BitMessage is a reboot: https://bitmessage.org/ Fully decentralized, based on the idea behind bitcoin.
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by walden42 13y ago
> However, companies wanting to use it for commercial transactions would need permission from the Federal Financial Supervision Authority. That's not a good thing for bitcoin, though, or for the free market in general. One of the ma
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by walden42 13y ago
Same here, 15".
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by walden42 13y ago
Great post, thank you. I'm wondering, when you "manually contacted the best developers", was this a telephone call or an email? I'm having a hard time finding the "fine line" of annoying telemarketing call or n
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by walden42 13y ago
I believe that the LavaBit fiasco just proves the need for a decentralized system with no central points of failure. Although it's still in the beginning stages, bitmessage ( https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page )

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