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by yc1010 11y ago
I still do not understand why yee guys got involved in Stellar which was a clearly a rehash of the earlier Ripple scam up to and including same system, interface and people working on it. How is it going anyways?
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by yc1010 11y ago
Oh I am in Ireland, dont get me started on Amazon (its hit and miss at times when it comes to deliverability) As for Expedia their integration could be better (need to use a US ip for coinbase payment option to even show up nowadays) but ha
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by yc1010 11y ago
I get paid by a trade partner in Singapore almost daily with bitcoin, saves us both a large chunk (and time) on wire transfers! I also rent out some of our servers for bitcoin (via bitpay) since there is no chargeback risk server (looks sid
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by yc1010 11y ago
"There is simply no alternative system of payment that is as convenient, reliable and anonymous. Bitcoin is anonymous, but currently unstable and inconvenient" Being a nerd I have been using bitcoin since 2011, in last year almost
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by yc1010 11y ago
I have scripts collect all sorts of other data about the server and send it to central log server every minute, i do not really need exact data more of a snapshot (traffic, ram, cpu, harddrive etc etc) and well I do not like running things
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by yc1010 11y ago
Can someone please tl.dr this First we had articles spread over dozens of pages for the laugh, now we have articles split into 160char segments, grrrrrr
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by yc1010 11y ago
I have been using it for years as well but instead of having it running all the time I just run "vnstat -i eth0 -tr" every minute with cron and log that 5 second average result
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by yc1010 11y ago
Problem with PayPal is that they ban people (I lost my account years back, still do not know why) and also of course not available in all countries. I was thinking something along the lines of some sort of new HTML "payment" tag s
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by yc1010 11y ago
Has anyone actually stepped back and looked at the larger picture, what a buyer wants to do is pay X (credit card is only one of them payment methods available and not really popular in some countries) they do not want to be entering long s
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by yc1010 11y ago
If people start skipping and ignoring warnings then what is the point of warning them, google should provide an explanations as to why exactly this has happened otherwise THEY are going to harm their users and this will reflect badly on the
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by yc1010 11y ago
Is this due to these sites having a lot of advertising (probably serving malware) or is this a deliberate attack from the media industry by trying to scare people?
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by yc1010 11y ago
Tax dodging will never go away, every economy has it, some companies from the likes of the US make an artform out of it especially the large majority funneling money via my country, Ireland. While I do not condone it, it is plainly obvious
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by yc1010 11y ago
here is an interesting fact: Greece lost 11% of their population in WW2, Germany lost 8%
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by yc1010 11y ago
The black economy is a symptom of the problem not the cause If you were Greek (Especially a young Greek) and had no prospects for a future and no hope for job in a country with highest unemployment (especially among the youngest) in EU, the
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by yc1010 11y ago
"HiDPI!support" Does that mean Virtual Box will no longer look ridiculous on my 3840 x 2160 laptop screen?! Downloading....
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by yc1010 11y ago
Google adsense has a bigger problem, adblocking It has gone from hardcore nerds (about 10%) blocking ads which was fine to everyone and their mother blocking ads on desktops/laptops, and I do not blame them. According to my measurement
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by yc1010 11y ago
Knowing ICANN they will just want to make yet another .tld called .dissident or something retarded like .sucks for all those who want their privacy and also make it easy to block those who want privacy by authoritarian governments worldwide
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by yc1010 11y ago
Fairplay to them, the whole point of the EU project was to make us all "Europeans" and to prevent constant disastrous fighting between states and people of the continent. Sometime in the last 10 years many people and the media in
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by yc1010 11y ago
People are missing the point, like "chip and pin" this is not about protecting the consumer but about protecting Mastercard and their duopoly "What you mean you did not pay for a hooker and rum in Amsterdam, then who is this
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by yc1010 11y ago
Yet another "deflation is bad hence bitcoin is bad" post, except due to the rate of mining Bitcoin has been highly inflationary if anything. See this graph http://i.imgur.com/vRsIMvt.png edit: Oh I see now who the
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by yc1010 11y ago
Actually in this case I had a positive USD credit/balance on amazon.com account due to giftcards I bought with bitcoin via gyft.com, same with amazon.co.uk with giftcard bought via giftoff.com using Bitcoin again. 3-4 year old amazon a
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by yc1010 11y ago
I am in Ireland, I wanted 1 single track (apparently there is no such thing as music shops or singles anymore, i feel old) So I went to Amazon.com found the track for $0.99 and went to pay, guess what "your credit card has to be issued
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by yc1010 11y ago
What do you want to be done about it, send more young boys from "western" countries to die and/or be crippled like has happened in the wars of the last decade? Spend further billions of dollars/euro and for what, the loc
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by yc1010 11y ago
I recommend using "autossh" to maintain ssh tunnels, since they could be flacky on some connections. One day I should do a write up, but i have made an interesting setup for some robots I made Server (with bots) > ssh tunnel ma
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by yc1010 11y ago
I am in Europe too, here there is not as much need for Bitcoin now that SEPA exists and not many people care for credit cards but its still has its uses. You can use sites like https://giftoff.com/ (EU) or https:/&#x2
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by yc1010 11y ago
I am in Ireland, my inner geek has been fascinated with bitcoin since 2011 when Paypal screwed with me (I still do not know why) it has been fascinating watching Bitcoin ecosystem grow (ideas, companies and people) sort of reminds me of the
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by yc1010 11y ago
It is not an investment, it is a tool that addresses some of the problems with legacy payment systems (tho doesnt solve them all bring its own quirks) especially when it comes to borders. as for infrastructure, it is growing, I have been us
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by yc1010 11y ago
All my hotel purchases in last year have been with bitcoin via Expedia, using a credit card form (and trusting it doesnt get "mistreated") feels like something from another era to me.
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by yc1010 11y ago
Actually it is quite easy to exchange for cash, this week I had a localbitcoins meetup and sold 5000 euro worth of bitcoin (most of this I bought out my nerdy interest back in 2011 for peanuts), we met in coffee shop and had a nice geek to
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by yc1010 11y ago
What Greeks want is the government to not steal/hold/control their money as they are now doing, bitcoin solves that problem and doesnt require stashing money into a mattress. This little Trezor device sitting on my desk (photo com

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