arsenische

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by arsenische 10y ago
Sorry, I am not sure Bitcoin can be a niche currency. It needs to be big enough to survive. If most people prefer to use other crypto instead then Bitcoin may fall into a death spiral: ...lower the demand for bitcoins -> lower the price
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by arsenische 10y ago
Thanks for the article. But I don't see where it says that Bitcoin can't scale 20x without decentralization problems. I see that "the block size should not exceed 4MB for X=90%; and 38MB for X=50%", but I don't th
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by arsenische 10y ago
True, but we are not there yet. Bitcoin can probably scale 20x times without a problem. That would be 20 times lower transaction fees and 20 times more people using it.
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by arsenische 10y ago
Do you think Bitcoin Classic has chances to succeed? It looks like their hashing power is growing: http://nodecounter.com/#block_explorer
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by arsenische 12y ago
First, I want to apologize. We have received a lot of negative feedback suddenly and I can assure you that we take it seriously. I temporary disabled ALL the email notifications (even though I don't think they were a real problem) and
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by arsenische 12y ago
we are not collecting or soliciting a contribution on someone's behalf.
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by arsenische 12y ago
Thank you very much! I am quite surprised because I remember fixing this issue in the same day patch became available and I run update recently. Upgrading the distro, hopefully it fixes the problem.
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by arsenische 12y ago
We don't impersonate anybody. We just provide additional way to reward project's contributors and perhaps attract more of them. We'll make it more explicit with https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit&#x
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by arsenische 12y ago
> If you ask me, it's more likely that this is the whole goal of "the project." No, it is not. We just came with this idea for rails rumble competition, it was pretty spontaneous. Sorry if "to the project" sounds
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by arsenische 12y ago
yes, that's right, thanks!
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by arsenische 12y ago
> I assumed "the project" meant that the tip goes back into a general pool still dedicated to the particular project the tip was originally designated for. This interpretation is correct
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by arsenische 12y ago
When I said "returned to the project's balance" - I meant "returned to the funded project's balance" so that other contributors to that project could receive them. Sorry if sounds ambiguous, English is not my n
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by arsenische 13y ago
Thanks for your question. Currently it will just stay as unclaimed balance. But probably it is a good idea to return it back to the project eventually. PS: Thanks for your hint regarding valid email addresses. If your email address is a@ai
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by arsenische 13y ago
replaced it with a github icon there
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by arsenische 13y ago
replaced it with a little cat.. is it better?
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by arsenische 13y ago
Hopefully in the long term low effort trivial (but yet useful) fixes will become a scarce resource.
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by arsenische 13y ago
We have just implemented this feature. All the commits with email addresses that don't have "." in its domain name will be ignored. Thanks!
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by arsenische 13y ago
if you mean trivial yet still useful commits, then hopefully it will be harder to abuse when all the simple things are improved
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by arsenische 13y ago
You are right. But it is not a salary, it is just a tip. If developer spent time to make even a tiny useful commit - that is good. Probably with time it will become harder to find tiny commits. And donations will probably keep accumulating
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by arsenische 13y ago
Yes, why not (we can't be sure that it was you who donated to your project). At least you know it works ;) Thanks for trying out!
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by arsenische 13y ago
Hm... Do you mean to allow the merger to specify the value of the commit? E. g. by default it could be 1%, but merger can make it smaller if commit is not very valuable. Sounds like a good idea, thanks!
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by arsenische 13y ago
Yes, it is a risk. Same question partially answered here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=315802.msg3910308#ms... . If project gets traction then most of the collected bitcoins will probably be stored in offline wal
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by arsenische 13y ago
IMO if this commit is useful - accept it. It will reduce the next reward by only 1%. Sooner or later all the simple ways to get tips will exhaust. The project will be a bit closer to perfection. And maybe you will have one more happy develo
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by arsenische 13y ago
That's right. We made this project as a part of Rails Rumble contest and are using a limited-time free server offered by them. So we need to collect money to move to a new server, to cover transaction fees and to continue development o
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by arsenische 13y ago
Our initial idea was that each donation pays for 30 days of tips (and rewards depended on interval between commits, see http://blog.anonymousads.com/2013/10/tip4commit-first-bitcoi... ). But that idea appeared to b
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by arsenische 13y ago
A small bug caused this problem, we fixed it. Thanks for your message!
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by arsenische 13y ago
Thanks for kind words! I like your idea of putting developers' bitcoin address into commit message. I totally agree with you that direct tips are instant and reliable, they don't require trust to any third party. However most deve
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by arsenische 13y ago
Maybe in future we implement some other metrics, but as Palomides said, they can be gamed. It is just a tip, some additional incentive to make new commits. Hopefully it will attract attention of new developers to the projects that are neede
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Show HN: Commit to open source and get Bitcoin tips(tip4commit.com)
29 points by arsenische 13y ago|18 comments