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by dsterry 1y ago
Implement a no workslop policy. Reputation will take care of the rest. Basically an educational task.
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by dsterry 3y ago
Found Pieter and his books a couple years ago and it make a big impact. The Collective Code Construction Contract is a brilliant piece of community engineering and should be adopted/adapted by every FOSS project on the planet. We can a
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by dsterry 6y ago
The problem with chat is the interruptive, thoughtless nature of it. In a large organization, you want durability that you won't get from chat. Internal Q&A, forums, and email all work because you can have long-form conversations o
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by dsterry 6y ago
There's no theoretical limit to it's divisibility. The total supply is known ahead of time but the world will never run out of Bitcoin to transact.
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by dsterry 6y ago
Yup, such a disaster it's died a thousand times.
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by dsterry 6y ago
Yep, such a disaster it's died a thousand times.
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by dsterry 6y ago
Posted my reply here: https://davidsterry.com/blog/2020/09/on-difficult-free-softw...
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by dsterry 6y ago
Posted comment on your blog, should be awaiting moderation, but let me know if not.
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by dsterry 6y ago
Good point. I'm going to comment on the site itself!
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The Most Important Thing After Bitcoin Itself(medium.com)
1 points by dsterry 11y ago|0 comments
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Decentralizing Professional Services(medium.com)
1 points by dsterry 11y ago|0 comments
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The Alpha has no GUI(medium.com)
1 points by dsterry 11y ago|1 comments
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What Are Bitcoin Transaction Fees?(davidsterry.com)
1 points by dsterry 11y ago|0 comments
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by dsterry 11y ago
This is a follow-on to my previous article http://davidsterry.com/blog/2015/06/arguments-in-the-bitcoin... which failed to even contain the word consensus as helpfully pointed out by a reader.
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Bitcoin Consensus – Why We Must Know the Answer Before Asking the Question(davidsterry.com)
2 points by dsterry 11y ago|1 comments
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by dsterry 12y ago
OP, how did you hear about this company? Can't find any stories mentioning it.
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by dsterry 12y ago
It's a good question. I haven't seen them in the Counterparty forums or Bitcointalk thread. I own some XCP but no MC. My reasoning is because XCP had proof of burn and has seen steady dev progress. Sometimes, millions in funding c
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by dsterry 12y ago
Looks like they're using Counterparty which runs on the Bitcoin network and blockchain.
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by dsterry 13y ago
Shipping the USB key isn't 100% fraud-proof. If you think the point of Bitcoin/Litecoin is being able to transact with it quickly and easily over eBay, you might want to look into the other things you can do with these new currenc
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by dsterry 14y ago
You should really look into the history of altcoins because I'm positive one with a constant mining release schedule has been done. One issue with some of them has been premining but if it wasn't premined and was reasonably well-known at la
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by dsterry 14y ago
This is kind of like saying you won't invest in Facebook or Google or Apple until their price stabilizes. Either it's worth it to you or it's not. Stability is overrated in a world where pricing updates can be automated. If you're concerned
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by dsterry 14y ago
No need to conflate spending with savings/investment. Just keep some USD in an exchange and convert it to spend it.
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by dsterry 14y ago
Spending a Bitcoin doesn't mean you have a net decrease in the number you have. You could and probably should keep a spending balance in USD at an exchange and buy specifically to make purchases. This is actually more beneficial to the Bitc
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by dsterry 14y ago
Storing BTC balances as floats is something a few services have done in the past so it makes sense to ask/bring up. Since BTC have 8 decimal precision, rounding can become noticeable very quickly even in addition and subtraction even though
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by dsterry 14y ago
Well there is Bitcoin which has no chargebacks and for a face-to-face transaction there would be little need for an addon escrow service.
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CoinDL releases widget to sell downloads for Bitcoin(coindl.com)
1 points by dsterry 14y ago|0 comments
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by dsterry 14y ago
There are already a number of merchant processing systems for Bitcoin including MtGox's payment api and Bit-Pay. Neither one supports instant transactions coming via the Bitcoin network (MtGox is instant if buyer and seller both have funds
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by dsterry 14y ago
Also, this post was originally titled "CoinDL enables Bitcoin purchases in seconds (link to eBook example)" so your post was more on-topic than it seemed. Today I learned, titles can be renamed by somebody else on Hacker News.
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by dsterry 14y ago
New blocks are created in a lottery process (mining) that could take seconds to hours for someone to win. We are using unconfirmed transactions but are willing to take some risk while developing strategies to mitigate that risk. Orphan bloc
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by dsterry 14y ago
> Is the proposed value-add here a kind of content discovery service a la App Store? Yes, the goal is to make it as easy as possible for artists and authors to sell their downloads for Bitcoin. We could make shopping cart software and c

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