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by swswsw 6y ago
Wait. According to that article, the last major mask manufacturer in US offered to increase production and was turned down by government. > "In the end, the government did not take Bowen up on his offer. Even today[May 9, 2020], pr
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by swswsw 10y ago
How brittle is diamond? We know diamond is the hardest, but how brittle is it? It is good to have a non-scratching phone screen, but not if it is really brittle.
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by swswsw 11y ago
a very cool concept for doing a lot of projects where users need shared db.
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Ethereum Frontier launch(ethereum.org)
2 points by swswsw 11y ago|0 comments
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by swswsw 11y ago
There is also a way to create a smart contract that locks the fund until a certain time. And you can make it in such a way that the smart contract is executed by the network, not by an entity.
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by swswsw 11y ago
It does not require a bank account in that sense. What you need is to hold your private key. You could, for example, holds your private key somewhere else, and inject that private key to your phone when you need to use it.
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by swswsw 11y ago
I think you might be confused about how bitcoin actually works. If you want to change bitcoin's economics properties, you can. You just have to get all the nodes to agree with it. That is obviously very very difficult. Bitcoin runs o
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by swswsw 11y ago
Bitcoin network is the first truly-open financial/transaction/value network that allows developer to innovate on top of it. What if you think it this way? I also want to point out that bitcoin might have a shot at being a global c
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by swswsw 11y ago
good to see that you are adding more info about how it works. please keep posting more info. sounds like an interesting technology.
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by swswsw 12y ago
> Accepting bitcoin as payment isn't beneficial right now. There's no benefit for merchants, because it's instantly converted back to traditional currency. I see another benefit. Merchants benefit from lower transaction f
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by swswsw 12y ago
perhaps it should be a button on the website, like "experience the site with FCC's Slow Lane". That way, they can see what the site is like and if they choose to press the button, they can see what it is like to be on the slo
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by swswsw 13y ago
There is a correlation to bitcoin repo on github. Is that the cumulative number of repo on github with "bitcoin" tag? or is it the activity on github.com/bitcoin? Personally, I would think that correlation to the number of
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by swswsw 13y ago
good point. something we ought to focus on.
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by swswsw 13y ago
How about correlation to Hacker News mention of bitcoin?
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by swswsw 13y ago
let's thinking about this from humanity's point of view in a thousand years. if someone stopped polio now, his name would be in history. if someone colonized mars, his name would be in history, and probably of bigger importance.
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by swswsw 13y ago
Good eyes. The author fixed the title.
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How we spent $2500 and got 36 libraries and thousands of new developers(blog.diffbot.com)
5 points by swswsw 13y ago|0 comments
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by swswsw 13y ago
"We believe that hackers are building the future. They are the ones that are building new technology everyday." Nice trending finding. When people are talking about bitcoin, very often they are focusing on the currency value.
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by swswsw 13y ago
At first glance, mining appears to use a lot of energy. But it has a very important property: mining is "fair" in money generation. And being fair may be much more important than the energy consumed.
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by swswsw 13y ago
It is funny how much the title could change the story perception. If they titled it "Norway classifies Bitcoin as asset instead of currency". The tone would sound very different. Another example is this: "42% of Americans Kn
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by swswsw 13y ago
Good to know. What is the effect of treating it as commodity means to bitcoin business in Taiwan? How is bitcoin perceived in Taiwan?
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by swswsw 13y ago
Good list. i would agree with you that those 5 items are what to look out for in the near future (the web, Bitcoin, drones and 3D-printers). I would probably add wearable computing to the list as well.
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by swswsw 13y ago
What the author said is very true. We should accept that there is no good way to estimate the schedule because each software is inherently new. Simply that it will be done when it is done.
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by swswsw 13y ago
Excerpt from the article: "The developers of bitcoin are trying to show that money can be successfully privatized." -- Not really. Bitcoin is open sourced. They did not try to privatize bitcoin. Excerpt from the article: "T
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by swswsw 13y ago
But silver was successfully used as a currency for a long time in history of certain countries.
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by swswsw 13y ago
To achieve similar effect, some people are proposing changing the default unit to mBTC, uBTC, or satoshi. While it is not splitting, it should have similar effect. Instead of saying they own 0.6 BTC, they'll say they own 600 mBTC.
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by swswsw 13y ago
Hi, perhaps there is some misunderstanding of how bitcoin works. People only need to know your credit card number, name, and expiration date to use your credit card to purchase something online. Since you give those information to many mer
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by swswsw 13y ago
One thing to note is that bitcoin not only made this autonomous system possible, it also made it transparent to outside (through open-source and public blockchain). In that sense, it could be considered more trustworthy than an actual corp
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by swswsw 13y ago
This is a chart on coinbase.com. Interesting, for a while, coinbase prices seem to be following with bitstamp price. but at this moment, it seems to be closer to mt. gox price. At the very moment, I see mt. gox and coinbase price at $202.
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by swswsw 13y ago
On the comment section of the article, someone is asking the exact same question. :) The author answered: "I liked to shot of the tower … looks like it’s reaching out into space and time!" http://btcgeek.com/dawn-

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