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by vanzard 10y ago
Let's be serious. No one reads twitter over sms anymore. This isn't at all the reason twitter continues to limit to 140 characters. (Before some smartass replies "I do read over sms", well even without sms merging, twitt
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by vanzard 10y ago
"adding cloudflare would work much more reliably" This can't work. The author requirement was to have self-hosted comments without javascript. So his html pages change every few minutes, and cloudflare is just not des
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by vanzard 11y ago
Yes, perfect use case for Bitcoin! Many VPN providers (and big ones, not small alternative ones) already accept Bitcoin for this very reason: https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/expressvpn-now-accepts-bitco... https:&#x2F
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by vanzard 11y ago
To be fair we shouldn't look at Bitcoin as "just" computing hashes. Its impact is already wider than that. The OP pointed out: > the bottom line is that investing a hundred+ megawatt in a system that creates thousands of j
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by vanzard 11y ago
Given Amazon's history to NEVER involve law enforcement in outrageous cases like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10966164 or even the OP, I doubt you would get arrested.
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by vanzard 11y ago
Yes Google is just showing ads. They collect data about you to target their ads well, but that's basically all they do. They don't send your info to the NSA, they don't send you SPAM, they don't sell your info to private
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by vanzard 11y ago
This counter is completely inaccurate. I used to work for a company that was doing email marketing (I quit because I disagreed with their practices). My employer was buying about one /48 per week. What does this mean? We alone exhauste
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by vanzard 11y ago
> So what you're saying is that Twitter withheld their MAU because the figures were poor? No I am saying the exact opposite: figures where great, but they withheld MAU due to competitive reasons or business sensitivity. > 350K pe
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by vanzard 11y ago
You call growing from zero to tens of millions of MAU in 4 years "very weak"?! Ridiculous. You are wrong, nobody seriously outright rejected Twitter was growing. The worst critics said was "Twitter is not growing as fast as t
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by vanzard 11y ago
Yet Twitter experienced phenomenal growth, going from zero to tens of millions of MAU in their first 4 years, proving your logic wrong (paraphrasing you, you said "if growth was so great surely a company would release MAU"). So if
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by vanzard 11y ago
> For starters that address is empty. The coins from it are on the list at ~174,000 now. Doesn't matter. This one addresses alone represents hundreds of thousands of customers of Bitstamp that you are completely ignoring in your mat
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by vanzard 11y ago
So if Twitter took 4 years to release MAU, would you have accused them for 4 years that they have "something to hide"? Now you get my point. It's sensitive. Sometimes you wait years before feeling comfortable releasing this n
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by vanzard 11y ago
It is very common for companies to not release MAU numbers especially in their initial years, even if they are being very successful. I challenge you to find Gmail's MAU numbers released in the first 3 years of its existence. If you ca
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by vanzard 11y ago
> There really is no arguing against that. You are sarcastic, but it really is the case. Some of these addresses were proven to belong to exchanges, for example these 240,000 BTC belonged to Bitstamp: https://blockchain.info&#
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by vanzard 11y ago
They don't release their MAU numbers not because they want to hide things, but because it really is a sensitive business metric.
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by vanzard 11y ago
Your logic is flawed. It doesn't matter if even 99% of the addresses all belonged to the wallets of a few hundreds early adopters. As of today (as of block 350,000) there are 102 addresses with 10,000 BTC up to a few 100,000 BTC in eac
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by vanzard 11y ago
It has been explained many times users tend to leave their coins on exchanges. So 1 exchange address containing 100 BTC could represent 100 bitcoin users each owning 1 BTC. Therefore your upper limit estimate is invalid.
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by vanzard 11y ago
It's obvious "0.05% of the US population" is a valid ballpark estimate that is very conservative: assuming there are 2.5 million global Bitcoin users (your lower estimate) and assuming they all belong to the top half of the r
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by vanzard 11y ago
This incident had nothing to do with zero-conf txs. In fact okpay did wait for multiple confirmations, and was still hit by this $10k double spend! This whole thing was possible because of an accidental fork of the chain which lasted a few
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by vanzard 11y ago
> they still pose an element of risk that isn't necessarily present with cash and credit. The element of risk is ALWAYS present with cash and credit. You could be handed counterfeit bills. You could be hit with chargeback fees (even
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by vanzard 11y ago
No, these 4 peoples have no power to "force" (your words) the change of some rule, against the will of the users. Because the moment they would try to force something the users disagree with, the users would simply change the pool
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by vanzard 12y ago
> it doesn't track that it had money in it or its location within the receivers infrastructure If the customer mails an empty envelope, the merchant won't ship, so where is the problem? If postal workers steal the cash but rese
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by vanzard 12y ago
> lack of tracking Are you joking? The entire shipping industry offers tracking services, delivery confirmations, etc.
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by vanzard 12y ago
We warn about mailing cash to dubious/untrustworthy recipients. But paying a very trustworthy merchant by mailing cash would probably be fine in terms of risk of theft: mailing a $100 bill is no different than mailing a $100 item, yet
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by vanzard 12y ago
BitPay alone has 50k merchants: http://blog.bitpay.com/2015/03/10/heartland-payment-systems-... Coinbase has 38k: https://www.coinbase.com/about Gocoin has 5.5k: https://ihb.io&#x2
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by vanzard 12y ago
All systems that require adoption are, initially, impractical. Bitcoin is becoming more and more practical as more and more merchants adopt it. Again: 100,000 merchants accept Bitcoin today, and this number is (so far) increasing rapidly.
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by vanzard 12y ago
Credit cards enable theft at, or fraud by the merchant because you give the merchant your CC info; Bitcoin fixes this flaw by design as it cryptographically authorizes only transactions of specific amounts to specific addresses. CCs and B
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by vanzard 12y ago
Not always true. The reality is less rosy than you depict it. Most credit card issuers don't let you charge back transactions older than 60 days. It is always fun to discover this fact after a merchant invents believable excuses to sta
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by vanzard 12y ago
1. Use an iOS or Android Nexus device. Apple and Google do a good job of keeping iOS and Nexus devices very up-to-date security wise. (Specifically avoid non-Nexus Android devices as companies other than Google do a bad job at deploying tim
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by vanzard 12y ago
> needs a bank account anyway if they want to convert their bitcoin into something that they can actually spend outside of the dark web That's not true. Americans (Facebook's intended audience for this Messenger money-sending f

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