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by yc1010 11y ago
This, we went with Stripe before but apparently hosting is too high risk and (they claim) their banking partners did not want to do business with our little Irish startup. No such issues with bitcoin
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by yc1010 11y ago
Well there is also Cryptsy fiasco today https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/411bqw/cryptsy_clo... Bitcoin is a never ending drama rollercoaster but I still use it and I hope eventually some sort of
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by yc1010 11y ago
Well the problem is THAT DISCUSSION OF SOLUTIONS to bitcoin issues are being censored, with key people being banned from the usual discussion forums A decentralized currency where the development, mining and discussion is controlled by less
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by yc1010 11y ago
Should have used Mozilla Persona for login /s
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by yc1010 11y ago
I was using it for years on our sites, IT IS very easy to implement for a developer, especially easier than dealing with oauth oddities from google,facebook,microsoft etc Yes one can program own username/password etc login, but it is a
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by yc1010 11y ago
Is Bitcoin and/or paysafecard an payment option? all that talk about privacy is kinda silly if can not pay with (Semi)private payment methods edit: why downvote? is this not a valid concern for a service that is marketing privacy as it
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by yc1010 11y ago
Waking up one day to find that "your" money is no longer yours is not a compelling reason? I myself had nothing but bad experience with Paypal going back almost a decade, hell with them.
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by yc1010 11y ago
So his plan by ending the crypto war is.... ...simply capitulating? anyone else clicked on article expecting some new crypto coommunication idea
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by yc1010 11y ago
Just dont call it SKYNET, you be sued by Hollywood then for copyright infringement or something...
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by yc1010 11y ago
I keep hearing about Helium 3 mining but do we actually have fusion reactors nowadays (or even in next 10 years) that can use Helium 3?
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by yc1010 11y ago
I was just reading this today, first part deals with this subject > http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-coloni... I asked the same question of an old engineer at Kennedy Space center who was t
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by yc1010 11y ago
That reminds me, whatever happened to that perpetual energy machines from those "Steorn" lads from Dublin? edit: never mind I see they are still around somehow (and managed to waste millions in process) https://en.wiki
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by yc1010 11y ago
So you chose "representative democracy" option by having the distro maintainers decide for you At least bitcoin gives options to chose...
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by yc1010 11y ago
That's a long way away, by then either bitcoin becomes popular, bitcoin evolves into something else or bitcoin dies. Right now all comments about "inflation" etc are downright silly, usually form people regurgitating sill con
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by yc1010 11y ago
Bitcoin inflation was around 10% recently Hashrate!= inflation btw
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by yc1010 11y ago
There is not reason to use this web thing (thats fully of dirty porn and nerds) for shopping when we have paper catalogues There is no need to send email when you can send a fax There is no need to carry a brick with you to make calls There
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by yc1010 11y ago
Same way western economies work? Create debt and more debt and base whole economies on sale of houses to one another. When it all fall apart double down
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by yc1010 11y ago
How many people in US have died from gun and car related deaths last year? As compared to "drone strikes"
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by yc1010 11y ago
So now people have to register toys they own.... The anger you are feeling is the screws being tightened a little tighter. Everything nowadays is regulated, controlled and monitored, we in the west are not free, especially in "the land
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by yc1010 11y ago
> There's also no real need to tax them, as you can tax their owners. Thats what happens in Ireland, corporation tax is lowish (12.5%) and theres not that many loopholes/concessions as in other EU states where companies can red
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by yc1010 11y ago
Actually it hasn't The whole Paypal model is based on its reversal+ resolution process which usually favors buyer, requires an army of support personnel and has resulted in them being one of the most hated companies in world.
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by yc1010 11y ago
No details of WHERE exactly in the world this works, I presume this a yet another US centric service
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by yc1010 11y ago
I am thinking here is what happened The guy seeing an opportunity and possibly having some early coins declared himself to tax office as Satoshi, but maybe claimed he lost keys to majority of coins. He then proceeded to have one of his comp
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by yc1010 11y ago
It would be similar to a cheque, central banks and governments do not like normal people printing "money" or inventing their own a better alternative would be bitcoin paperwallets, this here relies on Venmo to play nice as well as
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by yc1010 11y ago
Climate change called and states that she doesn't care about your skepticism, renewables alone will not bring us into carbon free future. We have to try EVERYTHING in order to beat climate change, up to and including moonshots like thi
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by yc1010 11y ago
I never said Putin was stupid, but he does have an army of "willing idiots" both and home and abroad helping and supporting his goals.
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by yc1010 11y ago
More likely there will be LESS terrorism as young guys spend their time watching pron and playing xbox.
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by yc1010 11y ago
Replace Germany with Russia in article and you would be describing the sad state of things in modern Russia, the most brutal and stupid are running the show there now. Aside here is an interesting article regarding this > https:/&#
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by yc1010 11y ago
Recently bought a Samsung UHD large TV and completely agree, only useful function of the smart tv i found was Netflix, but the media player connected to it already has it (as well as consoles of course) and so does the connected Chromecast,
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by yc1010 11y ago
Transferwise accepts payments from debit cards or to their eastern European bank (Latvia or something), and then they pay from their US bank for example. They do ask for ID documents and perform AML checks, but then again so do all proper b

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