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Not surprising: Keynesian economist doesn't like Austrian economics explanations. Surprising: Bitcoin part is largely left uncriticized. I would say the author of this article is c…

I'm trying to buy a laptop for my 11-year-old who's expressed a lot of interest in programming. What recommendations do you have? What features should I be on the lookout for?

Not surprising: Nearly everyone from Silicon Valley that's progressive/liberal thinks there's no problem or that the problem is something else. Nearly everyone not fitting the desc…

If you want to hear this article read out loud, this podcast has this article along with some commentary: https://soundcloud.com/noded-bitcoin-podcast/noded-020

I'm doing a lot of teaching and I've been using PowerPoint. I recently saw some people use Prezi and liked what they were able to do to map concepts visually to make them easier to…

> Once a transaction gets confirmed on one chain, it's permanently able to be spent on the other. That's simply not true. If the utxo gets spent on the other chain, the two coins a…

If you're transacting with an exchange or a merchant and accidentally send both coins (as a result of a replay attack) instead of one, they're going to give it back. It's not nearl…

Opt-in replay protection was merged in a few days ago. https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/commit/a3c41256984bf11d95a56... In any case, if you believe Bitcoin's main value proposition …

I wrote a similar article on the difference between ICOs and VC investment. In short, the investor gets much less in an ICO: https://medium.com/p/why-icos-are-very-different-than-s…

Corrected

Hi, author of the Medium article here. The block containing the transaction was mined at 4:57pm EST (21:57 GMT) on 1/26: https://blockexplorer.com/block/000000000000000001b12145b9b…

There's a whole slew of designers and UX people, so whatever you see is definitely deliberate. They do a lot of usability testing, not just for the website, but the app, mobile sit…

Former employee here. It used to be a 2-person company before it was acquired. A large part, surprisingly is scale. During Black Friday to Cyber Monday, for instance, the site is h…

Where was this article the previous 8 years?

There are a lot of reasons Bitcoin is worth more than other cryptocoins. I lay out an analysis here: https://medium.com/@jimmysong/why-bitcoin-transaction-capaci...

This reminds me why calling out a company on twitter for something that goes wrong is way more effective than calling customer support. Basically a life lesson: Public shaming is w…

If he really was a 10x engineer and it was a "small team" (say 6 people), wouldn't firing the other 5 have been the better move?

I'm not sure how this is a story. This startup has been around since at least 2014: https://cointelegraph.com/tags/storj $100k of funding after 3 years of development doesn't reall…