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"Developed by Iran’s Ministry of Economy, it accepts payment in Bitcoin and other digital assets as part of the regime’s attempts to bypass Western sanctions." The one mention of b…

HN is very, very bitter about being there at the beginning of an interesting, fun, and promising technology that could have easily enriched them. Bitcoin and crypto is very on topi…

My understanding: As rstuart4133 mentioned, the rules were changed to 1) allow a partial IPO, 2) forego proving several positive quarters beforehand, 3) allow weird as hell lockout…

I think they're selling because they're raising money for dividends and such. The word "quantum" isn't even mentioned in the article, nor has anything to do with MSTR selling btc.

There is no singular mind to bitcoin. Watch CNBC for 1 week and you will see stonks trade a 40x their worth and rise and fall for no reason anyone knows. It's not that much differe…

Being "a" player in a multi-billion $ industry is also pretty good. For example, Bing gets some small % of the search engine market, but that's still a ton of market and $. And Fou…

The BTC was worth some 500 large quid when it got tossed. Claude will tell him to be more careful of all of his belongings. I personally have every hard drive I've ever owned, but …

Ver cool! Except FYI that it started crashing my browser before I had to run away. My specs: - Brave browser - Tons of tabs open - Macbook Pro Intel chip

Currency is the most useful when it changes hands constantly. I have mattresses. You have cookies. He has milk. I buy cookies and milk. You buy milk and mattresses. He buys mattres…

The article states it's just a fork, AKA a separate coin that copy/pastes the current Bitcoin ledger. Even if every dev wants this, that is a "hard fork" (not backwards compatible)…

Headline should read: "Person wants to create a Bitcoin fork, like has been done many times, and does nothing to the original Bitcoin ledger" And his company's tagline is "Make eve…

Heck no. There was this app "Bump" that exchanged info between 2 bumping phones. Google bought it and immediately buried it forever. There's ZERO reason exchanging info is still a …

Very cool! If not for the $, for the fun. And you met your on OkCupid, so you can be the cupid this time. - Make a blog about this on the domain. I'll follow! - What do the logs sa…

Value is in the eye of the beholder, as you clearly understand. The commenter is not familiar with how trade works. Personally, for such I transaction I will need to audit to ensur…

There was stated value on both ends of the potential transaction. And this is Hacker News, not 4chan or Twitter. Comments are for insight, discussion, etc. But maybe you're just yo…

The link could use a blog article with a tagline and a TLDR and use cases. It _sounds_ like a great idea nonetheless.

The feature of a deflationary currency is much better than constant money printing. But, as I have learned through light studying of currencies, a huge negative aspect is its encou…

I spend my BTC occasionally on my degenerate sports gambling, and then I return some of the winnings back into BTC. I also rarely spend my stonks.

Can I get a TLDR?

Someone tell Pearl Jam's Eddy Vedder his work to fight Ticketmaster some 30 years ago finally came to a head today. > Ticketmaster sells about 10 times as many tickets as its close…

I find the best use of chatbots re: software engineering is more of an office hours with the professor than it is a fellow colleague; Use it for specifics. Throwing things over the…

Haha. My favorite shillings will always be NFTs and the "let's do email job pointless meetings in Second Life and call it Metaverse". Although the former is/was pure shilling, and …

A Machine Learning + Large Language model is one popular technology. Decentralized blockchain tokens is another popular technology. Besides hype, there's not much in common with th…

His abrupt silence mid-conversation with a handful of people via email and on the main Bitcoin forum also leads me to believe he's no longer with us. Code is often written like spe…

> "It enables micropayments directly in the HTTP layer" VERY cool! This is the perfect use of micropayments that far exceeds that of traditional fiat and credit vehicles.