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These numbers are based off the current price of hashrate. As soon as you try to buy significant amounts for larger currencies like Bitcoin, the numbers skyrocket. The nice-hashabl…

it wouldn't be a flash crash if there was no demand. it would be a crash. the flash crash happened because there was insufficient liquidity on one exchange - as soon as the market …

thanks for letting us know, we're on it now!

interesting to see how some of these have received huge numbers of downvotes.. e.g. this one: http://wfh.ninja/?quoteId=7

for day to day usage not all the data needs to be kept. for example, you could keep just the unspent outputs (instead of all previous transactions). But yes, some archival nodes wo…

this is really the interesting point of the article for me. it could be the first cryptocoin actively used based for rewards/sponsorships etc. See http://ltbcoin.com/ as an example…

down for me as well, messenger included

you could also "make change" by exchanging ownership of the $100 address for 5 $20 addresses, and change those down into 10 $2 addresses each. there's very little cost of executing…

Even in it's current form, your grandma's wallet balance would resemble that of her BoA checking account, where the spendable amount would be a total of the easily-redeemable (Pay …

while in theory possible, this approach has not been done because it is said to be a slippery slope down the lines of being against "bitcoin neutrality". once the feature exists to…

Based on what I have heard, the issue was caused by a bad active directory GPO that caused firewall rules to refuse DNS requests. Neither outlook/xbox/etc would have had any contro…

People ARE buying/selling on Mtgox at 600. However, the price is not "real" because it is inflated by the inability to withdraw USD from Mtgox. What is happening is that people are…

As it stands now, WP8 is the incumbent. If all developers applied the "pay us to make it for your new platform" attitude, it doesn't bode well for newcomers. Also, the tone used ca…

one of the things i liked about Microsoft is that you can move teams (pretty) easily. i myself have had different experiences/practices in both the teams i was a part of.

Thanks for that. I'm still working in a "dotcom". Soon, I hope to be working with the likes of you. Could you go a little more into your transition from match.com to yc-startup, th…

This week many of the stability issues were mitigated, and I began to enjoy my game. To be honest, while I didn't ask for the multiplayer features, they were a bonus when they work…

A confirmation dialog is something one would expect in a consumer-facing app - and it isn't difficult to build. I'd be interested to know what their design decision was not to do t…

If nothing else, the fact that he wrote this letter suggests that he knows to some extent what went wrong. I'd argue it is better to work with someone who has made mistakes before …

The question is, if Google sold the Nexus (say, $329 from $299) with a slight markup to raise their support, would you still buy it?