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Implement a no workslop policy. Reputation will take care of the rest. Basically an educational task.

Found Pieter and his books a couple years ago and it make a big impact. The Collective Code Construction Contract is a brilliant piece of community engineering and should be adopte…

The problem with chat is the interruptive, thoughtless nature of it. In a large organization, you want durability that you won't get from chat. Internal Q&A, forums, and email all …

There's no theoretical limit to it's divisibility. The total supply is known ahead of time but the world will never run out of Bitcoin to transact.

Yup, such a disaster it's died a thousand times.

Yep, such a disaster it's died a thousand times.

Posted my reply here: https://davidsterry.com/blog/2020/09/on-difficult-free-softw...

Posted comment on your blog, should be awaiting moderation, but let me know if not.

Good point. I'm going to comment on the site itself!

This is a follow-on to my previous article http://davidsterry.com/blog/2015/06/arguments-in-the-bitcoin... which failed to even contain the word consensus as helpfully pointed out …

OP, how did you hear about this company? Can't find any stories mentioning it.

It's a good question. I haven't seen them in the Counterparty forums or Bitcointalk thread. I own some XCP but no MC. My reasoning is because XCP had proof of burn and has seen ste…

Looks like they're using Counterparty which runs on the Bitcoin network and blockchain.

Shipping the USB key isn't 100% fraud-proof. If you think the point of Bitcoin/Litecoin is being able to transact with it quickly and easily over eBay, you might want to look into …

You should really look into the history of altcoins because I'm positive one with a constant mining release schedule has been done. One issue with some of them has been premining b…

This is kind of like saying you won't invest in Facebook or Google or Apple until their price stabilizes. Either it's worth it to you or it's not. Stability is overrated in a world…

No need to conflate spending with savings/investment. Just keep some USD in an exchange and convert it to spend it.

Spending a Bitcoin doesn't mean you have a net decrease in the number you have. You could and probably should keep a spending balance in USD at an exchange and buy specifically to …

Storing BTC balances as floats is something a few services have done in the past so it makes sense to ask/bring up. Since BTC have 8 decimal precision, rounding can become noticeab…