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Hi, I'm the guy behind bitundo (a controversial bitcoin service) — and hoping to show my latest project to a slightly larger audience: https://www.moneypot.com/ Money Pot is a nove…

When I see "Tinder + LinkedIn" I think of a version of tinder that relentlessly spams users, and practically only possible to block with a filter. "Tinder for finding business part…

Just flat out ignore him, until he actually takes some sort of action.

If the tenant is supposedly blasting the aircon, with the windows open in 114 degree heat ... I'm not sure an alternate explanation is needed. (Not to mention, bitcoin mining requi…

Thanks for the words of encouragement. You're completely right, I loath marketing and sales and terrible at it. I kind of lived in a delusion for a while that if I made the product…

That's what I'm doing now. It's actually hosted on AWS, and I dropped the price to $1/month and still have trouble selling it. The site is https://www.bitcoinvigil.com if think I'm…

Yeah, I would definitely open source it and leave it idling for a while instead of just killing it outright. I'm just hoping it doesn't come to this

A few months ago, I wrote a security product based on the whole "scratch an itch" philosophy. I had a couple bitcoins stolen, and realized that most modern malware includes such a …

A few months ago I released https://www.bitcoinvigil.com/ , an idea I had to use bitcoins as a sort of honeypot-as-a-service. Since then I've been improving it, and adding features…

Your real wallet has a password (encrypted) while the "money pot" is not. It will be stolen much faster (read: immediately) while the encrypted one relies on you entering a passphr…

Note: This is only safe if your computer doesn't have bitcoin stealing malware. Before you use this, it's not a bad idea to throw $5 in a Bitcoin Vigil money pot, and get notified …

Why does it make me go through the whole process (entering in booking numbers, dates, etc.) to at the end only tell me: "Unfortunately! For domestic U.S. flights, we can help you c…

Another useful honeypot approach is Bitcoin Vigil, which will let you know if (bitcoin-stealing) malware has already made it onto the machine

No fraud or scam. Bitcoin users have acted very aggressively to the idea -- and felt best to censor it. What they seem to not realize, is that double spend attacks were very viable…

There's too many variables to give a simple answer. It depends on the current state of the network (the miners mempools), the priority of your transaction, the fee/bytes of your tr…

Or my: https://github.com/espringe/wisp (Whitespace lISP) with f-expressions!

Agave Lab -- Guadalajara Mexico. We're an early stage product incubator located in sunny Guadalajara, Mexico that was founded by an ex-Bay Area startup exec 4 years ago. We turn ou…