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What did happen to ye olde slashdot anyway? The original og reddit

Is there any concrete data showing whether this has any effect on the readability or comprehensibility of text content?

It's not only about stats/data, but also the user experience. Many web pages have many more ads, videos, gifs, and clutter than they did before. There's also more spam and more low…

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I don't have a good answer here, but I believe it may be instructive to consider externalities ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality ). For instance, think carefully about ho…

I've researched this for a long time; for many reasons, I believe it's him. He never cryptographically signed anything, so the lack of signature actually weighs in favor of the mes…

It's just his opinion. His opinion is that Bitcoin should be a single, unified, consensus-driven project - that's what trust in the network is built on. Without people following th…

> Interviews are weird: the pressure of time, and not being able to look things up, distorts the code. In the interviews I do, I tell the candidate that: 1. There is no time pressu…

Braintree recently introduced support for Bitcoin: https://www.braintreepayments.com/features/coinbase Technically, Bitcoin transactions are not anonymous; they're typically pseudo…

Agreed, except that we shouldn't ignore network effects. Drivers go for one smartphone-ride-sharing-app over another because it has more riders, and riders likewise: because it has…

What's their PayPal identity?

Doesn't seem to match https://gist.github.com/indutny/a11c2568533abcf8b9a1

What potential legal difficulties does the .io domain allow you to avoid?

Unless this has something to do with the lungs, you mean "mnemonics" :)

The human mind can't generate enough entropy to create a secure brainwallet in that way. However, the reverse is permissible: use Bitcoin Armory or Electrum to generate a wallet, a…

It's too early for anyone to say whether this concern is a real problem, but here are a few points that you should analyze further: 1) ASICs. In the early days of Bitcoin, one of t…

Nobody knows how many dollars are still in circulation. They have good guesses, but nobody knows about the millions in cash that was lost/burned/buried in the desert. It doesn't ma…

Even if they were sent into the void, bitcoins are highly divisible. Just shift the decimal point over a few places and you've got convenient units once again.

No. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7296376

Technically speaking, no. patio11: that is not how the Bitcoin protocol works. Even if 99% of the Bitcoin miners agree, they cannot create extra bitcoin; it is simply impossible be…

Perhaps you mean "cachet" instead of "cache"

Indeed. This problem is caused by the U.S. Government, not Google. So more accurately: A US Federal Law Made My Daughter Cry