Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — jontaylor

jontaylor

HN member
Joined
Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 7:19 PM UTC
HN karma
13
Public activity
18 items

About jontaylor

Software dev at Red Brick Media in Victoria BC.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #12062151

    There are some good comments in that stack exchange question. They divide the units by people and get 300000 satoshis/person. I was going to mention though in order for those small…

  2. comment
    Comment #11958532

    Reducing weight in the connecting rods should mean that the engine can rev higher.

  3. comment
    Comment #8691881

    I wager it will at least be more commonly used for remittances in the future.

  4. comment
    Comment #8140778

    So you would say this isn't a low risc proposition?

  5. comment
    Comment #7371175

    This is not a very useful article.

  6. comment
    Comment #6881941

    http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/11/27/bitcoin-leveldb/

  7. comment
    Comment #5604195

    To me this is one of the most interesting things about Bitcoin. It is an asset based currency. In a debt based fractional reserve dollar economy you or someone else owes that curre…

  8. comment
    Comment #5603875

    Inflation killed the Zimbabwe currency because delusion caused it to become worthless not because of availability or velocity issues that people are worried about in Bitcoin. These…

  9. comment
    Comment #5603785

    In Bitcoin the supply and availability of currency are decoupled. By funging or splitting a unit of Bitcoin currency into pieces you increase the availability for use while preserv…

  10. comment
    Comment #5545799

    Maybe they won't target US customers.

  11. comment
    Comment #5542727

    The fundamental value of Bitcoin comes from the network. While a single Bitcoin wallet doesn't have any individual intrinsic value the same can be said for any mid-sized company an…

  12. comment
    Comment #5188871

    I feel the opposite. A friend and I put a submission together for the MintChip Challenge, mintchipy.com. My bigest concern then and now is that no one can use mint chip because it'…

  13. comment
    Comment #5172472

    You should follow up. I received a shirt and it's really nice.

  14. story
    OpenRISC Day Fundraiser - Feedback

    Hello I'm organizing a fundraiser for the Open Cores OpenRISC SOC ASIC project. We are looking for feedback before promoting the event. There is a survey up on the site for the tar…

  15. comment
    Comment #4880321

    Just a thought. You could charge for submissions to be displayed publicly as a five star rating based on some metric to obscure the exact numbers. This would protect the submitters…

  16. comment
    Comment #4852085

    I hate to nit pick but I think I found a bug... Seriously though this is awesome! Much better than Halo 4 A+

  17. comment
    Comment #4840975

    Cowbell. And two votes for robots.

  18. comment
    Comment #4738395

    I love you all.