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I think the design space is much larger than what we have today, and blockchain applications surely have interesting features it might be worth exploring in that space.

also note that there is an easy workaround to limit this which essentially is the difference between a bet and an insurance: check if the user has a valid ticket for the flight.

Finding the right balance of incentives needs some trial and error. The discussions are not new and well known e.g. with generic prediction markets like Augur or Gnosis. I think we…

I am a big fan of heyguevara, and happily disagree with you on regulatory approval and access to re-insurance markets: these need to be addressed, and we are happy to have discussi…

thanks, very good point. this is great feedback and a really valuable discussion for us. we need to have more experiments with decentralized applications and insurance markets to e…

it isn't yet. the current implementation relies on the flightstats API and oraclize.it to call the API from the contract. I think we are still far from truly decentralized applicat…

the total amount of payouts per flight is limited as well as premiums and individual payouts. there is a non-negligible legal risk of such action and the payout limits in the end w…

airhelp is one of many services which deal with compensation claims which are mandated e.g. by EU regulation and take a good cut of the payout for trying to make a really cumbersom…

note that we just released a first demonstrator for devcon2 https://fdd.etherisc.com some more information on https://medium.com/the-future-requires-more/youll-love-to-be... and so…

I wonder how exactly it works. t0 are not very specific about implementation details. If they are using the bitcoin blockchain it should be possible to point out the actual transac…

Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3461482

Please make it fly.

Interesting thought but browsers should not interpret javascript inside an image. I would expect image rendering to be separated. Can someone with an expertise in browser design te…

Looks like a useful tool. I get an "Oops, something went wrong ..." when I enter "shop". Besides that I really like the concept of http://stylate.com/ to find domains for startups.…

Great use case for QR codes.

Harvard, don't lock in your content! Other courses in many formats are available on http://www.extension.harvard.edu/open-learning-initiative Why should this one be iTunes only?

We are using qmail with ezmlm and while probably outdated now, this has been rock solid for years. When starting a new SMTP server I use postfix. Keep in mind that sending out news…