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You mean, Blockchain is the platform and 'currency' is the first killer app?

Why is this Show HN? Can a mod please remove it, so we can respect the other Show HNs. "... blog posts, email signups, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they don't count as Sh…

The mind is a sophisticated algorithm with a shit database. So why not replace that database by taking notes?

Not many musicians expect to make money from selling records. It used to be "do free shows to sell records". Now it's completely reversed to "do free records to sell shows".

There's also a block explorer - https://helloblock.io/latest

Any word on how they were Hacked? I know that Bitcoinica, Gavin Andresen's faucet and TradeHill all got hacked through Linode's support system a while back, in which the attacker m…

Not all miners are relaying OP_RETURN transactions. The plan is the use OP_RETURN once v0.9 is released. We were hoping it would've been released before 14th Feb, however that's no…

Ahhhhh, but it worked so perfectly! Oh well, thanks for the heads up :)

Yeah, Coinbase does this.

At first I thought the hex was ridiculous, but I guess it's a good PR stunt. I mean, we're all talking about it now.

Thanks for the feedback. We're following https://code.google.com/p/crypto-js/#SHA-2 Could you let us know how it's incorrect? Otherwise, feel free to make a pull request on https:/…

Your encrypted private keys are stored in Chrome Storage, they are encrypted via your password digest so your password is never stored.

No self-respecting DDoS attacker would fail to spoof the User-Agent. This is even Web Scraping 101. Attacks these days are getting rather sophisticated, where significant amount of…

I think you're right about this. Any suggestions for UI/UX elements?

Great question. That's exactly what we want to eventually do. For an efficient market to run, there needs to be a way to manage risk. However, if you mention "derivatives" to any n…

Good point. 1. Blockchain.info is relatively trustworthy. 2. However, we have our own hash rate calculations by directly interfacing with the actual blockchain. This isn't in produ…

You'd need ASIC Miners, but even then, you'd have a minuscule impact. More importantly, if you have that much Gigahashing power, it's not worth manipulating this. You're better off…