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owens99

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About owens99

Entrepreneur, Author, Investor, and Full-Stack Developer.

Currently Managing Partner, BTC Frontier Fund.

Investing in outstanding startup teams building on Bitcoin. https://btcfrontier.fund

@TO on Twitter

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    Comment #42324880

    Why is this post flagged?

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    Comment #42324760

    Congrats to the everyone who had the conviction to hold Bitcoin all these years.

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    Comment #41978424

    I invested quite a bit of time working in Flutter years ago. The team overpromised and underdelivered. Felt like it was all marketing fluff and I'd been duped.

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    Comment #32574869

    I knew this day would eventually come

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    Comment #32457288

    This blog post about Len Sassaman being Satoshi is very compelling. https://evanhatch.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c8... However, there are some valid counter arguments …

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    Comment #32442157

    Very unlikely. Hal Finney is the more likely candidate. Adam is/was not a good programmer like Satoshi was. Satoshi was in favor of alt coins in Adam is notoriously against them. "…

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    Comment #32442039

    Selling this may ruin the story and crash the price. It would probably go against his values and mission. He could easily have other early wallets and have $B's. Most likely explan…

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    Comment #32441979

    Chinese doesn't either (technically). 好 = OK, 是 = Is, Both are used to mean yes 不要 = Don't want, 不用 = Don't need, Both are used to mean no

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    Comment #30282580

    There are many scams in crypto, and there are many people doing it for speculation, but the space/tech/utility/use cases is not a scam. It's important to delineate between somethin…

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    Comment #27599119

    Check out Stacks ( https://stacks.co ), enables smart contracts on top of Bitcoin through Proof-of-Transfer consensus. Founded by YC alums and launched this January after many year…

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    Comment #27201539

    Thank you for bringing this up.

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    Comment #27201513

    You're smart, I like your comments.

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    Comment #26501915

    Is this more performant than JS or SVG?

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    Comment #25940867

    No. I meant for a normal SPA or CRUD app without video.

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    Comment #25940380

    That’s way too expensive. My $80/month server bill can support millions of users per month but would only get me Edit: my guess is I misunderstood who they are targeting with this.…

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    Comment #25758135

    Can you provide more information?

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    Comment #24853476

    Wow I’m so sad to hear this. I am such a huge fan of James Randi and his debunking and have most of his books in my personal library at home. Losing a legend and an amazing champio…

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    Comment #24714248

    Why does this fact make a difference? His point still stands pretty strongly in light of this keep in mind comment.

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    Comment #24504864

    YC defines it as someone with at least 10% equity.

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    Comment #24420583

    Congrats to Eric on this. The thing missing from this article is: What does this actually mean? When will companies start listing? Who will start listing? How do companies list? Wh…

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    Comment #24333303

    Look for tenderlove’s comments on TruffleRuby. The performance is at the expense of memory.

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    Comment #24144255

    I’m sure there is disagreement among some doctors over this, but ADHD in the current medical literature is not defined by brain function, it is defined by sustained dysfunction in …

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    Comment #24142392

    A lot of people in the comments appear to have a misunderstanding of ADHD and sleep disorders. It is possible to have both conditions simultaneously, and likely very common. ADHD i…