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Wait. According to that article, the last major mask manufacturer in US offered to increase production and was turned down by government. > "In the end, the government did not take…

How brittle is diamond? We know diamond is the hardest, but how brittle is it? It is good to have a non-scratching phone screen, but not if it is really brittle.

a very cool concept for doing a lot of projects where users need shared db.

There is also a way to create a smart contract that locks the fund until a certain time. And you can make it in such a way that the smart contract is executed by the network, not b…

It does not require a bank account in that sense. What you need is to hold your private key. You could, for example, holds your private key somewhere else, and inject that private …

I think you might be confused about how bitcoin actually works. If you want to change bitcoin's economics properties, you can. You just have to get all the nodes to agree with it. …

Bitcoin network is the first truly-open financial/transaction/value network that allows developer to innovate on top of it. What if you think it this way? I also want to point out …

good to see that you are adding more info about how it works. please keep posting more info. sounds like an interesting technology.

> Accepting bitcoin as payment isn't beneficial right now. There's no benefit for merchants, because it's instantly converted back to traditional currency. I see another benefit. M…

perhaps it should be a button on the website, like "experience the site with FCC's Slow Lane". That way, they can see what the site is like and if they choose to press the button, …

There is a correlation to bitcoin repo on github. Is that the cumulative number of repo on github with "bitcoin" tag? or is it the activity on github.com/bitcoin? Personally, I wou…

good point. something we ought to focus on.

How about correlation to Hacker News mention of bitcoin?

let's thinking about this from humanity's point of view in a thousand years. if someone stopped polio now, his name would be in history. if someone colonized mars, his name would b…

Good eyes. The author fixed the title.

"We believe that hackers are building the future. They are the ones that are building new technology everyday." Nice trending finding. When people are talking about bitcoin, very o…

At first glance, mining appears to use a lot of energy. But it has a very important property: mining is "fair" in money generation. And being fair may be much more important than t…

It is funny how much the title could change the story perception. If they titled it "Norway classifies Bitcoin as asset instead of currency". The tone would sound very different. A…

Good to know. What is the effect of treating it as commodity means to bitcoin business in Taiwan? How is bitcoin perceived in Taiwan?

Good list. i would agree with you that those 5 items are what to look out for in the near future (the web, Bitcoin, drones and 3D-printers). I would probably add wearable computing…

What the author said is very true. We should accept that there is no good way to estimate the schedule because each software is inherently new. Simply that it will be done when it …

Excerpt from the article: "The developers of bitcoin are trying to show that money can be successfully privatized." -- Not really. Bitcoin is open sourced. They did not try to priv…

But silver was successfully used as a currency for a long time in history of certain countries.