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Let's be serious. No one reads twitter over sms anymore. This isn't at all the reason twitter continues to limit to 140 characters. (Before some smartass replies "I do read over sm…

"adding cloudflare would work much more reliably" This can't work. The author requirement was to have self-hosted comments without javascript. So his html pages change every few mi…

Yes, perfect use case for Bitcoin! Many VPN providers (and big ones, not small alternative ones) already accept Bitcoin for this very reason: https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/expres…

To be fair we shouldn't look at Bitcoin as "just" computing hashes. Its impact is already wider than that. The OP pointed out: > the bottom line is that investing a hundred+ megawa…

Given Amazon's history to NEVER involve law enforcement in outrageous cases like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10966164 or even the OP, I doubt you would get arrested.

Yes Google is just showing ads. They collect data about you to target their ads well, but that's basically all they do. They don't send your info to the NSA, they don't send you SP…

This counter is completely inaccurate. I used to work for a company that was doing email marketing (I quit because I disagreed with their practices). My employer was buying about o…

> So what you're saying is that Twitter withheld their MAU because the figures were poor? No I am saying the exact opposite: figures where great, but they withheld MAU due to compe…

You call growing from zero to tens of millions of MAU in 4 years "very weak"?! Ridiculous. You are wrong, nobody seriously outright rejected Twitter was growing. The worst critics …

Yet Twitter experienced phenomenal growth, going from zero to tens of millions of MAU in their first 4 years, proving your logic wrong (paraphrasing you, you said "if growth was so…

> For starters that address is empty. The coins from it are on the list at ~174,000 now. Doesn't matter. This one addresses alone represents hundreds of thousands of customers of B…

So if Twitter took 4 years to release MAU, would you have accused them for 4 years that they have "something to hide"? Now you get my point. It's sensitive. Sometimes you wait year…

It is very common for companies to not release MAU numbers especially in their initial years, even if they are being very successful. I challenge you to find Gmail's MAU numbers re…

> There really is no arguing against that. You are sarcastic, but it really is the case. Some of these addresses were proven to belong to exchanges, for example these 240,000 BTC b…

They don't release their MAU numbers not because they want to hide things, but because it really is a sensitive business metric.

Your logic is flawed. It doesn't matter if even 99% of the addresses all belonged to the wallets of a few hundreds early adopters. As of today (as of block 350,000) there are 102 a…

It has been explained many times users tend to leave their coins on exchanges. So 1 exchange address containing 100 BTC could represent 100 bitcoin users each owning 1 BTC. Therefo…

It's obvious "0.05% of the US population" is a valid ballpark estimate that is very conservative: assuming there are 2.5 million global Bitcoin users (your lower estimate) and assu…

This incident had nothing to do with zero-conf txs. In fact okpay did wait for multiple confirmations, and was still hit by this $10k double spend! This whole thing was possible be…

> they still pose an element of risk that isn't necessarily present with cash and credit. The element of risk is ALWAYS present with cash and credit. You could be handed counterfei…

No, these 4 peoples have no power to "force" (your words) the change of some rule, against the will of the users. Because the moment they would try to force something the users dis…

> it doesn't track that it had money in it or its location within the receivers infrastructure If the customer mails an empty envelope, the merchant won't ship, so where is the pro…

> lack of tracking Are you joking? The entire shipping industry offers tracking services, delivery confirmations, etc.

We warn about mailing cash to dubious/untrustworthy recipients. But paying a very trustworthy merchant by mailing cash would probably be fine in terms of risk of theft: mailing a $…

BitPay alone has 50k merchants: http://blog.bitpay.com/2015/03/10/heartland-payment-systems-... Coinbase has 38k: https://www.coinbase.com/about Gocoin has 5.5k: https://ihb.io/201…