Winklevoss Twins’ Bitcoin Exchange • Hacker News Board

Re: Winklevoss Twins’ Bitcoin Exchange

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Post by stevenh » Fri, Oct 09, 2015, 12:14 AM UTC

lemiffe wrote: post #47

What a beautiful, fast website.

It was incredibly slow here. The tab locked up the entire browser for a full 7 seconds before I could begin scrolling. The rendering frame rate of scrolling was 3-4 FPS, and only jumped back up to a fluid rate once I scrolled down past all of the images. Late 2013 MacBook Pro running Chrome.

Re: Winklevoss Twins’ Bitcoin Exchange

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Post by coinclub » Sat, Oct 10, 2015, 10:50 PM UTC

howdoipython wrote: post #38

What is the best way to get bitcoin without associating it with your identity (credit cards, debt cards, etc). Accepting pre-paid cards is fine too

coinclub allows you to mail order bitcoin here: http://coinclubng3ykuyj.onion

Re: Winklevoss Twins’ Bitcoin Exchange

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Post by silverbax88 » Wed, Oct 14, 2015, 2:36 PM UTC

benmmurphy wrote: post #85

cenal wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What benefit do they offer over something like Coinbase to a casual Bitcoin observer like me?

Looking at Coinbase and Gemini as a user I would probably prefer Gemini marginally because their bullshit about using HSM. They both seem to be hosted in AWS which from my POV is a major fuckup. Gemini and Coinbase are basically running a CTF where if you can find a hypervisor exploit and get lucky you can drain their hot wallet.

I saw a presentation at OWASP a couple of weeks ago by Coinbase, where they stated that the BTC are stored on air gapped servers, and that 97% of the Bitcoins never exist on routable servers.