SODaniel

First off I agree 100% that the trolls that threaten and slur her on the blog/twitter etc. are morons. I would also like to point out that THAT is what trolls do!

As a footnote: Adria moderates ALL comments on her blog, and allowing these trolls a forum seems a little counter productive as she must have chose to let these comments appear.

I doubt there is any truth to this. No company in their right mind would fire a valuable employee because they end up in a 'trollstorm'.

Obviously any intelligent person will agree that the trolls posting threats etc are childish morons.

I feel the same way. I think that if she had just apologized early and clearly for her lack of judgement and maybe just called up the company that fired the guy they could have made a deal and shaken hands.

Now she has lost her job at Sendgrid and is almost certainly not going to be able to be a 'evangelist' that anyone takes seriously.

WHAT?

I personally find it more confounding that grown men or women are actually finding what they said privately (the fact that you can overhear a private conversation does not make it public, saying it at the podium would) offensive enough to think her reaction was anything but an overreaction.

I am not in a position where I hire or fire people, but if so was the case I would consider her reaction to a private conversation where neither of the participants intended any harm very bad judgement.

Tweeting and blogging about this with images in the manner she did clearly steps over the line where it in my opinion is 'ok'.

I can absolutely guarantee that the people involved in the conversation felt absolutely ambushed by the event, and that is not a very enjoyable work environment.

Personal vendetta or not. A person that reacts to a private conversation (inappropriate or not) by posting hearsay about two co-workers to 1000s of followers the way she did is NOT a person I would want to work with, even less hire. She has at the very least shown very bad judgement and should not be commended nor rewarded for it.

This just makes me sad, what a hypocrite.

Not being able to make sexually explicit jokes in private at a public conference is absolute ludicrous. No question that the offender here is the person posting this out of context and seemingly out of spite.

Pretty obvious they fired the wrong person here. If someone worked for me and posted inflammatory images/statements about/involving a co-worker they would be the one needing to worry about their job.

Basically I am just speculating wildly, however I think that $60 may be a 'mental wall' for a lot of traders in BTC that could signal a quick movement either to/past $100 or trigger sell-offs.

Because every time BTC jump 20% the same article will be 'interesting again' due to the large number of Bitcoin owners that frequent HN.

CAPITALISM!!

As the article clearly states the function of the hack is to allow the card to run with alternative drivers, providing lacking functionality under Linux.

Dropbox for Wi-Fi? I haven't even gotten past the first page of instabridge and I already think the tag-line is more confusing then explanatory.

Do you anything that has to do with shared cloud storage or collaboration? If not, just don't compare to Dropbox just to try to seem disruptive or give yourself an 'air' of success even before launch.

Also: Frontpage explains nothing about what the service does. I would try boiling it down to a few short bullets or an effective one-liner instead of leaning on people knowing what dropbox does and somehow apply it to your model.

100% agree. Unfortunately I am fairly certain that Elon is the kind of type-A, Narcissist genius that once he enters combat will not let go.

Elon Musk is one of those bona fide type A geniuses that I would HATE to see go the way of Rise and McAffee.

For those interested in building Encrypted/Private cloud apps Crypton.io (https://crypton.io), developed by the team behind SpiderOak inc launched proof of concept for a zero-knowledge private and secure cloud api a few weeks ago. Also 100% open source for those who are interested.

Of course, but with a young currency without a set 'backing' (Gold, merchandise etc) I am just saying that looking at historical valuation makes it seem like the massive value increase would speak for it being valued fairly high @ $40

Transaction records? Yes. Tied to a physical person? No. There is as far as I understand nothing hindering private trades among owners, making 'rigging' entirely possible (I may be wrong).

Of course, there is absolutely nothing that says this will ever happen.

Something else people seem to forget is: This is an unregulated electronic currency without a paper trail.

Can you say "A market that a group of people wanting to rig value would LOVE!"

Nothing (as far as I can tell) stopping a group of large BTC owners to completely run the price on BTC to their advantage. Wouldn't even take that much money to drive prices, and impossible (almost) to detect and do something about.

Prediction time: 1 BTC under $15 within 60 days and relatively stable around $6-$9 for the next 18 months.

I have no idea what variables you are using, or how you are reasoning that bitcoins somehow are 'cheap' at a certain price.

Using the only scale we have available (history) $40+ per BTC is VASTLY overpriced considering the previous historical fair market value.

Though very hard swings in short time DOES hinder wide adoption as it can cause retailers to lose money while a transaction is 'en route'.

No one wants to use a currency that swings 20% in hours of trading. Hell, that's prob 4-5x the margin on a lot of computer hardware.

Yep. I am pretty much acting the same way. I have a few BTC that I got years ago and a small ASIC mining rig ordered just 'For teh lulz'.

It's interesting how 'Bitcoin falls $10!!' is news, while the fact that it's gone up 50%+ in less than a month, and over 1000% in 1 year somehow is not.

My guess is that a LOT of the Bitcoin owners today are early adopters that own very little BTC as a novelty and/or with the idea that "Hey, who knows. Maybe my 4 BTC will be worth $1000s in a few years".

This makes for a super volatile market. Especially coupled with the new Mining ASIC rigs coming to market, small volume trading etc.

I would suspect that it will take a LONG time before we see if/how the 'currency' will actually stabilize.

One must remember, less than 5 years ago, BTC were selling for $0.001! Today it topped out at around $50.

I prob wouldn't mix the term 'Economics 101' with a early adopter currency that has fluctuated between $0.001 and $50 in less than 5 years and between $5 and $50 in the last 10 months.

For a 'currency' that has gone up from $4 to $45+ in the last 10 months and the last 50% in a month, a 20% drop isn't really that unexpected.