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aboutuson A Rare Look Inside Coinbase, One of Bitcoin's Fastest Growing Companies

Others being BitPay: http://bitpay.com, Intuit (Quickbook Bitcoin Payments): http://intuitlabs.com/bitcoin.html, Winklevoss twins (who reportedly own 1% of all bitcoins), Quadriga CX: http://quadrigacx.com, and I'd keep an eye on Coinkite: http://coinkite.com in Canada.

aboutuson A Rare Look Inside Coinbase, One of Bitcoin's Fastest Growing Companies

If anything, the rise of Bitcoin thus far has certainly been interesting! As for Coinbase, their heft and resources will certainly help mainstream this new decentralized money system.

aboutuson The truth about the Bitcoin Foundation

I agree with you. Inflation is due to political maneuvers, and is not purely economical. In other words, without bad politicians, inflation wouldn't exist.

aboutuson The truth about the Bitcoin Foundation

Only someone who completely trusts their government and centralized financial institutions would say that.

aboutuson The truth about the Bitcoin Foundation

Although I believe Apple Pay was inspired by Bitcoin, it wasn't core to my argument. So I dropped it.

aboutuson The truth about the Bitcoin Foundation

Bitcoin presents more opportunity and potential than anything I have seen since the arrival of the internet. It could be the biggest opportunity in our lifetime.

There will be those who want an easy ride. They'll wait until the problems are solved and the infrastructure is in place. But for me, the exciting time is now, because the future is still being written.

Let those who want to mock the efforts of others do so. The rest of us can roll up our sleeves and be builders of this new economy for the people.

aboutuson Obama signs executive order allowing government to seize hackers assets

After the first four years of his presidency, Obama had a shocking record of human rights violations. This was heavily publicized in the press. You must have known about it, and yet you still voted him in for a second term.

What was your rationale for doing it a second time, even when the warning signs were clearly present?

Could you or anyone else who voted Obama in for a second term answer this?

aboutuson What's the use for Bitcoin?

I derided Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general until I seriously looked into it, and then I could hardly sleep for days because of the huge implications of it.

Bitcoin allows people who are unbanked, especially in developing countries, to hold and transmit money across the world at practically zero cost. Since bitcoin is decentralized, there are no middlemen like banks to take a cut or freeze your account.

Besides, there are a lot more crimes being perpetrated with fiat and credit cards by financial institutions and governments. And with new allegations that it was the US Feds that stole the money from Mt. GOX users (and not Mark Karpeles), I wonder if there isn't a nasty propaganda campaign against bitcoin going on.

This article is close to clueless. But then, for a time so was I.

aboutuson Can Oregon's tiny houses be part of the solution to homelessness?

I don't understand how we've gone so far in the McMansion direction.

"To achieve the American Dream, you must be asleep" said Lama Surya Das.

The mass population is in a trance, induced by constant, relentless marketing and monotony.

aboutuson Ghost Call – Secure, Encrypted, Anonymous Calling

The most important aspects of bitcoin is that it's decentralized (cannot be controlled by governments and banks) and inflation-proof.

It's not anonymous, but certainly more private than using a debit or credit card!

aboutuson Ask HN: Have you ever regretted taking an investment?

Star Wars never made a profit, apparently: http://www.slashfilm.com/lucasfilm-tells-darth-vader-that-re...

aboutuson BlackBerry posts fourth-quarter profit; seeks to end revenue slide

I have the new Blackberry Passport: http://ca.blackberry.com/smartphones/blackberry-passport/ove.... It's easily the best smartphone I've ever owned and the best Blackberry has come out with.

You'll be seeing and hearing a lot more about Blackberry. I can assure you that.

aboutuson Ask HN: Do you take nootropics?

Try it. Switching your brain to keytones definitely has a zen-like effect.

aboutuson Send Money to Friends in Messenger

That will change. Cryptocurrencies are here to stay. There is no undoing decentralized commerce. It will change the world in ways we can hardly fathom.

aboutuson Send Money to Friends in Messenger

I use Bitcoin Wallet (app) for Blackberry and Android. Super easy to use.

aboutuson Living Without a Cellphone

Funny, every time I asked a mobile carrier sales rep about going pre-paid, they discouraged me. "You'd hate it" they'd say. But I've saved a lot of money since doing so, and with no more mysterious charges on my cellphone bill that no one can account for.

aboutuson What I Learned at Salesforce.com

All of these companies owe their very existence to Salesforce.com.

Typical Salesforce propaganda. I stopped reading there.

aboutuson Why I won’t mourn Mozilla

Google, Yahoo, the money spends the same. The error doesn't change the meaning one iota.

aboutuson Xfce 4.12 released

I haven't used Linux for a few years now (KDE was always my go-to GUI), but after reading this article[1], I've decided to go back.

What is the hot new Linux distro on the block? Elementary OS? Tails? Steam OS?

[1] https://medium.com/backchannel/why-i-m-saying-goodbye-to-app...

aboutuson Ask HN: Paypal alternatives for vendors outside the US?

I'll email you on Monday, first thing.

aboutuson Ask HN: Paypal alternatives for vendors outside the US?

At first glance, Fastspring looks fantastic. It even accepts PayPal, so I don't have to miss out on those sales. Hopefully it's the real deal.

aboutuson Ask HN: Paypal alternatives for vendors outside the US?

I'm asking on behalf of completely legitimate businesses who provide typical digital products and services.

aboutuson PayPal stops payment delivery to Mega, citing 'business reasons'

This sucks. I subscribe to Mega using PayPal and I love the service. I wish I didn't have to use Paypal. However, I don't live in the US, so my options are limited.

If Mega can't use PayPal, what can they use for processing international payments? What options are available for vendors of digital products who live outside the US?

aboutuson Why Canada's anti-terror bill is unnecessary and dangerous

In Canada, environmentalists are being labeled as a "growing threat to security" and face increased surveillance (and worse) under the government’s new terrorism legislation[1].

Basically, if you get in the way of big business in Canada, you're in danger of being labeled a terrorist.

[1] http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/anti-petroleum-mo...

aboutuson 1Password on Linux

I use Lastpass, but it seems a tad janky. It's saving grace is that it's ubiquitous and works on every platform I can think of.