alexbosworth

This is confused or wrong. They don’t have a large number of devs working on Core. They did propose and code a solution which increased the block size. Saying things are fishy and that open source solutions widely reviewed over years by a broad set of people have some secret easy supposed backdoor, seems pretty wrong to me.

I don't know what the market will do, maybe fall hard, but I can tell you from personal experience it has utility over the alternatives in situations I've come across

Thanks for the 1mbit :) The absolute killer feature for me is multisig with a second party, based on a standard BIP backup seed - so 2 of 3, I hold 2 keys on a paper wallet, the mobile app holds 1 key, the trusted other party holds 1 key, 2 keys are needed to send transactions.

Basically my preference for bitcoin software is like this:

1. If there is a bad update to the software, I feel safe that it doesn't matter too much because there is a secondary signature needed to approve a transfer

2. If the software is discontinued or I want to stop using it, I feel safe it doesn't matter because I can restore from a seed elsewhere

I appreciate safeguards to the device like the touchId etc, however there's a tricky balance there of security vs usability. I think using the touch movement pattern is a great idea for a backup method and touchId can be the primary method.

my email is alexbosworth at gmail dot com

- I'd incorporate touchID, I've used it in iOS and it's easy to add.

- One feature I'm thinking about for my iOS apps is using the Apple Watch as a 2nd factor auth mechanism. I haven't looked into the feasibility of it yet though and probably not many people have smartwatches

- After the user writes down the seed when setting up the wallet, challenge them to verify their written seed. I think this is how Electrum works, try that out

- BIP standard is a good idea for the seed, but try and mention other wallets that the seed can be used in, for reference purposes

- Multisig is definitely the winner here, but I'd go farther, really look into trustedcoin API

I installed it, - my hn nick at gmail

My feedback is

- Hard to trust any app for btc that isn't open source

- Requiring a photo is pretty severe, scale factor is wrong mode in the uiimageview

- The security is pretty crazy, unlock pattern + password - make it easy to get started

- Seed value should require repeating back to the app

- Multisig looks complicated, I'd like it to work with Electrum

- Seed should give me some idea of its standard, can I restore it with another app

- It's missing press states on a lot of stuff

- Would be cool to integrate with trustedcoin api

The gold standard is breadwallet, have to beat that. I like the multisig angle, but it has to be done correctly

Is it open source?

Do you store the user ids?

Did you double tap the home button? It's a feature of iPhone 6

Since credit cards can have chargebacks for a long period of time and Bitcoin cannot represent negative balances, this is a pretty difficult service to provide

I'd like this but it needs a good interface and it needs to be super reliable

I see it as competition to PayPal, I like PayPal vs a credit card b/c of convenience and privacy

The tricky part here is that Coinbase is taking their 1% fee on the buyback (Maybe they should give a special rate here) - but they also recently introduced an interesting feature that allows merchants to pass on PayPal merchant charge savings on to the consumer.

This is early adopter territory, using Bitcoin for this isn't a clear win yet, but Coinbase is doing some smart things to bring mainstream appeal

There is a limit of transactions per hour based on the blocks

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Blocks

There is roughly 1 block every 10 minutes and it can only include 1 megabyte of transactions (transactions are around 500 bytes)

I don't think this limit has ever been hit but it doesn't allow for a ton of transactions per hour

Most advanced form builder evar but their email input isn't input type email for my iPhone to pick email keyboard :/

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

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This is the same thing - bitcoin is money. If you want some to mess around with though, you can buy some http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/

I like that I can buy btc there, but I immediately move my coins to blockchain after purchase - coinbase is improving but they are not nearly there yet

$36,550 to the credit card companies against $70,066 profit?

I prefer express, async, jade

Express is very solid and production ready, it's a good balance of magically handling the default things and not having to code for a totally unique system

Async lets you organize your code really well, and works well with the patterns of node.js code.

I also like commander for making console interfaces to apps, this can help with testing and administration

I've seen it work on a few sites, like AnonymousAds, but yeah it's not a 1:1 mapping

Would be cool to see bitcoin services use your bitcoin identity instead of email

Fixed a good while ago for node.js

I've used bitcoinary with success to get bitcoins for Paypal USD (with some paying attention to who is selling them: browsing their history + feedback)

http://blockchain.info/ is a great wallet, I use it on my iPhone and Chrome

They should use that money to buy blockchain.info - i've used both and blockchain.info really knows their stuff

Yep hoping it will work eventually or they will talk about what is wrong. I have been also trying multibit and http://blockchain.info/ - they seem pretty good so far

Been trying this out, seems like a cool use for bitcoins: you can buy and sell ads for tiny fractions of a cent, and get paid out pretty much immediately even on $0.10 earnings, something not really possible with conventional currency ad-brokers.

Would love to see this kind of thing disrupt Adsense in some far off future :)

My experiences from writing + running our tasks App backend ( http://tomorrow.do/ ) on Heroku:

1. Node.js + expressjs is quite an efficient option for serving API and the static site on Heroku, only the single free dyno is needed for over 3 million installs and peaks of 30-40k site visits. Only rarely have we needed a second or third dyno under an extremely heavy peak traffic period.

2. A commercial CDN is a good and not too costly option for static files ( http://maxcdn.com )

3. AWS database + file services like DynamoDB/S3 are not that flexible but aren't too expensive, pretty much scale up and down without you doing too much and don't go offline much at all

it's hit or miss, but its mostly disconnected - i am posting this from beijing

Express is the best

"employers, which is to say, predominantly large hierarchical structures that exist by skimming surplus value off of their workers’ work and simply paying them some portion of that value as a wage"

Kind of a terrible way to describe companies. Work has no intrinsic value

iPad only if tablet only: Android tablet market is still immature by comparison