Apologies for the necro-post. http://archive.org/donate/ is soliciting donations at the moment. Bitcoins accepted  3-for-1 Match for All Donations!
A generous supporter has offered to match every dollar we raise 3-to-1 through December 31st. We are trying to raise $150,000 in donations by the end of the year - with the match, that will give us $600,000, enough to buy 4 more petabytes of storage. Also on Hacker News http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4901148, where I learnt about this campaign. |
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U.S. players who blame the poker sites for not allowing them to play are blaming the wrong people. Blame the U.S. law makers and lobby them to change the law.
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Yes just saw that recently. I think it shows the shifting perceptions of bitcoin as people realise that it is a real thing and not some scam of fad. Bitcoin keeps gaining momentum.
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Saw this on Hacker news, Coinbase.com (YC S12) Hiring First Engineer, and thought it was interesting. Bitcoin is helping shape the future of payments - and as the first YC-backed bitcoin company, we're right in the thick of it. We're off to a great start - 15% growth per week in transaction volume, closed a deal with a major U.S. bank, and raised a $600k seed round. We're now looking for a great engineer to join the team (founder is also an engineer - worked on fraud prevention at Airbnb and previously build another company to profitability). I think it's a good sign that things like this are happening. Also I just noticed this exchange in the comments on Fred Wilson's latest blog and think it shows the shifting perceptions in the image of bitcoin recently. I think the Wordpress announcement has caused many people to reevaluate and the longer bitcoin sticks around the more and more people are going to come to the conclusion that bitcoin is a real viable thing. Teemu Kurppa takingpitches • 2 days ago
I've been following a few Bitcoin companies here in Finland, and as an earlier Bitcoin sceptic, I was surprised how much activity and money there is already in Bitcoin economy. I think a lot of investors are underestimating what's going on in Bitcoin world, because it's still so far away from the mainstream.
But many truly disruptive things were viewed as toys or pure idiocy in the early days. I'm speaking from the experience here. When we started Jaiku, a microblogging service similar to Twitter, in 2006, before Twitter and before Facebook's activity stream. At that time, a lot of people said that broadcasting and reading short mundane thoughts was the stupidest idea they had ever heard of. Fast-forward a few years and hundred of millions of people are doing it everyday.
Based on what I've seen, I'm starting to think that Bitcoin might be a similar phenomenon.
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fredwilson Mod Teemu Kurppa • 2 days ago
Yessssssssss |
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We already have one:
The Field Medal award.
"The Field Medal Award" award? The Fields Medal |
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Yes, they're legit, but they purposely hold your money for so long to earn interest or something on it. It's safe and secure, but I waited 4 or 5 days for my $100 worth of btc
That's no good, I wonder if they'll get it faster. Perhaps its a way of protecting themselves from scammers and fraud? I'd guess that if there were instant withdrawals of bitcoin allowed some people would figure out how to scam the system somehow. |
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wow, that was a while ago. I was surprised at the time that nobody commented on it. I thought it was a fairly big deal for bitcoin being included in this Udacity crypto class.
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1) squirrel - the animal but also has the meaning to hide money or something of value in a safe place.
2) digisafe
3)?? - If I think of something else I'll add it later.
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OK just signed up to the foundation forum to put my money where my mouth is and start a poll over there to allow read only access (with obfuscated member usernames for privacy) for non-members.
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it would be easy to hide the user-name for non-members
yes, was just going to make this point. You could obfuscate usernames of members in the read-only non-members version. |
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It's good this way. The craziness can stay here and the foundation business can stay over there.
So true. It's very good this way ! But why not let non-members read about the useful work the foundation is doing rather than restricting read access and adding fuel to the fire about non-transparency, an insider cabal etc. |
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It's vital for the forum to be closed for non-members and search engines etc. There is now a policy in place which prevents using the forum with a nickname or a pseudonym or whatever. It's Real Name Only. To make that policy work it has to be closed.
In other words the forum is much more strict, matter-of-fact, no-nonsense and "official" compared to this forum which is basically crazy. It's good this way. The craziness can stay here and the foundation business can stay over there.
Being read-only for non-members would be good for openness and transparency. I can clearly see the benefit of non-members not being able to post to cut out a lot of the rubbish you see on this forum for example but I don't see any benefit to denying non-members read access. |
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Foundation Members, check your emails. Invites to the members-only BTC foundation forum have been sent out.
making the members-only BTC foundation forum read-only for non-members might be a good option to prevent the inevitable accusations of an insider elite taking control of bitcoin and other conspiracy theories. |
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Is it just me, or does their instant account verification sound like a very bad idea? Give them your online-banking username and password so they can log in on your behalf? What could possibly go wrong?
They do offer a deposit verification method which should be safe enough...it's the same method used by PayPal, Dwolla, etc. to verify your account.
Has anyone done this or know the details? Do they just log in one time to verify that the account is yours and then you can change your password? previous discussion here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120720.0Some people said they have completed the verification process. |
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I think the Bitcoin Foundation is planing on organizing one. But I'm sure there could be others too. See in the goals section of the letter from the executive director: https://www.bitcoinfoundation.org/about/letterRun a payments-oriented Silicon Valley Bitcoin Conference in the spring (Bitcoin 2013) |
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Yes I see that now. Seems like a bad idea but there is a second verification method where they deposit 2 small amounts in your account and you send it back (I think that's how it works). 1st method (giving account access) is instant apparently, other method take a few days.
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