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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by samstave on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:24PM (#15369357)
Holy shit! People are hiring planes to ship them GPUs!?

Jeasus!! Gibson was far more prescient than acknowledged;

"the future is already here, but not evenly distributed yet"

Wow...

I had such opportunity and ability to buy bitcoins in 2012... and I missed that boat.

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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by rangibaby on Friday September 29, 2017 @08:26PM (#15370386)
I downloaded the Bitcoin mining app in 2010, opened it once, got bored of waiting for it to sync with some server, then shut and forgot about it for a few years. It might be a funny story to tell my grandkids if BTC is still around
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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by saimiam on Friday September 29, 2017 @10:17PM (#15370819)
If Bitcoin is around when your grandkids are of age, even this minute might be a great time to buy Bitcoin. Why miss the same boat twice?
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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by kebman on Saturday September 30, 2017 @07:46AM (#15372410)
Hope what you say is true, because I bought bitcoin @ $4700 :'(
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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by unkown-unknowns on Saturday September 30, 2017 @09:24AM (#15372753)
Like they say; "The best time to buy bitcoin was yesterday. The next-best time to buy bitcoin is now."
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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by runeks on Sunday October 01, 2017 @02:16PM (#15379050)
> I had such opportunity and ability to buy bitcoins in 2012... and I missed that boat.

You also have opportunity and ability to buy bitcoins now. And, just like in 2012, you have no idea what the price will be five years into the future.

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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by sneak on Sunday October 01, 2017 @10:01AM (#15377848)
No, they’re not. They’re just overnighting large shipments of GPUs with carriers that use airplanes to handle overnight shipping.

That quote also isn’t from Gibson. :)

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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by ameliaquining on Saturday September 30, 2017 @07:45PM (#15375587)
This isn't as big a deal as it sounds. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14887929
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