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Its the first way to have a trustless, digital cash system as opposed to a digital payment system. In a payment system, people essentially exchange IOU's. Like writing a "good for $x note" or cheque. Payments always incur counter party risk, and thus can only happen among users who trust each other - or they must rely on a trusted third party (bank, paypal, credit card company etc).

Bitcoin allows peer 2 peer cash settlements, where users do not need to trust each other, because there is no counter party risk since they exchange something of value. Think gold, or although that is somewhat confusing, paying with bank notes (bank notes really are IOUs, but issued by a bank or central bank, so when we use them, we consider them valuable because we trust the bank, not the person paying with them). With cash payments, you dont rely on a third party, you dont take on counter party risk, you exchange things that actually have value, that you have to be sure can not be forged. Sounds trivial, but its a really difficult thing to pull off. Even in the real world, its not easy, bank notes can be counterfeit, gold may be fake, etc. In the digital world, its even harder because you also have to make sure each coin can only be spent once (its trivial to copy data). Bitcoin was the first solution to this problem. source: https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/6ufksx/am_i_...

While Robin Li's wife and kids live in the U.S. ...

taobao.com has the shortest robots.txt http://www.taobao.com/robots.txt

With Start8 installed, the Windows 8.1 is actually the best Windows OS I have ever used. Looking forward to a native start menu!

"Sorry, I can't help you with that"

google "goagent", which is free and faster than VPN

"re-education through labour" is the literal translation of the Chinese words "laogai"(劳改), which is already in Oxford dictionary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laogai

Two most well-known Chinese liberals share the same name -Xiaobo, what a coincidence! The other one is Wang Xiaobo, whose name is much more influencial in China.

I wonder what my future grandson can teach me (50 years later).

I am from China, my advise for western Chinese learners is:don't learn it based on Pinyin which seems helpful at the beginning but leads you to nowhere at all. If you just want to be able to read CHinese books or novels you simply don't have to know how to speak it. Most of the European Chinese experts in the last century were like that. And if you just want to speak it fluently, find a Chinese gf/bf,in two years you can flirt with others in Chinese.

I started taking a James Bond shower 6 months ago and have not caught any cold since then - http://artofmanliness.com/2010/01/18/the-james-bond-shower-a...

The author didn't know how to use it's/its correctly.

The link is blocked by GFW, I think, I can not open it here in China.

Simplified Chinese characters are ugly and ridiculous, I am in China and I prefer to read and write in traditional Chinese.

Maddox is much funnier than this dork

start coding now!

Fuck Great Firewall !

But websites in China really suck,where are these contest winners?

Incredibly effective and accurate, i can not believe it is all done by one person. It even understands chinese.

yeah,visually and aesthetically necessary !

If that link doesn't work for you,click this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Fr65PFqfk

http://www.cambrianhouse.com/ for those who are interested but lazy