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No account at Coinbase or any other online exchange is required to own bitcoin. In fact, to have someone else hold your money is against the spirit of Bitcoin.

Everyone is their own bank. All you need is a Bitcoin wallet and I recommend exactly that app, Bitcoin Wallet: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.schildbach....

There are many others as well. BitPay has a user-friendly one called Copay: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitpay.cop...

Re:How DuckDuckGo is trying to help programmers on Friday April 01, 2016 @04:17PM (#11408207)
I like their branding. Really like it. More personal, less of a corporate feel. I hope they don't change a thing.
Re:Use Esperanto instead of English on Friday April 01, 2016 @08:15AM (#11404239)
And Esperanto can act as linguistic neutral grounds for people of all languages.
Re:For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies on Friday April 01, 2016 @07:04AM (#11403980)
Comments are shadowbanned too. Just log off on your account and then check your comments and submissions. Are they still all there?
Re:For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @08:34PM (#11394159)
My comments on HN get shadowbanned for no discernable reason. Does that count?
Re:For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @07:21PM (#11393783)
There is a game for rejection that's definitely worth checking out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1754790
Re:Asana on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @01:38PM (#11391254)
I tried it. It didn't do anything for me, but to each his own.
Re:Asana on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @12:06PM (#11390281)
I tried to like Asana. I gave it several tries over the years, but the UI is so uninspired it seemed to drain my creativity. It looks polished though.
Re:The Loophole in the Hedonic Treadmill on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @10:36AM (#11389543)
My friend had several organs replaced, including his kidneys and pancreas (elective surgery). In each case, the organ donor was a recently deceased motorcyclist.
Re:Sanitation and Health Rights in India (YC W16 Nonprofit) on Saturday March 26, 2016 @11:00AM (#11365862)
I'll reword my comment since you seemed to miss the point: Civic duty goes hand-in-hand with sanitation and health rights. Otherwise, it is unsustainable, even counter-productive to provide toilets for an Indian population that will not use them or maintain them.
I love your optimism and motivation to make life better for others. You are a true leader and an inspiration!
This is a wonderful idea, but sanitation and health rights goes hand-in-hand with civic duty to where one lives and works. It's not just the responsibility of governments to keep an environment safe and clean. Citizens must do their part, such as minimize their ecological footprint, pick up litter in their communities, be a good neighbour and so on.

A sense of civic duty seems to be amiss nowadays. Just look at the streets strewn with litter, or the runaway urban sprawl by rich land developers who have no regard for natural habitats.

We can't just throw money at the problem. That's not sustainable. People need to be educated to take responsibility for their surroundings.

We all have an impact on the environment. We all have a say. It is our world.

Re:Smell.dating on Friday March 25, 2016 @01:30PM (#11361350)
Love the idea, but can't this be gamed by using synthetic pheromones? Pheromone colognes for the purpose of attracting women have been available for awhile now.
I'll second that. I keep getting redirected to the Canadian site.
Re:Ask HN: Paid email hosting, with custom domains on Saturday March 19, 2016 @05:27PM (#11320541)
I'm seriously questioning their technical competence not just from support but also from development.

Have to agree with you there. I tried their online office apps a few times over the years (also recently) and was surprised how limited and kind of janky the software is. They don't seem to be improving.

Re:Why Tesla Motors Finally Acquired Tesla.com on Thursday March 17, 2016 @12:00PM (#11305179)
Patrick Swayze said it best in Dirty Dancing: “Nobody puts Baby in the corner.” Well, the wrong domain can put you in a corner. The right domain can open the world.

I had no idea Patrick Swayze was such an authority on domain names and branding. Golden line though.

Or you could support an independent developer for what looks like a superior solution.
Take these "I'd buy if..." comments with a grain of salt. Some people are simply not interested yet will grasp at any excuse not to buy.

Congratulations on making this fantastic app!

Re:Ask HN: Delicious is falling apart – alternatives? on Saturday March 12, 2016 @05:24AM (#11272247)
Been using Dragdis lately: http://dragdis.com
Animal intelligence. Non-human persons with the capacity to love. I think these are hugely important issues.
Working on the Wheatbin project management software and book: http://www.wheatbin.com

Early access to the software is available through my "Rule of Nine" deal (and helps me keep the lights on while I finish this): https://gumroad.com/l/ruleofnine/ruleofnine

Re:Digit: Save money without thinking about it on Thursday March 10, 2016 @06:27AM (#11258543)
Now I think of saving purely as a way to put money out of my immediate reach.

That's how I save. I call my hack the "No Budget Budget" and wrote an ebook about it to explain my method: https://leanpub.com/nobudgetbudget

I designed supraliminal posters[1] to counter the covert forms of persuasion like Low Attention Processing marketing[2]. I definitely find them helpful, especially for meditation.

[1] http://zenpusher.com

[2] http://www.neurosciencemarketing.com/blog/articles/low-atten...

Solo Entrepreneur and Conceptual Designer.

Working on the Wheatbin project management software and book: http://www.wheatbin.com

Early access to the software is available through my "Rule of Nine" deal (and helps me keep the lights on while I finish this): https://gumroad.com/l/ruleofnine

Re:Ask HN: Raising money for the first time, any tips? on Monday March 07, 2016 @01:52PM (#11240690)
The salary for a marketing person is on the low side IMO. With rent prices being some of the highest in the world, can you even live in Vancouver for $35,000 CAD?
Re:Ask HN: Why don't you blog? on Monday March 07, 2016 @01:24PM (#11240472)
ROI (lack of) or the losing end of opportunity cost (there is something better I could be doing).
After uninstalling Firefox I did look at Vivaldi, but went with Maxthon: http://maxthon.com. It's available for Linux and all major platforms. Fast too.
Re: on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @03:07PM (#11212609)
I did something similar. It has the domain and a description of the business idea I had: http://startjumper.com

BTW: Ignore the prices. If you see something you like, contact me and we'll work something out.

I recently uninstalled Firefox browser on Windows because it loads at least 10x slower than Chrome, even with no plugins. Mozilla should fix that first. It'd give users (like me) more confidence in other projects they do, like connected devices.

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