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Re:Startup Brasil – []accelerate your business in Brazil on Monday September 29, 2014 @09:56PM (#8386390)
Accepts international applications. Mix of government(no equity) and accelerator(equity) funding.

Startups get up to ~85k usd funding from government for R&D, no strings attached. Startups get invested and accelerated by accelerators (capital/equity varies according to accelerator)

Here is an explanation about the program. [1]

[1] http://www.startupbrasil.org.br/programa/?lang=en

Re:MtGox.com is offline on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @10:43AM (#7298199)
What does that even mean?

There is not one single oficial statement saying what they will do from now on. To me, this delay means just one thing, they screwed big time and have zero good news.

Re:Soylent on the latest Vice piece on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @07:49PM (#6722588)
Re:Ask HN: Your Thoughts On The Present Bitcoin Rally? on Monday November 11, 2013 @07:01PM (#6714962)
Indeed.

But, do not be fooled and think that we seeing the last 10x cycle.

Re:Ask HN: Your Thoughts On The Present Bitcoin Rally? on Monday November 11, 2013 @06:48PM (#6714919)
It is changing in the same pace as always.

See this log chart. http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#tgSzm1g10zm2g25zvzl

Right now it is rising, but soon enough it will stabilize for some time.

Happens every year, once or twice.

If you do some research, you will see that it is being used more than ever for purchases. You may think otherwise because of the media hype/bubble time that is happening now.

Re:Silk Road 2.0 Launches on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @08:39PM (#6686923)
Maybe if you are a USA resident.
Re:Hawala on Monday November 04, 2013 @08:53AM (#6668467)
If you reach the bitcoin community, probably, you will find help. The community is really friendly towards the spread of bitcoin use.
Re:Ask HN: What is the best way to find freelance devs? on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @07:54PM (#5949878)
Though it is more focused on online hiring, you might find some good pieces of advice here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5774303