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Re:Someone is stealing unpublished book manuscripts in a phishing scam on Saturday December 26, 2020 @10:16AM (#25543920)

Haven't looked into it enough...

https://keys.pub/

not sure if you can self-serve.

Re:What If All Your Slack Chats Were Leaked? on Monday July 01, 2019 @06:15PM (#20330268)

Keybase has an import team from slack tool.

Keybase is open source and uses pgp. Easy for the the average user. Can be used in command line.

Been using keybase for a while now, haven't tried the tool.

Re:Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @10:51AM (#20213697)

https://alternativeto.net/ not all results will be privacy focused.

some other alternatives

Browser waterfox and other forks

search yacy

email self hosted various vps serves

sheets/docs own/next cloud. libre/open office

video hooktube invidius

adwords a-ads

dns opennic

drive sia ipfs storj...

hangouts keybase bitmessage tox

images pixeldrain(sia)

Re:Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @10:32AM (#20213444)

> "Libra’s mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people."

Command line demo/testnet. yea everyone can use it /s

Re:Bitcoin's Use in Commerce Keeps Falling on Sunday August 26, 2018 @02:06PM (#17847023)

>And Bitcoin-based transactions can’t be reversed, an issue when a merchant or a consumer comes up against fraud

That's the fucking point. Use multisig/escrow if you need it.

Re:Bill Gates Noticed a Economy Trend No One Is Paying Attention To on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @03:14AM (#17816942)

You wouldn't download an update would you?

LocalBitcoins ad limits hurting Bitcoin community

Posted by opticbit on Friday November 10, 2017 @08:04PM
from the self-post dept.

Local Bitcoins Ad limits are not getting adjusted. Many of their limits are btc based. Some of them get adjusted when the price of BTC moves significantly. For a long time the minimum deposit to have an ad show up was 0.4 BTC. Its been adjusted down to 0.1 BTC and needs to go lower for many of the new traders. The ad limits Have not been adjusted. Each user can have 5 ads as a base. Then 1 new...

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