News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

pinarsezer

Re:Thoughts on Bitcoin on Sunday December 01, 2013 @03:04PM (#6828994)
> The fact that the few merchants willing to accept bitcoin generally convert to dollars right away suggest an underlying lack of faith in bitcoin—or at least a problem with the volatility.

Few merchants accept gold either. Yet gold reserves in the world amount to US $8.2 trillion in value.

Edit: removed part on volatility

Re:Amazon Announces new Data Warehousing Product on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @01:56PM (#4844059)
Rumor has it that they picked ParAccel to provide the underlying tech. I'm curious about how that compares to Vertica and Teradata.
Love the video btw!