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Do they really need blockchain for that? 61M is quite a lot for a project without any product out yet.

Not exactly banks, but there's a huge chance they will be big corps with a money transmitter license, KYC, AML. What if they refuse your channel or transaction?

OK. So 0-conf are not secure because you read it somewhere, good argument.

It's a common misconception that block size is somehow related to decentralization. In fact you don't need a whole blockchain to verify transactions securely, you only need a few last blocks at max. Also full nodes add nothing to the network, they have no vote, only miners and actual users do.

No, they are secure, you just have to trust miners a bit more so they don't throw your transaction out of mempool. I would even argue that all the complications involved in setting up and using Lightning network make it less secure than 0-conf.

0-confirmation transactions were working excellent before Bitcoin Core added SegWit and other useless stuff. You don't need to wait for a new block if your signed transaction is in the mempool, and it's secure enough for small payments.

Lightning will become centralized into services like banks and Paypal since it's too difficult to use for an average person, which completely defeats the idea of Bitcoin as P2P cryptocurrency.

The problem is Bitcoin Core, at least some part of it’s developers, pushing their own agenda to implement SegWit and Lightning network. Both solutions have a lot of technical debt and possible security problems, they were controversial from the beginning, that’s why miners were refusing to implement SegWit for over a year. Now we have Bitcoin Cash which has solved those problems in a simple way, at least for now. Bitcoin Cash is more like a desperate effort to fix the damage done by Bitcoin Core and make Bitcoin usable again.

sad, but things change, eventually

I still think the idea is good, but they should have been more straightforward about Coin being supported in different places than US.

Most people won't bother threatening them with some laws, especially if they are from another country. Just $100 spent for a useless thing.

I've had pretty much the same experience. Bought Coin via pre-order over a year ago, couple month ago found out that it's very unlikely to be supported in my country ever. Asked them for refund - got some template response, asked again - silence.

Ripple is controlled by a corporation, unlike Bitcoin it is fragile and useless.

The author is wrong in many points:

1. Bitcoin is the open base for monetary innovation, you should compare it to internet protocols like IP or HTTP, Linux, not some privately-owned social networks.

2. There's hardly any need to enhance anything in bitcoin itself, the security is enough, nobody has proven otherwise.

3. Alternative cryptocurrencies are 99.9% copies of bitcoin with hardly any innovation. Only proof-of-stake(ppcoin) algorithm and scrypt hashing(litecoin) are real changes and it is questionable if they add any value.

4. The slow speed of transactions (~10min), which other cryptocurrencies are trying to "fix", could be easily brought to instant with a help of third-party service, there are many way of doing it.

5. Bitcoin developers and pool operators aren't some kind of "kings", they are merely leaders guiding the community.

Great news!

You're completely wrong. Immigrants and foreign workers are adding to the employment competition, they raise the overall quality of the workforce. There will be a major crisis if they leave, trust me.

Why such a strange name?

It is already a big gaming platform, you can't ignore such a huge market. Unfortunately, high quality games are not there yet, but it gives a bit more time for the smaller studios to make something fresh.

NVidia is creating just more hype around Tegra 4, very unlikely we see this device in real life.

It's not piracy, it's online content sharing.

still, taking 30+ days to register is insane, its clear they are some kind of monopoly and need more competitors

Will they give my genotype information to FBI or CIA? Will they pay damages if information gets stolen? This is not some passwords or account numbers, this is data about real world which can't be changed.

Why is it just for Instagram? I'm not using Instagram, but I would like to have the device

Yes, Java has grown into a monster, like Windows, but there's too much sofware for it, noone is going to rewrite it, so Java will be with us for quite a while.

It's not possible. Claiming billion active users is already raising many doubts.

No, he won't.

Eating more programmer's souls.

Nice post, but only one language and one simple structure. Would be interesting to see differences across most popular languages and frameworks.

He wants to sell an antivirus app that scans iOS for nonexistent viruses, looks like some kind of malware)

Photoshop cost so much it should be supported for centuries