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Re:What's the use for Bitcoin? on Thursday April 02, 2015 @09:31PM (#9314090)
How can you be optimistic about the future if no one thinks about it or builds for it?

This guy has obviously thought about it and listed it in the "Internet of things protocol" using the blockchain. I don't agree necessarily though because IEEE already working on something.

Re:What's the use for Bitcoin? on Thursday April 02, 2015 @09:29PM (#9314080)
Uhhhh, you haven't heard of mixing? I mean, not Blockchain.info mixing, that one doesn't work. But there's even a push for CoinJoin (by gmaxwell, one of the maintainers of the Bitcoin source code).

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=279249.0

Also, regulation is about as useful as enforcement. If you ain't in the US, enforcement is pretty weak and therefore you can get away with it MANY times.

Re:Show HN: A better elance just for designers on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @01:04AM (#7506263)
How do you feel about http://99designs.com, in particular the competition model in regards to design?

I've personally used them a few times with vary levels of success. It is particular useful for lightweight projects such as logo designs.

Re:Ask HN: What's one problem you'd like startups to solve? on Friday December 13, 2013 @07:08PM (#6903687)
FYI, pg made a "Request for Startups" a couple of years ago, detailing problems he'd like startups to solve. You'd also know that those problems are fundable.

http://ycombinator.com/rfs.html

Re:Show HN: ccPing, a secure messenger on Friday December 13, 2013 @05:24AM (#6899852)
Could you go into more technical detail? How are the messages encrypted? I mean, is it subject to a brute force?
Re:Show HN: ccPing, a secure messenger on Friday December 13, 2013 @05:01AM (#6899796)
"ONLY you and your partners, who know the password, can access the secure messages"

Maybe I missed something, but how exactly is this "secure"? I'm assuming ccPing will still store these messages in a database which will be vulnerable to attack.

I mean, is this going through the TOR network or something?

Re:10,000+ Public APIs on Thursday December 12, 2013 @06:45PM (#6898095)
This is great. Is there a way you could categorize the APIs so searches can be filtered? I imagine this a common machine learning classification problem. Maybe check out http://scikit-learn.org/stable/
So how does this actually work? The private keys are stored offline?
Re:Show HN: Bitrated – Bitcoin m-of-n arbitrated transactions on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @05:09PM (#6843541)
I see you're implementing an idea from https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts ;)

What are your fees currently (as the site operator)? I've only found ...

"Fees: For its services, Bitrated may charge fees, as it sets forth from time to time. Such fees may be deducted in source from any transaction, or be paid separately."