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Re:Largest Bitcoin mixer, Bitmixer.io, closes down on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @09:18AM (#14847469)
getting the information from a tightly regulated bank could be a different story to getting it from an anonymous service on Tor though. They probably don't even store it.
Re:Largest Bitcoin mixer, Bitmixer.io, closes down on Monday July 24, 2017 @09:25PM (#14844326)
completely unrelated as in if you follow the transaction graph they haven't crossed paths, so you'd need the mixer log to break the mixing.

It's difficult to know what they do with the coins, but they could be selling them on an exchange to move onto a different currency and then buy bitcoin again.

Re:Largest Bitcoin mixer, Bitmixer.io, closes down on Monday July 24, 2017 @08:33PM (#14844047)
good mixers do that. They give you coins that are completely unrelated to yours
Re:153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack on Thursday July 20, 2017 @07:59AM (#14811660)
actually the best practice is not writing your own code and using thoroughly audited industry standards. Writing your own smart contracts for things that other people have already done and secured is akin to rolling out your own cryptography. Obviously, just like it's happened with openssl in the cryptography equivalency, this can also go wrong, but it's less likely.

If you write your own you should get your code audited by a specialist, or many, before deploying.

Re:Ask HN: What do you use Machine Learning for? on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @12:55PM (#14360316)
do you worry about the weights of your net being stolen off the app through reverse engineering?
Re:Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop on Monday September 29, 2014 @04:35PM (#8385132)
chances are that once it comes out someone will hack it/reverse it to "run" on a standard Linux setup
Re:Ask HN: Which is harder Front end or Back end? on Saturday August 16, 2014 @03:16PM (#8187191)
I'd say back-end. The front-end of any software no matter how complex it is it will always run on a single device, while a scalable back-end could imply a complex architecture composed of multiple components running across multiple servers, all working together to serve the front-end.
That's weird. They did lots of publicity with Nokia and Movistar in Argentina.
who's gonna pay in bitcoin when they can do it in shitty soon-to-devaluate pesos?
Re:Software in 2014 on Thursday January 09, 2014 @06:27PM (#7033990)
yeah. I know of a startup doing significant data analysis with long-running (months without restarting) php processes.
Re:Would you take smart drugs to perform better at work? on Sunday December 15, 2013 @09:36PM (#6912398)
could you briefly describe the benefits of each?
Re:Argentina's Currency Black Market on Monday October 28, 2013 @03:52PM (#6629337)
You can. In limiting countries you have a ridiculously low limit, and in further countries it's a bit higher. I was able to withdraw about €850 in Europe two weeks ago.
Re:HackerPit: challenge your inner hacker on Thursday May 30, 2013 @12:11PM (#5793318)
Got to level 2 and gave up on the Twitter app one, since I'm running Linux and I don't have an Apple computer handy.
what's so revolutionizing about it?
Re:Ask HN: Have you settled on a Google Reader replacement? on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @08:15AM (#5750208)
Yes, Feedly. I tried it out when Google announced the shutdown, and I wasn't completely satisfied, but then 2 or 3 weeks after that I started using it more and it felt a lot better. I don't know exactly what changes they made, or if they made any at all, but the experience feels fairly polished now. I like to think that they worked on the feedback the Google Reader refugees gave them. I'm quite happy with it, and I've stopped using Reader completely.
Re:Ask HN: I'm lost. Please help on Thursday May 16, 2013 @06:02PM (#5721473)
Take a "founder leave of absence" and start doing consulting. Tell them that as soon as they raise money you're back on (they probably won't).
meh. Nice to see some rationality but the real rate of inflation measured by private entities never stopped being published by senators in congress taking advantage of their immunity.
Re:Steam for Linux Beta Now Available on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @05:04PM (#4751065)
no, I just extracted the .deb file and put its contents where they should be for the client to run.

   ar x steam.deb
   tar xf data.tar.gz
   cp -r usr/ /
Re:Steam for Linux Beta Now Available on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @04:37PM (#4750926)
To then install TF2:

    steam steam://install/440
Re:Steam for Linux Beta Now Available on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @04:26PM (#4750862)
Working perfect on Archlinux i368 with XFCE. Way more responsive than in Windows for me.
Re:Google Earnings Come Early; Shares Drop on Thursday October 18, 2012 @03:37PM (#4670644)
Android?
> We hired a (very smart) Argentine national friend

Any chance we could know who that was? I'm argentinian too and I'm curious.

Re:Autodesk Buys Socialcam for $60M on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @10:32AM (#4255794)
Autodesk sounds like a weird acquirer, but I'm happy for them. I had heard that they had been diluted to nothing in justin.tv so I'm glad they got the reward they deserve.
Re:Argentina bans dollar purchases for savings on Friday July 06, 2012 @09:28PM (#4210378)
You did confirm it. He said the economy has been growing since 2002 and that's true even if the growth rate has slowed down. Going from 7% to 3% annual growth rate is still a growing economy.
Re:Argentina bans dollar purchases for savings on Friday July 06, 2012 @11:16AM (#4208086)
Online newspapers post the rates daily. Buying from the black master is just a matter of heading downtown and looking for people offering exchange in the streets. It's accessible for anyone.
Re:There is no retirement on Saturday June 30, 2012 @09:14PM (#4183411)
Sorry for the late reply. Yes, it's 80% in Spanish but now and then some foreigner comes asking questions in English and that gives place to lengthy threads in English, mostly written by argentines.
Re:There is no retirement on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @10:25PM (#4170132)
that's weird. Come around reddit.com/r/argentina and you'll see the same kind of writing quality.
Re:Michael Arrington should totally hire this idiot? on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @12:13PM (#4132599)
Seems a bit desperate. Not the best way to promote yourself.

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