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This, we went with Stripe before but apparently hosting is too high risk and (they claim) their banking partners did not want to do business with our little Irish startup. No such issues with bitcoin

Well there is also Cryptsy fiasco today

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/411bqw/cryptsy_clo...

Bitcoin is a never ending drama rollercoaster but I still use it and I hope eventually some sort of solution is reached

Well the problem is THAT DISCUSSION OF SOLUTIONS to bitcoin issues are being censored, with key people being banned from the usual discussion forums

A decentralized currency where the development, mining and discussion is controlled by less than a dozen people which is a joke

Should have used Mozilla Persona for login /s

I was using it for years on our sites, IT IS very easy to implement for a developer, especially easier than dealing with oauth oddities from google,facebook,microsoft etc

Yes one can program own username/password etc login, but it is actually alot of work making a proper one with all the edge cases (, password strenght, email validation, verification, account recovery) and so on and so on. I know because I have done it dozens of time and each time the project has slightly different requirements

Mozilla Persona was dead easy to implement on the other hand! Also alot of people did not like and complained about having to login with Google, Facebook etc yet the same people had no issues trusting Mozilla due to the goodwill they built up with firefox and their fight for privacy

Is Bitcoin and/or paysafecard an payment option? all that talk about privacy is kinda silly if can not pay with (Semi)private payment methods

edit: why downvote? is this not a valid concern for a service that is marketing privacy as its main pro?

Waking up one day to find that "your" money is no longer yours is not a compelling reason? I myself had nothing but bad experience with Paypal going back almost a decade, hell with them.

So his plan by ending the crypto war is.... ...simply capitulating? anyone else clicked on article expecting some new crypto coommunication idea

Just dont call it SKYNET, you be sued by Hollywood then for copyright infringement or something...

I keep hearing about Helium 3 mining but do we actually have fusion reactors nowadays (or even in next 10 years) that can use Helium 3?

I was just reading this today, first part deals with this subject > http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-coloni...

I asked the same question of an old engineer at Kennedy Space center who was talking about the Saturn rockets to a (small) group of people (most just wanted take photos and cared little for history). He was quite blunt in his response, "We were doing great but then someone higher up decided that we won the manhood measuring contest and its better to spend public funds on bombing some poor souls in paddy fields half a world away..."

That reminds me, whatever happened to that perpetual energy machines from those "Steorn" lads from Dublin?

edit: never mind I see they are still around somehow (and managed to waste millions in process) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steorn http://orbo.com/

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"Welcome to the online shop for Orbo technology, home of our "never die" battery technology-based products.

We're excited to move towards bringing the first of our products to market in 2016 and revolutionising the world of consumer electronics.

The battery is dead."

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Oo

So you chose "representative democracy" option by having the distro maintainers decide for you

At least bitcoin gives options to chose...

That's a long way away, by then either bitcoin becomes popular, bitcoin evolves into something else or bitcoin dies.

Right now all comments about "inflation" etc are downright silly, usually form people regurgitating sill cons against bitcoin that are not a concern at this time.

But lets not have fact get in the way, downvote away.

Bitcoin inflation was around 10% recently

Hashrate!= inflation btw

There is not reason to use this web thing (thats fully of dirty porn and nerds) for shopping when we have paper catalogues

There is no need to send email when you can send a fax

There is no need to carry a brick with you to make calls

There is no need for plastic cards when one can use cash

And so on, just because YOU do not grasp advantages and possibilities that bitcoin has brought along, does mean the rest of us dont. I use Bitcoin daily BTW it has already improved my life in ways only rivaled by the rise of the web, mobile in last 20 years

Same way western economies work? Create debt and more debt and base whole economies on sale of houses to one another. When it all fall apart double down

How many people in US have died from gun and car related deaths last year? As compared to "drone strikes"

So now people have to register toys they own....

The anger you are feeling is the screws being tightened a little tighter. Everything nowadays is regulated, controlled and monitored, we in the west are not free, especially in "the land of the free"

And some beuracrat(s) at FAA just guaranteed themselves job security for long time

There's also no real need to tax them, as you can tax their owners.

Thats what happens in Ireland, corporation tax is lowish (12.5%) and theres not that many loopholes/concessions as in other EU states where companies can reduce their corporate tax to near nothing already

BUT personal taxes are a murder

Lets say you are a director of startup and the company has€100000 left after costs and taxes etc, lets say as director you want to pay yourself a salary of 100K for your hard work, you be lucky you be left with 50K after income tax, PAYE/PRSI insurance tax and "Universal Social Charge"

On the money that you have left you would have to pay for medical insurance (aint free here like UK), VAT of 23% on almost anything you buy (more for cars, less for food etc), new property and water taxes and so on

Keep in mind that Ireland gets blamed for alot of this goings on, but its just a step on path large corporations take to move money onto Carribean.

Actually it hasn't

The whole Paypal model is based on its reversal+ resolution process which usually favors buyer, requires an army of support personnel and has resulted in them being one of the most hated companies in world.

No details of WHERE exactly in the world this works, I presume this a yet another US centric service

I am thinking here is what happened

The guy seeing an opportunity and possibly having some early coins declared himself to tax office as Satoshi, but maybe claimed he lost keys to majority of coins. He then proceeded to have one of his companies claim tax back for R&D of bitcoin. The whole thing probably backfired then.

It would be similar to a cheque, central banks and governments do not like normal people printing "money" or inventing their own

a better alternative would be bitcoin paperwallets, this here relies on Venmo to play nice as well as the "payer"

Climate change called and states that she doesn't care about your skepticism, renewables alone will not bring us into carbon free future.

We have to try EVERYTHING in order to beat climate change, up to and including moonshots like this.

Sadly this strange hatred of anything nuclear by environmentalists has done more to harm this planet and its people.

BTW 6 billion is nothing when compared to over a hundred billion that for example Germany has spent on renewables, same Germany that replacing nuclear with coal on the other hand.

Aside was just watching this documentary on BBC on tv there > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtp51eZkwoI The vision and drive of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs back in 19th and 20th centuries have lifted the world from literal darkness into the modern system of grids and electricity on a flick of a switch. I am sure there were many naysayers back in their day on top of all the obstacles they faced, these guys such as Edison and his team kept buggering on, and the modern world is thankful for foundations they laid.

Let the scientists and engineers at ITER do their job and instead of moaning about it keep pressure on politicians to spend money on projects like this instead of bombing people in other countries.

I never said Putin was stupid, but he does have an army of "willing idiots" both and home and abroad helping and supporting his goals.

More likely there will be LESS terrorism as young guys spend their time watching pron and playing xbox.

Replace Germany with Russia in article and you would be describing the sad state of things in modern Russia, the most brutal and stupid are running the show there now.

Aside here is an interesting article regarding this > https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/russia-great-for...

Recently bought a Samsung UHD large TV and completely agree, only useful function of the smart tv i found was Netflix, but the media player connected to it already has it (as well as consoles of course) and so does the connected Chromecast, so yeah very redundant.

Transferwise accepts payments from debit cards or to their eastern European bank (Latvia or something), and then they pay from their US bank for example.

They do ask for ID documents and perform AML checks, but then again so do all proper bitcoin exchanges with the exception of the shady btc-e from Russia or thereabouts.

But its not like bad guys are afraid of using fake IDs (as seen in Europe this last week) which brings the obvious question as to why they would bother with all that when they can just use cash and traditional banking.

The whole article is click bait of the highest order based on fud.

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If the powers to be want to hit ISIS where it hurts how about destroying their oilfields, oil refining and transport capabilities. A few armed drones can do this on the cheap remotely. Make it clear that any oil extraction, processing or transport equipment in the area controlled and sympathetic to ISIS will be destroyed and grant these scum their wish if living in the middle ages.