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They have been accepting Bitcoin for a long time already, now its just integrated better.

The whole talk about "freedom and privacy" in relation to Bitcoin made me a bit nauseous. These are tech guys. It destroys trust for them to be blabbering nonsense about privacy like this.


When Ethereum Classic hit the markets Coinbase did the same, ignoring it first, then giving in, however it turned out because of missing replay protection (thanks to vitalik) Coinbase had to buy back ETC on other markets first. Feel free to draw your conclusions based on this information.


Assuming that good relationships imply good aging, I'd like to know how do they work. How much would differ a long relationship from 2 middle relationships to 7 short relationships?

If there's already any study about it, please share it with me, I'd love to read it!


What I don't get is why alts are losing value against BTC. Like, if you look at this chart it shows that Bitcoin is gaining market share and alts are losing it:

https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/#dominance-percentage

I would think that people would be leaving BTC and putting their money in alts due to August 1 jitters, but it seems to be the opposite that's happening.


its not the same thing, Bitcoin is decentralized, the others have clear owners, just like regular fiat (dollars, euros, etc)


The article author is complaining about an MSDN article not being updated. The content even says it applies to VS 2005 at its highest. That's a hint of how old it is. Is he going to get the print version and complain about that next. If programmers are using this without thought that is on them not the example code.


Crazy, cool and complex stuff. Those pieces belong in a museum...or on my wrist.

Double kudos for the Pentax and the truly amazing 100mm f2.8 macro lens he uses. I have it and it's fantastic.


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