Lavabit was a much more "under the radar" provider. Silent circle has gained huge traction since they started and provide secure Phone, SMS and mail services. They may not be "equal" but silent circle is certainly more of a high profile target.
Spideroak.com - online backup and sync with zero-knowledge client side encryption should be represented in cloud services in my opinion, though since we are not yet 100% open source I understand the arguments against it.
We are however very close to opening nimbus.io and crypton.io open-source secure and private storage APIs based on our storage infrastructure.
I am thoroughly unimpressed by Marissa Mayer at this point. Yahoo is doing nothing but keeping up their 'trend' of buying too early or too late.
Tumblr while a great asset is going to be FAR to expensive to pay off for Yahoo at this point, and a lot of the junior assets they have purchased have no or little direction.
In my opinion Yahoo is on a quick slide towards 'AOL territory' where they have to slim down to their 'core' to make any money and will likely suffer innovation starvation until they are almost totally irrelevant.
Simply 100% not true. They freely admitted to committing crimes, and there is overwhelming evidence they routinely broke the law and helped clients do the same. The 'fine' was a joke.
Yeah but you need to perform the sales with matching funds on both trading platforms. Selling here and transferring BTC/USD to another trading platform is not the method due to the swings and time for verification.
Yeah, NO ONE saw this coming :)
Of course DDOS attacks, split market places and a gains of 100% per week for a few months are going to require hard falls.
While I agree to an extent, the current $2 billion market cap is far to small to compare with. When/if BTC reaches around $5,000 each ($50 billion or so market cap) I will agree.
Nope. Since no one can ever satisfactory answer the question of the 'real' amount of BTC in circulation, this will only serve as a factor of uncertainty. Lost bitcoins affect nothing, FOUND bitcoins can affect everything.
Nope. That's the problem. LOST bitcoin (as you cannot quantify the availability of anonymous data blocks) wouldn't effect anything. ONLY FOUND bitcoins would.
I think the 'point' here is that as opposed to chests with 100.000.000KG of gold there are actually 'lost' wallet files with enough BTC that it would 'rock' an economy with a currency cap in the future.
I am pretty sure if someone found a stash of gold worth $400.000.000.000 that WOULD actually effect gold prices. Also: Gold has 'real life' uses (production of components etc) and real world costs etc. attached to handling (weight, transport costs etc). None of which BTC has.