With your Thailand example, the author made the point that it's actually cheaper through P2P model (like Hawala) without the need to eat the exchange spread/fees by changing BTC.
And yeah, fraud is still a huge problem for e-commerce, but how does Bitcoin solve that? As stated in the article, it just pushes more responsibility to the user. Multi-sig doesn't solve that either, you still need a 3rd party escrow provider, who will charge a fee.
One thing I like about Samsung is that they make quality hardware.
One thing I dislike about Samsung is that their software is always so clunky! I find this consistent with all these hardware makers. Apple is the only company that does both well
It is a shame that yahoo is shutting those apps down. I wonder how easy it would be for yahoo to keep the team. With an exit under their belt, why wouldn't they just leave after doing their time?
I've tried using SASS a few times but keep going back to LESS so I can configure Bootstrap variables. Also, bootswatch.com uses LESS so that's a big motivator is stick with LESS.
Given that there has been a 8x growth in price, miners must still be profitable at this point? If I were an ASIC supplier, I would be delaying shipping and "alpha testing" those hardware in times like this
maybe tips per number of lines changed would be a fairer benchmark than tips per commit. I guess that would still cause a bunch of unnecessary line changes.
I really don't think this kind of financial incentives are good for open source projects.
And yeah, fraud is still a huge problem for e-commerce, but how does Bitcoin solve that? As stated in the article, it just pushes more responsibility to the user. Multi-sig doesn't solve that either, you still need a 3rd party escrow provider, who will charge a fee.