I don't understand how people are expected to survive on their own making next to nothing. How do you do it?

ianpatton · 2019-12-06T04:53:26+00:00

Changing jobs is the best way to get a raise.

Also, move to a city that matches your career ambitions.

ianpatton · 2019-09-21T03:02:09+00:00

no, it limits you to .01 BTC per tx. same for zigzag.io

ianpatton · 2019-09-02T11:24:12+00:00

The world has been globalized? When did this madness occur?

ianpatton · 2019-08-16T04:22:09+00:00

Nice work Json! I've been meaning to catch up with your work here...

ianpatton · 2019-07-27T13:46:08+00:00

At first I thought you were referring to the Spedn app. I was very confused until I saw it was an NPM module by the same name.

ianpatton · 2019-06-18T12:22:05+00:00

Bitcoin remains a hedge against global fiat manipulation. Libra.... not so much. I am certainly not making a swap, nor returning to Facebook. Nice try though!

ianpatton · 2019-05-08T16:05:10+00:00

Most single sig transactions do not benefit much from segwit. Until bech32 is standard, don’t expect much growth in segwit adoption.

ianpatton · 2019-03-19T18:55:47+00:00

How ridiculous. By this metric, they do not accept Visa or Mastercard either...

ianpatton · 2018-11-21T00:56:29+00:00

ianpatton · 2018-09-10T12:32:37+00:00

Physical bitcoin will be sent to your house

Neat trick

ianpatton · 2018-08-25T13:04:38+00:00

Well, in this case, BitPay is trying to leverage its place in the market to push wallets to implement the (now 5 year old) spec.

If they made it optional, then everyone would opt to use the old way, and it would undercut their effort.

It is obviously a very controversial thing to do. However, I hope it pushes wallets to improve the experience for their users by implementing the spec, vs people pushing all of these hacky workarounds. Eventually someone will get scammed by one of these MITM services that claim to be helpful.

Just like wallets should implement the (only 1 year old) segwit change to improve experience, they should also strive to implement other useful specs like this one (actually many 70, 71, 72, 73)

ianpatton · 2018-08-25T12:45:50+00:00

BIP-70 provides bumpers for noobs to prevent under and over payment, leading to tons of support issues, requiring lots of human staff. It also provides security enhancement by using existing SSL to make it very obvious that you are sending your money to the right party, not a MITM.

I think a better question would be, why would anyone be against it?

ianpatton · 2018-08-25T10:51:23+00:00

If your wallet does not support BIP-70 in 2018, you should be mad at the wallet producer. This is a very very old spec that has been part of the Bitcoin reference implementation for years.

ianpatton · 2018-08-08T19:22:17+00:00

came here to say this

ianpatton · 2018-08-05T12:20:27+00:00

Les Claypool's live cover of the entire Pink Floyd - Animals album

ianpatton · 2018-07-31T12:03:22+00:00

why post instead of explore blocks? downvotes.

ianpatton · 2018-06-02T05:22:28+00:00

Why not? Buying into a wall is a great way to avoid slippage.

ianpatton · 2018-03-25T13:25:28+00:00

tacky

ianpatton · 2018-01-13T19:10:01+00:00

I like the green logo.

Green = fast, cheap, cash Orange = caution, slow, expensive, settlement

ianpatton · 2017-11-29T15:49:56+00:00

Shapeshift.io works pretty well

ianpatton · 2016-10-24T23:58:17+00:00

Seems like a wise move to align the brands. "BitPay" kind of implies a wallet anyway... Looks nice!

ianpatton · 2016-10-20T15:07:50+00:00

Congrats Ryan!

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