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PayPal deleted my account in 2017 for having a relationship with Bitcoin-associated banks. Fuck you, that was war.

Ah yes, the fight you phase.

Why stop using them now? If they are the correct mark, use them.

Poelstra probably has a lot to say on the subject — but I think the natural order is the simpler and more "divine" variant.

This sounds so exploitable I almost want to enter the job market again.

Astroturf on HN. Never thought I'd see the day.

Just start using HTTP 402 and JSON payloads. We can just converge on whatever ends up common; for me, there is already a monetary standard for the Internet.

I participated in these meetings for some time, during the rise (and rise) of Bitcoin. It's clear that the landscape of the financial web has shifted significantly at this point (for better or worse, in many ways), but standards, as usual, lag the market.

Earlier versions of Caddy were just a single binary that accepted signals to reload; the newer versions add a bunch of process management stuff that just got in the way of our existing tooling (...why remove the signals? ugh!) so we just switched back to Nginx.

I wasted many hours in my pre-teen years converting documents from Works to Word and back again. Made me the town wizard, they did.

It's mostly Bitcoin, actually.

When creating a startup, you have to solve a problem for your users. When creating a token, you now have two problems — solving your users' problem, _and_ launching a new currency.

Agree completely. I'm practically one new-tab-opened-without-me-asking away from forking a browser just to remove this behavior.

Can you explain what about "that sort of thing" is so repulsive to you, perchance?