Jsarokin

I'd say IOTA might fit your criteria, although it's still early stage.

I don't think bitcoin could integrate their tech since it's not a blockchain, but a DAG (what they call a tangle).

Interesting stuff.

Check out this video from Ira Glass, hopefully it helps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ResTHKVxf4

Very interesting.

Any historical trading data available?

Also, does each user operate under the same settings?

Seems like more users = less arbitrage opportunity because we're competing against each other.

Who gets priority when trading? Or is it more like we're pooling our money for arbitrage, and then each node gets a proportional split based on their deposit amount (like a mining pool)?

Will this affect Reddits offer to sell 10% of their last round to the community?

Presumably Yishan was heavily involved in the logistics of that.

haha -- this is a really clever concept. Good stuff.

I'd say your best bet is to check out some of the high quality themes at http://themeforest.net -- if you don't want to deal with html / css the wordpress themes are really easy to setup and look amazing.

Still waiting for someone to invent Soylent Ramen...

I bought all the ingredients and made DIY soylent from one of the hacks someone posted... The taste was a serious problem. I wanted to drink it for a week, but there was a 0% chance of that happening the way it tasted.

Then I tried making Soylent Pasta, but boiled out all the nutrients and the water turned piss yellow (http://juliansarokin.com/soylent-for-science-pasta-bad-decis...)... But if there was a way to not mess that up, I think that could be really interesting.

Still waiting on my official Soylent, hopefully it tastes better than my catastrophe.

http://redditsimple.com - save, search & share your reddit upvotes & saved content.

Awesome integration - any idea when it will leave private beta?

Awesome, will shoot you something by tonight :)

Great stuff guys, this is awesome!

Seems like you have a nice handle on the 'selling for bitcoin' space. I'd love to chat and see if we can join forces in some way (I'm the founder of SellSimple.com).

Hit me up on twitter or via my blog if interested :)

- J

Shoot me a message on twitter, I may know some people who can help out.

- J

Agreed.

b) is ripple (I already commented about it in this thread) - it really is amazing technology that I hope becomes mainstream. It solves a lot of the major problems of BTC and other Altcoins.

I'd argue that Altcoins can definitely become a store of value regardless of Bitcoins network effect.

Check out http://ripple.com - they pretty much solve this problem, although its VERY beta. Expect really cool things from them in ~6 months.

Ripple is fiat agnostic and allows seamless conversion between currencies. This means I can buy something in Yen and you can receive payment in LTC. Amazing system if it gets up and running.

We have a different system - but yes, we do help with that.

Instead of sending a box, we automatically purchase a shipping label for your item using the shipment method of your choice (USPS, UPS, FedEx). The shipping label already has the address of the buyer and everything filled out.

All you need to do is drop off the package (we'll show you the closest shipping locations).

From there we automatically track the package and show both the buyer & seller realtime updates of the package location & delivery.

We're calling this service "ShipSimple" and it's bundled into the overarching SellSimple platform.

The ShipSimple feature will be released in version 1.4 (coming very soon).

shameless plug, but check out our startup http://sellsimple.com - we're tackling the same problem.

Really interesting article - I doubt she will hold "the key" to practical immortality, but researching her case may allow us to reverse engineer one or more of the many processes that contribute to aging.

I recently wrote a blog post on practical immortality that presents several arguments for age being a curable disease, and breaks down the things we'd need to do to cure the disease of age.

If interested: http://juliansarokin.com/practical-immortality-if-age-is-a-d...

I wrote some stuff on affiliate marketing in 2009 that's still relevant today if you want to check it out.

Just re-posted it to my blog: http://juliansarokin.com/affiliate-marketing-for-dummies-200...

Throwing in my 2 cents:

It looks like what Ribbon submitted to the Twitter validator was a video using the "player" card: http://cl.ly/image/2R2i1J302Z2g

The player card is designed to handle embedding videos, which is what Ribbon initially showed, however when they launched their new feature they morphed the embedding options to display a custom in-stream purchase button / unit.

In reality, they should have just used a 'product' card (granted, they would not have the added ability to purchase in stream - it would need to link back to their website).

Using the player card was a pretty clever way to get the payments to happen directly on twitter, but it seems that it bent too many of their rules. They'll probably just have to use the product card like everyone else.

Totally valid points and it's something we're building for everyday.

We've already encountered a bunch of fraud early when our system was less developed. Luckily we caught all of those and have had time to grow / build a plan of attack.

We'll never be able to eliminate fraud - but we can make it a pain in the a for a black-hatter to use SellSimple over the hundreds of alternative places.

Few ways:

1. Escrow via Balanced 2. Shipment Purchasing, Tracking & Confirmation all in-app. 3. QR code scanning to release payments for meetups. 4. Verified sellers. 5. Fraud API's - https://siftscience.com/ & https://www.signifyd.com/

If they do get passed all of the systems, there is still large chance they screwed up somewhere and it will be pretty obvious to us what happened. That said - its an uphill battle.

Yup - I think from a technical aspect we could totally have a user purchase before creating an account / signing in, however this limits us when it comes to dealing with fraud as well as brings up problems with the escrow system.

Since all payments enter escrow, without an account, the buyer can't release the payment to the seller.

Limited to US only for now - our main limitation is on the payment processing / bank account side. Once our processor (balanced) is ready for international payments we should be able to jump in pretty quickly (they're working hard on it now - hopefully its ready soon!)

No Bitcoins yet - but it's definitely something I'm personally interested in and when the time is right would consider implementing. Still a bunch of un-tested use cases IMHO.

Right now we're using Balanced (awesome product - http://balancedpayments.com) to process payments & escrow funds.

Do you know of any API's that are similar to Balanced but for Bitcoins?

Few ways currently, and more to come in the next few months. Basically:

1. Sharing your listing on social networks (good, not great for driving traffic).

2. Ability to list on multiple marketplaces, so you don't NEED to sell it through SellSimple - you can still list it on ebay, craigslist, etsy, etc. If it sells on one of those marketplaces, we'll auto-delete your item from SellSimple and all the other marketplaces. You're also not charged any SellSimple fee if it sells somewhere else.

3. Retention features on iOS - can't compare to eBays network, but downloads are growing quickly and users are buying items.

This is more a long-term strategy help to help us overcome chicken - egg. If we can exist long enough for that to happen through a free posting tool - we'll be able to (eventually) have enough traffic on our own listings to generate a high sell-through rate.

Interesting to see this move by eBay - we've found that high fees for casual sellers is a huge pain point. By focusing their fee structure towards power-sellers they also happen to be alienating a large group of casual sellers.

We're trying to solve this problem (among others) with our product SellSimple. Free app, free postings, and 5% if it sells.

Check it out, would love to know what you think: http://sellsimple.com

Disclosure: co-founder of SellSimple

We're using Balanced @ our startup - Really great integration, and support is crazy fast. Keep it up guys!

Seeking Freelancer - Rails Developer (Los Angeles or Remote)

Our IOS app / website is getting ready for beta launch in the next week and we're looking for a rails developer to join our existing team.

Your job would be to further build out our backend, help manage / scale server side, and also possibly do some front-end web work.

This would start as a freelance job, although ideally would turn full-time if your work is high quality.

We're using:

- Ruby on Rails 3 (3.1) - Memcached - Redis and Resque - Heroku - Amazon AWS - PostgreSQL

This could be a really exciting opportunity - we're growing pretty fast, have some powerful / celebrity investors, and a street team of 50+ waiting & ready to go.

If you're in LA we have an awesome office in West Hollywood you can work from - but remote works as well as long as you can communicate daily via Skype / BaseCamp.

Shoot an email to Julian@novacorp.us with some info (website, blog, github, etc.) and we can chat to see if you'd be a good fit.

Honestly, I'd talk about it now. It can really mess things up later if he thought he was going to have a bigger / smaller part than he was. Just make sure you're on the same page, and then you can "make it official" later.

How to start the conversation: "Lets talk about equity really quick before we start so we are both on the same page. I propose X and Y split. What are your thoughts?"

Ah, makes sense. But a concert is soo loud and there are so many people bumping into you that you could never get any video quality on your phone that would make me want to watch , and actually enjoy watching. Ever seen a iphone video of a friend showing you their view at a concert? Horrible lol.

Not for me I guess

Seems like a really cool feature, however I can't see myself ever actually using it. Whats it for? Like what scenarios are they envisioning me using this for?

Maybe I'm missing something.