Hacker News: andirk

New comment by andirk in "Billionaire Mark Cuban says bye-bye Bitcoin: Why he is 'disappointed' by crypto"

andirk — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:45:23 +0000

There is no singular mind to bitcoin. Watch CNBC for 1 week and you will see stonks trade a 40x their worth and rise and fall for no reason anyone knows. It's not that much different than assets that are traded on speculation far more than any factual tangible worth.

New comment by andirk in "Is AI Profitable Yet?"

andirk — Mon, 25 May 2026 03:35:17 +0000

Being "a" player in a multi-billion $ industry is also pretty good. For example, Bing gets some small % of the search engine market, but that's still a ton of market and $. And Foursquare/Swarm is used by like 0.01% of the population, but they can still map the exact floor plan of Macy's and that Chipotle will lose 30% of their share value from people shiitting blood (both were extremely accurate).

And then Bing gets a pretty big upgrade: ChatGPT. And here we are.

New comment by andirk in "AI helps man recover $400k in Bitcoin 11 years after"

andirk — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:46:19 +0000

The BTC was worth some 500 large quid when it got tossed. Claude will tell him to be more careful of all of his belongings. I personally have every hard drive I've ever owned, but this guy insisted on throwing that one in the "tip".

New comment by andirk in "A 3D explorer of the Bitcoin blockchain"

andirk — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:24:37 +0000

Ver cool! Except FYI that it started crashing my browser before I had to run away.

My specs:

- Brave browser

- Tons of tabs open

- Macbook Pro Intel chip

New comment by andirk in "Two Paradoxes Blocking Bitcoin"

andirk — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:00:50 +0000

Currency is the most useful when it changes hands constantly. I have mattresses. You have cookies. He has milk. I buy cookies and milk. You buy milk and mattresses. He buys mattresses and cookies. That's better than all of us in a standoff because we don't want to use our currency. Horrible analogy.

New comment by andirk in "Bitcoin Dev Plans to 'Reassign' Coins Linked to Satoshi Nakamoto in Hard Fork"

andirk — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:14:11 +0000

The article states it's just a fork, AKA a separate coin that copy/pastes the current Bitcoin ledger. Even if every dev wants this, that is a "hard fork" (not backwards compatible), and creates a new version of the coin. Ex: if you want to add a smiley face to some Bitcoin log output, you 1) make the change, and 2) nothing happens until 3) miners agree to use that new version.

Look into "Bitcoin Cash", a near identical coin except it has a larger block size. Completely different token and therefore has 0 effect on Bitcoin.

New comment by andirk in "Bitcoin Dev Plans to 'Reassign' Coins Linked to Satoshi Nakamoto in Hard Fork"

andirk — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:06:15 +0000

Headline should read: "Person wants to create a Bitcoin fork, like has been done many times, and does nothing to the original Bitcoin ledger"

And his company's tagline is "Make every transaction a Bitcoin txn." Make it a what?

New comment by andirk in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

andirk — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:39:41 +0000

Heck no. There was this app "Bump" that exchanged info between 2 bumping phones. Google bought it and immediately buried it forever. There's ZERO reason exchanging info is still a chore. There are currently bumping features baked in to the OSs, so there is value.

New comment by andirk in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

andirk — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:37:33 +0000

Very cool! If not for the $, for the fun. And you met your on OkCupid, so you can be the cupid this time.

- Make a blog about this on the domain. I'll follow!

- What do the logs say re: traffic? I see lots of links to the domain from articles about social media c. 2012

- What's your tech stack??

New comment by andirk in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

andirk — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:26:01 +0000

Value is in the eye of the beholder, as you clearly understand. The commenter is not familiar with how trade works. Personally, for such I transaction I will need to audit to ensure the projected value is accurate.

Also, do you have a sample of said squirrel drawing? I have a squirrel book that might pair nice with it.

New comment by andirk in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

andirk — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:21:09 +0000

There was stated value on both ends of the potential transaction.

And this is Hacker News, not 4chan or Twitter. Comments are for insight, discussion, etc. But maybe you're just young or not very bright.

New comment by andirk in "Spark: Bitcoin's Payment Layer for Stablecoins and Instant BTC"

andirk — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:56:39 +0000

The link could use a blog article with a tagline and a TLDR and use cases. It _sounds_ like a great idea nonetheless.

New comment by andirk in "Two Paradoxes Blocking Bitcoin"

andirk — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:25:16 +0000

The feature of a deflationary currency is much better than constant money printing. But, as I have learned through light studying of currencies, a huge negative aspect is its encouragement to horde.

New comment by andirk in "Two Paradoxes Blocking Bitcoin"

andirk — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:20:22 +0000

I spend my BTC occasionally on my degenerate sports gambling, and then I return some of the winnings back into BTC. I also rarely spend my stonks.

New comment by andirk in "My AI thinks civics is black studies"

andirk — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:13:53 +0000

Can I get a TLDR?

New comment by andirk in "Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds"

andirk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:20:01 +0000

Someone tell Pearl Jam's Eddy Vedder his work to fight Ticketmaster some 30 years ago finally came to a head today.

> Ticketmaster sells about 10 times as many tickets as its closest rival, AEG.

Yeah, that's called a monopoly, even if it wasn't Ticketmaster's intention, which of course it was.

New comment by andirk in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

andirk — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:17:54 +0000

I find the best use of chatbots re: software engineering is more of an office hours with the professor than it is a fellow colleague; Use it for specifics. Throwing things over the fence to it often causes a reach into the bag of garbage spaghetti code that is half the internet content.

New comment by andirk in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

andirk — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:14:54 +0000

Haha. My favorite shillings will always be NFTs and the "let's do email job pointless meetings in Second Life and call it Metaverse". Although the former is/was pure shilling, and the latter is/was a horrible pipe dream shilled as useful.

New comment by andirk in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

andirk — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:13:11 +0000

A Machine Learning + Large Language model is one popular technology. Decentralized blockchain tokens is another popular technology. Besides hype, there's not much in common with those technologies.

New comment by andirk in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

andirk — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:12:06 +0000

His abrupt silence mid-conversation with a handful of people via email and on the main Bitcoin forum also leads me to believe he's no longer with us. Code is often written like speech where one can decipher different voices in its writing, and I have heard some suggest the beginning code did look like more than one person's writing. There's likely a few people who know/knew him personally and know what happened, but I'm fine with the desired anonymity to continue.