Hacker News: martindale

New comment by martindale in "PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin"

martindale — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:03:02 +0000

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

New comment by martindale in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

martindale — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 21:03:15 +0000

Ah yes, the fight you phase.

New comment by martindale in "I miss using em dashes"

martindale — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 02:29:26 +0000

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

New comment by martindale in "God created the real numbers"

martindale — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 01:56:15 +0000

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

New comment by martindale in "Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers"

martindale — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 01:47:34 +0000

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

New comment by martindale in "Lies. Damned Lies. P-value thresholds"

martindale — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 06:48:09 +0000

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

New comment by martindale in "What happened with the Web Monetization API?"

martindale — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 05:11:21 +0000

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.

New comment by martindale in "Caddy is the first and only web server to use HTTPS automatically and by default"

martindale — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:57:09 +0000

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.

New comment by martindale in "Microsoft Works"

martindale — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 23:30:43 +0000

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.

New comment by martindale in "Stablecoin Mechanics 2: Tether-Celsius"

martindale — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 21:18:11 +0000

It's mostly Bitcoin, actually.

New comment by martindale in "No-Token apps: an alternate vision for the blockchain"

martindale — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 14:47:32 +0000

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.

New comment by martindale in "Custom JavaScript controls can't capture the nuance of form fields (2021)"

martindale — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 10:17:20 +0000

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

New comment by martindale in "Carl Akeley’s fight to the death with a leopard (1923)"

martindale — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 07:25:09 +0000

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

Only the Strong Survive

martindale — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 14:54:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.uncerto.com/only-the-strong-survive

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28594443

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by martindale in "Where did the web archive go?"

martindale — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 19:05:49 +0000

First thing that came to mind as well.

New comment by martindale in "Regulators should treat stablecoins like banks"

martindale — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 18:59:37 +0000

Stablecoins reinforce dependence on the State, as they further entrench the fiat system that Bitcoin was meant to replace. It seems to me that this, and the rest of the "Decentralized Finance" movement is not intending to replace the current financial system, but rather reinforce it.

New comment by martindale in "How to Be an Amateur Bot Hunter"

martindale — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 07:35:04 +0000

Build a reputation network.

New comment by martindale in "Shorting Bitcoin"

martindale — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 07:26:40 +0000

If your conviction is so strong, why proxy your short instead of just shorting the asset itself?

I look forward to your prompt report in December...

New comment by martindale in "A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python"

martindale — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 15:44:09 +0000

I go back to it twice yearly

New comment by martindale in "Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge"

martindale — Wed, 19 May 2021 01:48:26 +0000

Sure, and become permanently controlled by the founders, who control 60% of the outstanding supply. Proof of Stake enables any party who at any point controls more than ⅓ of funds to rewrite the chain from that point forward, so this is an objectively terrible idea from an engineering perspective.