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Vinny Lingham
Personal blog · vinnylingham.comstartupseconomics
Vinny Lingham writes Minessence, a personal blog at vinnylingham.com about startups and economics. Since 2007, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “A Tale of Two Bitcoins”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Vinny Lingham's blog for a bitcoin primer on OTC dealers and whale-sized trades, and for a 2007 post arguing web apps beat desktop apps. One comment also mentions him as a company CEO.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- A Tale of Two Bitcoins2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-07
- Why Tokens Are Eating the World2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-07-18
What Hacker News says?
It's a South African product. The CEO is Vinny Lingham [ http://www.vinnylingham.com/ ], although he lives in the valley now.
Comment linking /
on “Clickpass (YC S07) is being acquired”Submitted Why Tokens Are Eating the World as a story · 10 points
HN discussionActually, opposite all other answers here, YES. If you were withdrawing $100M in BTC you wouldn’t do it using an exchange, you would use an OTC dealer, and yes you could absolutely do it in far less than 6 months. Here’s a good intro blog post, you can find more by searching for “bitcoin otc” or various phrases containing “whales” (term for someone with lots of digital currency). https://vinnylingham.com/the-1-dont-…
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on “Winklevoss twins become first Bitcoin billionaires”Submitted Why Tokens Are Eating the World as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIn a recent blog post, I explain why Web Applications are far superior to Desktop Applications. Desktop apps are by and large OS dependent and the economics of running a desktop business are not as good as a web app business. My post here : http://www.vinnylingham.com/2007/02/top-20-reasons-why-web-apps-are-superior-to-desktop-apps.html I totally agree with Paul in almost everything, however I don't believe buying u…
Comment linking /2007/02/top-20-reasons-why-web-apps-are-superior-to-desktop-apps.html
on “Microsoft is Dead”Submitted A Tale of Two Bitcoins as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Tale of Two Bitcoins as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Twitter is worth $1bn as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Free Software is the Future as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Silicon Valley Angel Investors as a story · 1 points
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