not rich, just expensive

parislemon:

Dan Kaminsky:

The internet’s proven to be a pretty big deal for global society, and Bitcoin could basically be thought of as the Internet, applied to Money.

There’s an old comment that the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. Sure, we’ve routed money over the internet for a while now, but those flows have always been managed, moderated, regulated by some vestige of authority.

Bitcoin’s about as friendly to this sort of regulation as the rest of the internet is — not very. To put it another way: Bitcoin’s a dollar bill, with a teleporter built in. We can just poke in a few coordinates and poof, off it goes, with the ease of posting to some forum somewhere. That’s somewhat new.

Great read.

For Mike

parislemon:

Peter Kafka for AllThingsD:

Good news for Netflix! The company streamed more than 4 billion hours of video in the first three months of the year, according to a Facebook post from CEO Reed Hastings.

BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield crunches those numbers (registration required), and concludes that this makes Netflix the equivalent of the most-watched cable TV network: He figures there are 28 million U.S. Netflix subscribers watching an average of 87 minutes of Netflix per day, or 43 hours per month. That puts it on par with the Disney Channel.

The future continues to reveal itself.

Immense numbers if accurate. Love seeing TV and broadcast change before my eyes. Long may it continue.

parislemon:

grahamhancock:

So clever. “Less Apps. More Apples.”

“And it works perfectly in direct sunlight.”

Brilliant.

parislemon:

robsheridan:

This great fan-made James Bond 50th anniversary montage is way, way better than the one they played at the Oscars.

Fan-fucking-tastic.