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It has been estimated on bitcointalk that around 1-2% have been lost. That's not really a large amount. You can still divide bitcoins into satoshis (1E-8) or even further with a protocol change in the future.


Out of curiosity, does this estimate account for stolen wallets, or are these still considered viable?


I did some research:

Around 0.6% of all Bitcoin are known to be lost, so with unknown losses it could be 1-2%(https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7253.120)

Excluding the Pirate scam, 2.9% have been stolen. These are still viable, some are tainted since the receiver address is known. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83794.0)


.onion sites don't need SSL as Tor traffic itself is already encrypted.


Ahh, I didn't understand how they worked; I thought exit nodes were still necessarily used.


Who decides what is legal and what not? Is it even legal for an ISP in the US to monitor your traffic or to act like this without a court order on behalf of a shady company? I don't get it that nobody is protesting about this...


You can even donate some Bitcoin if you don't have a Paypal or Amazon account.


Wow, this speaks volumes about their QA process, especially for Android. This bug is known since October '12, how hard can it be for a company with 50k employees to fix a bug like this?


This has got nothing to do with Android other than the fact that google translate and voice synthesis is available on Android.


Yes I know, this is a bug in Google Translate. However, the bug was found by a user using Google Now and was reported in the Android issue tracker. The issue was described very well and is reproducible. I am criticizing that nobody seems to check the reported issues and the time it takes for Google to fix the reported problems.


It's a travesty.


As already mentioned it is not an Android bug.

As long as one uses statistical machine learning, edge cases like this are unavoidable.


I would guess this won't be easy in rural India.

It would be awesome if they load it up with lots of free ebooks and a decent offline copy of wikipedia (wikidroyd) from the start.


Yep. MongoDB for example is used for their Dataset Bookkeeping Service. JSON is indeed used but only for 'good run' lists.


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