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This is not the first time Paypal did that [1] and it most certainly won't be the last time. That's one of the reasons Bitcoin was invented. I hope that events like this will drive its adoption as a safe alternative for crowd funding and online shopping.

[1] http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-04-23-skullgirls-... and probably there's more of this



Bitcoin ftw. Sure, not everybody can contribute in bitcoin. But on balance, bitcoin beats paypal by a factor of infinity. Why infinity? Well, with bitcoin you could at least have some contributions, i.e. > 0. With paypal you get 0 contributions. (N>1)/0 = infinity.


> Sure, not everybody can contribute in bitcoin.

Why would anyone WANT to contribute in Bitcoin? From a contributor point of view, Bitcoin leaves them massively vulnerable to fraud--it is almost as bad as mailing an envelope full of cash.


They are crowdfunding a speculative application. That's already mailing envelopes of cash. Although the users read that they are funding development and not buying software, Paypal grabbed it all and said they're worried about fraud.

Bitcoin lets the user assert that they trust the recipient. Or they could trust a third party escrow recipient. There's no payment processor to restrict who a crowdfunder wishes to trust.


People that crowdfund often do not trust the project. PayPal probably flagged them because of cancellations.


Anything divided by 0 is undefined.


> 1.0/0.0 -> Infinity (at least in javascript)

The IEEE floating point standard (for any precision) defines anything divided by zero to be the infinity value (all bits except the sign set to 1).

You where saying?


Please don't be so vain. Division by zero is undefined, that is (supposed) to be taught in high school. The fact is that computers have to display some value when x/0, and that value is defined by IEEE standard in the context programing languages for consistency.

Pretty good wiki on the topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero




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