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Distribution of bitcoin wealth by owner
TL;DR: As a result of analyzing the “Mt.Gox leak”, the number of bitcoin holders is likely 1.0 millions. Of these,* the 400 bitcoin millionaires with at least BTC2,000 hold 40% of bitcoins.* 100,000 owners with BTC10-BTC2,000 $5,000-$1,000,000 hold 50% of the bitcoins.* 900,000 owners have a holding of BTC0.002-BTC10, valued at $1-$5,000, and hold 10% […]
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How your innocent smartphone passes on almost your entire life to the secret service « Bits of Freedom
“After exactly a week, on Monday, 18 November, he concludes the experiment, saying afterwards that he felt liberated when doing so. There’s an easy explanation for his nervousness: what he’ll be doing, where he’ll be and who he has contact with will be seen by tens of thousands of people. Today, by you and me, […]
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Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds | Books | The Guardian
the performance was largely similar, except when it came to the timing of events in the story. “The Kindle readers performed significantly worse on the plot reconstruction measure, ie, when they were asked to place 14 events in the correct order.” via Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds | Books | […]
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When it comes to market capitalization, Facebook is officially bigger than IBM — Tech News and Analysis
“This Friday, August 8th, the stock market closed for the week with Facebook still holding a bigger market cap at $190 billion compared to IBM at $186 billion. It’s an impressive shift, given that Facebook is a much smaller company by other metrics. It has 7,185 employees to IBM’s 431,212, $7.87 billion in 2013 revenue […]
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We Experiment On Human Beings! « OkTrends
maybe our matching algorithm was just garbage and it’s only the power of suggestion that brings people together. So we tested things the other way, too: we told people who were actually good for each other, that they were bad, and watched what happened. Here’s the whole scope of results (I’m using the odds of […]
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Neymar’s brain on auto-pilot when playing for Brazil and Barcelona: neurologists – ABC News Australian Broadcasting Corporation
“Brazilian superstar Neymar’s brain activity while dancing past opponents is less than 10 per cent the level of amateur players, suggesting he plays as if on auto-pilot, according to Japanese neurologists.Results of brain scans conducted on Neymar in February this year indicated minimal cerebral function when he rotated his ankle and point to the Barcelona […]