during the first bubble i bought about a hundred bitcoins (2k usd worth), just after few days the bubble unfortunately popped and the price was back to 4-5, and i decided to sell them (it was my first "trading" experience, the stress of the losing was high), after a while (late 2012) i bought back what i had left for $9 and sold them for $13, now I just wish that I kept them instead when i bought them initially :-(
Other than improving their API, PayPal should really join this: http://www.portabilitystandard.org/ but maybe they're too afraid that many will run away from them
Nothing yet.... why time is moving so slooooow? next startup: a time machine!! =)
On the apply page they say: "We'll reimburse up to $600 per group for travel expenses.", do you think is a tricky part? I mean, if we ask for a reimburse for the travel (which would be around $400-500), will we "loose points" during the interview because we aren't so much motivated as we even asked for a reimburse?
Speaking from Experience, the Partners interviewing you probably won't even know which of the interviewees did or did not accept checks. Kirsty issues them as you ask before or after you interview and it is very casual.
I certainly don't think they would hold it against you even if they knew. They're good people and don't expect you to do anything for free
That's a non issue. At the end of the interview, you go out in the main room, and will go and see their finance person to ask her to reimburse you, no question asked (bring a copy of your tickets in case she asks to see them, but I don't remember she did). You will get the answer later, and decision making is independent.
I know several groups who got in YC and asked for reimbursement for their travel. YC wouldn't offer it if it biased them in any way. They are sort of the "gold standard" in incubators.
As you can see Germany is completely blocked (I've set all the protections to off/minimum), China is the same (this could be understable). But the really main problem in my experience is that it blocked all the traffics from Italian connections too from Fastweb, which is a provider that NAT his network, so many people have the same IP, the problem is that Cloudflare has few of their IP blocked, so all that users will see the captcha page.
I've solved adding the whole country in the permit list. I've notified few times to the support email but the problem still there (and I guess with other providers, I noticed that one because I was a Fastweb user)
p.s. today, as many others, I'm also getting many 502 bad gateway errors on connection.... that's really bad :(
