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Submission + - Bitcoin just hit the $2 Billion dollar market capitalization!

fredan writes: Based on the number of Bitcoins in circulation and the current price of over $181 / BTC, the total market capitalization is now over $2 Billion dollars.

The $1 Billion dollar market capitalization was achieved on the 27 Mars 2013.

That was just 11 days ago.

Submission + - Tesla Motors: Early Re-Payment of Tesla's ATVM Loan (teslamotors.com)

fredan writes: On February 26, at an event hosted by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Elon Musk announced Tesla will pay off our Department of Energy (DOE) loan five years early, twice as fast as required by the original 2010 loan agreement signed by Tesla and the DOE.

It is worth noting that in comparison with these three other recipients, Tesla had the smallest loan. Ford's loan was for $5.9 billion, Nissan's was for $1.4 billion, and Fisker's was for $529 million.

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Submission + - A filesystem or a Trival Database?

fredan writes: Is an Trival Database on a block device, which is mmap, any faster than filesystem (pick your favorit) on the same blockdevice? You will store ordinary files on the TDB as you would in a filesystem.

The question is: Which will give you the fastest read access of them?

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