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by Casseres 9y ago
I'll name one: Monero. It's not a fork of Bitcoin. It's based on CryptoNote. Unlike Bitcoin which is public and traceable, Monero's address balances are private and the transactions are not traceable. It is fairly mi
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> I haven't really found a good alternative to Gmail though. Have you looked into FastMail?
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I think the previous person meant it being possibly a crime for the user, not the developer.
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Kelvin is not expressed in degrees; it's just "Kelvin". Now to really throw people for a loop, tell them to do it in degrees Rankine (even less people know what that is).
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That's crazy. I imagine that's not the only crazy thing going on around us that most of us will never know about unless it's published in a magazine. And for every story that's uncovered, there's probably many mor
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by Casseres 9y ago
It's run by a US company where its CEO said on Twitter that they think they can make it traceable. Its privacy is optional and wallet balances are public. And it used a trusted setup.
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> You may use Dash or Zerocoin if you want to buy some weed. Not Bitcoin. Sounds like when TrueCrypt shut down and they recommended Microsoft's BitLocker.
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That looks like it would be a good April Fool's Day prank.
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What I don't like about Zcash is that privacy is optional and address balances are public. This means that a blockchain analysis company could correlate what is public (all the other transactions and all the address balances) to deduc
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by Casseres 9y ago
While Zcash allows for keeping the sender, receiver, and amount private, making that optional and having the ability to analyze address balances will allow for blockchain analysis to potentially figure out the sender, receiver, and amount b
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Okay, that doesn't have anything to do with Monero though as it's fairly mined (no premine or dev tax). Monero has very good and active dev team that has fixed and disclosed bugs instead of exploiting them for free coins like othe
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by Casseres 9y ago
It's interesting and definitely worth the read, but if anyone is interested in a cryptocurrency with privacy, Monero is a better choice. (Monero doesn't require a trusted setup, doesn't have a founder's tax, isn't r
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In the books, the sense of time it takes is conveyed. I don't think they're treating it as instantaneous in the show; just that they're keeping the story moving along because it makes for better TV. If you like the show and
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Monero is ASIC-resistant. In addition to mining it with your GPU, you can CPU mine it as well. I think a project that isn't run by a company or DAO, but instead by a group of developers donating their time and effort for a project the
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by Casseres 9y ago
I do. I don't care for their breakfasts; I'd rather have an all-day lunch/dinner menu. For some people, their lunch or dinner times could be between 5 and 10 am.
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by Casseres 9y ago
You're submission history here is heavy with Zcash-related links. (My history has a bit of Monero-related posts if anyone wants to know my interests in this.) --- It's open source. If you think someone is writing malicious code,
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by Casseres 9y ago
What ktta is talking about is the 10% Founders Reward that goes to the company and its investors. For those that may read this who don't know, Zcash is a company. It's Founder and CEO wrote this on Twitter: > I think we can su
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by Casseres 9y ago
Zcash also relies on a trusted setup: a master private key was used to initiate it, and that you have to trust the key was destroyed. If someone had a copy of that key, they could create infinite coins without detection. People have to dec
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That's actually two different sets from two different countries mixed together to achieve that. If you do a product search and look at the images, you'll see what the set is really supposed to look like, and it's not that.
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by Casseres 9y ago
You might be interested in learning about Monero. The amounts and transactions aren't public like Bitcoin. Here is a pretty good infographic outlining the gist of it: https://www.monero.how/monero-infographic
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by Casseres 9y ago
One option is to contribute to a cryptocurrency. Being able to store one's money without the use of predatory banks and cheaply transfer money to places without good banking infrastructure will lift people out of poverty.
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> With no controls on the ship, pirates wouldn't be able to take control. It doesn't matter if there aren't any switches or touch screens. Once someone has access to the engine room and steering gear compartment, all bets
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Former Marine Engineer here, I know there's at least one other HN users that's an ME. You might be able to automate navigation, but never maintenance. Something small that doesn't get fixed underway could cause a lot more
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by Casseres 9y ago
I'm a new customer as of a few months ago. I created a support ticket when I ran into a glitch of some sort (manually entered a dozen contacts, they showed up in the address book, but when I refreshed the webpage, the contacts disappe
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by Casseres 10y ago
Speaking about criminals using Monero, they've started making ransomware that accepts Monero. As far as I know, they don't for the other supposed-anonymous cryptocurriencies.
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Disclaimer: I hold Monero In my opinion, this is an attempt at smearing a better cryptocurrency competing for the same recognition: true anonymity. It could very well be the tip of a broader, coming attack. The developers of other cryptocu
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A beginner’s guide to Monero(medium.com)
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As for being variable, probably not outside of the margin-of-error. If the ship was full of goods, then it would be heavier, and would sit lower in the water adding more resistance to forward motion. So the weight would have an effect, bu
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Yes, and that is probably part of the "new technologies allow more accurate readings." I've only been on one ship built in the last decade that had that, and you could read the number on a computer screen. (FYI, the computer
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by Casseres 10y ago
Former ship engineer here. I only worked with Diesel, not HFOs. Due to the rocking of the ship, it's hard to get an accurate reading of the fuel in the tanks. Fuel is transferred from storage tanks to a day tank, and a fuel meter can

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