Jabanga

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by Jabanga 9y ago
No one has a right to force you to support someone who made themselves destitute. You're using one infringement of personal autonomy to justify another.
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by Jabanga 9y ago
>Your personal autonomy is restricted by the government, massively, period, generally for everyone's own good. They decide what and how much medicine you can put in your body. Whether you can gamble, and where, and on what, and how
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by Jabanga 9y ago
Of course. Anyone that scams should be punished. That does not require introducing a license for engaging in some consensual activity, and prosecuting anyone that does this activity without the license. This fearful attitude that will sacri
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by Jabanga 9y ago
Of course. We don't restrict the rights of the entire population to engage in voluntary interactions to preempt crime. We punish actual criminals to deter other would-be criminals, and leave everyone else to be free. We don't requ
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by Jabanga 9y ago
The basic principle of liberal democracy is that we have an absolute right to personal autonomy unless we violate other people's equal right to the same. Making it illegal to offer a digital token for sale to other consenting adults, w
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by Jabanga 9y ago
This is not a sentiment that can be proven wrong. It's a statement on basic rights. And history shows that attempts to control complex industries with cookie cutter rules imposed from on top create the most dysfunctional industries in
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by Jabanga 9y ago
Then we should limit who people can vote for, since voters are so easy to manipulate into voting against their own interests. The basic principles of liberal democracy assume that a person has an absolute right to make decisions for their o
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by Jabanga 9y ago
>but to protect U.S. citizens from being scammed all the time. US citizens shouldn't be treated like children that need to protected from their own stupidity.
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by Jabanga 9y ago
Almost all the token sales are being done on Ethereum so they'll probably be paying in ETH. I imagine Ethlance is working on integrating ERC20 payments, so you can get paid in tokens as well.
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by Jabanga 9y ago
There's https://ethlance.com . I don't know how much activity it has, but I do know it will be part of a family of marketplaces called District0x [1], which should help it with adoption. [1] https://blog.dist
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by Jabanga 9y ago
Token sales should always use a .eth name as the wrapper for their deposit address. That's what FunFair did with their token sale [1]. It makes it a lot harder for a hacker or scammer to trick users into sending to the wrong address, s
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by Jabanga 9y ago
>noninvasively and incidentally spied upon, Noninvasively spied upon? Having your privacy violated is invasive, by definition. Having a situation where one centre of power has extensive information on the private details of practically t
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by Jabanga 9y ago
I keep bringing up the example of Bitcoin exchanges and wallets. In the first few years, there were constant hacks and scams (with wallets). Due to the global nature of Bitcoin, there was no effective way to regulate it, so this state of af
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by Jabanga 9y ago
In which country do cryptocurrencies not work in? They work in every country in the world. They are used a lot in Venezuela for example.
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by Jabanga 9y ago
It's possible a group like this is the culprit. They have the means and motive. There were also massive DDOS attacks against BitcoinXT when it was picking up steam.
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by Jabanga 9y ago
Looks like the private transactions make up 23% and 15% of number of transactions and volume of value transacted, respectively: https://explorer.zcha.in/statistics/network I agree that unenforced privacy is not good.
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by Jabanga 9y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1giuft/quote_from_...
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by Jabanga 9y ago
PayPal doesn't work globally.
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by Jabanga 9y ago
Traditional payment methods can't do certain things, like send money to someone in another country for a fee of $0.05 in a matter of a minute, or make a payment on a website without disclosing to them your personal details. You may als
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by Jabanga 9y ago
Non-private transactions leak your entire transaction graph to the world. There are a plethora of reasons, many of them rooted in avoiding becoming a victim of crime, one would prefer their transactions be private.
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by Jabanga 9y ago
The trusted setup only requires that you trust that at least one of the participants in the setup ritual was honest and destroyed their key. If they all lied and kept their key, they can't compromise privacy either. They can only creat
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by Jabanga 9y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I agree that the decision made by the operator will likely to prove to be a wise one from a self-perservation pov.
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by Jabanga 9y ago
Why is Zcash terrible for privacy?
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It's really harmful to the cause of privacy when people equate enablement of privacy with criminality, as you're doing.
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by Jabanga 9y ago
Gas is analogous to cycles of the EVM that the contracts uses when it executes. Someone suggested 'gas' should have been called 'cycles' to more clearly convey its meaning and avoid a lot of confusion. Anyway, gas/c
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by Jabanga 9y ago
I think you're underestimating the impact of a durable and formal consensus mechanism that can be run by machines and can operate efficiently at a global scale by utilising telecommunication networks. This is orders of magnitude more e
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by Jabanga 9y ago
My understanding is that the halting problem does not prevent formal proofs of Ethereum contract correctness because Ethereum contracts have gas limits that make them terminating.
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by Jabanga 9y ago
>which currently use a ridiculous amount of electricity to process somewhere between 2 TPS to 20 TPS. The electricity consumption is a result of the mining subsidy, and artificially high fees from block space constraints, not fundamental
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You're wrong..
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Share of employees working in the public sector is a more narrow statistic than the total role of government in the economy. The share of GDP consisting of government spending is a better measure of that. The correlation between the size of

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