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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
Which one please, allegedly?
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
The parent post never brought up Wayland, and it’s off-topic, but the security of having input only going to specific apps and not every X client is a massive win and one reason I’ve used sway since 2018.
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
FUSE is what I’d call “quite slow”, but FUSE passthrough might finally land for Linux 6.9. https://www.phoronix.com/news/FUSE-Passthrough-In-6.9-Next I don’t have the exact benchmark used to produce the numbers in the
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
Paragon Software, particularly Konstanin Kamarov - it’s worth being specific. This read-write driver has been a tremendous help to me, from Linux 5.15 till now. I hope they can soon publish the mkfs tool they committed to previously as well
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
What’s the privacy policy?
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
Monero for instance is optionally transparent using view keys, which allow read access to incoming but not outgoing transactions. As cryptocurrency already requires the safeguarding of a private key or a custodial partner doing so, and gene
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
Others like Monero also have mysterious origins. I don’t think Satoshi was behind the design even in part, but it’s one theory. I’m pointing out that even if Bitcoin was the creation, the introduction of this concept and class of data struc
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
Typo, thanks
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
The inevitable rise of GPUs and more specialized hardware was being discussed by Satoshi and others on bitcointalk around early 2010. Just my memory as a source, or you can see some discussion of emails between Laszlo Hanecz who bought the
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
I think you massively understate this advantage. Those with existing resources have advantages in nearly every endeavor possible. This can only be mitigated, not prevented, and not likely in the first example of a currency outside nation st
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
Not all cryptocurrencies use public ledgers. Bitcoin was the first, but it was always intended to add privacy tech - see MimbleWimble. Zero knowledge proofs and other strong privacy protections are available on more modern projects. Some le
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
It’s no threat at all for the foreseeable future. Make no mistake though, over the next decades, the core idea is an existential threat. If a currency like Monero with further developed scaling and privacy features is able to gain a footho
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
What. I don’t see any reason to believe this is remotely feasible, ever?
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
Those should be applied at a higher layer than the base one, and the vast majority of people should be using custodial services if they have access. A much smaller fraction should be using open source and audited hardware wallets as well as
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
Yes. The option now exists to have private digital means of exchange, free from direct government devaluation. There are absolutely drawbacks; it is not for everyone.
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
By “do something” are you referring to mob violence? If not, then what? If so, it proves the point that we could repeat the bloody collectivist purges of the past should we not learn from history.
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
“Enforcing laws” with regard to what? Censoring transactions? Freezing accounts? If people want a system where this as well as excessive inflation are close to impossible, they now have an option, with the clear caveat of that ownership. It
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
No use case is a “straw man”. The parent post had a hand-waving farcical “more systems will solve that”. I’m pointing out the reality of the positives and drawbacks of private key control. The original whitepaper didn’t describe use cases,
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
If you’re the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, definitely.
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
> And governments have enacted laws to protect people. With cryptocurrencies, they - by definition - cannot. Once you got scammed, your money is all but gone (sans a very VERY few exceptions). Rollbacks being impossible doesn’t mean the
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
From a prior thread that didn’t get any constructive engagement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205762 Essentially Ethereum can be used to codify financial contracts in order to provide a level of trust where one do
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
Or just buy it with classic instruments - ETF.
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
You’re arguing with a straw man (or the version of yourself which considered investing in Bitcoin). Nobody presented this argument. Rollbacks? First world users who have excellent financial services are not the target use case. The senior
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
No, this is usually (apologies if not in your case) a straw man, and representative of the usual HN blind spot for cryptocurrency. Ledger and Trezor hardware wallets do protect against this class of attack. We are rapidly approaching a wor
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
Regular people don’t need to manage private keys for those, but there are a lot of weaknesses around the Trusted Platform Module managing said key for disk encryption. The “end-to-end” encrypted messaging also hides the fact that the keys
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
Yes, thank you.
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
Are you referring to Code 43? I believe the NVIDIA drivers after version 465 may not have this issue. Here’s a report of this working on Qubes/Xen: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/qubes-gpu-passthrough/661/1
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
You could wire together a group of houses or neighborhoods with generators and batteries and make the electric company redundant by establishing contracts which buy and sell electricity between participants at rates which adjust in response
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
Cryptography generally, with special focus on the Ethereum blockchain which he created. The internet is unfortunately dominated by junk ads, spam, phishing, and tracking, and seemingly will continue to worsen. When it comes to Vitalik’s pos
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by TimeBearingDown 3y ago
I encourage anyone who may be very dismissive of cryptocurrency or Ethereum to give the article a chance before leaving trite one-liners. Vitalik is to my estimation one of the sharpest and most visibly articulate and open-minded people wor

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