broolstoryco

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by broolstoryco 13y ago
My email was not published anywhere with regards to bitcoin or coinbase, I receive relatively little spam, yet I received 4 of these spam messages. Smells fishy.
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
The thing is that GOX may have experienced a major theft via TM prior to 2013, fixed the bug and operated with a BTC deficit. In this case, extrapolation is useless.
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
It is a very rough estimate that mainly serves to give us an idea of the magnitude of possible theft due to TM.
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
While very interesting, the scope of this study is limited by the fact that their data collection only goes back to January 2013, so anything that happened before that was not considered. I don't want to defend Gox, but it is conceivab
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
good luck implementing this.
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
... dont keep your money at exchanges?
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
It looks ugly.
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
Satoshi was on board!
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
This is a sports car, it is a different product and caters to a different demographic than the model s.
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
good luck with your public statement.
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
180,000 BTC moved, 143 million bitcoin days destroyed [1] tldr: huge amount that was untouched for a very long time got moved [1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Days_Destroyed edit: plot twist http://www
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
> group theory right now to help with my understanding of crypto Im also trying to understand crypto better, from a mathematical perspective. Apart from group theory, what else should I have an understanding of before going further? Do y
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
> 63 million in debt it is still not clear if it is 63 million + 750k BTC in debt, or in total. If in total it is not clear how btc are valued.
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
Even if we view it that way, there was no bug in bitcoin.
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
It is indeed absurd to claim they lost 99.7% of btc holdings (2000 left out of 750k) - I dont care how incompetent they may be..
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
what did you expect, bitcoins?
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
>when faced with declining sales due to privacy fears thats where bitcoin comes in
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
my understanding is that the TxID is a sha256 of the entire transaction, hence it would be feasibly and even rather simple to scan the blockchain for invalid transaction IDs.. however we would have no idea which ones could be attributed to
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
Its coinbase's index, hence it is up to them who to include or exclude. If you dont like it, you are welcome to use a different index.
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
How would that be exploitable?
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
Then every successful startup out there is an MLM scheme.
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
could you please point me to any theories or papers that discuss this? (genuinely curious)
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
that was not even the real issue. they called to check what was generating all that traffic and he told them that he was running servers - that was against the tos, not the bandwidth he used.
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
tldr: > residential service > 'I have a full rack and run servers' > 'Well, that's against our ToS.' > 'he said I would need to switch to the business service.'
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
much substance
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
interesting, the calculations in the reddit thread put the number at around 500 for each of the 3.5 billion
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
the left one
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
honestly this sounds like a pain in the ass
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
"Doesn't that imply revenue growth is slowing" do you really expect a constant growth of 152%? of course the percentual growth will slow down, that by itself says nothing.
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by broolstoryco 13y ago
i think you underestimate the degree of control the state has (data-phones? what data? what network?), as well as the extent of brainwashing of the population

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