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by chizhik-pyzhik 5y ago
title should have (2020)
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It's a testament to the resilience of the bitcoin network that it continues to work well in what is arguably the worst-case scenario: a massive loss of hashpower over a short period of time.
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You can use the 'j' and 'k' keys to navigate between comics.
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The fact that this is trending on HN shows how little hacker news knows about the cryptocurrency space. A relatively unknown, recently launched stablecoin collapsing is not big news in crypto. Now if dai, usdc or usdt had failed, that would
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Cuba has a life expectancy of 78.8, just under the United States' 79.1. Their infant mortality rate 5.1 deaths per 1000 births, slightly better than 6.5 in the US. Cuba also has the highest rate of physicians per citizen in all of lati
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The article ends with the following: > In conclusion, I’ve been trying for years to imagine an alternative SimCity. > And I realized that the biggest fallacy of a City simulator is to try to present itself as an all-encompassing syste
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People who work with x.509 sure do make a lot of work for themselves
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Great example of terrible journalism around a novel technology. Here, let's extrapolate a trend in a completely absurd way for an attention-grabbing headline. Throw in some pictures, some irrelevant data about cryptomining in browser,
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Old man yells at children to get off his lawn
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i'm skeptical this link actually works... googling around, it looks like no one might be watching this site: https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/6svp32/any_ac... I've been looking fo
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A better summary can be found at the wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahanoy_Area_School_District_v... .
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https://archive.is/xZD5B
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For those who aren't familiar, this post is referring to a decentralised trading system running on the Ethereum blockchain. The acronym "LP" refers to Liquidity Provider, which is anyone who locks up liquidity for two differe
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by chizhik-pyzhik 6y ago
Honestly they probably can't prevent forks. It's more of a discouragement, since as a forker you'd be subject to being sued if they can figure out who you are.
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It's not really in the hands of one person, though. If the community diverges, two chains will be created, and the one will the most value will be considered the 'real' chain. This already happened once, and the less-popular
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by chizhik-pyzhik 6y ago
It is a problem. That's a big reason for moving from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake- to more directly make the _holders_ of Ethereum in charge of the chain. It's a difficult thing to do, though. Hashpower based mining is easier t
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by chizhik-pyzhik 6y ago
It's trivial as a US resident to use binance.com using a VPN. There is no KYC requirement and they do nothing to block VPN IPs.
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You could submit a pull request
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$1k seems like a fair price
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A quick google search for "biggest bitcoin pools" is helpful- https://btc.com/stats/pool Most of the pools listed there are easy enough to sign up and start contributing to.
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Stablecoins are a way to use the Ethereum network (or another blockchain) to send value that is pegged to the US dollar. There are a lot of stablecoins now (USDC, DAI, USDT) and they have various mechanisms for staying pegged to the dollar,
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It's tempting to juxtapose two things like this and imply they're related, but it's more likely that this was a coincidence.
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Not so much older hardware is moved there as it's just the oldest region with the most baggage
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Updating the status dashboard is pretty low priority for operators trying to resolve this issue. It requires escalation up the management chain and careful wording.
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thanks "YourAnonNews" on twitter
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There's a wikipedia incubator site for middle english. It's pretty entertaining to read: A frogge biþ a smol beaste wiþ foure leggys, whyche liueþ booþ in watyre and on londe. It cuoþ bee broune or grene or yelowe, or be it tropy
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keyservers don't work as a root of trust. look at all the 'satoshi nakamoto' keys supposedly from 2004 https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=Satoshi+Nakamoto&op=in...
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seems like a contradiction