codexon

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by codexon 7y ago
The threshold for "small" is a lot smaller than it was in 2000.
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by codexon 7y ago
Plenty of non-profits have been ddosed. Your website is either small or is just lucky to have an audience that isn't inclined to ddos.
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by codexon 7y ago
It is way easier to ddos a website today than back in the 2000s. Back in 2000, you could block almost every ddos simply by having gigabit. Now there are millions of more exploitable devices. Do a search, https://www.google.com&#x
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by codexon 7y ago
It is not easier. If you don't host your website behind cloudflare it can be easily ddosed. The only way to get good ddos protection is to centralize because it requires you to have close personal relationships across the world in orde
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by codexon 7y ago
Nope there is no contradiction. Again you haven't really thought about how this works. You are guaranteed to know who sent you your HTLC because the payment is settled through the channel. You cannot cloak this in any way. You only nee
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by codexon 7y ago
But you haven't proven that 1 ETH 15 second block is equal or even in the same ballpark in security to a 10 minute BTC block.
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by codexon 7y ago
You can unlock your HTLC without telling the other party the secret. You just close the channel by yourself and tell everyone else the secret and then ddosing so the other party can't redeem his HTLC before his HTLC expires.
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by codexon 7y ago
Nope, you are just echoing the basic understanding of the tech that is on every bitcoin propaganda outlet. Each node can still steal money from the node next to them by turning hostile such as not passing the secret and closing out their ch
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by codexon 7y ago
As far as I can tell, GHOST is only used to mitigate high hash power loss when confirmation times are lowered to 15 seconds. Orphaned blocks are very rare in Bitcoin. https://www.blockchain.com/btc/orphaned-blocks?offse
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by codexon 7y ago
Um no. I show you this to prove to you that 1 eth confirmation isn't equal to 1 bitcoin confirmation. If it was anywhere equal in security, there would not be a >10X difference. And also multiplying confirmations by average block ti
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by codexon 7y ago
There is a trust chain. If there was 0 trust involved then you could pick random nodes instead of needing to find a specific path. Sure there's cryptographic trickery involved so it is harder to steal the money, but it can still happen
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by codexon 7y ago
What is my point exactly? I feel like this should be obvious to anyone that doesn't have a bias towards crypto because they are gambling a lot of money on it. Making confirmations faster usually just tends to make them weaker. The secu
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by codexon 7y ago
So what happens if you aren't linked even indirectly? What if the trust chain is 20 users long? Who's going to spend the resources to find this chain? And has it been tested to scale, or is it just like Bitcoin in the early days w
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by codexon 7y ago
Even if the block time can be lower, ethereum supports a comically low amount of transactions per second. https://ethstats.net/ 9943589 (gas limit) / 21000 (minimum price of a ethereum transaction) / 14.57 (averag
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by codexon 7y ago
A lot of merchants ask for 3+ confirmations, and sometimes 1 confirmation can even take 20 minutes. Paypal and credit cards take seconds. And $20 for a wire transfer pales in comparison to the fees people charge for converting bitcoin to ca
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by codexon 7y ago
That is how exchanges have always worked, but the lightning network encourages people to use centralized exchanges that already have lightning network channels between all other exchanges and sellers so they don't have to waste time co
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by codexon 7y ago
Um no, you deposit all your bitcoin into Coinbase's bitcoin wallet so there's no crypto enforcement that you own the bitcoin anymore. That's the only way Coinbase can safely use your bitcoin on their lightning network connect
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by codexon 7y ago
Ethereum is still on proof of work, so it has the same problem as bitcoin. If they made confirmations take 1 minute instead of 10 minutes, that just means their confirmations are 1/10th as reliable as Bitcoin's confirmations. Noth
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by codexon 7y ago
In order to use the lightning network, you are making a smart contract on the normal slow bitcoin ledger with another party. You need to insert a pre-determined amount of money into this system to be able to spend it. Most consumers will no
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by codexon 7y ago
Bitcoin (and all other cryptocoins) are just not usable for mass transactions. Buying anything with bitcoin takes over 10 minutes, often times over an hour for shops that are paranoid and require 3+ confirmations. During the peak bubble tim
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by codexon 7y ago
I don't know but I would imagine it would be as annoying as getting everyone to switch from ipv4 to ipv6 in 1 or 2 years.
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by codexon 7y ago
> because there's no good reason that these robocalls can't be treated like a DoS attack The problem here is that the origin can be spoofed. You are imagining a system where a telco like T-Mobile connects the caller directly to
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by codexon 7y ago
They may have only done so because they saw Soros betting so much on it.
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by codexon 7y ago
It makes me wonder if he would have been successful if he wasn't able to short 10 billion. As the article said, Norman Lamont was planning to defend the sterling with 15 billion.
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by codexon 7y ago
You can buy a single ip but it won't be routable on the internet. All major routers on the internet drop any routes smaller than a /24.
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by codexon 7y ago
That's because all the malicious actors have started doing that now so we routinely block ips from all common cloud providers.
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by codexon 7y ago
Governments can force CAs to give them certs. HTTPS only stops non-government attackers.
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by codexon 7y ago
Cold potato is not necessarily better, actually its often times worse than hot potato and usually used to lower costs so you don't have to pay other people for transit. For example, a cold potato network may have a link from Dallas to
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by codexon 7y ago
Valve was not the first to invent "internet multiplay of local coop only games), Gamespy predates it by like 6 years. Valve was not the first to invent digital distribution either https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi
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by codexon 7y ago
> Yeah, no. I'm not going to install another launcher that wastes RAM, bandwidth etc. and begs for my attention. Having games spread across multiple launchers is horrible UX too. Funny you mention this. Right now on my computer, Ste

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