deepblueocean

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by deepblueocean 13y ago
People keep telling me that research I'm doing with some friends overlaps with what these people are proposing, so I've spent a little time trying to figure out what they do and how they do it from their website. I haven't y
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HP Introduces new low-cost Phablets in India(public.hpnn.hp.com)
1 points by deepblueocean 13y ago|0 comments
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NSA Spying Unconstitutional: Legal Opionion(legaltimes.typepad.com)
6 points by deepblueocean 13y ago|0 comments
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How to protect yourself against NSA tracking(freedom-to-tinker.com)
2 points by deepblueocean 13y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Strikers Take Their Fight to Seattle(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Privacy and Cloud Computing in Public Schools(freedom-to-tinker.com)
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Officials Say U.S. May Never Know Extent of Snowden’s Leaks(nytimes.com)
48 points by deepblueocean 13y ago|47 comments
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by deepblueocean 13y ago
It's definitely true that content blocking is the user's trump card in the online tracking vs. privacy debate.
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by deepblueocean 13y ago
How about a simple antitrust argument: if Google wants to use their power in the browser market, where they have majority power, to dictate the shape of the online advertising market, I think DoJ would have a pretty slam dunk case. Especial
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Berkman Center for Internet and Society's Online Course on Copyright(copyx.org)
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Gun Country(nytimes.com)
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This Man Wants to Clean Your Dirty Bitcoin Laundry(wired.com)
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by deepblueocean 13y ago
Single page version: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/11/bitcoin-and-def...
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Bitcoin is Flawed, But it Will Still Take Over the World(wired.com)
2 points by deepblueocean 13y ago|1 comments
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Response to Feedback on Selfish Mining(hackingdistributed.com)
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by deepblueocean 13y ago
The important part of this post is here: But the most important question about the dynamics of Bitcoin mining, which nobody has yet answered, is whether there is an equilibrium that can actually occur in which the Bitcoin economy can no l
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Why the Cornell paper on Bitcoin mining is important(freedom-to-tinker.com)
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Response to Fairweather Mining(hackingdistributed.com)
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by deepblueocean 13y ago
> In the ES paper, and in your responses, the assumption is a colluding group of miners. I find myself agreeing with you there; it looks like the colluders have more incentive to break ranks. But suppose a single individual controlled 33
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by deepblueocean 13y ago
I think it's interesting to calculate how much less the BTC/USD exchange rate would have to be as a function of how much power the ES-adversary has. It's substantial! One could even imagine creating "poison pill" de
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by deepblueocean 13y ago
Imagine I have N resources, and instead of hopping between pools, I'm deciding what percent to allocate to ES-mining and what percent to allocate to "honest" mining. I could certainly allocate 99% of my resources to one or th
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by deepblueocean 13y ago
Perhaps that's because there's already a bigger/more serious discussion over there and your thread is a repost: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1puk1a/arxiv_paper_...
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by deepblueocean 13y ago
How would such a proof protocol work? I spent most of yesterday trying to answer that question and came up with nothing. Imagine that you and I are mining and we've agreed to use the ES "selfish" strategy. When I want to getW
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by deepblueocean 13y ago
Hi, Author of the referenced blog post [2] here (and one of Felten's grad students). Let me lay out the argument from our post in a more technical way: the biggest problem with the Eyal/Sirer paper is that they don't think ab
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First Workshop on Bitcoin Research: Call for Papers(fc14.ifca.ai)
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Bitcoin isn't so broken after all(freedom-to-tinker.com)
9 points by deepblueocean 13y ago|1 comments
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by deepblueocean 13y ago
Stripe [1] seems to be a favorite around here. I don't know much about their competitors and a quick search of the archives didn't turn up the flamewars I remember seeing, but I do know a lot of the Stripe team and I can vouch tha
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Surveillance and Countermeasures: A Public, Online Quasi-Course(citp.princeton.edu)
1 points by deepblueocean 13y ago|0 comments
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Lone sysadmin fingered for $462 MEEELLION Wall Street CRASH(theregister.co.uk)
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by deepblueocean 13y ago
Reminds me of this comic: (Learn to read Korean in 15 minutes) http://9gag.com/gag/3968335

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