deepblueocean

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by deepblueocean 14y ago
I don't like to be a pedant, but what the hell. Your belief about which is the "correct" pronunciation depends on whether you believe the "correct" etymology is French or Italian. It appears to me that people agree that the word came into E
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by deepblueocean 14y ago
Why? Why not simply set a minimum quantum for transactions in Zerocoin, like the penny or the satoshi? Or why not redeem the Zerocoin for a Bitcoin, which is divisible and which would be free of (traceable) history.
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by deepblueocean 14y ago
Oh, so that's why the value is crashing... people just wanted to get out once they saw the Winkelvii getting in. Well that explains everything. I can go home now.
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by deepblueocean 14y ago
This is a really interesting analysis of the risk of Bitcoin exchange failure, for what it's worth: http://fc13.ifca.ai/proc/1-2.pdf
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by deepblueocean 14y ago
It doesn't bother you that your method counts only unique hash values tested? Or that this value is being used on the site to talk about power expenditure (which is clearly related to total hashes per second, not unique hashes)? You're ri
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by deepblueocean 14y ago
One could argue that DNSSEC is a variant of this - put your SSL certificate in a TXT record in your DNSSEC-signed domain and you no longer need a certificate authority system to sign the certs. Now you can self-sign the cert and get it for
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by deepblueocean 14y ago
I'm aware of that. rwinn, can you tell me if this is what you're doing? It's in your last sentence that you go wrong. There's a relationship between the number of expected hashes per new block and the difficulty. That tells you something
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by deepblueocean 14y ago
I'm pretty sure the exchange price of Bitcoins is driven by the marginal supply and demand. So I think it's got to be what you call "investors" almost entirely (note that not all people buying in have to be speculators: if lots of peopl
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by deepblueocean 14y ago
How do you calculate the hash rate? I have spent some time trying to understand the various hash rate estimates people come up with. Basically, I've determined that they're all 100% bogus. People like to work from the difficulty using bad/i
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by deepblueocean 14y ago
This is probably the best counter-argument to the best counter-argument that gets leveled at the people promoting HTTPS-everywhere. People like to say that HTTPS everywhere would break transparent cacheing by ISPs. After all, HTTP is design
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by deepblueocean 14y ago
I look at it this way: there are two kinds of rules in the Bitcoin system: crypto rules and social rules. Some are self-executing, by which I mean that they can be enforced "by construction" - if you create an object that doesn't follow the
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The Chilling Effects of the DMCA(slate.com)
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by deepblueocean 14y ago
This demonstrates perhaps the largest real threat to the bitcoin ecosystem right now: the exchange markets are heavily concentrated. Confidence in the system is, right now, heavily based on the perception that Bitcoins can be traded readily
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by deepblueocean 14y ago
I wonder how much pressure IA feels to convert its donated bitcoin holdings to cash, given the run-up in exchange rates that has happened recently. Does IA prefer to support Bitcoin as if it were, as its proponents suggest, a real currency
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by deepblueocean 14y ago
This is just wrong - see the Hal Finney attack. Basically, an attacker can pre-mine a block with the double-spent coin in it but not announce it. Once an attacker spends the coin and gets something of value, they can immediately announce th
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by deepblueocean 14y ago
tl;dr No. IANAL. If you mine Bitcoins, you hold them. If you want to exchange them, you can give them to someone in exchange for dollars (in which case the exchange is an MSB and is subject to the rules for money transmitters) or you can gi
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by deepblueocean 14y ago
As far as my non-lawyer view takes me, that line is simply meant to catch the case where you exchange a de-centralized virtual currency for something (anything) else of value that's meant to substitute for currency in some context (i.e. wha
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by deepblueocean 14y ago
Insofar as such currencies can be converted back and forth to "real" currency, yes, they're covered. I think that's what the document is trying to get at when it discusses "centralized" virtual currencies.
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by deepblueocean 14y ago
I've had good luck with Chrome Remote Desktop: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desk... It works from two instances of Chrome, which could be on any platform (not just Chromebooks).
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Presidential Commission on Election Reform – Good News & Bad(freedom-to-tinker.com)
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by deepblueocean 14y ago
I wonder what Nikola Tesla asked prospective assistants?
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Making Excuses for Fees on Electronic Public Records(freedom-to-tinker.com)
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Basic Economics of Bitcoin Mining(freedom-to-tinker.com)
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OpenPacer: A bill to provide open access to United States federal court records(openpacer.org)
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My Bill to Open PACER in memory of Aaronsw(freedom-to-tinker.com)
3 points by deepblueocean 14y ago|1 comments