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by droffel 7y ago
Monero (getmonero.org) has many of the properties of cash on the internet. Definitely more so than Bitcoin. It's surprising how few cryptocurrencies take privacy by default seriously.
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by droffel 7y ago
The 25x-NBOMe class of chemicals are not analogues of LSD.
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2019 Monero Conference Livestream(youtube.com)
1 points by droffel 7y ago|1 comments
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YaCy – Decentralized Web Search(yacy.net)
2 points by droffel 8y ago|0 comments
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The Power of Money – A Case for Bitcoin(scribd.com)
1 points by droffel 9y ago|0 comments
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by droffel 9y ago
Try this article from Paul Sztorc: http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/ Definitely not ELI5 material though.
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by droffel 9y ago
Only one of those three is private by default. If it isnt private by default, calling it a privacy coin or saying it offers 'complete privacy' is farcical. Monero is the only way to go at the moment.
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by droffel 9y ago
Monero might obscure the origin of the funds, but so does using cash. Money laundering requires an extra step - finding a plausible alternative origin of the dirty funds. Monero in and of itself is fungible, but it doesn't 'solve&
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by droffel 9y ago
If you enjoyed this article, check out the 99% Invisible podcast's "Perfect Security" episode. It covers a lot of the same information, and is a good listen. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/perfect-
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On the Instability of Bitcoin Without the Block Reward [pdf](randomwalker.info)
1 points by droffel 9y ago|0 comments
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by droffel 10y ago
The issue prevented all transactions which had all z-address inputs and outputs (that is, fully anon txes) and no t-address inputs or outputs (public addresses) from being mined.
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by droffel 10y ago
The title of this talk is 'zero knowledge succinct non-interactive arguments of knowledge for laypeople', yet the speaker (at 1:40 in the talk), says he won't be able to explain how they work. ZCash, at least for the first 3
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by droffel 10y ago
Check out Monero, they've solved the scaling incentive problem. https://www.getmonero.org
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by droffel 10y ago
Wow.
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by droffel 10y ago
Okay, not exactly true. I'm involved with the Monero project, and currently, the Kovri plugin (I2P Daemon in C++ as opposed to Java) is under development, and not in action yet. As of currently, connections are not run through I2P (tho
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by droffel 10y ago
You could include the hash of the last block in the network as part of your handshake, along with a nonce, and pay out tiny amounts of currency to whoever produces a signed handshake containing that hash (as long as the signed handshake is
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by droffel 10y ago
> But we came to the conclusion that there just isn't any sane way to trade bitcoins currently where you can eliminate "exchange risk". If anyone does know of a way please let me know. There are decentralized exchanges tha
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by droffel 10y ago
> It is not "a meeting of the minds" for one side to drain the other side of their total balances, and it violates "consideration" as well since nothing is being exchanged for the extra money. So there is ample reason
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The DAO is currently being attacked, over 2M Ethereum missing so far(etherscan.io)
377 points by droffel 10y ago|2 comments
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by droffel 10y ago
> which scales linearly with the number of coins you want to mix with. Want to fully mix 1,000 coins together? You need a 30kb transaction Actually, it does not scale linearly, it scales logarithmically in the worst case. If you create a
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by droffel 10y ago
Fire someone who they effectively just spent multiple millions of dollars to train? I doubt it. Thats a huge learning experience there, and if anything, will make him more cautious in the future.
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by droffel 10y ago
Some combination of the speed of the cars around you, the speed limit gleaned from posted signs, the speed listed for the road in the GPS map, and the average speed of cars when traffic is within a density range[1] would work. The reason fo
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by droffel 10y ago
Hardware wallets use the BIP32[1] spec to implement "Hierarchical Deterministic" (HD) addresses. Using a single seed phrase (stored internally on the device, and also written down external to the device, neither copy should ever
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by droffel 10y ago
Not necessarily true, you can do it with just a display (and two buttons) like the Trezor does[1]. You can probably even omit the buttons using this model: 1. Send message to sign over the wire 2. Display message to sign on the device'
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by droffel 10y ago
> The market needs people that have the capital to lose consistently year after year... Not necessarily true. The sellers miss out on gain, but they don't necessarily need to book a loss. Unrealized gains are not equivalent to losse
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by droffel 11y ago
Your debts do not pass to your children when you die. The worst that happens is that the debts are paid out of the child's inheritance.
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by droffel 11y ago
For those of you who haven't read this short story (universe simulation is the theme), I highly recommend it: https://qntm.org/responsibility
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by droffel 11y ago
If it was written in Lisp, there would be Cars everywhere.
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by droffel 11y ago
There is currently an actively developed alternative cryptocurrency called Monero, that uses the 'Cryptonote Protocol', and has a completely different codebase from Bitcoin. It uses Ring Signatures and a few other cryptographic tr
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by droffel 11y ago
Satoshi Nakamoto: Arms Dealer Coming to a theater near you, this Summer.

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