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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
Isn't this actually mathematically the same as arbitrage? :D
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
> and fb or console games. Btw., what are "fb games"?
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
You summarized this very well! A lot of post-Bitcoin "cryptocurrencies" are nothing but a cargo cult: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmlYe2KS0-Y
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
Thanks. Hardware wallets are extremely insecure IMHO: The people who sell them - and many people in their supply-chain! - are handed the very dangerous combination of: A) Being able to hard-code software into the silicon whose source code y
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
Thanks for your further reply! :) > It's just they experience has shown that helping out this way for wallet development (or even more generically software development) works better. Does it really work better from the perspective
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
> It has the highest dapp compatibility Mmh thanks, well security is more relevant to me, but I nevertheless went to their website. Apparently it's a browser plugin. That's a big security no-no from my side, too much attack sur
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
> It’s odd to accuse the Ethereum Foundation of not delivering and it would be hard to back that claim. It's actually quite easy: I opened the websites of all the 24 wallets they list and checked the imprint of each. None says it w
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
Ethereum has 11 000 nodes currently: https://www.ethernodes.org/ There are probably many botnets of IoT devices with 10x that many nodes, aren't there? So a single botnet could probably ensure that a target victim has
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
Thanks, what distinguishes it from the other 23?
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
> I feel it makes little sense for the Ethereum Foundation to pour their own (human) resources into this. Well, they received $ 18.3 million in crowdfunding [1], so I would dare to say it's not only "their" resources but a
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
Hey, I tried figuring out what the most recent official Ethereum wallet is, but the wallets which the website lists all seem like third-party ones. The previous official wallet's repository says "Mist and Ethereum Wallet have been
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
Google "nothing at stake problem".
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
> Security deposits of attackers in ethereum are slashed, up to 100%, in case of an attack. What defends against the attacker configuring his nodes to just not relay the blocks which slash his deposits, by having a majority in the networ
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
> PoS offers much, much stronger security than PoW Uh, why do you say that? The security of PoS in fact ought to be much LOWER than the security of PoW: The goal of requiring proof of work is that you cannot just send multiple vers
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
> Eventually Proof of Work WILL kill Bitcoin [..] > Right now, most of the mining is financed via inflation. But as this comes to an end, eventually, the cost of mining will be borne by anyone making transactions on the network throu
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
There is a Freenet "KeepAlive" plugin which can be used to selectively pin files which you want to preserve, even if they are completely unpopular.
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
> I've not tried Freenet for a few years, but every time I did it was very slow It has become a lot faster recently, try again :) When I look at its statistics during active usage it can easily show 1 MiB/s traffic. You still c
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
> There's this thing called "cash". There are (and have been for at least a century) ways to transfer it from place to place, even electronically, in a mostly anonymous way - as mobile minutes, through western union, etc.
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
> 1) why are you defending Facebook? Because once such laws are enacted they surely will NOT only apply to FB but to all other social networks as well. Classic "pandora's box". > 2) Facebook demands and aggressively en
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
> Outright bans are clumsy, but imposing a cost or bar to entry, like most societies do with alcohol and drugs, might be constructive. With requiring payment comes the ability to trace where the money came from. So you're essentiall
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
> privacy !== anonymity Why not? With the same reasoning you could deny selling people food unless they show you their government ID. Would you consider such an abomination a country where privacy still exists? If you strip people from
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
No, they do not need ordering of time, they need the precise ordering their developers chose for them to make sense: Code is a well-chosen piece of logic to make sense as a whole. You can't just arbitrarily take to pieces of code and
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
> I'm unaware of a foolproof way to share future versions aka future sources that can be programmed into deterministic code. This is entirely possible :) You would use an "USK" ("updatable subspace key") address
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
> or a link thereof, is stored on the blockchain so it can't be deleted. A blockchain is overkill for this: Its central goal of providing a clear ordering of events by the time at which they happened (t1 < t2 < t3) is not nece
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 7y ago
> The way TRIM works, you don't need to trim blocks right before overwriting them. In my experience "blkdiscard /dev/DESTINATION_DISK" does improve the speed of dd'ing a disk to another one quite a bit thoug
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 7y ago
The code for it is on GitHub, can someone please file an issue there to provide an additional green version? (Or fix it right away?) https://github.com/potch/unmaintained.tech/issues Thank you!
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 7y ago
I have done open source development for well over a decade, thousands of hours, tens of thousands of lines of code, and I can tell you: Considering the amount of donations I got, it would have been much more profitable to clean toilets, to