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   by emin-gun-sirer 13y ago

   Virtual Notary offers a superset of the document verification service offered by proofofexistence.com. It's best to think of Virtual Notary as a impartial online witness to factoids that can be checked online. Besides documents, it can
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   Cash-Boycotts: How to Use Bitcoins for Social Change(hackingdistributed.com)

   1 points by emin-gun-sirer 13y ago|0 comments
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   by emin-gun-sirer 13y ago

   >If all pools are acting this way, then there's really no incentive for miners to go to any specific pool (avoiding centralization). So it will just be like regular mining again. The rewards enjoyed by selfish miners are super-linea
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   by emin-gun-sirer 13y ago

   This is not right. We show that, even with no positional advantage in the network (i.e. gamma=0), the attacker can make more than its fair share.
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   by emin-gun-sirer 13y ago

   I'm one of the co-authors on this paper. Those of you looking for a tl;dr can check out this blog post ( http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/11/04/bitcoin-is-broken/ ) on the attack and its implication