everfree

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by everfree 3y ago
Does it use cryptography to digitally sign its messages?
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by everfree 3y ago
I must have missed something. Wasn't the person you replied to talking about design documents? I don't think they suggested credentials like private keys should be public.
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by everfree 3y ago
I care about crypto (in both senses of cryptography and cryptocurrency), but the amount I care for this conversation is admittedly beginning to wane. There was already another thread where someone cited a source and then went back and forth
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by everfree 3y ago
Can you provide a source for how proof of stake only reduces energy usage by "merely an order of magnitude or two"?
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by everfree 3y ago
> It is my understanding that proof of stake merely reduces the energy needs of the block chain at large by an order of magnitude or two. Try over three orders of magnitude. The old Ethereum chain consumed 78 TWh per year. The new Ethere
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by everfree 3y ago
A signature is a signature whether or not you "have signing in mind" when you create the signature.
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by everfree 3y ago
Same as with a CA system, you can simply use a high-security key to delegate signing privileges to a lower-security subordinate key, then revoke when necessary. ENS natively allows for this pattern due to it supporting separate ownership an
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by everfree 3y ago
In what way does crypto "keep insisting on anonymity"? It's a system of private keys. You can attach identities to these keys, or you can not attach identities to them. The tech itself is unopinionated in this way.
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by everfree 3y ago
> It seems important to me that society should apply boosts to people who can demonstrate ability through some trainable measure that is advantaged by intelligence until they hit some threshold. In theory, this is what merit-based colleg
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by everfree 3y ago
America isn’t “real socialism” either, it’s capitalism.
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by everfree 3y ago
Last time I checked, North Korea is an authoritarian dictatorship. Edit: Not a Marxist society.
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by everfree 3y ago
> If the currency _is_ crypto, you either have to transact on-chain where it is inefficient and slow by design Not slow or inefficient enough so as to be unusable. > Either way, you are beholden to the currency controls of your countr
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by everfree 3y ago
> At best, you have a changing of the guard - new boss, same as the old boss. At best you send some of it directly to someone else with no trusted middleman, which is impossible to do over the internet with any other kind of system. At w
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by everfree 3y ago
More permissive in which ways that matter to a legitimate publisher? I'm pretty sure both of them ban third-party in-app-purchases, for example.
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by everfree 3y ago
The existence of a company-sanctioned jailbreak process doesn't prevent your own non-jailbroken phone from "just working".
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by everfree 3y ago
> For example, see the recent Pixel lockscreen bypass. Apple quite simply don’t fuck up like this. It just doesn’t happen. iOS 6.1 lock screen bypass: https://www.theverge.com/2013/2/14/3987830/ios-6-1
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by everfree 3y ago
> "My Ferrari has 600 HP, why can't it tow that 30 ton trailer. What kind of future is this?" If it has the hardware to do it, why should it be locked in software? Why should I need to buy two cars just because of software
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by everfree 3y ago
> If the iPhone allowed non-App-Store apps, you'd soon find yourself required to download each app from a random website. If that's so likely to happen, why hasn't it happened on Android?
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by everfree 3y ago
We have federation now, which should hopefully kill the datagarden model once and for all.
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by everfree 3y ago
Right, but past violations of the law have nothing to do with how an asset should currently be regulated, which is what this thread is about.
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by everfree 3y ago
> how can you “fork” a security? Exactly the same way you fork a non-security. Security is a legal designation, not a description of how a particular asset is implemented (in a forkable structure like a blockchain). > What is the comm
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by everfree 3y ago
As a counterexample, I haven't needed regulations to be able to have great confidence that my Uniswap DeFi trades will settle within seconds. The system is extremely reliable, despite no other participant in it being regulated or even
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by everfree 3y ago
> Only after the fact, this code was merged into the Core branch. That's incorrect. The code was merged into the Core branch first . The protocol change was initiated by the developers, not by the users.
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by everfree 3y ago
>Countries do not change their laws just to make some random accounting software company happy Countries change laws to give their citizens access to important products. It's not about the company. The USA didn't decide to rewr
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by everfree 3y ago
> Wat. The USA is the world's finance hub because it has the most reliable systems for trading financial assets, and because it has the most reliable currency. But Ethereum network transactions are pretty damn reliable too, even mor
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by everfree 3y ago
What do you call the group of developers who control write access and pull request approvals for the Bitcoin Core GitHub repository? You can't just apply to become one of these devs; they're grandfathered in from the early days. A
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by everfree 3y ago
> I don't think it's the "public ledger" part of this that causes the regulatory issue frankly. Myself I think that's precisely the issue the SEC is hung up on, but we could argue endlessly about what is probably
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by everfree 3y ago
I know what the crypto bill says, thanks. > All this is close to what the SEC requires. No, the SEC requires cryptoassets to slot perfectly into existing regulation, making it de-facto impossible for any public-ledger-based-securities ex
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by everfree 3y ago
> Either way, it's not the job of the SEC (Securities regulator) to decide coinbase gets a free pass to ignore securities regulation in this case because the existing regulations make their business model impossible. I guess that&#x
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by everfree 3y ago
> A tiny, and some might argue irrelevant, part of the US fintech industry is moving offshore. You'd better be very sure of its irrelevancy before sending it all to the UK, where they're embracing it with a clear regulatory f

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