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by gasull 15y ago
Sadly, I doubt they can be stopped.
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by gasull 15y ago
1. If it had a backdoor, other programmers would see it, because it's open source. 2. Tor bridges can't be blocked because the ISP won't know the IP of them. Please inform yourself about what a Tor bridge is. 3. Have you used Bitcoin? Tra
873.
by gasull 15y ago
It might be that they are not a false flag operation but the Government is going to take advantage of the media attention to "civilize Internet".
874.
by gasull 15y ago
I'm wondering if LulzSec is a false flag operation very well engineered.
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by gasull 15y ago
Open source code tends to give a false sense of security. Many people assume others will check the code, yet few do. In addition, it is possible to spread malicious code throughout a code base to prevent detection. Those few who do are us
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by gasull 15y ago
Thanks for writing it. Point by point: - Bitcoin software: It's open-source. How would anybody compromise it with so many eyes watching? - Bitcoin trail: Solved using Tor and adding noirc='1' to bitcoin.conf file. Also you need to earn y
877.
by gasull 15y ago
This is very interesting. Thank you for the info. I think a solution to this attack would be a web of trust, like PGP/GnuPG works for verifying signatures.
878.
by gasull 15y ago
I've seen pie charts with the computing power of several mining pools and the total. I believe you can find the IP of a miner that has a lot of computing power.
879.
by gasull 15y ago
Go ahead and write a blog post.
880.
by gasull 15y ago
Bitcoin is divisible to one tenth of it, if I remember correctly. Prices in bitcoins can be adjusted to reflect the deflation. Merchants are already using MtGox API and ticker so they set a price in dollars, and the displayed price in bit
881.
by gasull 15y ago
> Once an adversary gains >50% of the processing power you have basically lost. Wrong. An attacker having more than 50% of the network would just stop payments until the rest of the network rejects the attacker nodes. https://en
882.
by gasull 15y ago
> Surely there's an easier, legal and potentially cheaper solution open to any government that wants to shut down bitcoin: buy up each and every bitcoin they can lay their hands on. Some people won't sell. And all this would do is ma
883.
by gasull 15y ago
I think that if Bitcoin is made illegal, people will trade them like dollars and West German marks were traded in East Europe during Stalinism, or like dollars and euros are traded now in Cuba, in the black market. People never stopped usi
884.
by gasull 15y ago
My understanding is that Austrian economists do watch numerical data, but reject the idea that the Government should try to mess with any of these numbers, like trying to rise or lower inflation, or unemployment, or GDP, etc. They want the
885.
by gasull 15y ago
Yes, but Bitcoin isn't necessarily anonymous: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Anonymity If you want more anonymity in Bitcoin, run it through Tor and have the setting noirc='1' in your ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf. Also, Tor is more anonymous for
886.
by gasull 15y ago
Didn't some politicians try to shut down Paypal in its early days? I remember that from reading The Paypal Wars.
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by gasull 15y ago
It's strange that nobody already mentioned Tor and its hidden services: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en I2P and Freenet aren't as widely used (AFAIK) and they are slower. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.onion ED
888.
by gasull 15y ago
Hidden services in Tor: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en There are other projects, like I2P and Freenet, but they aren't as widely used and they are slower. There are tons of hidden services in Tor: http://en.wi
889.
by gasull 16y ago
What about making the points of a comment be multiplied for a factor depending on you karma? That way comments from users with good reputation having comments with more points by default. I know this makes the rich richer, but that's the w
890.
by gasull 16y ago
Paul, what about using StupidFilter to filter out trolls? http://stupidfilter.org/main/
891.
by gasull 16y ago
QE1 and QE2.
892.
by gasull 16y ago
It's down.
893.
by gasull 16y ago
FTA: where does the currency come from? What creates the currency? How much currency is flowing through the system? How do you monitor that and regulate it? How do you prevent it from being inflated? How do you keep people from fraudulentl
894.
by gasull 16y ago
I agree, but working for the startup of someone else you might learn from an awesome team that will prepare you for one day having your own startup. This was the advice of D'Angelo, from Quora, at the last Startup School. I think it all de
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by gasull 16y ago
I think he means that Government employees are "over-pensioned, over-unionized and over the top" and that that burden creates a deficit and high taxes. I guess he means all of the above because otherwise you're right and it makes no sense.
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by gasull 16y ago
It is also possible and very common to be self-exploited, overworked and underpaid at your own startup. And depending on the exit of your startup vs the exit of someone else's startup, and the % you get from the total of outstanding shares
897.
by gasull 16y ago
The picture in the article is absolutely unrelated.
898.
by gasull 16y ago
The binaries are already in torrents.
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by gasull 16y ago
Part of the problem is that we write facebook content as "public" content (i.e. the press release version of our lives) but we tend to process it as "personal" updates that substitute for actually catching up with someone on the phone or i
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by gasull 16y ago
The URL should be corrected to http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/07/murder-fast-datacente...

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