generalizethis

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by generalizethis 9y ago
He went out of his way to foul up (read the comment section for how obviously), not that that validates his assumption that ease-of-use = IOT suitability.
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by generalizethis 9y ago
- Fungibility is broken when you have optional privacy--also stuff like this happens http://jeffq.com/blog/on-the-linkability-of-zcash-transactio... -No one but the participants should trust a trusted setup, and even t
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by generalizethis 9y ago
Not my point, but yes.
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by generalizethis 9y ago
Green is the only guy who could take something as novel as zsnarks and latch it onto a trusted setup (you need it, but it should have been 50 Peter Todds) and optional privacy. He trolled Monero with this same kind of vehemence when he shou
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by generalizethis 9y ago
If Heilman confuses human engineering for an exploit, he was the one trying to get over on naïve investors anxious to burn IOTA at the stake.
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by generalizethis 9y ago
He's not an MIT researcher AFAIK. He's affiliated with DCI, which runs under the MIT banner. MIT actually had a favorable article in their review that DCI took issue with--but of course they were both going after a Swedish contrac
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by generalizethis 9y ago
Could it be that HN is filled with early adopter money anxious to portray a threat in the worst light possible?
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by generalizethis 9y ago
Gotcha, assumed he would be trying to create a review pertinent to the normal user (given the memeness) as most will use an exe--still doesn't excuse his bungling (read Paul's response on why) or the strange conclusion that his P2
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by generalizethis 9y ago
No, you can peruse the code for yourself if you need to look for backdoors. He was obviously choosing the path of most resistance so he could prove his own conclusion--not that small devices need to run a wallet or the process won't be
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by generalizethis 9y ago
The most recent is exe is opensource--it's right there on the top of the git. In fact, he probably had to scroll past it to download v2.5.6 I looked: https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/releases Also, a few
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by generalizethis 9y ago
Meanwhile on the other end of the spectrum: https://medium.com/@perfectstormtd/my-experience-of-building...
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by generalizethis 9y ago
Why didn't you use a lightnode? Or the most recent exe? I did it the other day and it took a few minutes--your article made me feel like a genius.
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by generalizethis 9y ago
I chuckled too, but mainly because he didn't download the most recent exe file and tried syncing to his own out of sync node when he could have more easily used a lightnode. It was almost like he was going out of his way to make it dif
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by generalizethis 9y ago
They've never been focused on P2P and have made that clear to users--obviously they didn't hear, "Be your own bank." when that was said.
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by generalizethis 9y ago
I'm not sure any blockchain scales "well," so it's like comparing turtle speeds. Likely they'll all be moving to lightening network for scalability, so it's a waste of time comparing them. The factors that are
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by generalizethis 9y ago
So deer are nature's equivalent of an off-balance washing machine?
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by generalizethis 9y ago
"Soon"
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by generalizethis 9y ago
It's ironic that wall street spent so many years saying Bitcoin is worthless, but is buying-in when it's lost its use case to competitors within cryptocurrency, and really is useless (except as a speculative vehicle or "store
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by generalizethis 9y ago
Bitcoin is one word, but you are definitely on point about China's mining prowess, those are asic miners, so not that super unless the figures are swarmed based.
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by generalizethis 9y ago
Maybe they're wary of trolls and they reflect digital forums rather than historical upbringings. Don't we all wish life had an ignore button? Anyway, I wish the author had asked them; their answers would probably be more interesti
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by generalizethis 9y ago
It isn't really a rating of mild/hot/atomic advantages, it's one offers fungibility and privacy and the other is a public ledger--they have vastly different design goals that will separate them more and more over time.