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Elasticsearch 6.0.0 GA released(elastic.co)
192 points by haakon 9y ago|86 comments
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by haakon 9y ago
It can be outsourced to trustless third party, who also has no control over your money and cannot cheat.
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by haakon 9y ago
Mt. Gox was a centralised custodian. Layer 2 systems like Lightning Network are not, because they can't run away with your money. If they try to cheat, you can always withdraw your money.
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by haakon 9y ago
And The Netherlands probably got the idea from China: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/oct/01...
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Blockstream Satellite(blockstream.com)
3 points by haakon 9y ago|0 comments
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by haakon 9y ago
SegWit activated on Litecoin on May 10 this year.
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by haakon 9y ago
The fixed, pre-determined inflation rate has been part of Bitcoin since its launch, and is widely regarded as one of the most fundamental, immutable rules of Bitcoin, much like "software freedom" is to Debian. It is not something
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by haakon 9y ago
> I can't imagine "shorting" these cryptocurrencies will be possible any time soon You can short Bitcoin, Ethereum and many other cryptocurrencies on a number of exchanges right now.
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by haakon 9y ago
Note: Had to take some small liberties with the headline to make it fit HN's 80 character limit.
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‘Carbon Dating’ the Internet Archive with OpenTimestamps(petertodd.org)
106 points by haakon 9y ago|18 comments
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by haakon 9y ago
It doesn't resolve yet. The idea is that they could set it up, thus activating the backdoor.
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by haakon 9y ago
They haven't made it hard; the phone-home is unauthenticated, so you could just spoof someone's DNS for instance. But even if a third-party exploit were impossible, it's a real problem if one company actually has a kill switc
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by haakon 9y ago
Someone noticed it in September, opened an issue, and got no response. https://github.com/bitmaintech/bmminer/issues/7 It also looks like the backdoor may have a remote code execution vulnerability: https:&#
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by haakon 10y ago
Here's your "propaganda". The segwit softfork may fix some things that make side chains more feasible, but that undersells it severely. It mainly solves a bug in bitcoin that prevents a good implementation of Lightning Networ
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by haakon 10y ago
That's actually an ETN (exchange-traded note). But don't ask me what the difference is.
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by haakon 10y ago
Somebody did that, except for with drugs instead of CP: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150721-my-robot-bought-ill...
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by haakon 10y ago
There is some research that suggests pedophilia is linked to lower IQ, such as http://sax.sagepub.com/content/19/3/285 . But as with most research on people with this condition, subjects are picked from the pr
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by haakon 10y ago
In a similar and slightly broader vein, I recommend this article: "Ethereum’s DAO Forking Crisis: The Bitcoin Perspective" - https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/ethereum-s-dao-forking-...
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by haakon 10y ago
It's an interesting idea to entertain, if outlandish. See http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/the-city-states-of-europe (HN discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11192948 ): > "Th
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by haakon 10y ago
And since it's not 'O'pen, it's most likely much less 'M'assive. Now it's more like a traditional distance learning offering. Nothing wrong with being that, but I wish we could also have MOOCs.
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by haakon 10y ago
Matonis is not a Bitcoin developer or a person of much technical merit, if that was one of the two you referred to. Good question about Gavin, though.
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by haakon 11y ago
Unfortunately, this is how Bitcoin was promoted for a long time. "Free, instant transactions!" It always bugged me.
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by haakon 11y ago
Everything Bitcoin is in the Bitcoin source code, by definition. So Bitcoin is completely centrally controlled in all aspects, then?
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Markdeep(casual-effects.com)
256 points by haakon 11y ago|78 comments
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Markdeep(casual-effects.com)
8 points by haakon 11y ago|2 comments
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by haakon 11y ago
It's stressing the network, but it's not a test - it's an attack.
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by haakon 11y ago
Not quite; there are two separate attacks currently ongoing against Bitcoin: * The malleability attack: a transaction relayer is able to change the hash of the transactions, thus confusing senders or receivers who rely on this hash to check
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by haakon 11y ago
Miners typically include the highest-paying transactions first, naturally. If there is a consistent backlog of transactions waiting to be included, low-fee or no-fee transactions may have to wait a long time, perhaps indefinitely. This crea
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[Bitcoin-dev] Disclosure: consensus bug indirectly solved by BIP66(lists.linuxfoundation.org)
10 points by haakon 11y ago|0 comments
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by haakon 11y ago
You mean script, not scrypt.

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