haakon

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by haakon 13y ago
Here is the reporter finally resorting to full disclosure after having tried repeatedly to reach out to Coinbase without getting any response at all: http://blog.shubh.am/full-disclosure-coinbase-security/
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by haakon 13y ago
Ubuntu Server is quite nice, and for someone who uses (K)Ubuntu on the desktop it's nice to have an apt-based system on the server.
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by haakon 13y ago
I'm sure he means that half of all bitcoins that will ever exist have already been mined, meaning they belong to someone (obviously not one person). This is correct (unless you want to argue about lost coins etc).
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by haakon 13y ago
They haven't launched, but today they announced their products: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/03/26/start-up-unveils-bitc...
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Payward Raises $5M From Hummingbird To Fund Kraken Bitcoin Exchange(techcrunch.com)
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by haakon 13y ago
> PC Speaker driver. Probably no one ever used this, but making the PC speaker play proper digital audio was something fun. DOSBox even emulates this quite well! This code was also responsible for the single worst bug I had during th
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by haakon 13y ago
Also, Snowden has a Tor sticker on his laptop.
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by haakon 13y ago
It's enough to make it interesting, but there could be a much more interesting diplomatic scandal depending on which country is targeted. Imagine if it's not Yemen or Iran, but Canada or Switzerland?
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by haakon 13y ago
They hold bitcoin, however, probably tens of thousands of them.
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by haakon 13y ago
Coinsetter ( https://www.coinsetter.com/ ) is a US based exchange launching this year with VC funding.
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by haakon 13y ago
This is exactly why such a scheme, while well-intentioned, would utterly destroy confidence in Bitcoin.
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by haakon 13y ago
It gets absurd. "Owning bitcoin" is just linguistic sugar for having knowledge of a private key that corresponds to a public key that hashes to a bitcoin address that holds bitcoin. It's just a 256-bit number. In essense, eve
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by haakon 13y ago
If someone competent want to start an exchange, why would they pay to be associated with the MtGox brand? After all of this, that brand must be poisonous.
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Bitcoin is an open network that exhibits resilience and anti-fragility(programming.oreilly.com)
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by haakon 13y ago
Wall Street Journal covers this: http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/02/14/bitcoin-protes...
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by haakon 13y ago
I think you're confusing Silk Road 2 with Atlantis. They did talk trash and flapped their wings with fancy Youtube commercials etc before they suddenly closed down soon before Silk Road got busted. Silk Road 2 always claimed to be the
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by haakon 13y ago
Two transactions with the same inputs and the same outputs can safely be considered the same transaction. You don't just compare the transaction value.
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by haakon 13y ago
Bitcoin had these "gem" and "diamond" and "treasure" sites ad nauseum a year ago or more.
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by haakon 13y ago
This guy went to Tokyo to "protest" at Mt. Gox' offices, staying in their lobby for days until he met key people at the company. No way to know if there is any causality, but soon after he talked to them, they halted BTC with
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by haakon 13y ago
Just be very careful not to sound frustrated or impolite, or they'll kickban you immediately. It's getting pretty tense in there.
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by haakon 13y ago
In Bill Gates' video, at 0:28, does he laugh just a little bit as he says "we took advantage of the internet" when listing their historical innovations?
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by haakon 13y ago
I really hate that this new model requires trust, whereas the old one did not. Even if I trust Mozilla not to peek, I have to accept that all my data, including all my passwords, now become subpoenable. I get that the old model is too compl
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by haakon 13y ago
Every HN thread on Bitcoin is 30-50% debate over what "fiat money" means. Every single time.
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by haakon 13y ago
None of their miners have to collude in any way; scary stuff is entirely up to the pool operator to execute and the miners won't even know that they're helping until it has happened. At this point it's tempting to consider ju
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by haakon 13y ago
Not everybody has ASICs, so it limits the number of people who can compete. In theory, this could create a centralisation effect. In practice, that seems to happen anyway due to mining pools.
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by haakon 13y ago
Regardless of intention, I see it as a kind of performance art project: it underlines the absurdity of the massproduction of innovationless altcoins. It speaks to how a successful cryptocurrency requires something more than just tweaking a
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by haakon 13y ago
Every HN post on Bitcoin has to have a discussion about the definition of fiat money. Fiat literally means "it shall be"; in terms of fiat money this refers to government's declaration that something is legal tender. The US d
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by haakon 13y ago
I was reminded of this quote from a recent episode of The Simpsons: "Conservatives only get more conservative, because every year they get a little further through Atlas Shrugged."
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by haakon 13y ago
20% swings over the course of a day is not at all average, and is in fact seen as quite dramatical.
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by haakon 13y ago
I wouldn't even dream of doing this myself, but my friend is using the RefControl Firefox extension which lets you set a Referer header per domain name, and he has set ft.com to send http://plus.google.com as referer. This

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