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by hapnin 8y ago
The scope is too small here. QC will wreak havoc on online banking, telecommunications and everything else that depends on unhardened classical cryptography.
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by hapnin 8y ago
"It’s not often that you write a paper proposing a hypothesis that you don’t support." We should all do this at least once. What a great practice.
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by hapnin 8y ago
It is odd that time is measured in full cycles and our concept of space, in part, rests on a half-circle.
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by hapnin 8y ago
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1323/
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Cytoscape.js – Graph theory / network library for analysis and visualisation(js.cytoscape.org)
1 points by hapnin 8y ago|0 comments
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by hapnin 8y ago
You can short Bitcoin on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange: http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/bitcoin-futures.html
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Rockefellers Go Long on Cryptocurrencies to Invest in Blockchain Startups(ccn.com)
2 points by hapnin 8y ago|0 comments
128.
by hapnin 8y ago
Bitcoin is worth 5x what it was this time last year. BoA is huffing glue.
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Another Goldman exec dumps Wall Street for crypto world(cnbc.com)
3 points by hapnin 8y ago|0 comments
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by hapnin 8y ago
The genie can't be put back in the bottle, counselor. Move on.
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by hapnin 8y ago
Blockstack looks like it would fit here: https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack/blob/master/README....
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by hapnin 8y ago
This is the saddest sentence in the article: "The Fundstrat advisor states that roughly 30 percent of the digital asset holders worldwide are Americans" This shows how behind the curve Americans have become.
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ACINQ Releases Android Eclair Wallet v0.3.0 – Lightning Network Mainnet(github.com)
1 points by hapnin 8y ago|0 comments
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A Compact Primer on Digital Signal Processing(jackschaedler.github.io)
3 points by hapnin 8y ago|0 comments
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Bitmessage project looking for auditors and/or security specialists(reddit.com)
1 points by hapnin 9y ago|0 comments
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by hapnin 9y ago
Almost 30 years later, it sounds like they're still arguing for the Clipper Chip in some manner: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
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by hapnin 9y ago
Most of the hate for it is spite and envy combined with a little bit of groupthink.
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China to Develop Cryptocurrency, Protects Yuan Against NonState Digital Currency(cointelegraph.com)
2 points by hapnin 9y ago|0 comments
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Metcalfe’s Law is Wrong (2006)(spectrum.ieee.org)
39 points by hapnin 9y ago|14 comments
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WooCommerce Plugin for Lightning Network(github.com)
2 points by hapnin 9y ago|0 comments
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by hapnin 9y ago
Whoever builds the Whatsapp for Tox would achieve legend status. It's a cool protocol but still a diamond in the rough.
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by hapnin 9y ago
Technically, it's not a ponzi. It's still stupid.
143.
by hapnin 9y ago
The initial problem was solved. It couldn't be solved using a mundane DB. Scaling is a separate issue. I don't believe scaling is even mentioned in the original white paper.
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by hapnin 9y ago
That's a different point altogether. The original question was what does a blockchain solve that a normal DB can't.
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by hapnin 9y ago
The first sentence of the Bitcoin white paper describes a problem that can't be solved by a normal DB. "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another wit
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by hapnin 9y ago
He knew he'd be targeted (and he was), legal or not. It's probably why whoever wrote Bitcoin used a nom de chiffere. http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/timeline/
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by hapnin 9y ago
I've been hearing about imminent death of Bitcoin and the pointlessness of blockchain since 2010. I predict that won't change in the future.
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by hapnin 9y ago
> I wouldn't want to attach my name to anything that I know will have major consequences for me personally. It's a good thing for all of us that Phil Zimmermann didn't feel that way.
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Roadmap to Bitcoin Developments(medium.com)
1 points by hapnin 9y ago|0 comments
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Your Basic Go: Tutorials, Cheat Sheets, Nutshells(yourbasic.org)
2 points by hapnin 9y ago|0 comments

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