heliumcraft

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by heliumcraft 10y ago
See zk-snarks, zcash, homomorphic encryption, etc.. Let's not make this an accidental strawman.. My second paragraph is referring to electronic and internet voting solutions vs decentralized/blockchain solutions and NOT traditiona
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
In regards to normal/traditional voting (which I prefer to current internet solutions btw, for the reasons below), it can have its own issues as a lot of countries can attest to. That said, We're talking about digital voting here
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
A lot of the worsening/improvement is a perceived one. Also the point of doing double blind experiments with a placebo as the control is that if the new medication doesn't do better than a placebo then it effectively proves that
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
The placebo "effect" is not some magical effect that heals people, it's just a bias in reporting the results combined with a regression to the mean.
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
Indeed. I'm not claiming the blockchain is the only solution, but currently it's a pretty good one. I would hope for a centralized solution actually if that would help adoption and prevent voting fraud. > How do you get valid
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
The voting would using a cryptographic system to ensure confidentiality. The coercion attack is an interesting problem but something that is already illegal but cannot be fully prevented. IMO it outweights the disadvantages of a centralized
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
Well in this case such a voting would be done using some variation of a ZK-Snark (or some other cryptographic algo) which would allow you to check your vote counted, yet remain anonymous.
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
If you voted, and such a 51% attack happened, you would notice your vote was reverted. Not to mention getting that 51% mining power plus catching up to the blockchain to be able to reverse it is increasingly expensive the more time/blo
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
I'm not saying it would affect the electoral college or electing some politician that I do or do not like. Some problems are entirely due to human nature, have been with us for a long time and will likely stay with us for a long time r
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
IMO It's premature to look for successes at this stage (try 5 years from now), there is a lot that needs to be done in the space (namely in terms of scalability) before it can be ready for general use. Only recently the decentralized s
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
You're assuming or at least implying that everyone in the Blockchain/Decentralization community thinks that Blockchain is the answer to everything which in my experience is not the case.
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
or c) an alternative explanation that still fits with most of what we know. Anyway I agree with you, although it has already surpassed initial expectations stronger evidence is required.
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
Isn't Redis used just for running the test suite?
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
Looking forward then to the deluge of DApps coming to Bitcoin using Multisign and nLockTime, just go to http://dapps.ethercasts.com/ and copy paste ideas to Bitcoin using Multisign / nLockTime, should be easy peasy. Oh
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
> Headphones are moving wireless (hopefully in a safe way, since there is a reasonable concern about the health effects) Do tell more about these "reasonable concerns about the health effects" of wireless... ?
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
it has increased by a factor of ~153x https://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate?timespan=all 2014 -> 10,436 TH/s 2016 -> 1,536,337 TH/s
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
good luck getting the computer power to do a 51% on Bitcoin or Ethereum. The hashpower used in Bitcoin is mind-boggling.
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
It has nothing to do with Ethereum. This Krypton chain has a very minuscule hashpower so it's susceptible to attacks. It would happen with any Proof of Work chain. She is moving to a Proof of Stake which requires +- 51% of the ownershi
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
Have you given a look at ethereum? Generally the community there doesn't care too much about wallets, that should tell you something :) For usage, one of the mains advantages would be for systems that you don't want to use a centr
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
Yes and no. Basically there was and still are major obstacles to widespread adoption. For example, VERY recently stuff like https://metamask.io/ and Mist has been released, which make this sort of apps more accessible to th
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
http://dapps.ethercasts.com/
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
He means deploying to a public blockchain. You can then play this with your friend or someone else. It's different from running a game server since the contract will enforce the rules of the game, while if you control your own game ser
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
Usually fees are there for a reason, in this case it's part of the game (and the fun) as the fee goes into the prize fund. In the "ethereum world" most of the community doesn't actually care too much about the currency a
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
The fee goes into a prize pool, the winner bot wins the prize.
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
I agree with you, but have in mind that patents are not limited to GMOs and affect 95% of seeds in commercial use, including the "organic" ones. There is a popular perception that only GMO seeds are patented but that's not th
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
The solution probably lies in a decentralized/distributed platform such as Ethereum or Maidsafe.
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
"I sold a million worth and donated 1/4 to charity" https://soundcloud.com/cryptoafterdark/episode-9-vitalik-but... https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4g9n2a/c
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
1. This was before the the DAO was even launched by a 3rd party. 2. Can't blame the guy for cashing in a bit, wouldn't you? (and just 25%, still keeping 75%) 3. and he also donated a good portion of it to charity.
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
"just before" seriously? He did this on 24 april, the DAO was launched on 30 april.. stop the cynicism please... I just noticed your nickname, it's well known you hate cryptocurrencies and spread FUD about them on wikipedia
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by heliumcraft 10y ago
There's Syria/ISIS next door, we'll see. Some military interventions and a lot of TV fear propaganda would do the job.

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