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by hendzen 13y ago
Look, if you use bitcoins on the internet you're basically giving them away. What you do is you keep them under your mattress and ever so often you lift up your mattress and look at them and sing a sweet little song to them. They'
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by hendzen 13y ago
That said, Chris Dixon, Balaji Srinivasan & Marc Andreessen (all a16z partners) have been pumping BTC harder than a sump pump. Not sure that blog post is the best example.
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by hendzen 13y ago
My point was that during the next financial crisis, everyone might just sell all their Bitcoin, not that everyone would run to it.
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by hendzen 13y ago
I'll be honest, I am a Bitcoin fan. But I realize there is a relatively large chance that it might just fail entirely (or only be used by criminals and just be regulated to death). Venture Capital investment in Bitcoin has been fairly
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by hendzen 13y ago
Forks of a single block ("orphans") are expected due to block propagation taking a nonzero amount of time. That's very different than the case where say 50% of the network is running bitcoind, and the other 50% is running btc
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by hendzen 13y ago
Coinbase as a wallet is pretty terrible, I agree. But its a good place to convert $ <-> BTC for consumers.
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by hendzen 13y ago
Yes, blockchain.info's security is snake oil, and they are completely overmarketing themselves as "hack-proof". And of course the reason for this is because Javascript cryptography is an oxymoron [0]. [0] - http://
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by hendzen 13y ago
The router functionality is very important, because bitcoin-core is the only bitcoin implementation capable of verifying transactions & blocks. The reason for this is that the bitcoin protocol, in practice, is whatever bitcoin-core impl
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Bitcore Core v0.9.0 release overview(garzikrants.blogspot.com)
75 points by hendzen 13y ago|44 comments
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by hendzen 13y ago
The protocol and the currency are actually inseparable: http://timothyblee.com/2014/03/01/heres-why-bitcoin-the-netw...
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How To Fix Bitcoin(blog.gardeviance.org)
3 points by hendzen 13y ago|2 comments
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by hendzen 13y ago
Someone at AirBnB needs to read up on Sybil attacks :)
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Benchmark Backs Bitcoin Secure Storage Provider Xapo(bloomberg.com)
10 points by hendzen 13y ago|10 comments
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by hendzen 13y ago
Here is is PGP public key: http://bitcoin.org/satoshinakamoto.asc
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by hendzen 13y ago
Szabo didn't have reporters camping outside of his house. Besides, Szabo is a ghost anyway.
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AP: Man Denies He Is Bitcoin Founder(bigstory.ap.org)
10 points by hendzen 13y ago|2 comments
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by hendzen 13y ago
This isn't an "article". This is DOXing someone.
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by hendzen 13y ago
Newsweek are a bunch of assholes for posting pictures of this guys house. Even if he isn't Satoshi, he needs to hire some bodyguards.
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by hendzen 13y ago
I was making the point that this (IMO terrible) argument would also apply to Tor, PGP, or any other technology that allows its users to communicate/transact anonymously.
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by hendzen 13y ago
It's time for those of us who believe in the rule of law to put a stop to this. I don't suggest making Tor illegal - enforcing such a ban would require truly scary violations of liberty. But what we can do is establish a social no
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by hendzen 13y ago
Putin seems to have become confident that Obama's so called "red lines" are nothing more than empty talk.
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by hendzen 13y ago
I'm pretty sure tech is the only subculture in which 'disruptive' implies 'good'.
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by hendzen 13y ago
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=327767.0
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by hendzen 13y ago
In the bitcoin world, this technique is known as "merge avoidance" - read about it here: https://medium.com/bitcoin-banter/7f95a386692f
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by hendzen 13y ago
"We only hire the best engineers"
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by hendzen 13y ago
BTCGuild now mines OP_RETURN - so there's nothing preventing you from using it. EDIT: As does eligus (they have always accepted nonstandard transactions).
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by hendzen 13y ago
Please don't do this, as it pollutes the UTXO set and makes it more expensive to run a full node, which reduces decentralization. Please use an OP_RETURN, provably unspendable output if you want to embed data in the blockchain. As a bo
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by hendzen 13y ago
I'm guessing The Intercept uses the slashes to mimic the separators used between different classification markers. For example: TS // SI // NOFORN, etc.
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The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program(firstlook.org)
213 points by hendzen 13y ago|50 comments
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by hendzen 13y ago
To quote Julian Assange: "The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie. This must result in minimization of efficient internal communications mechanisms

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