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by hendzen 13y ago
If you like Java (or other JVM langs), check out BitcoinJ. By far the most solid Bitcoin library.
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by hendzen 13y ago
See http://safecurves.cr.yp.to/ for an explanation.
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by hendzen 13y ago
> From what I've seen, a lot of women have a low tolerance for this level of overt critique, regardless of whether the critique is correct or not. Please stop talking.
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by hendzen 13y ago
Ah - when the term Paxos is used it is usually in reference to the original, non-BFT algorithm. Also, Google's implementations of Paxos (in Chubby, as well as Megastore) are non-BFT, and I am not aware of any use of Byzantine Paxos in
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by hendzen 13y ago
That is a correct definition of BFT, but as I said, Paxos does not tolerate Byzantine faults. Here's a direct quote [0] from Leslie Lamport, the author of the Paxos algorithm. Assume that agents can communicate with one another b
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by hendzen 13y ago
No, Paxos is not a solution to BGP. Paxos explicitly does not consider malicious processes. EDIT: fixed typo
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by hendzen 13y ago
Python includes Tkinter for GUI programming. That said, Tkinter is pretty crappy compared to PyQt.
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by hendzen 13y ago
Feel free to design your own cryptocurrency that does that. Nobody's forcing you to use Bitcoin.
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by hendzen 13y ago
Pool operators are usually quite savvy. Most miners will just do whatever their pool decides on.
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by hendzen 13y ago
That's actually a legitimate concern, which is why people are working on CoinJoin [0]. ZeroCoin and other cryptographic solutions are very interesting but will not be practical for a while due to blockchain bloat and extremely high ver
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by hendzen 13y ago
I see an assertion, but no actual argument.
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by hendzen 13y ago
High hardware utilization is a good thing for efficiency because that enables ASICs to be produced that are growing increasingly more efficient. Right now one of the main metrics people use when evaluating the profitability mining hardware
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by hendzen 13y ago
Actually, for your first point, you have to compare the carbon footprint of bitcoin to the carbon footprint of the alternative. What is the carbon footprint of all the different transaction processing systems run by Mastercard, Visa, Amex,
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by hendzen 13y ago
They should call it PrismOS.
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by hendzen 13y ago
I find the L4 Microkernel [0] pretty interesting. The goal of L4 is to make the microkernel architecture performant by making IPC fast. They did this by making the implementations processor dependent; they wrote the IPC code in optimized as
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by hendzen 13y ago
The relationship between Szabo and Finney goes back way further than that. They were both on the cypherpunks list in the 90's. See this paranoid rant [0] from the 90's about Hal Finney, Szabo and others being fake personas invente
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by hendzen 13y ago
Look at the URL. Blogspot allows you to retroactively change the date, but the URL stays the same. Obviously one might wonder why he changed the date.
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by hendzen 13y ago
Judging from the code the devs seem to not understand the ideas of object oriented programming, which makes me hesitant to believe they know anything about the more difficult issues of cryptography or byzantine agreement. I feel bad for any
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by hendzen 13y ago
Seriously, if you want to laugh, take a look at some of the code [0] the NXT devs have released. If you've ever written Java professionally, you will immediately realize that the code was probably written by someone with very little ex
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by hendzen 13y ago
So basically, you want a DHT?
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by hendzen 13y ago
The goal of CPU mining is to making it difficult for well-funded parties to control the network's hashpower by amassing powerful GPU/FPGA/ASIC miners. If you look at the distribution of hashpower [0] in the Bitcoin network,
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by hendzen 13y ago
The primitives are the same, but libsodium is more portable (but slower).
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by hendzen 13y ago
Even funnier, WebRTC was originally open sourced by Google [0]. [0] - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webrtc/2011May/00...
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by hendzen 13y ago
Can you post a hash of the info for precommitment?
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by hendzen 13y ago
That's why people are working on Colored Coins ( http://coloredcoins.org/ ) to represent stocks and bonds on the bitcoin blockchain. There is work underway to allow people to trade colored coins over a decentralized p2p
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by hendzen 13y ago
Yep, that's the one. BTW, didn't know you were on HN, I'm a fan of Bloom.
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by hendzen 13y ago
CS background for people who haven't heard of Byzantine Fault Tolerance: Original Lamport Paper - http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs614/2004sp/papers/lsp82.... 'Practical' Byzantine Faul
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Can the designer of a decentralized protocol be held liable for illicit use?(quora.com)
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by hendzen 13y ago
Another year, another Foursquare pivot.
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by hendzen 13y ago
I wonder if Sheryl Sandberg would be up to the challenge.

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