imnotatwork

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by imnotatwork 9y ago
Braking force in EV is from magnetic fields in the engine pushing electricity back into the battery. Magnets and copper wires do not degrade when used. Pad brakes in EVs are only used when braking HARD, as in emergency stop. They degrade le
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by imnotatwork 9y ago
Really holding user's coins?
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by imnotatwork 9y ago
The ring signatures have a big scalability problem, and the cryptographoic strenght of the monero anonymity is all but proven. Monero is an interesting experiment but its feasibility as a long term store of value is to be provem. Also, movi
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by imnotatwork 9y ago
The total is much more than the sum of the parts in this case. You get whole new dynamics that were unpredictable from the single parts. Like saying that the first calculator was not a new kind of machine because valves existed and people m
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by imnotatwork 9y ago
> You can't just scale the number of transactions in a block forever and still have a stable currency. If you mean that over time the incentive to centralization become stronger, yes, you are right. There must be competition to ent
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by imnotatwork 9y ago
No, you're right. Numbers i said are my guesses, but the order of magnitude should be about that. I don't remember exactly how many hash ops you have to do to put 1000 txes in a merkle tree, but it should be more than 1000 and les
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by imnotatwork 9y ago
I mean, the main proponents of BCH did not mine it themselves to keep the difficulty down, it does not seem to have reached hashrate-price-difficulty equilibrium yet.
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by imnotatwork 9y ago
Not a bandaid at all. Unconfirmed transactions in the "lost" chain are bringing fees with them, so it is the exact same incentive of every other transaction. Besides , how many times in history a continental network partition of
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by imnotatwork 9y ago
Who defines the LOCAL community?
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by imnotatwork 9y ago
Proof of work does not elect the next miner. Proof of work means that the lucky random miner has invested energy on a previous valid block, and is lucky enough to find another valid block. If you take that away, you could as well use a data
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by imnotatwork 9y ago
Hope you're wrong because this is starting to look like a Black Mirror episode.