infowl

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   by infowl 9y ago

   Citation needed. Appeal to authority, with no evidence of competency.
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   by infowl 9y ago

   Don't mistake "Cryptonetworks" as being decentralized. If you follow this history of previous popular open source decentralized software projects, you can see how easily a few participants can manipulate the entire ecosystem
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   by infowl 9y ago

   Application Specific Integrated Circuit, so yes but no. BTC ASIC chips are relatively simple sha-256 generators, whereas the chip from these MIT researchers is somewhat more complicated and can handle elliptic-curve public-key cryptography.
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   by infowl 9y ago

   Do you have proof? It's difficult to tell if statements are true without hard evidence and data to back the claim.
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   by infowl 9y ago

   Religious cults start out by asking you to just come to their meeting; then they gradually ask you for more and more time and eventually money, too. Is the person or authority using mind-control tricks or manipulation?