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by jedunnigan 13y ago
There are some concerns the numbers are inflated i.e. they have have no conversion fee, so they could be trading with themselves to pump up the numbers.
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by jedunnigan 13y ago
Sounds like a 51% attack. But to the subject of the thread: Baidu should be using a Hierarchical Deterministic pub/priv key tree. [1] Increases their financial privacy 10-fold. [1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_00
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by jedunnigan 13y ago
Wild stuff! http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/keyboard/
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by jedunnigan 13y ago
If this incident doesn't alert authorities to the traceability of Bitcoin I don't know what will....
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by jedunnigan 13y ago
Yea, this is one of those things where that argument gets tricky. On the flip side one could argue that diversification of implementations is key to the long-term success of Bitcoin. If, let's say, there is a serious issue with bitcoin
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by jedunnigan 13y ago
Here, a paper was written about it not too long ago: http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013/papers/4977a080.pdf The same goes for end users: http://www.ohmygodel.com/publications/usersrou
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by jedunnigan 13y ago
>it's not actually good for you. Can you elaborate? As in it decreases your privacy because it makes your browser uniquely-identifiable? Or something else...
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by jedunnigan 13y ago
This post by Aaron Greenspan highlights some of the changes that we can expect to see: http://thinkcomp.quora.com/In-Nine-Days-the-California-Money... This is NOT good. Innovation stifling at it its finest.
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by jedunnigan 13y ago
Not exactly. Bitcoin enables multi signature transactions, so power rests not only with the escrow service, but also with the parties involved. There can also be more than one dispute mediator involved, as to maintain a balance. For the del
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by jedunnigan 13y ago
You are right, I mixed that up. Thanks.
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by jedunnigan 13y ago
'Sweetest' use cases? Well that depends on who you ask, of course. IMO, the value proposition of Bitcoin's underlying protocol is enormous. You can strip away the coin and manipulate the protocol for alternative use cases, su
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by jedunnigan 13y ago
The difficulty with that is the reversibility of CC payments. A user could buy coins using their CC, then go to the CC provider claim they were scammed and get not only the coins they bought but also their original payment. This is why you
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Tortilla: Route all TCP/IP and DNS Traffic Through Tor(crowdstrike.com)
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by jedunnigan 13y ago
There wouldn't be any more coins entering the market then there normally would. 1 new block every 10 minutes, doesn't matter how much hashing power there is. You are assuming people would dump them immediately, which I don't
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by jedunnigan 13y ago
In turn, wiki could inject random packets of data into the payload to obfuscate the trail.
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Rangzen: Delay-Tolerant Decentralized Microblogging Smartphone Network(eecs.berkeley.edu)
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by jedunnigan 13y ago
Here is a talk by the founders @ the Bitcoin 2013 conference... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD6fVNGEnlI They are working on quite a bit at the moment; their site might appear 'sketchy' at first glance but it s