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by jron 8y ago
Byuu's work in emulation and ROM preservation should be commended but his FPGA dismissal seems rooted in envy. After spending 14 years developing Higan, I can sympathize. The fact is, the SNES chips are well understood (partly through
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by jron 8y ago
Podcast with the author: http://swordandscale.com/sword-and-scale-episode-70/
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by jron 8y ago
I'm not surprised this guy is closing up shop. GPU mining is an altcoin game and hasn't been profitable for bitcoin since 2013.
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by jron 8y ago
Greg Maxwell has suggested that quite a few implementations of SSS are broken: "FWIW, virtually every SSS thing I've seen out there is just wrong in at least some less serious way. In general I've found secret sharing to be p
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by jron 8y ago
Inflation.
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by jron 8y ago
OpenBSD disables Intel's hyperthreading due to security concerns: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17350278
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by jron 8y ago
Touch to auth is also the part that Google ignores for some strange reason. Their high security Gmail program defaults to remembering the device! There isn't a way to disable it either.
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by jron 9y ago
This. I assume a few of these provocative landing pages attempt to identify 0day exploits as well.
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by jron 9y ago
Ethereum's security model is totally different: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/555.pdf If you look at bitcoin based POW intervals, 10 minutes is very close to optimal: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015&#x
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by jron 9y ago
Sorry. What don't you agree with? I think we're saying the same thing here.
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by jron 9y ago
Bitcoin is now valued a little higher than a major shoe company. The cognitive dissonance around Bitcoin was understandable during the first move to $1000 but anyone yelling bubble now really needs to consider how tiny 86 billion actually i
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by jron 9y ago
I can think of a great reason to disable SELinux; you actually use linux for a workstation and don't want fight with it every time you install a new application.
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by jron 9y ago
Cyrus Farivar is one of the worst.
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by jron 9y ago
Is there a reason for the masses to hold it?
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by jron 9y ago
Please tell us about your Satoshi hunt without revealing personal details ;)
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by jron 9y ago
Amateur Radio sure loves Windows. The relationship has always baffled me.
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by jron 9y ago
A password for key derivation prevents this attack and all other physical attacks. Trezor has supported this since day one.
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by jron 9y ago
It doesn't look like they have an option to validate account creation from a bitcoin payment instead of an SMS/email. I suspect it would be a popular feature.
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by jron 9y ago
Here is an interesting exchange on twitter between two insiders: https://twitter.com/TheBlueMatt/status/896931182369099777
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Blocksteam teaser suggests Bitcoin transactions from low-Earth orbit(youtube.com)
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by jron 9y ago
Anyone can create infinite forks similar to BCC/BCH. Should Coinbase support them all?
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by jron 9y ago
Never a dull moment in Bitcoin.
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by jron 9y ago
Interview: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/features/athlete... Pictures: http://elcapreport.com/content/elcap-report-6317-special-edi...
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by jron 9y ago
That assumes the person actually needs fast block confirmation times. The security properties of block times gets pretty complex and bitcoin's model is no slouch: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1019.pdf
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by jron 9y ago
The GHOST protocol only made the security properties of a group of short block times similar to longer block times. Before GHOST, short block times had worse security properties. POW over time still determines how secure a transaction reall
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by jron 9y ago
I see comments like this echoed whenever bitcoin is mentioned outside of the usual circles. I always assume that the individual is personally invested in ethereum's success and/or they don't understand the technology. Current
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by jron 9y ago
Agreed! It is crazy that this code even exists. They have since rolled it into their decred/altcoin project.
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by jron 10y ago
Does anyone have a better summary of the Xen vs KVM security debate? The best I know of is the brief Qubes architecture document from 2010: https://www.qubes-os.org/attachment/wiki/QubesArchitecture/a... (Sec
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by jron 10y ago
Last I checked, ProtonMail required SMS verification for account creation. Edit: When using Tor
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by jron 10y ago
By that rational, any publicly traded commodity is a ponzi\pyramid scheme. Anything with a finite supply and demand will command a price. The market doesn't care if you dislike the speculative nature of bitcoin; it is simple supply and

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