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by jron 10y ago
A penny stock that skyrockets and holds value is no longer a penny stock. Bitcoin is 8 years old and has hit $1000 USD twice now over multiple years. The "market cap" is currently over 16 billion dollars. It would place 68th when
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by jron 10y ago
*Bitcoin companies were supposed to change the world. What happened? Nearly all of those companies failed to understand that Bitcoin, at its core, is a bearer instrument with two goals: censorship resistance and bootstrapping to fulfill as
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by jron 10y ago
"Nonetheless, I feel that I have no reasonable choice left within the bounds of ethics, but to announce the discontinuation of all Tor-related services hosted on every system under my control." One can only assume this statement w
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by jron 11y ago
This was a pretty amazing presentation on the above project if you're interested in stylometry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMa04HovKfs
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by jron 11y ago
Brilliant code != beautiful code. Dan Kaminsky called Satoshi's programming alien technology with regard to security. I haven't looked for similarities but I'm guessing someone has already compared the two using Aylin's
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by jron 11y ago
There are some interesting circumstantial connections to Satoshi: Considered to be a "brilliant" programmer with a strong C++ background - Most people would call you crazy if you attempted to put a 6 billion dollar prize behind an
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by jron 11y ago
"Shortly after TrueCrypt version 1.0 was released in February 2004, the TrueCrypt Team reported receiving emails from Wilfried Hafner, manager of SecurStar, claiming that Paul Le Roux had stolen the source code of E4M from SecurStar as
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by jron 11y ago
I never said banks don't know how to hedge.
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by jron 11y ago
Mike Hearn works for a bank. Gregory Maxwell works for a group of cypherpunks. I'll take my chances with Bitcoin. Thanks for bitcoinj though.
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by jron 11y ago
Correct, lightning kills with electricity, not firearms. The point is both incidents are incredibly rare. Your first two examples don't really work in this context; cows on the other hand - good example. http://www.cdc.gov&#
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by jron 11y ago
Lightning Kills More People in the USA Than Terrorists Do
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by jron 11y ago
The minimum requirements are pretty low: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/system-requirements/ I've only used it on mid-high end systems though. You should easily be able to launch a few small VMs (each AppVM is
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by jron 11y ago
You might enjoy Nick Szabo's work on the subject: http://szabo.best.vwh.net/shell.html
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by jron 11y ago
Thanks for taking the time to post that. Many of those statements are surprising given how well designed Qubes looks on the surface. I wish more people nitpicked projects like this. Please consider trying Qubes 3.1 out and posting a review.
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by jron 11y ago
Do you have a link for that discussion? I've been using Qubes for awhile now and the GUI has always been in DOM0 with no networking.
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by jron 11y ago
TCB matters. If you have data to back that quality statement up, I'd very much like to see it.
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by jron 11y ago
Absolutely. It should also be mentioned that many of the Xen vulnerabilities are actually due to qemu and that emulation can mostly be avoided by using PV/PVH. The Xen attack surface is then reduced to about 20 hypercalls (even less fo
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by jron 11y ago
Theo is wrong with respect to Xen. You might enjoy section 3.1 and 3.2 from the Qubes Architecture document: https://www.qubes-os.org/attachment/wiki/QubesArchitecture/a... The attack surface of Xen is much s
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by jron 11y ago
rsi_oww is one of the few users posting facts and his comments are grey...
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by jron 11y ago
Tim Kosse has really tarnished the reputation of FileZilla by ignoring the SourceForge malware problem. Chrome and Firefox should add SourceForge to their malicious site list.
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by jron 11y ago
I'm not saying I would try it in court; I'm simply saying the argument could be made that bitcoin is actually the first form of money that is pure speech. Thanks for indulging me though.
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by jron 11y ago
Even if that form is speech?
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by jron 11y ago
Unlike bitcoin, nothing I say in this comment can change the ownership of a safety deposit box. A few more things: 1. Ownership of the deposit box is not define by pin holders 2. Deposit boxes are tangible 3. Deposit boxes and contents have
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by jron 11y ago
What is really happening? I'm genuinely interested in your answer to this seemingly simple question.
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by jron 11y ago
Sure, you can represent private keys in many different formats and the keyspace is effectively 160-bit when brute forcing known addresses. I'm just making the point that unlike rocks and flags, bitcoin is intangible and more like speec
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by jron 11y ago
bitcoin is a 256-bit number. Today, governments would like to regulate the usage of approximately 33,437,921 of these magic numbers. I'm guessing most of community can at least find humor in this.
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by jron 11y ago
Bitcoin Builder started out as a way to trade against MtGox's internal ledger when they halted withdraws. Users could effectively bet on MtGox's future by using privately held bitcoins to trade with users wanting to sell their &qu
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by jron 11y ago
TrueCrypt password 'entered' by FBI
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by jron 11y ago
The RunUO code is a testament to how great the game was: http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.62 T=11.67 s (285.5 files/s, 47086.1 lines/s) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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by jron 11y ago
Some more discussion of this feature: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3a3z82/coinbase_lau...

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