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by kang 11y ago
Even DHTs require a server to bootstrap the network, due to a node's unicast nature on the internet.
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by kang 11y ago
That is true for the data lookup part where DHTs are replacing DNS in a way put still the peers need to discover each other's ip in some way. I don't know what would be the term for it since it is not completely centralised, as in
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by kang 11y ago
This sounded like many of the bitcoin projects, specially filecoin and upon reading further I came to know it is by the same guys. Similar projects have been in development for past few years such as https://github.com/feros
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by kang 11y ago
Useful if you might wanna search which drug you took 15 years ago.
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by kang 11y ago
Paypal woke up after so many bitcoin startups offered this feature(changetip.com notably). Too bad, they didn't fix their other problems first.
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by kang 11y ago
Safety is necessary but not sufficient.
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by kang 11y ago
No this is not my conclusion. The reason I specifically talked about disgust, as opposed to the context of good fragrance in the previous comment, is that it specifically is a scientific conclusion, read in the works of Steven Pinker and Pa
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by kang 11y ago
Emotion is ingrained reason through the process of evolution. For example, we feel disgust seeing an open wound because apes who didn't care got infected and died. The ones who learned to stay away, through reasoning their observations
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by kang 11y ago
http://bitcoinobituaries.com/
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by kang 11y ago
Even if the majority was doing it, banning it solves nothing. It only serves as a gateway. Specifically about acid, I needed it to clean my toilet so went around asking; I was escorted to a black-market shop in Noida which served other ille
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by kang 11y ago
Because Indians have accepted that justice won't be served. If you assume that mob justice is what there is, it's the right thing to do. Very sad to say this.
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by kang 11y ago
The solution is justice, but mobs are not tried against in India.
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by kang 11y ago
There is a certain threshold below which this will work and beyond which it will backfire bad; if the majority is big, the message spreads nevertheless and more underground and uncontrollable ways. Also, this is not justice & anti-freed
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by kang 11y ago
Somebody threw acid on a girl's face. Indian govt's response, forget the criminal, ban acid sale. The same always. Definitely a freedom-of-speech issue, but nothing new.
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by kang 11y ago
By stating that, I meant there is some limit to hard limits always. And bitcoin is unlike traditional networking; better network does not directly affect scaling.
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by kang 11y ago
This is not a one time vote. This is voting over a significant period of time and powers are not fixed.
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by kang 11y ago
People are what they are, but why blocksize specifically is beyond reason.
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by kang 11y ago
That would not be correct entirely. Earlier they had 90% as the consensus limit, which they have now brought down to 75% and have suggested driving consensus in regular milestones if that doesn't succeed. Surely they want the fork.
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by kang 11y ago
Suppose a client and server were connected with a connection running with speed of light. Even then, there is some finite limit as to how many bits can be transferred. How do we handle scalability beyond it then? By abstraction. Rather than
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by kang 11y ago
The difference between a byzantine agreement and a federated byzantine agreement used in SCP is that it reaches consensus based on quorum slices rather than the whole network consensus. This is just removing the graph edges from the bitcoin
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by kang 11y ago
Among group of friends living together, let us say that we assume each having 1000 friendcoin by the virtue of being in the friend circle. Now we send each other friendcoins and each transaction is a mail cc'ed to all the friends in th
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by kang 11y ago
Because no one prevents the sender to keep a copy of that wallet. Wallets are nothing but list of your private keys. Suppose I gave my private keys to you, what prevents me to not use them before you use those keys?
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by kang 11y ago
It is not done unnecessarily; death of bitcoin is what I talk about. It does look like a linkbait but did you read it? I'd gladly take a 'no' as an answer to the title if you tell me why do you think so.. In fact on the oppos
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Is this the death of Bitcoin?(zapchain.com)
2 points by kang 11y ago|3 comments
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by kang 11y ago
The bits of a cryptocurrency transaction cannot be changed. Its like a signed cheque, can only be read. So since the flag from third party is being used to decide which transaction is relayed, it is as good as handing over the transactions
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by kang 11y ago
Bitcoin transactions are scripts that execute sequentially and are very restrictive. Ethereum instead took bitcoin and replaced that scripting language with a turing-complete language. Now, consider the conditional operator in the given exa
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by kang 11y ago
Typical government fear mongering. The government has done a good job of convincing the common public that this is all being done for their safety though the fact it not a single terrorist has ever been caught by this. This response, albeit
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by kang 11y ago
Such systems are prone to political effects. For example, a pop song would get much more upvotes than a genuine discussion. Over time intellectuals leave because of the noise.
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by kang 11y ago
blockchain
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by kang 11y ago
Come to Noida. Advise is you better do not.

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