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   by kang 11y ago

   Did not mean to say that ethereum is 'less' than bitcoin in capability, just that ethereum is being sold that way. Yes I dislike it for political reasons & yet I own it because profit. >to discount any of the technical meri
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   by kang 11y ago

   Using atomic-swap protocol
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   by kang 11y ago

   Since I cannot prove anything and you'll have to take my word for it, I'll gain more from the ether I hold than bitcoin I hold for same percentage rise. This is because I believe in ethereum's marketing more than bitcoin&#x27
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   by kang 11y ago

   You are right, ease of use matters but it is so because ether was sold and got a lot of money whereas no such body exists in bitcoin. With that money ethereum could fund coding. That is a good thing unless the whole point of the system is d
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   by kang 11y ago

   You can do it using the appcoin concept [ http://startupboy.com/2014/03/09/the-bitcoin-model-for-crowd... ]
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   by kang 11y ago

   Vitalik became famous cause of his journalism. Then the sale gave ether founders loads of money. Now it is being used to market cleverly. One example around me here in India is BlockchainU. Blockchain university has taught in almost all pri
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   by kang 11y ago

   Please give me an ethereum use case & I'll try to tell you how you can do it with bitcoin. I have previously answered a few use cases here [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10846788 ]
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   by kang 11y ago

   You are right my example was wrong. Yet dapps can be done using bitcoin nevertheless.
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   by kang 11y ago

   I have both bitcoin & ether apart from hundred other coins; earning profit is different from technical merit. I spent a long time studying ethereum as a promise for something incredible but in the end I realized its just the power of bl
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    by kang 11y ago

    Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987142 Give me any ethereum use-case & I'll tell you how to do it with bitcoin. Is it advantageous if a DSL is turing complete? It is not that bitcoin &#x27
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    Passphrase: zero knowledge privacy notepad(passphrase.io)

    4 points by kang 11y ago|0 comments
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    by kang 11y ago

    demo page seems broken
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    by kang 11y ago

    I found the book(& course notes) to be interesting but non-technical & little verbose. For those wanting to read technical subject matter I'd recommend the bitcoin developer reference & bitcoin developer guide at bitcoin.or
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    by kang 11y ago

    Both of the points you make are true but how are they relevant here? We are talking about clocks that tell time in the quoted quote (time is ordering of events by definiton) & consensus in bitcoin is final(accurate) enough an practical
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    by kang 11y ago

    I just described how you can do it without clocks. Is there a mistake somewhere, sorry?
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    by kang 11y ago

    > If they could, distributed algorithms would do without clocks entirely, but then consensus becomes impossible Consensus can be achieved without clocks using blockchains: Instead of timelocking the resource, client can broadcast his alt
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    Kolmogorov music(youtube.com)

    2 points by kang 11y ago|0 comments
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    by kang 11y ago

    Yesterday I was reading this blogpost ( http://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/scarface-prince-of-the-cit... ) so as soon as I clicked this link I thought no way can a computer learn to do what I read yesterday on its ow
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    by kang 11y ago

    I have an edit to make. Even two-way pegs don't need a hard fork
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    by kang 11y ago

    Contribute to the discussion please as to why private property rights should not apply?
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    by kang 11y ago

    It is irrational to complain about censorship in a private location.
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    by kang 11y ago

    This is not necessarily a fork. You can have a new blockchain & exchange it tokens for bitcoin using atomic swap protocol. To implicitly implement the two-way-peg would a fork be needed.
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    by kang 11y ago

    > VISA level transaction rates require insanely high block sizes No. There are many other ways to scale bitcoin. >Lightning Network is..based around advanced Bitcoin scripting usage Rather quite the opposite. Lightning Network does no
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    by kang 11y ago

    It is a traditional view that in order to increase throughput we need to increase the bandwidth. This is true but we also know that throughput can be increased by abstracting the existing bandwidth to hold more information. Increasing the b
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    by kang 11y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum_sensing#Social_insects
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    by kang 11y ago

    So is TamilNadu, India
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    by kang 11y ago

    Github pages plus mailchimp to do it for free
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    by kang 11y ago

    > it would probably by default already be superior in some ways by virtue of its ability to not need sleep, do calculations efficiently and correctly, have access to perfect memory, and so on Or maybe we'll learn that in order to be
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    by kang 11y ago

    They can be, depends on how they have been colored. 1-of-4,294,967,296 multisig is doable in bitcoin theoretically using Schnorr signatures https://blockstream.com/2015/08/24/treesignatures/
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    by kang 11y ago

    Voice can be transmitted as packets using IP, but is VOIP an extension of IP or core use of it? Well, I guess we can call it either, because the end result is similar (but the side-effects are not).