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by kbody 10y ago
Shadow has too many red flags (PoS etc.) so I focus on Zcash vs Monero. The disadvantages of Zcash is the trusted setup toxicity which requires trust on people even though they put the name on the line. Another problem is that if a vulnerab
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by kbody 10y ago
And here is Bitcoin audio http://www.bitlisten.com Instead of commits etc., you have transactions.
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by kbody 10y ago
Living the Greek reality of being governed by a populist party of clueless people, I hope that the Pirates' rise is not just a show of public anger, but rather a conscious decision. I like a lot of things about Pirates (especially from
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by kbody 10y ago
If you read they article you'll see they are mentioning feature/specs as well, including "fingerprint scanners on the back".
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by kbody 10y ago
A circle is a shape. A square is a shape. Thus a circle is a square. This is the logic you applied.
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by kbody 10y ago
Ether is being heavily manipulated for a long time by the Ethereum Foundation, so having the "normal" altcoin/crypto speculation is enough to drive you nuts, but having some a team of bag holders coordinated to manipulate pri
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by kbody 10y ago
Actually SC1 is the defacto choice when talking about StarCraft esports and the best choice since the best SC players have been honing their skills on SC1 for a long time (see South Korea SC1 esports scene).
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by kbody 10y ago
Any example that this would be useful and most of all actually applicable to real-world? The example of air flight delay is already done (see: https://www.airhelp.com ) with much better payout. The problem I see on such "pr
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by kbody 10y ago
Zero knowledge encryption's adaption is on the rise, seems like an ideal use-case to me. It will be restrictive or rather complex and will require more work but if you want to work with this kind of data, this should be a requirement i
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by kbody 10y ago
What I don't understand is, how is it possible to have so many widely known designers working for them but have no impact on the core product used by the majority of the users, it's really baffling to me. Anyone care to shed some
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by kbody 10y ago
That too, but personally I think that it was targeting way to limited subset, required practically non-existant time if you already have a job, so it was mainly targeting capable people between jobs or college students. Even though I loved
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by kbody 10y ago
Fintech didn't have enough innovation analogous to the available capital in contrast to other industries which were saturated. A seemingly holy grail appeared and FOMO was at its peak last year or so. I think the problem so far is that
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by kbody 10y ago
Seriously HN, 5 top-level comments and every single one is off-topic. Anyway, it's great that they managed to get up and running in such a limit time at this scale. It's obvious that there are challenges decentralisation and statu
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by kbody 10y ago
Not really unless you know some inside info. Most probably you refer to Confidential Transactions, which RingCT of Monero was based on. The privacy advantage of RingCT over plain CT is that you can even hide the transaction amounts of IO.
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by kbody 10y ago
Hehe, I wonder if that will cause a big spike in victims. Slightly related "fun" fact, there's a botnet mining Monero for some time now.
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by kbody 10y ago
Bitcoin's core mission is enabling people to do payments. It's "consumer"-targeted, cash alternative. USC looks like more of a settlement layer that could be used for more than just moving monetary amounts around. I thin
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by kbody 10y ago
Quite related: https://tlsnotary.org/ https://github.com/tlsnotary/tlsnotary TLS notarization is a genius idea, but the UX is what is holding it back. However, I'm sure there's room for innov
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by kbody 10y ago
They really had a chance to do something and I feel that they didn't even try.
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by kbody 10y ago
I'm sure with a little research, you're going to find even more random talks. Doubt anything will be done, it was a site that got hacked, they'll have to pay anything possible and get bankrupt.
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by kbody 10y ago
Vitalik himself said that it is possible this may be needed and done again in the future, so it could very well be "fool me twice shame on you, fool n-ice shame on you". Ethereum Foundation hasn't even set some foundational b
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by kbody 10y ago
Actually it's ~3.5%. Meaning about 3.5% of the total ETH supply has been used to vote.
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by kbody 10y ago
Ethereum developers really put themselves in a horrible position. 1. Undisclosed investments on DAO from top ETH devs 2. The 5% "consensus" on hardfork 3. The inherent fragility on the implementation design of smart contracts The
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by kbody 10y ago
Really unfortunate that DAOHub & Slock.it tarnished the name and concept of DAOs. There is place for some specialised DAOs that will indeed help some use cases. I really believe that eventually some proper DAO will prove their value.
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by kbody 10y ago
So it's Austria this week? I thought it was Norway last week.
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by kbody 10y ago
So a Lightning Network clone for Ethereum. Anyway bad time to enter Ethereum, they have much bigger problems than scaling (see: hard fork for DAO).
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by kbody 10y ago
Wasn't a massive layoff in the Nike Fitness Tracker department during the "Secret"-era? Or is this for plain mobile apps that have nothing to do with the fitness trackers?
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by kbody 10y ago
That's a bit of an illusion though. In theory miners have a choice, but until there is an alternative with some kind of authority and following, then they are in danger of losing money by not using the new version of the de facto clien
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by kbody 10y ago
The same thing could be said to people that vote but don't understand what they are voting about. A lot of of the Exit votes were a way to express disappointed to the state of things of their lives.
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by kbody 10y ago
Personally I think a (major) referendum should be voted twice even with just a week difference. A lot of people most probably didn't vote because they assumed the result from the pre-vote pools and for other various reasons. Now everyo
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by kbody 10y ago
Unfortunately, unintelligent & selfish people to put it kindly are quite more vocal; that's probably a reason why extreme options can seem more attractive to some. Anyway, please ignore. As a citizen of another EU country, it pains

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