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   by knocte 9y ago

   You know what? All the hops where your TCP/IP connection has gone to allow you to write that message, were provided by devices that had to be online in order to provide you the services. EOM
2. 332.▲
   by knocte 9y ago

   Tons? In my entire career I haven't found one of those.
3. 333.▲
   by knocte 9y ago

   If you hate heisenbugs, use Functional Programming (or data-race-safe langs such as Rust). It will kill 99.99% of them.
4. 334.▲
   by knocte 9y ago

   You should have listened to this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ8zDpX2Mg
5. 335.▲
   by knocte 9y ago

   If the integration is so friendly, then you should consider being able to register by using the amount received by the first booking(s), to avoid having to put money upfront.
6. 336.▲
   by knocte 9y ago

   OTC markets exist.
7. 337.▲
   by knocte 9y ago

   But this could be seen from another POV: if you live in a high cost region, it’s your choice. Is it worth it?
8. 338.▲
   by knocte 9y ago

   Well sure, but the executives of the exchange signing that transaction would actually be a violation of the law, because they are custodians of their customers' funds and not all customers may agree in saving their executive.
9. 339.▲
   by knocte 9y ago

   This is bullshit, exchanges with the most rudimentary technology will not keep their funds under a single private key held by one single person at all times. Multi-sig exists.
10. 340.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    Satoshi
11. 341.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    If I understood correctly the article, the bet expires this month so if by Jan 1st price hasn't hit the mark, he loses?
12. 342.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    Well, see? mimblewimble developers hid this characteristic in a "no addresses" fashion, because they are smarter than IOTA devs. When they say "transactions have to be built interactively, with 2 (or more) wallets exchanging
13. 343.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    While I agree with the majority of the criticisms of this post (I also posted a criticism here[1]), one has to recognise that it's perfectly possible that a cryptocurrency requires no-address-reuse. This may not be a bug but a limitati
14. 344.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    blockchain without cryptography is like writing a data structure without any motivation for its existence. i.e. why hashtables were created in the first place? To have indexing (faster access than simple array/lists). What would be the
15. 345.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    Yeah sure but you need to understand asymmetric cryptographic to know how secure this data structure is, and how it can prevent attacks from private-key holders and non-private-key holders that claim to be holders.
16. 346.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    > People who "understand blockchains" don't agree on what exactly distinguishes something as blockchain technology, Does this assertion come from a person who understands, or doesn't understand blockchain? :) Because
17. 347.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    And Firefox! And Opera! And Brave!
18. 348.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    > Wrong, 2 links: One link more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T0OUIW89II
19. 349.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    > I am wary of the entire thing because we are starting to > spend more time talking about money. Or making money on > money. It just has nothing to do with what we actually DO > with our time/resources. It's funny you
20. 350.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    So loans would need to be short-lived and with high scrutiny, to make sure they are payed back. I consider this a good thing, as opposed to the other extreme: give everyone a loan no matter what (the root cause of the 2008 financial crisis)
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    by knocte 9y ago

    > If I was a millionaire in BTC I'd have a hardware wallet with my secret keys in a safe and that's about it. Lending or investing your BTC would always make you net more than just hoarding it (at least when all prices are deno
22. 352.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    > Untraceable money Bitcoin is not untraceable money, it can be even more traceable than normal currency. It could be stablished as a law that public money when being spent in the blockchain needs to be auditable by the people (identitie
23. 353.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    Large holders of bitcoin are probably believers so I don't think they would do any detrimental action to the ecosystem on purpose. Plus, if they wanted to sell BTC they would not be so stupid to do it with a large market order (because
24. 354.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    > Hence the need for the coordinator. The coordinator will be turned off once there are enough transactions to secure the network. I already said this in my comment, no need to reiterate it. You didn't repeat, though, that there&#x2
25. 355.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    This.
26. 356.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    Hahahaha!
27. 357.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    IOTA is kind of a joke IMHO: * They have this thing called the "coordinator" which is a master-node run by them, which is a single point of failure. The codebase that this node runs is proprietary software. They claim there will b
28. 358.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    Any article that refers to mining pools as "miners" is missing the picture and misleading. First get the naming right, then we can talk.
29. 359.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    It's the person that makes the assertion the one that needs to give proof. Most of the "deflation is bad" arguments are never argumented. I'm calling them out.
30. 360.▲
    by knocte 9y ago

    Stop the fucking mantra of "deflation is bad". We've had way more crisis caused by inflation than by deflation. Stop thinking that the problems caused by printing more money can only be solved by printing more money! And actu