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by ktta 9y ago
>Hard-forked? Never. But you don't need to hard-fork to secure the network. I think the point was about vulnerability + hard-fork due to disagreement a la Ethereum Classic
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by ktta 9y ago
>People are buying now because of the potential and because of exponential increase in price This is the problem though. People are buying it for the price increase, rather than technical merit. It will eventually result in some middle a
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by ktta 9y ago
>the legitimacy of its network buy-in from being first to market What legitimacy? It's all code. Any smart person will take something for it's technical merit. Good developers will eventually move. >why not standardize on th
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by ktta 9y ago
You're right. The adoption advantage used to be my go-to argument about why Bitcoin is better, but what good is that if it is unusable for transactions it was meant for? Lightning network looks like it can do something, but the slow pr
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by ktta 9y ago
>How many times has bitcoin hard-forked because of the protocol being compromised? Looks like there were some. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15907735 >How much daily volume is it currently supporting? Doesn&#x2
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by ktta 9y ago
The weird thing here is, Bitcoin is clearly a shitshow. There's not much debate about it. It has no redeeming qualities compared to other coins except the global hashrate. And it is worse off on so many aspects.
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by ktta 9y ago
Won't it be plagued by the same problems once the transaction numbers go high? It has 4x capacity, but I don't think that'll be enough for long.
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by ktta 9y ago
For me it's been about getting into web dev itself. I feel it is a complete shitshow out there in terms of proper educational material. Everything is pretty much create-react-app with a string of tools. As beginner who didn't want
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by ktta 9y ago
Done, thanks.
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Learn web development(developer.mozilla.org)
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by ktta 9y ago
Well sure sex is a great way to sell products, but for Twitch it will be terrible. They are selling a brand and a platform. That's all they have, because the tech is not too hard to replicate. That, and existing users, which I'll
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by ktta 9y ago
I think the problem is about brand image. All it takes is one person pointing out to an advertiser their ad beside these streamers. Of course, there's the other image problem with gaming competitions etc. who will hesitate a bit if Twi
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by ktta 9y ago
>Decentralization made a brilliant engineer reach for a brute force hash This isn't about SHA-256. This about the concept of Proof of Work. This applies to every coin based on Proof of Work out there. What I'm saying is that th
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by ktta 9y ago
It is meant to be expensive. The expense is what makes the network secure
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by ktta 9y ago
>Payments come with no strings attached. You don't know exactly who is giving to you, and donations are capped at €100.00 per week per donor to dampen undue influence. They also seem to have their own opinions about things that shou
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by ktta 9y ago
>Noise is used by Signal Are you sure?
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by ktta 9y ago
Bitcoin hit ATH on coinbase, then crashed. Something's not right. The exchange is still not really 'up'. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7i7mix/great_gdaxc... Can we change the l
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by ktta 9y ago
They usually don't. They just stay in the attacker's addresses. I would say the best way to go would be to using bitcoin mixing services, but then the attacker would open themselves upto a huge risk of getting caught if the mixing
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by ktta 9y ago
Seems like it was about $65 million from various comments on reddit. Address - https://blockchain.info/address/1EnJHhq8Jq8vDuZA5ahVh6H4t6jh...
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by ktta 9y ago
There's some discussion going on a reddit thread, and people there seem to think this is an inside job https://www.reddit.com/r/NiceHash/comments/7i0s6o/official_p...
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by ktta 9y ago
>There is no arbitrary time length requirement for security. No there isn't, but it is about letting more researchers take a crack at it. With well-known competitions, you can expect cryptographers to take a look at it. The thing is
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by ktta 9y ago
>> Softlayer is also the only platform that allows the provisioning of bare metal servers amongst the 3 cloud service providers Amazon recently announced bare-metal servers https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ne
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by ktta 9y ago
>Repeating that ‘creating a hash function is stupid’ doesn’t make it true. There's a process for everything. Cryptographic functions are supposed to undergo atleast half a decade of peer testing before they can be used with any reas
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by ktta 9y ago
What industry? You mean the one that is less than 5yrs old? IOTA itself, with all its 'smarts' made a stupid mistake designing their own cryptographic hash function! This might seem like I'm hanging on a single point, but I
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by ktta 9y ago
If anyone was wondering, the farmer death per day is 33.6 per day in India (it was mentioned as a single number since 1995).
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by ktta 9y ago
This will break the search integrity that Google says it upholds(leaving out government and DMCA requests)
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by ktta 9y ago
It's pay-per-user-install so I think it is very easy to determine if it is worth it for you/
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by ktta 9y ago
Google this: Windows 10 ads site:reddit.com
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by ktta 9y ago
If the default risk is borne by the US Treasury, then what risk do we have in general?
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by ktta 9y ago
Thank you.

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