lalaland1125

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by lalaland1125 9y ago
Proof of stake has other flaws. One issue in particular is that forks are much, much cheaper in proof of stake. This means that you can achieve "51% attacks" with decent probability with a much smaller amount of mining ability.
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
You regulate the fiat onramps and offramps which are the exchanges. Nobody uses bitcoin to actually pay for things, so once you take away the ability to exchange it for fiat, the whole scheme collapses. The US government could end most of t
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
Energy efficient in what sense? If you are comparing the cost per transaction or per amount of money transferred, then I don't see how Bitcoin could in any way be considered more efficient.
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Ask HN: Where are the non-cryptocurrency uses of blockchain technology?
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
How do you deal with multi-threading in C89? If you rely on POSIX for your threading support, couldn't you argue that you are now dealing with something just as complicated, if not more complicated than C11? Sometimes there is just una
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
If banks can't process 0.00001 transactions, then how in the world would cryptocurrencies be able to as cryptocurrencies are easily thousands of times less efficient than centralized servers?
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
I think all of these analyses contain a critical flaw in that they ignore the effect of evolution. Any characteristic that increases reproduction rates that is passed down to the next generation, whether that characteristic is cultural, loc
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
This is a very poorly written article. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=193281.msg2224949#ms... is a much more clear description of how atomic swaps actually work.
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
You are trusting those third parties to react accordingly. They could be paid off or attacked in other ways.
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
Of course, someone could pay off that third party to stop watching your channel.
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
Do you happen to know where I can find the code or white paper for the current, working, routing algorithm?
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
One interesting comment about the third point is that once a channel gets sufficiently depleted (say down to 10% of the balance on one side), then there is an increased incentive to cheat (because the potential losses are lower). So you wil
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
2. Where is the evidence of this? Sure, routing can be easy and short if it's centralized and the number of hops is small. But, if it's centralized, then what's the point of using Bitcoin? Where is this mystical routing algor
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
See section 9.5 of the lightning whitepaper: > 9.5 Forgetting to Broadcast the Transaction in Time > If one does not broadcast a transaction at the correct time, the counterparty may steal funds. You need to be online all the time (or
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
Lightning appears to add more problems than solutions. It has a whole bunch of critical issues. Here is a short list. 1. You need to have a computer constantly online or your counter party can easily steal all your money. This leaves you vu
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
Before anyone else gets lost trying to solve this, the parent posted the puzzle incorrectly. The correct limits on the numbers are that: - Each of them is greater than 1, but their sum is less than 100
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
The idea is good, but base128 won't work. The worst case scenario is around 250k offsets of 2^14 (requiring 3 bytes each) and 750k offsets of 2^7 (requiring 2 bytes each). That's 2.25 MB
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
The trick is that you only need to store the unordered list of seen integers as your state while you sort. This takes about 1.5MB or so. The reduction in space comes from the fact that you don't have to store the order (for example, yo
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
All of these points are not fundamental problems. Researchers are not writing expert driven rules where the "raw" accuracy of structured data is that important. The only important part is making sure that the training labels are a
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
Homomorphic encryption currently doesn't exist in any useful sense. So you are asking for the impossible. If we followed your advice, medical record research would be impossible. All research comes with risks. Society is all about bala
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
If you trust the anchor, why not use them directly?
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
It is impossible to create a "useful" PoW. The issue comes down to incentives. As bitcoin is a decentralized, trust-less system, there needs to be constant and powerful incentives to prevent miners from cheating (by creating forks
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
> Behavioral economics does have frameworks for thinking about bitcoin price, but then again, behavioral finance is not traditional and highly controversial. So, how does behavioral economics supply a price for Bitcoin?
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
You legitimately made gains on those coins though and in this country we currently have a capital gains tax. What would you prefer? A loophole the size of a mountain for bartering appreciating assets? A special carve out for bitcoin? A remo
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
Your payouts are probably being batched with other people's payouts, resulting in a lower per-person fee.
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by lalaland1125 9y ago
> Then they admitted the coins had value, but they said only criminals would use it. Then after many established legitimate businesses adopted it, then they said it is only usable by people with computer smarts but not for average folk.
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by lalaland1125 10y ago
You can directly use the official WebRTC libraries ( https://webrtc.org/native-code/development/ ). https://github.com/Lalaland/DataChannelServer is a wrapper I worked on last summer to make it