mhluongo

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   by mhluongo 6y ago

   Please stop spreading misinformation, Satoshi has 1M of a total 21M supply, if he/she/they are still alive and have access to their keys.
2. 182.▲
   by mhluongo 6y ago

   Of course it's backed by social consensus. Money is a social construct, not sure why you're trying to move the goalposts
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   by mhluongo 6y ago

   Thanks for this. The level of discourse around Bitcoin on HN gives me ulcers.. really appreciate the breath of fresh air.
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   by mhluongo 6y ago

   Ha! Look up "user activated soft fork" or "UASF". Ultimately, Bitcoin is backed by node operators and widespread social consensus. Thinking China can just split and control the network is a pretty serious misunderstandin
5. 185.▲
   by mhluongo 6y ago

   Well said, though jumping to violence so quickly is.. concerning. It does appear that there's a coordination / commons problem here that might not be easy to resolve without force
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   by mhluongo 6y ago

   I've been avoiding this discussion on HN for months now because most of it appears to be in bad faith / wholly misinformed. But okay, I'll bite. > there is no way to tax them You put a heavy tax on power consumption. Done.
7. 187.▲
   by mhluongo 6y ago

   > suggest yet another ICO out of the ocean of ICOs out there. I've been working in the space for 6 years. I give no craps about the asset, but yes, I think cutting edge cryptography is fascinating. I tend to agree that the vast majo
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   by mhluongo 6y ago

   Hard to know which piece of misinformation to respond to. If you skip all the subjective stuff and whether "works for shopping" is the goal.. both of your big-O comments have counter examples (check out Coda for 1) as does your en
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   by mhluongo 6y ago

   I'm a libertarian Bitcoiner myself, and I hope it's not Szabo. You can be right libertarian without being a xenophobe or an outright racist.
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    by mhluongo 6y ago

    Business reason: When you're in the business of building software, people are your biggest expense. You want to waste their time as little as possible. Dev reason: tight feedback loops are encouraging, and make it easier to build momen
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    by mhluongo 6y ago

    > I was under the assumption that companies offered severance pay as a means to save face.. and this is not part of the offer negotiation. Quite the opposite- this is how exec compensation works. It seems less common in startup land but
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    by mhluongo 6y ago

    It certainly is. They put in quite a bit into Maker and Dfinity, for example.
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    He's the one asking for your data, trust, and money. A little scrutiny is warranted.
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    Despite the poor company, fanboying over getting a Levine callout in the "blockchain" bit heh [0] [0] - tbtc.network
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    Hey folks! We've built a way to trustlessly tokenize Bitcoin on Ethereum, allowing Bitcoiners to take out decentralized USD loans against their holdings, use the stronger privacy approaches available on Ethereum like tornado.cash,and g
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    Haha fair enough
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    Show HN: TBTC – Bitcoin on Ethereum(dapp.test.tbtc.network)

    5 points by mhluongo 7y ago|4 comments
18. 198.▲
    by mhluongo 7y ago

    You've missed years of development. Zero-knowledge attestations of name records given a particular blockheight are quite doable.
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    It's compelling for DNS and CA replacement tech
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    > what if your team is dominated by process people. If that's not your jam, consider a new job. > only explanation that everyone agreed to was that "it makes it easier to see what changed" Maybe it's safety critica
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    Maybe don't, they keep the world from falling apart at its duct-taped seams. You aren't giving us enough context to know whether that changelog requirement is a good one or not. But if your team has agreed on the process, either c
22. 202.▲
    by mhluongo 7y ago

    We don't run our own infrastructure anymore :(
23. 203.▲
    by mhluongo 7y ago

    Wrapping Bitcoin trustlessly for use in Ethereum smart contracts. https://tbtc.network
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    Plenty of ideas on milk alternatives, but I'd suggest you start fasting and initially keep the milk in your coffee. Once you've built the habit, you can figure out the milk situation.
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    The Twitter is really something > First version of Whiteboard is here. So far you can only create Tree component to see hierarchies. Well, we had to start with something and will add more components based on your feedback. https:/&
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    Those banks are all still in business after billions in proven conspiracies to launder money. You might want to consider why that is.
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    Writing code collaboratively and convincing thousands of people to run nodes replicating your slow database is a social act -- I'd even call it a political act. Not sure why you think technology is outside the context of our society. T
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    Those upgrade mechanisms don't need to be centralized, and are sometimes vote-based. Unsure about the upgrade mech behind Maker though.
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    > How do we stop money laundering. Hm, so the dollar won't reach wide adoption until we close Wells Fargo, HSBC, and other major banks that have been party to large-scale money laundering?
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    by mhluongo 7y ago

    You don't think cryptocurrency is a social solution? To your implication- what's legal and what's right are orthogonal concerns. Individuals decide which to follow based on their own principles.