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by mike_esspe 13y ago
To break EC you need to get EC public key. You can't get it unless bitcoin address was reused. If you found pre-image for ripemd160(sha256(x)), you still need to find a private key for it.
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by mike_esspe 13y ago
Bitcoin address is a hash of public key. So, without address reuse you should break both EC, RIPEMD-160 and SHA-256
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by mike_esspe 13y ago
There are some rare metals, other than silver and gold, that did not become a currency, despite having all the same features. Why?
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Silver - a brif history of demonetisation(dailyreckoning.com.au)
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by mike_esspe 13y ago
It's an idea for a startup.
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by mike_esspe 13y ago
Gold and silver were a currency and they weren't backed by government.
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by mike_esspe 13y ago
Silver was demonetised in 20th century relative to gold, though it was used as a store of value. It can happen with gold too. http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/silver-a-brief-history-of-d...
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by mike_esspe 13y ago
It's just a Poe's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
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by mike_esspe 13y ago
Isn't emergence of bitcoin falsified regression theorem? From "Human Action": No good can be employed for the function of a medium of exchange which at the very beginning of its use for this purpose did not have exchange val
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by mike_esspe 13y ago
Bitcoin is still in the early adopters phase.
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by mike_esspe 13y ago
Similar concept is already in use with hydroelectric power generation. It's called pumped-storage hydroelectricity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...
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by mike_esspe 13y ago
'Realistic' virtual porn producers should just be asked about source for generated scene, just like producers of real porn are asked for actors age verification ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_film_indust
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by mike_esspe 13y ago
Do you realize, that you still can buy it and get a 3-digits increase? :) Or lose. In that regard situation is the same as 4 years ago.
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Church and USPS: The Contentious History of Sunday Mail Delivery(religiousliberty.tv)
1 points by mike_esspe 13y ago|0 comments
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by mike_esspe 13y ago
The main question is - why coerced prostitutes are not going to law enforcement? What prevents them? Will they be deported for that? This problem probably can be solved with technology - make Airbnb for amateur sex workers :)
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by mike_esspe 13y ago
Mathematical proofs are falsifiable, and there are a lot of hypotheses, that are not proved yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_m...
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Krugman - Why most economists' predictions are wrong (1998)(web.archive.org)
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Bitcoin Doesn't Have a Deflation Problem(forbes.com)
1 points by mike_esspe 13y ago|0 comments
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by mike_esspe 13y ago
Just a point - my bank asks 2.5% commission for automatic currency conversion when buying with credit card.
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by mike_esspe 13y ago
In Russia it's common to have computer and internet, but no credit card.
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Bitcoin is money, Bitcoin is a bubble(unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com)
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by mike_esspe 13y ago
Plutonium powered pacemaker with 34 years in service: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc072143
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Plutonium Powered Pacemaker (1974)(orau.org)
2 points by mike_esspe 13y ago|1 comments
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Larry Wall: 5 Programming Languages Everyone Should Know(youtube.com)
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by mike_esspe 13y ago
In scenario 1 the selfish pool will lose the block in most cases. Modern pools have a lot of connection to the network, so as not to waste mining on orphaned block. It will get the honest block before the selfish pool block.
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by mike_esspe 13y ago
Can you ask your employer to shift the schedule?
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by mike_esspe 13y ago
My eyes prefer better contrast. I've read WCAG 2.0 and 7:1 is a minimum contrast, not optimum. The logic is that it's a minimum contrast for a user with 20/80 vision.
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Live piracy map 2013(icc-ccs.org)
1 points by mike_esspe 13y ago|0 comments
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What Percentage of Prisoners are Atheists?(patheos.com)
6 points by mike_esspe 13y ago|2 comments
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by mike_esspe 13y ago
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/07/16/what... Seems like 0.07% from survey by Federal Bureau of Prisons.

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