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by nadaviv 10y ago
Do you think HN has no moderation? Every online community has moderation to some degree. The manipulation, voting bots and endless stream of sockpuppet accounts made it impossible for people like me to discuss ideas and proposals, the signa
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> Routing paths are much harder to find when values are considered. Hard, yes, but definitely possible. There was some great work done on P2P routing for Lightning by the developers at BitFury. http://bitfury.com/content&
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by nadaviv 10y ago
Yes, you have to watch for cheating attempts, but you get all your money back plus a bonus if you catch someone doing that. If you're doing that properly (and there's no reason you won't), then there's no counterparty ri
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- 105 businesses and projects from the Bitcoin space support SegWit and are working on implementing it in their products: https://bitcoincore.org/en/segwit_adoption/ - 54 bitcoin developers signed the "capaci
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by nadaviv 10y ago
You're painting a very unbalanced picture. > There is a small faction of the Bitcoin community working exceptionally hard to prevent any block size increase. This small faction is composed of nearly ~all the technical experts we hav
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by nadaviv 10y ago
The debate is largely about the risks of doing an hardfork (what Bitcoin Unlimited is doing) versus softforks (what Segregated Witness is doing). I recently presented these slides on this topic, but they assume a fair amount of background:
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> partly because these off-chain networks would quickly form large central "hubs" which would obviate many of the benefits of Bitcoin The Lightning Network is open-source and decentralized. It has no "hubs", but rathe
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by nadaviv 10y ago
I was sure you're talking about the chinese miners as I started reading your comment... The ones who oppose a block-size increase today are the miners and the anti-Core crowd. The rest of the bitcoin community, including its technical
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SegWit is supported by over 100 businesses and projects, and pretty much by ~everyone in the technical bitcoin community. It definitely is what the market is asking for. https://bitcoincore.org/en/segwit_adoption/
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The comment you linked to refers to blocks that were specifically made to be big using non-standard scripts that are larger than usual. For the current mix of transactions happening on the bitcoin network, SegWit will give us an effective b
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SegWit allows twice as many transactions as soon as miners and users update their software. How is that not a capacity increase? https://segwit.org/is-segwit-a-block-size-increase-705df6a87...
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by nadaviv 10y ago
But SegWit is a block size increase. It allows twice as many on-chain transactions by making the blocks twice as big. This "SegWit vs block-size increase" talk makes no sense to me. https://segwit.org/is-segwit-a-b
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SegWit is a block size increase. Pretty much every developer in the bitcoin community supports SegWit.
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In the Bitcoin space, I'm most excited about the Lightning Network [0][1] and MimbleWimble [2][3], which are in my view the two most groundbreaking technologies that really push the limits of what blockchains are capable of. [0] https
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by nadaviv 10y ago
I would start by giving them more descriptive names... calling it db1 and db2 is a sure way to trip someone some day.
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Completely agree. This is 1000x better than the typical cooperate PR response that says nothing which we'll usually get. Kudos for their honesty and openness, even in a somewhat embarrassing situation such as that.
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Why was this flagged?
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> cleaning up user-supplied markup to at least be valid HTML The root cause of XSS is improper user input sanitization. Usually it is in places that shouldn't allow HTML at all, where the developer forgot to properly HTML-escape the
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by nadaviv 10y ago
This blog post does a great job explaining some of the economics behind mining and why it is not wasteful, in the context of showing proof-of-stake is nonsensical: "Long Live Proof-of-Work, Long Live Mining" http://www.
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> like the belief that blockchains are useless without Bitcoin It would be more accurate to describe the community's attitude as "blockchains are useless without a native currency to incentivize network security ", which
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by nadaviv 10y ago
As long as the blockchain-based currency doesn't have a legal tender status, won't banks have to clear elsewhere anyway? The way I see it, unless the central bank joins the party and declares records on the blockchain as the final
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by nadaviv 10y ago
I'm very pleased with my Dell XPS 13 [0] (the 8GB ram, non-touch screen version). They even have a developer edition [1] that comes pre-shipped with Ubuntu, with Dell sending their fixes upstream (meaning that the vanilla Ubuntu works
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Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/792/
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Yes, you're correct, I missed that! An alternative solution is to give a descriptive name to each chunk (could simply be its filename), so that people could see the contents matches the description once its revealed.
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That's exactly what my parent comment suggested :-)
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Also, if they really want to make this as trust-free as possible, they could use ZKCP [0][1] to make the payment stage and the reveal stage atomic - the moment the payment is taken by the auctioneers, the decryption key is revealed (using h
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To prove this is real, they should've: - Split the leak into multiple chunks, each encrypted with a different key, and each readable/usable on its own - Announce, ahead of time, that a random chunk will be revealed, based on the h
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> satoshi amounts to a millionth of a Bitcoin One satoshi is one hundred-millionth of a bitcoin, not a millionth of a bitcoin.
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There is no crisis, consensus for the block size debate was reached quite a long time ago. The development community is in final stages of testing and QA for segregated witness, which would ~double the capacity of the network. Also, I would
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I was unaware of the 48 days delay. Thanks for the link. So, there is some risk in terms of temporarily lost liquidity, but I would still stay that comparing this to a traditional crowdfunding where investors actually lose control over thei

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