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by nadaviv 10y ago
The DAO had $150m worth of ETH exchanged for DAO tokens "invested" in it. I say "invested" because there is no actual investment with "The DAO". "Investors" are free to withdraw their funding back at
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by nadaviv 10y ago
Note that clever timing could get the "evil text" in your clipboard between checking in a text editor and pasting into the terminal. Hard to time correctly, but not impossible.
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by nadaviv 10y ago
To be able to remind you about your unsaved changes before you leave the page. I personally find the benefits of websites doing that to be greater than the annoyment from websites abusing this functionality. (just an extra click when its be
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by nadaviv 10y ago
Is there any actual evidence that you aren't Satoshi? You can't prove a negative. There's absolutely no published evidence to support the claim that he is Satoshi, and there's no reason to believe that he is.
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by nadaviv 10y ago
Gavin is not, and has not been for many years, Bitcoin Core's lead developer. In fact, he hasn't even been a Bitcoin Core contributor for quite a long time now.
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by nadaviv 10y ago
Bitcoin Core developers appear to believe that Gavin's computer may have been compromised: https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/727078284345917441 > FYI, @gavinandresen's commit access just got rem
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by nadaviv 10y ago
Note that he didn't really sign that Sartre quote, either.
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by nadaviv 11y ago
Actually, for a long time, Apple did not allow Bitcoin wallets on the app store and repeatedly removed them. http://www.wired.com/2014/07/blockchain-back/ Some bitcoin users even smashed their iPhones in prot
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by nadaviv 11y ago
"Core" is not proposing anything, that difficulty adjustment hard-fork proposal was brought up on the mailing list by a member of the community and is in early discussion stages. There's no consensus that this change is neces
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by nadaviv 11y ago
If the people entrusted with gauging consensus among the technical community and merging non-controversial patches only would show signs of bad faith or try to undermine the open consensus-driven process, the ecosystem would displace them w
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by nadaviv 11y ago
> To say that centralization increases dramatically at 2 MB just isn't the case. No one is saying that. Core's SegWit proposal also gives us an effective blocksize of ~2mb, the same as Classic - only without requiring a coordi
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by nadaviv 11y ago
We're still quite off from $0.30, though. At the peak of the recent transaction flood attack, you only had to pay $0.06 (60 satoshis/byte for a 250 byte tx) for a 90% chance to get including in the upcoming block. Now, that the at
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by nadaviv 11y ago
This is simply not true. Pure propaganda being promoted by XT/Classic supports. Of the top 20 contributors by LoC [0], only 4 are associated with Blockstream [1]. Of the 7 maintainers with commit access on GitHub [2], only one is assoc
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by nadaviv 11y ago
You can't compare the two. A confirmed bitcoin transaction represents the final settlement of a non-reversible payment, and is spendable by the merchant immediately after those 10 minutes. Credit card payments are reversible for a peri
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by nadaviv 11y ago
The fact is that transactions still consistently and reliably get mined quickly with reasonable fees of 40-50 satoshis/byte [0] [1], or roughly $0.04-$0.05 for an average 250 bytes tx. For a global payment network that provides non-rev
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by nadaviv 11y ago
> but with apparently so few people being able to be closely involved, in almost may as well be. What is this based on? My own personal experience is quite opposite - the development community is very welcoming, has a diverse set of part
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by nadaviv 11y ago
Bitcoin Core is really more of a process and a community than it is any specific group of people. There's no set criteria for "being a Core dev" - it is simply the set of people who discuss on the mailing list, send patches t
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by nadaviv 11y ago
The Bitcoin development community acknowledges that bitcoin cannot get to VISA-level scale using on-chain transactions, because that would destroy the decentralized nature of the currency. It's not a matter of opinion, its a matter of
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by nadaviv 11y ago
Reproducible builds, and a release process that incorporates digital signatures from multiple members of the Bitcoin development community.
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by nadaviv 11y ago
Correction: the bitcointalk link above is wrong, it should be https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=244656.0 . I also got the times wrong because of that - BitcoinJ released payment channel support 2.5 years ago, not &quot
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by nadaviv 11y ago
You're right indeed. 21's mining chip does give a negative ROI, even in areas where electricity is very cheap. Why would anyone buy a $400 mining chip that costs more in electricity than it produces in bitcoins, when they can just
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by nadaviv 11y ago
They have both. Their original offering was indeed a centralized off-chain payment network, where they hold funds on behalf of everyone and just move coins in their own internal database. https://21.co/learn/21-micropay
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by nadaviv 11y ago
This is an implementation of "simple" directional payment channels between two parties, without the concept of hubs (as in the original LN) or p2p routing (as we have in LN today), and which expire at at a pre-determined timestamp
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by nadaviv 11y ago
The multi-signature feature in the bitcoin scripting language allows to add a refund process into bitcoin transactions. Bitrated, which I founded, provides consumer protection using that mechanism and a marketplace for dispute resolution se
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by nadaviv 11y ago
The issue on Chrome's bug tracker [0] that he's linking to appears to return a 403 error. Perhaps they changed their mind on WontFixing it? [0] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=543
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by nadaviv 11y ago
I'm surprised no one mentioned the obvious security issues arising from the use of CDNs, especially when used to deliver JavaScript source code. When you serve your JavaScript over a CDN rather than directly from your server, the CDN h
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by nadaviv 11y ago
I was not aware of this until a couple days ago, when I stumbled upon that (OP) article. Surprisingly, though, my privacy settings were already configured to not keep these recordings.
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by nadaviv 11y ago
Can't seem to get it working on Chromium 34: Uncaught TypeError: undefined is not a function demo.min.js:20 (anonymous function) demo.min.js:20 i demo.min.js:1 (anonymous function) demo.min.js:1 ./lib demo.mi
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by nadaviv 11y ago
I have some invites as well. Contact me at nadav@bitrated.com if you're interested. (offer is open to everyone, not just OP)
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by nadaviv 11y ago
According to their FAQ page the contract templates/UI are free, with their business model being based on their escrow services - which are not being offered publicly yet. I believe that its going to take them quite some time to start o

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