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by nytf3 6y ago
skateboarding is a very bad example here - there is a noticeable difference in the quality/bearings of a "beginner" equipment that comes from Walmart/Target that costs ~60, and a proper setup from a skateboard shop that
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by nytf3 6y ago
What are the advantages of Empirical vs q/kdb+?
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by nytf3 6y ago
elliptic curve is a type signing algorithm (like blake2b or sha). if you dont understand what an EC is i dont think you also understand why rolling your own would be a bad idea. the wallet/account seed (your post is semantics in my opi
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by nytf3 6y ago
IOTA is vaporware and gives all blockchain projects a bad reputation by association. You are right on your points and forget that they rolled their own elliptic curve so you cant use a wallet twice.
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by nytf3 6y ago
the lack of awareness around nano is puzzling to me. I assume its because nano became known around the end of 2017 along with many scam coins, and thus became associated with them. but today if you described implementing a gossip protocol w
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by nytf3 6y ago
im not sure why this is being downvoted. this is clearly the case here. the user and the miner are colluding (or the same party). the user does not broadcast their tx publicly, only sending it to the colluding miner. since fees have no utxo
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by nytf3 6y ago
No problem! Not much of a pedigree, but I think the articles stand by themselves.
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by nytf3 6y ago
this is a poor ripoff of Lyn Alden's work: https://www.lynalden.com/global-dollar-short-squeeze/ (02/20/20) https://www.lynalden.com/great-depression/ (03/12/20) https:&#
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by nytf3 6y ago
BTC fees are currently ~$2.50 (11PM EST 4/30/20)[1] [1] https://twitter.com/CoinFees/status/1256045351024418821
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by nytf3 7y ago
tezos is attempting to solve this by incorporating on-chain governance - its dPoS and has a code deployment mechanism with a long voting process (multimonth). They have done 2? upgrades now and quorum seems to be ok so hopefully they can ke
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by nytf3 9y ago
Cool writeup! Although I agree those captcha's are fairly trivial. In college I wrote a term paper on breaking Microsoft's captcha (which is a little harder but not by much) twice: first with a simple template-based classification