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by oleganza 13y ago
Ask yourself how did it happen that some people got some much power to affect economy around you. Now find a way to insure/protect yourself against that. You will probably find out that, for instance, central bank manipulations with cu
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by oleganza 13y ago
The article does not list Saint Jacques Tower in Paris. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Jacques_Tower
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by oleganza 13y ago
Apple ships iOS beta builds before announcing new hardware. They obviously don't want to leak information about new functionality like HDR support too early. So they use a special string "YoMamaWears..." meaning of which is k
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by oleganza 13y ago
Could you elaborate on that? I myself write a lot on how Bitcoin can be used for not only "serious" purposes, but also for purposes impossible without Bitcoin (blog.oleganza.com). Since Bitcoin is at very least is just an asset, a
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by oleganza 13y ago
It's just like with passcode: you app never has "passcode API", but your keychain items are unlocked when user enters passcode according to the policy you have chosen. Why it should be different when fingerprint is used inste
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Publish your fingerprints(blog.oleganza.com)
1 points by oleganza 13y ago|0 comments
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by oleganza 13y ago
Simply publish your fingerprint somewhere - then if anyone uses it to impersonate you, it won't matter. It's not quite the same with private keys because you can always generate some new keys and publicly revoke your key if it cou
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by oleganza 13y ago
The accidental fork in March demonstrated that all transactions were included in both chains. One guy attempted a double-spend attack against OKPay (but then returned money). Only people who could have been hurt are those accepting transa
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by oleganza 13y ago
Why not taking the source code, improving it and releasing your own genesis block to prove your point? Or pointing out an existing altcoin with higher (or faster growing) market cap for that matter?
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by oleganza 13y ago
It is not. Bitcoin gives you an option of transacting irreversibly which you can use as-is, or with a mediator (e.g. PayPal). Traditional banking does not give you such option. All transactions are mediated and always reversible (even wire
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by oleganza 13y ago
Wire transfers are harder to reverse than paypal or CC, but they are still based on mere agreement between banks. Bitcoin-central.net exchange had some fraud instances when wires were actually reversed after withdrawing BTC. Only two things
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by oleganza 13y ago
I see what you mean, but you miss an important point. Reversible transactions must be reversed by a human intermediary. An insurance company, a financial institution, someone who you must trust this way or another. In addition to obvious va
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by oleganza 13y ago
All the difficulty of buying/selling Bitcoins for cash online only highlights how inflexible it is to move money with legacy technologies. Everyone who touches fiat currency must comply with tons of costly regulations, allow reversal o
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Complete Bitcoin glossary(github.com)
2 points by oleganza 13y ago|0 comments
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by oleganza 13y ago
Correction: 256-bit security is provided by 15360-bit RSA keys and 512-bit ECC keys. 3072-bit RSA key provides 128 bits of security.
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by oleganza 13y ago
Calibre accepts Bitcoin: http://calibre-ebook.com/donate
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by oleganza 13y ago
If it's like you say, then people are supposed to go to the government to recover their funds. Unfortunately, govt won't give them a cent. It's like you live on a street where mafia requires valets to "buy" a licens
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by oleganza 13y ago
No Objective-C on the list. LLVM is open source project sponsored by Apple, but I'm not sure about Foundation framework (a standard library with containers, concurrency functions and networking).
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by oleganza 13y ago
As I mentioned in other replies already, Bitcoin allows certain non-monetary uses that are not possible with any other technology. E.g. registering your document with a timestamp with no counter-party risk. Or mutually-locking funds without
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by oleganza 13y ago
If you believe in "labor theory of value", Bitcoins require investment and labour to be created. All these computers from home CPUs to ASICs require some noticeable amount of work to be done to get assembled and then mine blocks.
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by oleganza 13y ago
"As the subjective theory of value (STV) is false" Here's simple counter-argument. Gold was chemically always the same all these years. But it was valued differently in different places on earth and in different times. When y
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by oleganza 13y ago
Bitcoin can be used for secure timestamping and mutual funds locking without third parties. These are non-monetary features that Bitcoin provides. So it has some of them, just like gold.
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by oleganza 13y ago
Bitcoin have different facets. For people leaving in places with a variety of banking choice, some of them may come unnoticed. Bitcoin is great when: 1. You want to accept or make payments from a country where CC fraud is high or banking is
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by oleganza 13y ago
"We" do not "give" for "services". There is a privileged group of people who are entitled to not paying taxes at all, but instead extracting them with violent force (and servicing a huge paperwork that hides th
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by oleganza 13y ago
The problem is not that government claims to protect A against B. The problem is that they force C, D, E, F and many others to pay for it. If I don't think the government methods really help anyone, or at least me, I'm still force
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by oleganza 13y ago
Is it a proof of government inefficiency at fighting fraud? Or a call for more regulation? We would never know that until people are allowed to decide for themselves how they want to protect themselves. Right now we have two problems: 1) we
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by oleganza 13y ago
Once the person sells euros for bitcoins, he can spend these coins much more easily anywhere. He can: 1. Mix coins with others to make it impossible to trace where he spends them. 2. Pay someone for labour. 3. Buy any digital product or ser
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by oleganza 13y ago
"Ponzi schemes" are like "pornodrugterrorists" - just a pseudo-reason to protect the monopoly in the eyes of the voters at their own expense. Maybe if people were allowed to decide whether they want to pay for "prot
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by oleganza 13y ago
Stop for a second and think why would abstract "richer group" ask for it and how would abstract "poorer group" prevent this from happening? E.g. if the "richer group" got rich not via favors from monopoly of vi
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by oleganza 13y ago
I'm from Russia and live in France. I don't care about drugs, I care about people not bullying each other over unproved made-up values and ideals. When I talk about insurance, I talk about voluntary agreements. About giving as muc

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