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by oleganza 11y ago
Multi-key addresses would be more robust. Plus, when it's an Open Asset on Bitcoin blockchain, then you can "rotate" keys by moving your identity into a different multisig address when one of the previous keys gets compromise
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by oleganza 11y ago
Every time some OpenSSL bug is announced, I remember my issues with TLS (I don't know if this bug is TLS-related or not). Would be nice if TLS supported: 1) "hot" certificates with 24h ttl signed-off by a longer-living certif
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by oleganza 11y ago
There are two steps only and they are already happening since Jan 3rd 2009.
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by oleganza 11y ago
Debt does not create savings. Savings are created by putting the real money for later spending (not IOUs, but real collectible: land, commodities, bitcoin). Making debt cheaper via inflation is simply a form of taxation: money is being real
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by oleganza 11y ago
Accounting issues with wages are not as important when savings are possible. In today's ever-inflated economy many people have zero savings and a lot of debt. People live from pay cheque to pay cheque. But when savings are enabled by B
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by oleganza 11y ago
Great depression was caused not by deflation, but by previously unleashed inflation (as in "inflated money supply"). Collapse of the bubble is a logical consequence of any bubble. Alternative - ever-increasing inflation was experi
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by oleganza 11y ago
All the discussed attacks (51%, selfish mining etc) are working under assumption of a relatively short time preference of a miner (how long he is willing to wait for ROI). In practice, though, there is no stable condition when you have mi
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by oleganza 11y ago
Imagine you are sitting in the bunker and only get some bits of data from outside world. You cannot have any other trusted source of information about these bits except from the bits themselves. And there's a plenty of reasons for some
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by oleganza 11y ago
It's not "cheap" if you cannot take a ride. Total cost is a sum of the price, time wasted and the risk of being late. "Cheap" taxi that is impossible to catch is not actually cheap. That's the same fallacy as w
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by oleganza 12y ago
I'll quote myself ( http://blog.oleganza.com/post/85111558553/bitcoin-is-like ): Bitcoin is like Git: in Git (a distributed version control system) all your changes are organized in a chain protected by cryptog
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by oleganza 12y ago
While the whole WWDC site is set in Myriad Set, the WWDC15 logo uses (probably) a rounded version of San Francisco font (from Apple Watch). I haven't seen this rounded version of SF font before or anywhere in Apple Watch UI yet.
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by oleganza 12y ago
That's an interesting idea, can't wait for the paper to come out. Compared to my scheme of Ripple-like IOU network with point-to-point joint escrow ( https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourc... )
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by oleganza 12y ago
FaceTime is different. I heard how everyone at Apple was surprised when Jobs mentioned "open standard". Here, on the other hand, core team is looking forward making Swift a bigger deal than just Apple's pet language. Sorry, t
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by oleganza 12y ago
They already started doing it a few months ago with private annotations. This "nonnull"/"nullable" syntax is a result of their work on annotating Cocoa APIs.
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by oleganza 12y ago
Wow. Such a rapid feedback loop here. Thanks for sharing.
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by oleganza 12y ago
I'm not so sure. Chris Lattner was giving some hints around Twitter on how big deal they want to make out of Swift (that is, a ubiquitous systems program). This gives me hope that it'll become open as Clang and ported to other pla
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by oleganza 12y ago
Not exactly. ObjC code cannot usefully benefit from those annotations (yet? more likely ever). At most, it's good for documenting your ObjC code for fellow readers. The actual use appears in the Swiftland where instead of implicitly un
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by oleganza 12y ago
Swift borrowed "if let" from Rust, not the other way around.
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by oleganza 12y ago
US had already plenty of currency crises. The most recent one is 2008 when there was a real risk of ATM withdrawals blocked and only HUGE amounts of bailout money kept that circus afloat. Another big one was in 1971 when Nixon basically sho
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by oleganza 12y ago
I'm talking about a whole community, not individuals. If some individuals are burned using centralized service, all others can learn from it and move elsewhere or choose more wisely. Not so with banking system which burns everyone an
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by oleganza 12y ago
Email is decentralized, that means I can quit Gmail any time I want and use another service. Or even start my own. Git is decentralized, that means I can quit Github any time I want and use another service to host my repositories. Bitcoin i
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by oleganza 12y ago
Even if you wouldn't mind, there is your neighbor who would've. Should someone then put him in prison for having another opinion?
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by oleganza 12y ago
When Alice and Bob communicate over Bitmessage, Eve can only see garbage being propagated through the network. But when Alice sends a message to Bob (who is an undercover TLA agent), Bob could monitor traffic and statistically figure that c
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by oleganza 12y ago
It uses BitcoinJ for Bitcoin stuff and Bitmessage library, those are multi-platform already. Anyone could fork the code and build alternative UI using these components for their platform.
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by oleganza 12y ago
The idea is that everyone locks up more value than they can potentially win by cheating. So every side is egoistically interested in getting their money back, so they have to find a compromise. Trolling people at your own expense is possibl
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by oleganza 12y ago
This runs on bitmessage over Tor. Tor is just another layer to make it more difficult for merchant to recognize your location. Think of it this way: 1) Bitmessage ensures that FBI has to catch merchants or buyers individually instead of cat
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by oleganza 12y ago
Sorry, it does not make any sense "to bolt onto Visa/PayPal/Venmo" a two-party escrow like that. The whole point of two-party escrow is to solve the problem when you cannot (or don't want to) rely on any third party
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by oleganza 12y ago
You simply don't. If it's your last 2X bitcoins, you probably should not trade on anonymous p2p marketplace in the first place. Ask your relatives and friends to help you with whatever problem you are trying to solve.
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by oleganza 12y ago
How to "fairly" distribute names is orthogonal problem to the one "how to stay on the same page" for already registered names. There are essentially two ways: 1) first come, first grab. Or 2) have a central bootstrapping
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by oleganza 12y ago
Proving that you see the same data as everyone else is Byzantine General's Problem which cannot be solved in information theory. However, it can be solved practically if there's a single hugely powerful chain of proofs-of-work ref

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