r3demon

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by r3demon 9y ago
Do they really need blockchain for that? 61M is quite a lot for a project without any product out yet.
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by r3demon 9y ago
Not exactly banks, but there's a huge chance they will be big corps with a money transmitter license, KYC, AML. What if they refuse your channel or transaction?
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by r3demon 9y ago
OK. So 0-conf are not secure because you read it somewhere, good argument.
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by r3demon 9y ago
It's a common misconception that block size is somehow related to decentralization. In fact you don't need a whole blockchain to verify transactions securely, you only need a few last blocks at max. Also full nodes add nothing to
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by r3demon 9y ago
No, they are secure, you just have to trust miners a bit more so they don't throw your transaction out of mempool. I would even argue that all the complications involved in setting up and using Lightning network make it less secure tha
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by r3demon 9y ago
0-confirmation transactions were working excellent before Bitcoin Core added SegWit and other useless stuff. You don't need to wait for a new block if your signed transaction is in the mempool, and it's secure enough for small pay
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by r3demon 9y ago
Lightning will become centralized into services like banks and Paypal since it's too difficult to use for an average person, which completely defeats the idea of Bitcoin as P2P cryptocurrency.
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by r3demon 9y ago
The problem is Bitcoin Core, at least some part of it’s developers, pushing their own agenda to implement SegWit and Lightning network. Both solutions have a lot of technical debt and possible security problems, they were controversial from
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by r3demon 9y ago
sad, but things change, eventually
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by r3demon 11y ago
I still think the idea is good, but they should have been more straightforward about Coin being supported in different places than US.
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by r3demon 11y ago
Most people won't bother threatening them with some laws, especially if they are from another country. Just $100 spent for a useless thing.
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by r3demon 11y ago
I've had pretty much the same experience. Bought Coin via pre-order over a year ago, couple month ago found out that it's very unlikely to be supported in my country ever. Asked them for refund - got some template response, asked
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by r3demon 13y ago
Ripple is controlled by a corporation, unlike Bitcoin it is fragile and useless.
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by r3demon 13y ago
The author is wrong in many points: 1. Bitcoin is the open base for monetary innovation, you should compare it to internet protocols like IP or HTTP, Linux, not some privately-owned social networks. 2. There's hardly any need to enhanc
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by r3demon 14y ago
Great news!
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by r3demon 14y ago
You're completely wrong. Immigrants and foreign workers are adding to the employment competition, they raise the overall quality of the workforce. There will be a major crisis if they leave, trust me.
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by r3demon 14y ago
Why such a strange name?
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by r3demon 14y ago
It is already a big gaming platform, you can't ignore such a huge market. Unfortunately, high quality games are not there yet, but it gives a bit more time for the smaller studios to make something fresh.
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by r3demon 14y ago
NVidia is creating just more hype around Tegra 4, very unlikely we see this device in real life.
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by r3demon 14y ago
It's not piracy, it's online content sharing.
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by r3demon 14y ago
still, taking 30+ days to register is insane, its clear they are some kind of monopoly and need more competitors
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by r3demon 14y ago
Will they give my genotype information to FBI or CIA? Will they pay damages if information gets stolen? This is not some passwords or account numbers, this is data about real world which can't be changed.
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by r3demon 14y ago
Why is it just for Instagram? I'm not using Instagram, but I would like to have the device
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by r3demon 14y ago
Yes, Java has grown into a monster, like Windows, but there's too much sofware for it, noone is going to rewrite it, so Java will be with us for quite a while.
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by r3demon 14y ago
It's not possible. Claiming billion active users is already raising many doubts.
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by r3demon 14y ago
No, he won't.
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by r3demon 14y ago
Eating more programmer's souls.
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by r3demon 14y ago
Nice post, but only one language and one simple structure. Would be interesting to see differences across most popular languages and frameworks.
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by r3demon 14y ago
He wants to sell an antivirus app that scans iOS for nonexistent viruses, looks like some kind of malware)
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by r3demon 14y ago
Photoshop cost so much it should be supported for centuries

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