rdbell

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by rdbell 5y ago
One of the most exciting features of Bitcoin is that it's permissionless and anyone is free to contribute and build on top of it. This is what has enabled projects like Lightning to emerge and evolve.
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by rdbell 5y ago
Yes, I understand that perspective. I'm uninterested in whatever latest hype projects are sucking up money from get-rich-quick investors and it's unfortunate that the general understanding of what cryptocurrencies are has shifted,
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by rdbell 5y ago
Alex Gladstein has been doing good work interviewing and documenting the ways marginalized people are using Bitcoin to escape tyranny and oppression. https://alexgladstein.com/ Anyone who understands what Bitcoin enables an
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by rdbell 5y ago
https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-hacker-news-ranking...
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by rdbell 5y ago
I’m not sure what the FHE part of your proposal is trying to solve but to address the main point, the “Work” in Proof of Work needs to be useless apart from securing the network. https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions&#
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by rdbell 5y ago
I don’t know if this is the answer you’re looking for because it’s not tied to a cryptocurrency but take a look at nostr: https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr It’s a protocol that allows nodes to gossip event messages amon
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by rdbell 5y ago
How are you defining an account when you say that 95% of BTC is owned by 2% of accounts?
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by rdbell 5y ago
Does your bank offer the option of OTP via phone call? I’ve seen cases where SMS to GV doesn’t work but phone call does.
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by rdbell 5y ago
Did you buy the gift card from a 3rd party? Can you access AWS?
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by rdbell 5y ago
Lichess uses wasm for chess analysis and it works quite well
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by rdbell 5y ago
Cool project. If I pay you $900 how much of that goes into cryptocurrency? Seems like you could achieve the same result if you just let your customers buy their own coins and provide an address for you to watch?
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by rdbell 5y ago
Is this a replacement for products like Coinbase Commerce? Do you have any screenshots or videos of the checkout flow?
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by rdbell 5y ago
Take payment in crypto. Something like BCH if you want to minimize network fees. Programmatically move your funds to an exchange and convert to USD using your exchange’s API if you don’t want to hold crypto. Easy weekend project.
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by rdbell 5y ago
Depending on how motivated your users are, this could be a difficult battle for you. Even if you use a paid service like MaxMind to identify residential IP addresses, your users can tunnel their traffic through residential proxies to skirt
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by rdbell 5y ago
It’s possible they’re sending to their own addresses to make the scam look legitimate. At least I hope this is the explanation.
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by rdbell 5y ago
What’s the best “root-required” tiling WM solution for MacOS right now?
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by rdbell 5y ago
+1, thanks for sharing your knowledge. I picked up an iOS device earlier this year and I’ve been pretty impressed with the Measure app for quick, rough room-scale measurements. It will be interesting to see how this tech improves with bette
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by rdbell 5y ago
This looks amazing dude. Great work. I hope you guys do well.
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by rdbell 5y ago
FWIW my next project on AWS will almost certainly be using graviton instances.
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by rdbell 5y ago
Might want to specify a budget before someone recommends launching a satellite
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by rdbell 5y ago
I co-founded https://packetstream.io There are a handful of companies doing very well with models similar to what you’re describing. I can’t mention specific customers, but I see some of them doing very large scraping volume thr
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by rdbell 5y ago
This is sad to see. I’ve played about 300 Rapid games on chess.com and there’s only one banned player in my game history. Am I just lucky? I’m not good enough to instinctively suspect cheaters, and running post-game analysis on all of your
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by rdbell 5y ago
Neat. Is this vulnerable to abuse by submitting bad results back to the server, or have they figured out a low-cost way of verifying the integrity of the results somehow?
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by rdbell 5y ago
It's hard to imagine any system that would solve 100% of disputes accurately, but at least having a free market of reputation-based dispute resolution providers gives you more options and attempts to weed out corrupt justice. The thing
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by rdbell 5y ago
You take the issue to a crypto court which controls the escrowed funds. If the crypto court makes an unfair ruling, you tell everyone to never trust their judgement. Now they’ve lost credibility and nobody will want to escrow funds with the
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by rdbell 5y ago
Doesn't something like `lsof -i TCP -s TCP:LISTEN` quickly show what's monopolizing 5000?
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by rdbell 5y ago
Fair enough. It's sad to see everything online turned political and used as ammunition against the other side. I think the reality is that (mostly) everyone wants truth to be discovered and for everyone to be healthy.
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by rdbell 5y ago
I've got no dog in this fight either way, but it sounds like you're celebrating the fact that Omura can't share his opinions on this drug, meanwhile you're sharing your opinions on the same drug here on HN. Feels a littl
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by rdbell 6y ago
Not trying to troll here. Genuinely curious... Can you explain this take? From what I understand bitmessage is a p2p/decentralized protocol for e2e encrypted communication and is fully open source. What sort of 3rd party trust is requi
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by rdbell 6y ago
> For security purposes, we recommend you include these dependencies with your app, rather than trusting a public CDN. (Although we do love jsDelivr! It is free, open source, and give us download stats!) Isn't this the point of subr

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