relyio

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   by relyio 9y ago

   If you have a genesis block with a hard-coded initial allocation of tokens, to me that counts as a premine. Now I agree that you can make that premine "fair" and that there is some semantic cleaning to do.
2. 62.▲
   by relyio 9y ago

   Pre-mining is unpopular because when the first Bitcoin forks appeared, it became the modus operandi of scammers abusing the markets and the honest miners burning resources to operate the network. I think it is a complete different story whe
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   Blockchains: How to Steal Millions in 2^64 Operations(research.kudelskisecurity.com)

   3 points by relyio 9y ago|0 comments
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   by relyio 9y ago

   >stablecoin shill You make some good points but I'm not sure labeling everyone and everything as "shilling" is helping your case at all.
5. 65.▲
   by relyio 9y ago

   There was plenty of mathiness though! The audience were overwhelmingly cryptographers.
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   by relyio 9y ago

   >What seems fair is to ban arbitrary "top-N" quotas. If you can get a job that pays you a living wage (such that you don't have to draw from subsidies), then you can stay without hassle. Ok. I just know that this won'
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   A History of the PCP Theorem (2005) [pdf](courses.cs.washington.edu)

   1 points by relyio 9y ago|0 comments
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   by relyio 9y ago

   The process is ridiculously complicated and not worth the time and effort, when it is possible at all. I say that as someone who lived in the Bay area for almost a year and loved it. I had a great job, generated tons of wealth, got full-tim
9. 69.▲
   by relyio 9y ago

   >Do something if you believe in change. Ross Ulbricht filed an appeal to the Supreme Court this week ( http://reason.com/blog/2017/12/27/ross-ulbricht-files-appeal... ).
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    by relyio 9y ago

    I think the claim that it is closer to the "original vision" has some substance if you think of Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer cash system rather than as a settlement layer. With that said, this certainly does not imply that p2p cash i
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    by relyio 9y ago

    Increasing block size is the low hanging fruit for reducing tx fees. It's a dead-simple idea. You increase the supply side of the fee market and users don't have to compete for transaction finality anymore. It has been implemented
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    by relyio 9y ago

    I attended a few years ago (28C3). Had a great time and gave my first (unofficial) talk ever there. Found people to be supportive and chill; maybe it had to do with the fact that I was rather young at the time. I don't know. That said,
13. 73.▲
    by relyio 9y ago

    There is clearly an interest because we routinely see links about crypto-backed currencies make it to the front page but the quality of comments is usually astonishingly low. I don't know if that is because people "hate it" o
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    The Ins and Outs of Stolen Art, Explained (2016)(artsy.net)

    1 points by relyio 9y ago|0 comments
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    Structure vs. Combinatorics in Computational Complexity (2013) [pdf](boazbarak.org)

    2 points by relyio 9y ago|0 comments
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    True randomness from your Apple device with particle physics and thermal entropy(medium.com)

    1 points by relyio 9y ago|0 comments
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    The Case for Learned Index Structures(arxiv.org)

    2 points by relyio 9y ago|0 comments
18. 78.▲
    by relyio 9y ago

    In my opinion, your outrage is misplaced. Don't hate the other players, hate the game that coerce you into paying taxes (i.e punish you) because you have partaken in a peaceful and voluntary exchange with another person.
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    by relyio 9y ago

    I wonder why there hasn't been an attempt at making a country where regulations are kept minimal and taxes nonexistent or only dependent on what you use. It would probably attract a ton of economic activity. Does it exist? edit: rephra
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    Standardizing Bad Cryptographic Practice [pdf](eprint.iacr.org)

    2 points by relyio 9y ago|0 comments
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    Products, Platforms, and Protocols: The Blockchain Technology Stack(medium.com)

    4 points by relyio 9y ago|0 comments
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    The MySQL “swap insanity” problem and the effects of the NUMA arch (2010)(blog.jcole.us)

    1 points by relyio 9y ago|0 comments
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    by relyio 9y ago

    Sadly the article doesn't link to the study by Verto Analytics and I wasn't able to found it on their website ( http://www.vertoanalytics.com/verto-reports/ ).
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    Study Finds 43% Drop in Time Spent on Facebook(emarketer.com)

    3 points by relyio 9y ago|1 comments
25. 85.▲
    by relyio 9y ago

    Most "cryptocurrency evangelists" as you say stayed as far away as they could from USDT and are rather supportive of Bitfinexed's arguments against tether.
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    14 DNS Nerds Don't Control the Internet (2016)(sockpuppet.org)

    1 points by relyio 9y ago|1 comments
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    Announcing Failure(boats.gitlab.io)

    1 points by relyio 9y ago|0 comments
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    by relyio 9y ago

    The author conflates several things into the label "SV": the private capital, the founders, the startup execs and so on. but surprisingly it barely mentions the engineers that are perhaps SV's most defining characteristic. No
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    by relyio 9y ago

    Agreed.
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    by relyio 9y ago

    It isn't an awfully common anti-pattern for startups though. Or at least, not as common as picking Mongo<3.* instead of pq because things needs to be "webscale".