sethgecko

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by sethgecko 9y ago
Only the third party issued tokens have counterparty risk i.e you trust the issuer to redeem them somehow. Is that different than an ethereum ERC20 token? The native asset itself (XLM) has no counterparty risk. > The only networks capabl
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by sethgecko 9y ago
Ideally an EU finance minister appointed by the European Parliament.
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by sethgecko 9y ago
I noticed recently that the new discover weekly songs tend to sync perfectly with my walking speed. I wonder if I subconsciously leaked some bias into my training sample. BPM has to be one of the factors they are matching against. Here is a
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Guido van Rossum: BDFL Python 3 retrospective(youtube.com)
3 points by sethgecko 9y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Pure Python implementation of RSA/Elliptic Curves/Bitcoin addresses(github.com)
1 points by sethgecko 9y ago|0 comments
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by sethgecko 9y ago
Is this in the US? In my country you get one envelope and one ballot paper for each party so that wouldn't work.
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by sethgecko 9y ago
In the scenario you described above what is to stop you from taking a picture of a different voting card than the one you put in the envelope?
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by sethgecko 9y ago
What fees ? I have never paid a single cent in fees in coinbase. Buying/selling with limit orders is free in GDAX and they pay the miner's fees themselves when you withdraw. I don't even know how they make money.
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by sethgecko 9y ago
And to trust the guy who is storing the hash?
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Bitcoin mempool is completely empty. Fees down to 1sat/byte ($0.025/tx)(jochen-hoenicke.de)
1 points by sethgecko 9y ago|0 comments
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by sethgecko 9y ago
Am I the only one that finds it ridiculous that the way to query for data in SQL is by passing a string?
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by sethgecko 9y ago
They are also working on Lightning Network integration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtXe-wQyrWw&feature=youtu.be
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by sethgecko 9y ago
Maybe at some point they will decide to use their Wavenet[0] for audiobook narrating [0] https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...
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by sethgecko 9y ago
I'll give you another use case. Cryptocurrencies are essentially programmable money. You can't write a computer program with a bank account atm but you can with bitcoin. You can have your auto-driving car to go fill up it's t
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by sethgecko 9y ago
Dow Jones had just had it's biggest intraday drop in history and no one has any idea why. I blame quants and their trading bots. Nothing makes sense any more.
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by sethgecko 9y ago
This statement makes no sense unless you consider every action in the world to be deterministic
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by sethgecko 9y ago
My favourite game of that era is Transport Tycoon which also has an open source remake https://github.com/OpenTTD/OpenTTD
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Mimblewimble, a blockchain protocol with great scaleability, privacy,fungibility(github.com)
2 points by sethgecko 9y ago|0 comments
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by sethgecko 9y ago
In 3.6 dicts are ordered (by insert order) as an implementation detail. From 3.7 on it will be a feature.
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by sethgecko 9y ago
BTC, ETH, XLM, XRB
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by sethgecko 9y ago
fees have been as low as 0.5$ for a couple of weeks now
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by sethgecko 9y ago
I hear the claim that tether is inflating the bubble all the time so please help me understand. This is the main use case for tether AFAIK: Scenario A: I fear that a bear market is coming so I move my coins from binance/bitfinex to coi
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by sethgecko 9y ago
The chrome app doesn't know the private key and the nano itself only runs signed code unless you imply that the Ledger Company itself planted the backdoor.
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by sethgecko 9y ago
This guy is awesome, focuses in information theory/cryptography https://www.youtube.com/user/ArtOfTheProblem
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Key Aggregation for Schnorr Signatures(blockstream.com)
1 points by sethgecko 9y ago|0 comments
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by sethgecko 9y ago
Someone did a stress test the other day. Nowhere near 7ktx/s and a lot of nodes started to crash. https://medium.com/@bnp117/stress-testing-the-raiblocks-netw... Honestly it is scary to see how easy is to launch a
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by sethgecko 9y ago
I haven't noticed that. So what's the purpose of !g in that case ?
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by sethgecko 9y ago
For me DDG results are vastly inferior to Google's. If there was a search bar addon that defaults to DDG with the !g bang I would happily set it as default though
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by sethgecko 9y ago
It doesn't mean cryptography either, it just means hidden.
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by sethgecko 9y ago
Isn't that exactly the same with every cryptocurrency? Why would you run a bitcoin node?

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