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by sktrdie 13y ago
That was my thinking as well. All pools should behave selfishly. If they all behave this way, then there's no incentive for the miners to move towards a single pool, therefore avoiding centralization. Am I missing something?
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by sktrdie 13y ago
For people that don't get it. The idea is simple. If you're a pool with 25% hashing power you can sort of make this happen. What you do is that you mine like a regular pool. In fact it's not a dishonest pool but it's cal
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by sktrdie 13y ago
Good point. It's a known misconception that the act of mining serves only to create new BTCs. Since Bitcoin clients only accept history branches that have the longest proof-of-work, the mining is essential to prevent a forge of the his
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by sktrdie 13y ago
Even if the Bitcoin protocol adopted WebSockets, the browser wouldn't be able to initiate the connections between peers. They would only be able to receive them from regular Bitcoin clients that can initiate connections [1]. 1. http:&
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by sktrdie 13y ago
Their activity on the official Bitcoin forum could probably lead to some analysis on where they are from: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3;sa=stat...
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by sktrdie 13y ago
> Many prominent Bitcoin developers are actively in collusion with members of law enforcement and seeking approval from government legislators. We believe this is not in Bitcoin user's self interest, and instead serves wealthy busi
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We must preserve Bitcoin's principles of privacy and freedom of financial speech(darkwallet.unsystem.net)
2 points by sktrdie 13y ago|1 comments
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by sktrdie 13y ago
Well with my paper wallet analogy, if you lose your private key, someone else will find it as well. But anyway, there are enough divisible Bitcoin units that this doesn't pose itself as being a huge issue. When the network will be hit
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by sktrdie 13y ago
Those are all risks that come with using Bitcoin. I'm sure with time we'll see lots of improvements. For now a good way to store coins is by using paper wallets: http://www.bitaddress.org/ -you can print them your
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by sktrdie 13y ago
thanks eheh. sorry not native english
731.
by sktrdie 13y ago
Right, but the point I was trying to make is that if you're only connected to attackers, they could broadcast only parts of the chain. Perhaps only the part they're interested in to bring out their attack. Bitcoin solves this by
732.
by sktrdie 13y ago
The client tries to be as diverse as possible when it comes to connecting to other nodes, but the state where you're only connected to attackers should not be avoid. That's what I was trying to explain in the post. > "the
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by sktrdie 13y ago
> No node ever "tells" any information to another. Yes it does. Nodes "broadcast" information to other nodes. And by information I mean blocks of course. Wanted to keep it as jargon-free as possible. > There is
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Bitcoin explained(lucaa.org)
51 points by sktrdie 13y ago|18 comments
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Amazingly good explanation of Bitcoin(youtube.com)
3 points by sktrdie 13y ago|1 comments
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by sktrdie 13y ago
I wonder what the implications are of doing BTC->FIAT.
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by sktrdie 13y ago
I would love to see these in airports! There's already lots of security there so no need to make them huge.
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by sktrdie 13y ago
Tim is right in a way. Most users don't care of DRM, they don't even know what it is. They just want to be able to watch hollywood movies on the Web. So on one hand W3C can ignore the user's need of wanting to watch movies, b
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by sktrdie 13y ago
Perhaps you were silly enough to give them that idea then? Ideas are just that, ideas. They shouldn't have a price tag on them.
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by sktrdie 13y ago
This is why you don't usually expose Node directly to the internet. You use NGINX or others in front of it! It's 0.10 for christ's sakes.
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by sktrdie 13y ago
Because if they increase their prices, as they have done in the past already, you may still want the freedom of hosting your app somewhere else.
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Why glasses are so expensive - 60 Minutes(youtube.com)
5 points by sktrdie 13y ago|0 comments
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by sktrdie 13y ago
This is a horrible hack. You should use JSON-LD [1] to describe the fields of your JSON. It's a W3C standard! Also, it's not defined in the JSON standard in which order an implementation needs to parse the JSON fields/keys.
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QMachine – a supercomputer made out of crowdsourced Web browsers(qmachine.org)
41 points by sktrdie 13y ago|16 comments
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by sktrdie 13y ago
Of course things go obsolete and eventually new and better stuff comes along. This is the nature of just about everything, not just software. From replacing old cars, to restructuring your apartment. Things change. The point is that even if
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by sktrdie 13y ago
This is just a Linux server running something like Samba [1] to share files across your local network or the internet. Quite basic stuff. I've had this setup at home for ages, using some old cheap laptops/computers. You can actual
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by sktrdie 13y ago
Binary protocol. I don't get where the "binary" part is. Does "GET /docs/index.html HTTP/1.1" get converted into binary? What are the benefits of this, given that it's really a limited am
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by sktrdie 13y ago
Can anybody summarize the main differences between this and the older versions of HTTP?
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by sktrdie 13y ago
Where's the HTML data? Search engines aren't going to be able to crawl any of your content: $ curl -l http://monocle.io/posts/this-is-you-on-smiles
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by sktrdie 13y ago
http://contrastrebellion.com/

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