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by stuhood 14y ago
Are you certain? https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade
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by stuhood 14y ago
"Cold storage" in Bitcoin parlance is a wallet that is completely disconnected from the network. Since a "wallet" is really just a collection of private keys, one example of cold storage is to scatter pieces of the wallet (M of N splitting)
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by stuhood 15y ago
Bitcoin runs well over Tor: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Tor
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by stuhood 15y ago
> (Everywhere excluding Iran, I guess. Is Bitcoin big in Iran?) I wouldn't say 'big' exactly, but the participation is non-zero: http://blockchain.info/nodes-globe?series=48hrs
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by stuhood 15y ago
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption
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by stuhood 15y ago
The current encoding of bitcoin on the wire allows for division to 8 decimal places, but there is discussion around improving the encoding sooner, rather than later. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Divisibility_extension
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by stuhood 15y ago
Since the block reward is the only source of 'new' bitcoin, the rate of bitcoin creation will be halving as well. So there will be two competing effects: 1) 'monetary' inflation will decrease, because the rate of bitcoin creation will drop
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by stuhood 15y ago
Dated April 2nd.
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by stuhood 15y ago
Sorry... not hex: base64 (or whatever the bitcoin variant is.)
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by stuhood 15y ago
There is an interesting scheme called 'firstbits', which uses the blockchain (global, public, immutable) to determine the shortest prefix which uniquely identifies an address. At this point in time, an address can usually be identified with
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Why the P2P Foundation pays salaries in Bitcoin(blog.p2pfoundation.net)
23 points by stuhood 15y ago|12 comments
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by stuhood 15y ago
> Pay it off every month and you won't pay interest. You're skipping the part where she needs to have a bank account, check book, and possibly postage stamps in order to pay her credit card bill. > ... transfer money (takes 5-7 days
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by stuhood 15y ago
> If it's not simple enough to explain to someone's mom it's not going to flourish as a serious currency. Do you think that the way the Visa/MC network is implemented is simple enough to explain to someone who does not understand comput
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Who needs a dongle for mobile payments?(forbes.com)
13 points by stuhood 15y ago|10 comments
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P2P Foundation pays first Bitcoin salary(twitter.com)
1 points by stuhood 15y ago|0 comments
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by stuhood 15y ago
Since this is almost pure sendfile() work (aside from the headers), it really doesn't seem like a very useful example... there isn't much static content left on the web.
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Driving mobile use of Bitcoin in Africa(technologyreview.com)
1 points by stuhood 15y ago|0 comments
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by stuhood 15y ago
We definitely appreciate the work that you and Typesafe are doing: thanks! I apologize for my brusque reaction in that tweet. Regarding macros: it's quite clear that they simplify the job of the compiler writer: you can provide more feature
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by stuhood 15y ago
Attacks against this type of phrase will almost certainly use dictionaries for the next decade, until it becomes practical to do rainbow tables of size 64^76. So adding elements to avoid dictionary words definitely helps (for now).
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by stuhood 15y ago
This is not a 'cutscene' in the pre-rendered-and-then-compressed-as-video sense. The site clearly states that it was rendered in realtime: it is a very short path to interactivity.
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by stuhood 15y ago
> physical security of storage media, information security of computations involving bitcoins Only funds that you have daily access to need be vulnerable to the latter point, as physical security (air-gapping) is sufficient when you do
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by stuhood 15y ago
The first solution that didn't involve disk or network IO was the fast one?
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by stuhood 15y ago
Two points that are specified but somewhat hidden in the article: 1) the 400% number is between Cassandra 0.6 and Cassandra 1.0, 2) the test is CPU bound because the dataset fits very easily in memory. A lot of awesome work has gone into Ca
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by stuhood 15y ago
I'd say this is completely and utterly overshadowed by Google's hangouts API allowing you to embed content in a hangout... their first example was shared Youtube video watching.
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by stuhood 15y ago
The graph is from this wiki page, which explains the axes slightly better: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Days_Destroyed#Graph_of_P... : the x-axis is time measured in blocks (created on average once every 10 minutes). The percentage
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First annual Bitcoin conference outgrows original venue(bitcoinmoney.com)
2 points by stuhood 15y ago|1 comments
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by stuhood 15y ago
Yes, it is: assuming you use client side encryption, an online storage company never needs to know your secrets. It's the difference between a trusted and untrusted third party.
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by stuhood 15y ago
Hardware. http://www.memorydealers.com/
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by stuhood 15y ago
Not particularly... an attacker with a rack of GPU filled machines will only find a valid block every 10 days or so, and blocks are valid for around 10 minutes on average: this is a relatively narrow window for double spending, and not an o
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by stuhood 15y ago
This is actually a special case of a general concept: specifying how much you trust particular addresses. Instawallet has just coined 'green address' as a nickname for an address that you will accept payments from instantly (0 confirmation)

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