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by stuhood 15y ago
You're missing something, but I'm not sure what... Addresses are always public knowledge, along with all transactions between them. Who owns the address, on the other hand, is usually not advertised: but in this case Instawallet is claiming
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by stuhood 15y ago
One assumption that the post (and I assume the paper as well) makes is that there _was_ a thief. It is entirely possible that one user played both the victim and the thief in this story.
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by stuhood 15y ago
This would cause inflation, because miners would be able to print money by throwing hardware at the problem. The ideal system/algorithm would exactly match the amount of Bitcoin in circulation to the growth of the economy, which would keep
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by stuhood 15y ago
This is why people say Bitcoin is pseudonymous: the entire transaction history of every Bitcoin is public knowledge. To achieve actual anonymity, receivers need to use a one-time-address for each sender, and senders need to not leak informa
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by stuhood 15y ago
This would already be a problem for you if you have an online bank account. An insecure computer means an insecure life.
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by stuhood 15y ago
See https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/232
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by stuhood 15y ago
Adding Tor to the equation makes the system fully anonymous, assuming you don't leak other information.
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by stuhood 15y ago
You can buy groceries with Bitcoin: http://bitmunchies.com/
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by stuhood 15y ago
The value of the Bitcoin currency is driven by speculation. The value of the Bitcoin system-for-distributed-transactions is driven by utility. If you don't trust the value of the Bitcoin currency, that doesn't stop you from using the Bitcoi
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by stuhood 15y ago
The Bitcoin protocol allows for 8 decimals worth of divisibility, meaning that there are actually 2.1E16 or 21 quadrillion "units" (aka "Satoshi's") available.
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by stuhood 16y ago
Why would Top Gear use a calculated track capacity number (55 miles), given that they could have measured an actual number? I understand that 30 minutes of hard driving can be exhausting, but how exactly could they have calculated an accura
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by stuhood 16y ago
As mentioned in the BBC article though, doing that kind of math does not lead to an accurate result, due to the fact that your body is constantly healing. It's the bursts of radiation that are most damaging.
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by stuhood 16y ago
Links are awesome in a small dataset, but on a larger cluster, the probability that each link walk means both an extra seek and a network roundtrip makes them less attractive. Local graph databases avoid the extra seeks by keeping extra cop
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by stuhood 16y ago
Note that the Tesla Roadster can be charged to full in ~3 hours on the 240V outlets found in RV Parks. Crossing Utah is no problem: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=rv+park+near+Utah
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by stuhood 16y ago
John Kalucki from Twitter's platform team responded in the comments with what sounds like a reasonable alternative: http://hoisie.com/post/a_warning_to_hackers_be_careful_build...
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by stuhood 16y ago
I'm fairly certain they are talking about a CA system, since locks must be acquired for the tuples involved in a transaction (even if only long enough to determine an ordering id for the transaction). In the presence of a partition, it woul
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by stuhood 17y ago
Rackspace is hiring distributed systems devs in Austin: https://rackspace.hua.hrsmart.com/ats/js_job_details.php?req...
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Part 3 of SXSW NoSQL Smackdown with Werner Vogels(thechangelog.com)
1 points by stuhood 17y ago|0 comments
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NoSQL Smackdown with Werner Vogels and MongoDB, CouchDB and Cassandra devs(thechangelog.com)
43 points by stuhood 17y ago|12 comments
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by stuhood 17y ago
The first video should be available today from The Changelog, and a better quality copy in the next few days: http://twitter.com/changelogshow/status/10581052288
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by stuhood 17y ago
This is a perfect response: thank you. Also, the definition of scalability seems fairly clear: how many times can you square your capacity before you need to re-architect?
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by stuhood 17y ago
Rackspace is also hiring in the Austin, TX area: https://rackspace.ats.hrsmart.com/cgi-bin/a/highlightjob.cgi...
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by stuhood 17y ago
That's kindof like trying to quit smoking cold turkey. It's killing you, and you know it, but you still have to make the transition gradually.