tCfD

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by tCfD 8y ago
'investment' from a company (consensys) with an enormous stake in promoting blockchainism to a mainstream audience is a pretty tangible gain.
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by tCfD 8y ago
Then these so-called 'lite' wallets should be referred to with a much more contextually pertinent description such as 'trustful' wallets.
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by tCfD 8y ago
I wouldn't beat yourself up over it. As other commenters have pointed out, nobody knows or could have known where Bitcoin was going to go, unless they were in control of substantial liquid leverage and knew that they could constrain su
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by tCfD 8y ago
Iirc they acquired that nickname because early rainbow tables, which were in plain text or another simple uncompressed format, looked very much like ASCII rainbow patterns in a text editor due to the iterative nature of the key, salt, and h
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by tCfD 8y ago
* ot: the HN android app could use a preview/quick-edit function :/
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by tCfD 8y ago
The SEC forms do not say anything to discharge, invalidate or answer the question of whether these funds were moved from one group of anonymous parties largely back to that same group in order to generate a bunch of transaction churn on the
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by tCfD 8y ago
To who? ICO schemes have been using the cover of anonymity and obfuscation of ownership flows due to sock puppet and Dutch bidding since they began on bitcointalk years ago. There is no way to tell in this or any other ICO which uses wallet
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by tCfD 8y ago
In his Journal of Researches as well as the condensed recount found in The Voyage of the Beagle, a young Charles Darwin describes his considerable astonishment at the constitutional robustness of the indigenous peoples he encountered in Tie
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by tCfD 8y ago
Or the epicycles of the heliocentric era, where the focus then as now was on futile ever finer retweaking of conclusions to fit unexamined and faulty premises.
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by tCfD 8y ago
It's been around for several years, probably originating on bitcointalk.org, but it was/is popular on the r/buttcoin subreddit
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by tCfD 8y ago
Don't forget this was also peak Ghostbusters era
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by tCfD 9y ago
Edit to my above comment, since my client doesn't seem to allow previewing or editing unfortunately.... 'side effect of settling them with ascertain' should be 'side effect of saddling them with a certain' Also I th
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by tCfD 9y ago
Getting the critical mass of public spirit necessary to sustain any self-correcting decentralized trust system is going to run smack into the individual tendency to optimize one's commitment of personal resources toward their own perso
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by tCfD 9y ago
These are fig leaf constraints which do nothing to curb the ability for highly leveraged, anonymous individuals in the ecosystem to severely and without warning or accountability alter the purchasing power of the Bitcoins in circulation.
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by tCfD 9y ago
> creating money outside state control Which if successful enough to constitute a counterweight with enough force to push back against "the state" will yield merely... another state, but conveniently one with "Our Guys&qu
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by tCfD 9y ago
> cannot be reproduced for free Only if you opt into the particular set of constraints that define what that property is (as set forth in the base of protocol code most commonly used to define it). If you don't, as innumerable forks
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by tCfD 9y ago
Their adoption comes as a consequence of their temporarily uncensorable ability to facilitate open speculation and gambling, so the adoption curve is merely following the well worn grooves laid by ancient vices.
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by tCfD 9y ago
In Trust we trust!
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by tCfD 9y ago
Blockchain is actually a technological shadow cast by a sociological proposition, which is then you can trust people to voluntarily deprive themselves of leverage for the sake of the greater good. Blockchain is essentially a tool for measur
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by tCfD 9y ago
Japanese takes exactly this sort of 'embrace and extend' approach to building on top of the Chinese character base, with hiragana for native construction, katakana for foreign loanwords, and furigana (more of an orthographical sug
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by tCfD 9y ago
Not the most in depth HN comment, but my user ID - tCfD - stands for The Center For Decentralization, an intentional oxymoron which I sometimes use in casual conversation to call attention to the fundamentally paradoxical (and the closer yo
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by tCfD 9y ago
The problem is not with blockchain, the problem is that harder one tries to define how decentralization can be made into a self-sustaining reaction (rather than merely a transitional phase from one centralized regime to another), the more t
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by tCfD 9y ago
It took centuries for the fundamental hermetic assumptions of alchemy to be questioned, and it had to come from 'insiders' (like Boyle and Newton) rather than total skeptics. Even then it was never refuted in any official sense, i
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by tCfD 9y ago
"But flippancy is the best of all. In the first place it is very economical. Only a clever human can make a real Joke about virtue, or indeed about anything else; any of them can be trained to talk as if virtue were funny. Among flippa
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by tCfD 9y ago
Especially if the majority are all named "sybil" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack
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by tCfD 9y ago
> running out of tax havens But they are just getting started moving into bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, in the nick of time
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by tCfD 9y ago
Think pre paid debit card split between two people
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by tCfD 9y ago
What happens to the engine trustless selling point of bitcoin when the only plausible scalability solutions entail reintroducing trusted third parties?
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by tCfD 9y ago
That's brilliantly stated. A natural first cousin to 'a lie told often enough becomes the truth'
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by tCfD 9y ago
> epitome boffin Speaking of which, he's first cousin to Magnus Pyke - the guy usually remembered in the US (if at all) as the Professor shouting "science!" in Thomas Dolby's "she blinded me with science;"

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