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by tfha 9y ago
I don't think any serious bitcoin developer considers that a reasonable option. Most very strongly believe that PoS is fundamentally less secure.
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by tfha 9y ago
Wouldn't tumbling a spaceship give you some basic gravity? Isn't that a desired outcome?
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by tfha 9y ago
Isn't tether the one that screwed up? They are the ones who got stolen from, why do other exchanges have to bend over backwards and issue updates? If the attacker is moving fast enough, exchanges probably can't even respond in tim
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by tfha 9y ago
The hard part is getting the government to acknowldege the blockchain tokens as actual ownership. And then they'd also have to agree to honor all stolen tokens. Cryptocurrency really doesn't work unless you let the blockchain be t
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by tfha 9y ago
This was achieved by paying miners substantially more. That payment gets pulled out of the Bitcoin Cash market cap when the miners sell their coins. This news is essentially equivalent to saying "On November 13th, Salesforce outspent A
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by tfha 9y ago
Their new algorithm is also broken.
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by tfha 9y ago
No, that's where you are mistaken. Block size is a security parameter.
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by tfha 9y ago
The bitcoin foundation plays a minimal role at best in the bitcoin ecosystem. They've never been very important, and they remain unimportant to this day
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by tfha 9y ago
That's actually a bad situation for bch. Because of the EDA, their block reward ends up being equal in USD to the bitcoin block reward, regardless of their own price. Basically, every 12 hours the difficulty resets and then they get 2
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by tfha 9y ago
On the other hand the technical quality of the discorse tends to be really low. Things are priased, encouraged, and even rewarded monetarily when they have gaping vulnerabilities or incentive systems that weren't even halfway thought t
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by tfha 9y ago
When a chain splits, your full previous balance exists now on both child chains. The price of each chain's coins is set by supply and demand. Typically people prefer to hold on to both coins after a split. So there's not actually
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by tfha 9y ago
Paradoxical aversion to upgrade the network much like California has a paradoxical aversion to increasing the speed limit to improve highway throughput. It's so strange to me... commutes would be much shorter if cars were allowed to dr
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by tfha 9y ago
It'd also be cool to make a search engine that catalogged all of the websites that other search engines politely did not. Is there any proper enforcement of robots.txt or is it just polite? Because I don't see how one search engin
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by tfha 9y ago
That's not Twitter's fault, that's Trump's fault. If the president accidentally declares war, he should be impeached
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by tfha 9y ago
People who believe that ethereum is technically superior have not studied cryptocurrencies in depth. Ethereum made a lot of reckless design decisions, trading long term stability and security for advantages that only exist over bitcoin in t
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by tfha 9y ago
It's not just about work. Sports stadiums, bars, meetup groups, nightlife, concerts, comedy clubs, etc etc all involve bringing people into the city. Commuting is just part of the battle
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by tfha 9y ago
They are smooth. Seductive. Subtle. Slow and intimate, you like to touch them and they like it back. A soft sexy red glow that fades in and fades out as you massage your commands into it's willing display. You don't make sales bas
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by tfha 9y ago
Yeah. It's not so much about distance, it's about time. Better infrastructure for moving people in and out of the city enables a larger city, and a more populated one.
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by tfha 9y ago
Overall a really solid video about the modern state of computer graphics, with a comprehensive tour of the cutting edge realism of light and fluid, the current tricks and limitations used in the modern cutting edge, and then an exploration
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by tfha 9y ago
As a user of a piece of infrastructure, I shouldn't have to read Reddit every morning to figure out what's going on. Just like I don't need to follow closely ipv4 development, smtp development, etc. I'm certain that I&#x
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by tfha 9y ago
Attacks that cost them money to the tune of millions of dollars. Sure they can do it but it's not free.
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by tfha 9y ago
A hard fork with no replay protection, which means that legacy systems which do not upgrade will be vulnerable to sending too much money to third parties. The ethereum devs have chosen to introduce a vulnerability that forces people to upgr
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by tfha 9y ago
I am worried about this as well. Glasses definitely aren't heavy enough to cause problems, plenty of healthy people wear those 80+ hours per week. But something like the Vive gives me trouble even after 2-3 hours. Google cardboard + my
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by tfha 9y ago
It improves upon and fixes a few of the Bitcoin flaws while introducing a whole hoard of other flaws in itself. For example, most 'full nodes' on the Ethereum blockchain have never actually verified the whole chain, they've i
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by tfha 9y ago
This hopefully throws some context on the scaling debate. The giant fight, a fight from 1MB to 2MB, would allow Bitcoin to scale from 20 million monthly users, to 40 million monthly users. It's not a big upgrade. Any exec at Facebook,
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by tfha 9y ago
I have become afraid of my feeds. YouTube has started to shape my hobbies and interests, my political leanings, my dietary patterns. If Google is getting paid to steer me towards certain products, I probably have no idea and it's proba
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by tfha 9y ago
I'm not sure that works as well for hardware. Every fab is different. Imagine if you had to rewrite the whole Linux kernel for every CPU on the market. Getting high performance requires tuning carefully to the exact fab, and fabs chang
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by tfha 9y ago
> And incur legal liability? Businesses will gladly do lots of manual work to avoid thousands of lawsuits. Pretty sure that forcing thousands of businesses to upgrade their systems to avoid defrauding users is grounds for a lawsuit itsel
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by tfha 9y ago
I believe the core devs agreed to make a proposal, and then the proposal got rejected by the other devs.
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by tfha 9y ago
We could double the block size. Then the capacity would raise from about 10 million users to about 20 million users. I'm sure that would solve all of Bitcoin's scaling issues for a long time.

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