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by throwaway82652 4y ago
Yes and crypto exchanges following "Know your customer" will also refuse to withdraw funds without those things. It's no different.
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
Or just put the password to a normal bank account? Or leave some credit card numbers and the answers to security questions around? I again can't see what reason is to use cryptocurrency here.
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
>I have to use a web browser. No you don't, I suggest getting a different career outside the IT department, if it really bothers you that much. No reason to take the path of most resistance with something that makes you unhappy. &gt
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
>None of those are major cryptocurrencies Sure, but this is circular logic. They're not major anymore because they're dead. >and the blockchains of many of those which are now effectively worthless continue to exist in a han
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
No, your comment is completely wrong in basically every aspect. The difficulty of proof of work (for the most part) only determines the profit margins of the miners and the volume of transactions on the network, and is also not set in stone
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
Yes, with the benefit of hindsight you could say that most things are probably not worth anyone's time. If only we could see 20 years into the future to know which ones aren't, then that would save us all some time right now. Or y
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
>An untracable, unstoppable & untaxable cryptocurrency might be developed No, this will never happen and it makes no sense to actually want this, not only is it physically impossible but it's a total misunderstanding of threat m
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
Except the extent of the taxing and borrowing is not constrained because you can just mint new cryptocurrencies. The world you're talking about is wholly imaginary. The only way this works is if you ban all other cryptocurrencies and e
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
>It makes me wonder what redeeming qualities Electron has. Electron still lets you write code that is "native" to the web browser and functions primarily as a remote web app with no installation. It's not comparable to any
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
Your comment is out of line. Nothing was "thrown away" in GTK4 unless you consider it "throwing away" that apps have to port to a new API to make use of a new API. Please read the full article, particularly this part: &g
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
Except they haven't thrown anything away, all they did was create new versions of the API. Just like almost every other major toolkit developer also does. They're all iterations on the same concept. Also, if you ask me the hamburg
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
>Major blockchains are effectively immortal No, this is extremely wrong. I would encourage you to look into the rather large graveyard of cryptocurrencies that collapsed and are now worthless. A digital cash platform will shut down when
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
I have spread no falsehoods. None of what you're saying matters, you're still hung up on what's technically possible in ideal circumstances when that's irrelevant to most people, it's irrelevant to most users of sec
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
No they weren't, byzantine fault tolerance has been studied since the 70s.
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
This is not news to anyone working in cybersecurity. It's still very difficult to sell security technology to the general public. The only people who really want to use it is people who are either very smart technologically or they hav
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
I've looked at a ton of these "web3" startups and basically all of them are trying to build some form of payment system or financial service via smart contracts. Either that or they're making a less efficient version of
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
No it's not false. For practical or legal purposes you will need to have that ID disclosed eventually anyway. And actually it appears that most Zcash users are not even attempting to conceal their wallet IDs.
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
I have read plenty about them and it's still possible to track those coins through various means using various pieces of metadata. The worst problem with them is probably that the privacy gains are basically useless if you ever plan to
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
Yes but so does any other distributed consensus algorithm. Blockchains just happen to be based on the worst ones that don't have any good properties but still keep all of the bad ones.
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
>It might change parts of the world where redundancy and integrity are threats Sadly it won't. There is nothing about any kind of cryptocurrency that makes it incorruptible or immune to integrity problems. That's more myth-buil
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
But that's not true, even those privacycoins are still technically pseudonymous because transactions are still done by wallet ID. This fundamentally can't be fixed because otherwise you can't have something like a wallet that
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
Cryptocurrency is not that, because it is not anonymous nor is it a cash replacement. I have sympathy for those folks who were led to believe those things, it's not their fault.
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
The original definition of Web 3.0 (or Semantic Web) was conceived by Tim Berners-Lee and meant something completely different, it referred to a web that had all information assembled into an open graph that was easily accessible and machin
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
Because investors as a whole cannot know more about a product than the people who have to build and use that thing every day. Being financially invested in it requires them to have a certain level of optimism about it even in the face of re
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
>As opposed to our current financial system No that's not what I was saying and this is one of the most terrible things about any cryptocurrency discussion. People can't seem to avoid viewing it as something "opposed"
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
>Are you saying if an industry has any bad parts, it can't have any good parts? Cryptocurrency is not an industry and doesn't have any good parts. The technology itself is useless and universally bad for any practical purpose.
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
No it didn't. Cryptocurrency is not "sound money" in any way because it's not backed by anything, in the case of proof-of-work coins it's only "backed" by random people solving random pointless math puzzle
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
Yes I know, I've heard that a lot and it's a weak and harmful comment that kernel people should absolutely not be making. It actually pains me to see it typed again. You don't actually want a software project to be like that,
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by throwaway82652 4y ago
>this is not a valid test, for a whole lot of reasons. especially not in terms of internet search engines. Then come up with a better test. I'm sure you can think of something that answers those questions to a reasonable level of co

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