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by topranks 5y ago
Not saying that’s not got its place, but most people want to look something up and get the facts. Personally I prefer if Wikipedia just says “earth is a sphere” and links citations, than makes me wade through a bunch of bullshit and evaluat
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by topranks 5y ago
Well now that you put it like that… …I guess NFTs are awesome after all. Where’s my credit card at…
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by topranks 5y ago
I don't think it's particular to Brazil.
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by topranks 5y ago
It doesn’t really though. It makes laughable claims like miners have only 94KB of bandwidth. It’s the same old fud that says SPV is unsafe for the average user, Moore’s law is nonexistent, and even then makes crazy lowball assumptions about
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by topranks 5y ago
Because Bitcoin works in a way that means miners, collectively, control the network. They voted with their hash power against Bitcoin Cash when it forked, which was the “increase the limit” fork aiming at low fees and high number of transac
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by topranks 5y ago
The miners control the network, longest chain and all that. They also have lots of money to pay for devs. Foolish to think a bunch of open source devs are controlling the protocol in defiance of miners who would rather they do something els
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by topranks 5y ago
This is the real reason for the block size cap.
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by topranks 5y ago
It’s core principal; that the 1MB blocks use cap was arbitrary and holding back the network, remains 100% true. The arguments against SPV wallet use in this text don’t ring true for me.
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by topranks 6y ago
The author is widely respected in the internet, open source and technical world. He founded the PowerDNS project and worked with many operators as a result. Not that that’s everything but I would tend to trust Bert. Certainly, based on hi
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by topranks 6y ago
My sentiments exactly.
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by topranks 6y ago
Hadn’t seen these before. Bunch of JSON files there - any advice on which ones to use??
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by topranks 6y ago
I’d be divorced in short order if my family had to constantly ask me to add sites to the whitelist. I can’t see this being workable for the vast majority of people.
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by topranks 6y ago
That is an insane amount of state for auth dns servers to maintain. “Pushing” the message out that the record has changed would also prove tricky to implement I’d say.
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by topranks 6y ago
That’s the bit that doesn’t make sense. They can’t really avoid running fibre with mmWave cos they have to backhaul it. Sure there is point to point radio, but in the main they’ll need to get fibre almost as close to you as with a fixed li
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by topranks 6y ago
This famously didn’t work for Red Hat.
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by topranks 6y ago
There are what, 3 screens sizes in the iPhone lineup? Is it really that hard to test against them? Android developers would love to have it so easy I’m sure.
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by topranks 6y ago
None of the kit I have can do GRE encap fast enough for the tunnel to be a good alternative to the native v4 I have.
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by topranks 6y ago
Yeah. It’d never be as easy to convert a decentralised system like the internet to a new protocol. That said, simply increasing the IP address field size in the header would have been a lot simpler and been easy to upgrade. A big part of
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by topranks 6y ago
It’s been the way since way back in the 80s. Domain name is often the best way to go. Esp if different organisations are involved (like a mail hostel.)
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by topranks 6y ago
Well I guess the question is, if the US govt (or any other superpower) felt it was in their interest to take over / destroy the blockchain, would they be able to? It seems to me if Bitcoin got to be of huge strategic importance to glob
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by topranks 6y ago
If there were a million transactions per block (every 10 mins,) there would be a lot more than 7 per second.
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by topranks 6y ago
Well that’s the question and the reason for the block war and the BTC/BCH split. I’m not sure myself. Attempt to drive people towards LN or other “second layer” solutions for payments? Or deliberate attempt to create a high fee marke
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by topranks 6y ago
Presumably meant to say “Proof of Stake”
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by topranks 6y ago
Facebook is seriously “uncool”. They’ve very little chance to make their phone cool. Maybe if they use the Instagram brand.
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by topranks 6y ago
IPv6? Still will need hole punching but no “IP discovery”.
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by topranks 6y ago
Not that I disagree, but the problem for crypto is that it its use as a currency mostly is criminal. There are very few legitimate goods and services people purchase with crypto. Yes the US dollar is used for more crime than crypto, but
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by topranks 6y ago
Yeah it kinda pisses me off constantly reading about how decentralised messaging, or ad-hoc wireless mesh networks, or whatever it is, is the way to go. That shit works on a small scale. Serving the entire planet needs hierarchy and co-ord
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by topranks 6y ago
Akamai is fronting InfoWars? Didn’t know that. EDIT: Just checked and it’s resolving to Cloudflare IPs where I’m at. Same same but different I guess.
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by topranks 6y ago
Lightning network is a joke tbh. It’s just gonna be a few large payment processors acting as banks (it can’t be decentralised cos the routing will just break.). As the original post said BCH and Monero are real world ways to transact right
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by topranks 6y ago
I suspect the powers that be will want to send a strong message. But let’s see. Depends what they’re charged with first.

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