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by urza 6y ago
You can also look into Trezor - it has much better backup system, among other advatages compared to yobikey https://blog.trezor.io/openssh-with-fido2-and-trezor-e565c22...
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by urza 6y ago
You can also use Trezor.io instead of Yubikey for ssh login. https://blog.trezor.io/openssh-with-fido2-and-trezor-e565c22... Advantage of Trezor is that it has better backup system and can be used for more things in general
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by urza 6y ago
You can convert them to Bitcion on Lightning Network here: https://kriptode.com/xlmtoln/index.html
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by urza 6y ago
I would like to add, that even for small teams/projects the cost is the reason. We have small business project, with only one server, few hundred customers, with varying traffic (database sync between thick clients, web portal,..). We
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by urza 6y ago
Oh, wow this is cool. Thanks.
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by urza 6y ago
This is great! Is it possible to download the whole collection?
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by urza 7y ago
Alternatives based on peer-to-peer (micro)payments are already staring to emerge, e.g. this guys is building patreon alternative based on Lightning Network (Bitcoin's second layer able to handle millions of tx per seconds for negligibl
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by urza 8y ago
Bitcoin allowed to accept donation for Wikileaks since 2011 when Visa and MC blocked them. (Nowadays they accept also more privacy preserving currencies like Monero or ZCash) Bitcoin allows people in Venezuela to avoid wealth confiscation o
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by urza 8y ago
Apple might offer better privacy than Google or Facebook now, but it can change easily because privacy is not their core product. I have high hopes for Librem 5 where privacy of user is the core product of the company. https://pu
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by urza 8y ago
This comment should be on top.
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by urza 9y ago
Meanwhile I will be in forests... Kingdom Come.
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by urza 9y ago
Here is something from Andreas Antonopoulos on this topic: https://youtu.be/c4TjfaLgzj4?t=14m35s I think the most important aspect is that Lightning Nodes are just sending bitcoin transactions, the whole system is trustle
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by urza 9y ago
Btw you can also do SSH, GPG and 2FA also with Trezor, which has the advantage that for all functionallity you can have a one "24 words" seed backup, from which everything is determined. Oh and you can of course use it as bitcoin
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Why You Should Never Use Google Authenticator Again(blog.trezor.io)
1 points by urza 9y ago|1 comments
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by urza 9y ago
Thanks for the essay. This is on the same topic, from similar angle, also very good one, by Nick Szabo: "Trusted Third Parties Are Security Holes" http://nakamotoinstitute.org/trusted-third-parties/
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by urza 9y ago
So what would be some real use cases?
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by urza 9y ago
Yes, it is censorship resistant, but more importantly it is much more than payment system. It is for the first time in human history that we are able to scale trust. Money transactions are just first and obvious use of it. But it will event
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by urza 9y ago
private schools and hospitals would be Darwinian shitshows that absolutely guaranteed rising health and income inequality Reality disagrees. Pretty much everywhere where private schools and hospitals are allowed at least to some degree, t
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by urza 9y ago
Look at the innovation pace of products delivered by free market vs those by government. If government made computers, they would still be big as room and only the rich could afford them. Meanwhile free market delivered computers into your
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by urza 9y ago
Do you really believe the fines Microsoft was ordered to pay had any effect on the direction of the company? It was on a level of mosquito bite for them. What really forced them to change in last few years is the changing landscape of the w
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by urza 9y ago
Rich people and corporations will never pay full taxes. The only way to make it fair is to lower taxes for everyone. EDIT: downvote me all you like, but the facts and all human history are on my side. Taxes are and always have been paid mos
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ASP .NET Core 2.0 is the version to jump in(weblog.west-wind.com)
1 points by urza 9y ago|0 comments
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by urza 9y ago
Then the author does not understand how cryptocurrencies work. There is nothing preventing to have inclationary currency, and indeed many such exists.
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by urza 9y ago
So the argument basically comes down to that crypto is too volatile and not usable as unit of account? 1. Crypto is still in its initial stage, where capital is flowing into it. Once it is there, it will be less volatile. You can already se
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by urza 9y ago
Yes I can understand it with compactness of mabook aris (I also have one), but with such expensive desktop, I would want to keep the possibility to repair and upgrade. When motherboard, display or any non standard soldered component dies, y
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by urza 9y ago
I am talking about models that have ssd as chips soldered to the motherboard. You cant buy aftermarket replacement for that.
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by urza 9y ago
I would worry that something breaks after warranty expires and the whole computer can go out of the window. With regular good old desktops you can just replace the broken part. With such special custom made hardware it is sometimes impossib
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Price changes in consumer goods and services in the USA, 1997-2017(ourworldindata.org)
1 points by urza 9y ago|0 comments
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by urza 9y ago
US Dollar lost 95% of it's purchasing power over the last century, so much for "must store a stable value for a long time". The wealth distribution of dollar is based on how many more people your grandfather killed than my gr
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by urza 9y ago
"which will not fuel the economy" So you mean, like, people will not waste nature's resources for things they don't really need? Oh, what a tragedy!

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