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by xiphias 9y ago
As far as I see from the github activity, now that SegWit is activated, the developers are putting much more effort to finishing. Anyways you're right that maybe I was a bit too optimistic. Bitcoin is getting popular as a store of valu
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by xiphias 9y ago
There are many things the author didn't think about. With Segregated Witness, the signatures don't need to be part of the 1MB block. Also for multi-sig we will be using aggregatable Schnorr signatures, so multi-sig won't take
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by xiphias 9y ago
Why is it incompetence if Fed increases shareholder value?
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by xiphias 9y ago
I see Bitcoin an amazing store of value as it is. Of course I'm excited for the improvements that are coming to it (ring signatures being used to increase privacy of the system, Schorr signatures to make multiple signatures aggragatabl
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by xiphias 9y ago
8+ hours of working per day pretty much guarantees a burnout for most people
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by xiphias 9y ago
Energy of a small city is still not big enough to protect from a government takeover. Also what matters more is the cost of the mining equipment (which is more than 1.5 years of electricity if the equipment is refreshed every 1.5 years). An
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by xiphias 9y ago
It's the first time since I'm alive a language that is higher level than C/C++ can compete with C/C++ in the benchmarks. If you have experienc with large C++ code bases you probably know how impossible it is to write saf
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by xiphias 9y ago
There's an easy way to not be frustrated: just buy Bitcoin independently from what you're working on. If you understand what that means to own BTC 10 years from now, you know that malinvestments won't get you frustrated.
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by xiphias 9y ago
In my experience the new ,,cool'' startups prepare interview questions in python/ruby/..., give some time, and don't measure the time spent by the program. In this setup writing the same code in C++ (including the r
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by xiphias 9y ago
The fact that the author knows about Bitcoin means that he will have it before other people. He understands that its value is either infinity or 0 counted in dollars... he just needs to change the direction
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by xiphias 9y ago
I'm still waiting for an exchange taking proof of reserves or multi-sig with other exchanges seriously. We know it can be done, and we k ow that none of the exchanges do it anymore. As hopeful as I am, I know that scaling number of use
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by xiphias 9y ago
https://youtu.be/0WCaoGiAOHE It was at 02:30:00
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by xiphias 9y ago
V1 in July wrote $4000. I'm sure that if the model would be updated with the current crash of the price, it would predict significantly less than $6000. I think it's just impossible to do predictions on such timeframe. It's e
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by xiphias 9y ago
What about the TXIO lookup DOS attack that was published last weekend? Not that something like this could destroy Bitcoin, but it could potentially slow down adoption by a year, as people lose some confidence temporarily. Still, I'm ha
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by xiphias 9y ago
When people bought the car, they knew that it was software limited. Tesla is really one of the few companies that is trying to cleanup this world, in which we're forced to live in polluted large cities to have a good job. If the compa
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by xiphias 9y ago
Yes, I know how things work. I just imagined my life if none of the technologies were invented, except an amazing store of value + great currency at the same time.
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by xiphias 9y ago
About 1000x value from now. That's when all fiat currencies hyperinflate. It's scary to think that it's not that far away, about 10-20 years from now if the crypto adoption trend continues.
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by xiphias 9y ago
It's more than just science. I believe it changes the world more than anything in the last 30 years. I have been thinking of what the world would be without internet / computers / mobile phones, but having a great liquid st
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by xiphias 9y ago
This looks like a clear case of regulatory arbitrage. It would be great if FDA would just help test subjects decide what to do with their life by giving them more data about the risks of the experiments.
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Peter Thiel backs offshore human testing of experimental herpes vaccine(techcrunch.com)
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by xiphias 9y ago
I'd like to see a trailer video generated for the next series
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by xiphias 9y ago
After the classifyer works better, it can be plugged in to credit ratings of people... I have seen something like this in Black Mirror: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive
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by xiphias 9y ago
There are so many buttons on my car that I don't know what they do. Although touch screen has its own issues, it's currently the only way to make the input UX updatable. Better speech recognition is clearly another option in the n
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by xiphias 9y ago
In my point of view (a strong Bitcoin Core supporter) this is an attack on Bitcoin by most of the big miners that increases centralization of the miners even more. The sad part is that if that if they do what they are signaling, the difficu
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by xiphias 9y ago
It could go to $0 instantly, if ECDSA + RIPEMD160 would be cracked. I don't see any other way currently.
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by xiphias 9y ago
Not, but you have to be prepared for not touching your investment for 5 years because of the high volatility (which means the price could go down to $1000 for a year temporarily, than back up to $10000). Here's a logarithmic graph of t
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by xiphias 9y ago
With their BTC/ETH after going through Momero they can take part in any ICO anyways
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by xiphias 9y ago
You're quite early even by talking about it
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by xiphias 9y ago
It removed the clickbaity part of the title. Withough that I have to skim the whole article just to find that information
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by xiphias 9y ago
In the last week there was a fear of the Bitcoin Cash fork splitting the community. The fork failed so spectacularly that the biggest problem for Bitcoin / Bitcoin Cash holders was how to dump Bitcoin Cash when all reputable exchanges

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