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by zeroxfe 9y ago
The only way to close the channel before the deadline is by having all participants (in the channel) sign a closing transaction with all the updated balances.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Wait, what? Validators can be run by anyone.
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Show HN: Hacking Stellar (draft)(github.com)
4 points by zeroxfe 9y ago|2 comments
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
This is amazing. Great job. (Consider pitching this to A-ha.)
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Evernote and VSCode have both been gigantic productivity boosts for me.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> at the very least it means lastpass can read all your passwords at any time. Not if it's been done right. They'd use some kind of multi-key secret sharing scheme (like shamir), where the password database would be encrypted w
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
This has been an internal course at Google for many years.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
But Tarsnap is much more than that -- it deduplicates, it encrypts, it has settings for restricting network, memory, and CPU usage, it caches and checkpoints, etc. I'm happy to pay the premium for the robustness I get from it.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> Isn't it a failure of a decentralized system the fact that most, if not all, persons using it end up depending on a centralized system? The centralized system you refer to here is the status quo (banks, fiat currencies, etc.) For
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
These are implementation details -- they don't belong in the specs. You can't access raw memory from JavaScript.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
BitStamp and Gemini are the safest, IMO. I'd recommend Kraken too, but they've been really overloaded lately.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> Now, if somebody could come up with more energy efficient way to achieve that consensus at such a scale... A handful of the top cryptos are using some variant of proof-of-stake (like dPoS, dBFT, etc.), all of which are energy efficient
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Makes me wonder what initial configurations of Game of Life can cause consciousness to emerge.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Solitary confinement means absolutely no social interaction at all. Also, sometimes, no light, books, or anything to engage your mind -- it's pretty close to torture. The alternative is not just "locked in with another inmate.&quo
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Um... I don't think anyone here is saying (or even implying) that.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
The explanation is in the PDF. OP was just pointing out the high-level description of how it's different. Obviously, the devil's in the details.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> This paragraph does not explain how they are different from Ripple's approach only that they are in fact different. I think the last line sums it up: "SCP is the first Byzantine agreement protocol to give each participant max
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
I have no opinion w.r.t. they have been pumped or not. I'm just saying that they all use novel consensus mechanisms that don't rely on huge amounts of work or long finalization windows. NEO, for example uses dBFT consensus (which
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Out of curiosity, where do you live? I do wire transfers regularly and have never not paid fees (often, both on the sending and receiving ends.) Also, I've never had a wire settle in under 24 hours. It's typically 2 - 7 days dep
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
Stellar, NEO, Ark, Ripple, Lisk, IOTA, RaiBlocks -- all using novel variations dPoS/PoW/PoS and making different tradeoffs w.r.t. centralization.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
ERC 721 just an API standard for non-fungible assets. There's nothing special on inherent to Ethereum that makes Cryptokitties possible. You can totally build something Cryptokitties with NEO -- the only difference is that because ther
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
It's primarily because large corporations within an industry don't trust each other (and IMO, shouldn't.) This is especially so when the corporations cross national boundaries.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
This applies to pretty much any company/individual that took advantage of the market prices. And not just dark fiber, but pretty much all infrastructure.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
The difference is that Bitcoin supports a limited number of smart contract types (due to limitations in its scripting language.) To create new types, it requires changes to the Bitcoin scripting language, protocol, and runtime, followed by
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
These are all effects of unregulated markets. Markets aren't right or wrong. People decide what's right and wrong, and apply the relevant constraints via regulation.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
I didn't read the GP ascribing morality into that statement. They're simply saying that the energy consumption is a market effect -- if it wasn't in the miner's self-interest to mine, they wouldn't.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> None of these technologies will disrupt big tech. Famous last words. Seriously though, this is the kind of thing people said about PCs, Microsoft, Linux, the iPhone, etc. (And today, about machine learning, blockchains, and VR.) It&#x2
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> the hash functions are robust, though collisions are a concern you are more likely to be eaten alive by ants, than witness a sha-256 collision with today's hardware > But my greater concern is in regard to nonce detection what
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
> And yet, that worthless fraudulent garbage is one of the few ways to get rich. ...for the founders of said fraudulent garbage and perhaps a small number of very lucky people.
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by zeroxfe 9y ago
I have a spreadsheet to track exactly this -- it's actually quite straightforward. By regulation, you are required to compute a crypto1-to-crypto2 trade as a crypto1-to-USD followed by a USD-to-crypto2. So if you're buying NEO wit

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