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   by zodiac 9y ago

   Think about it using my definition of fork, the answer should be clear
2. 332.▲
   by zodiac 9y ago

   A fork is just a protocol upgrade that is non-backward-compatible and where both the old and new protocols have significant amount of validators (in PoW, this means miners) operating with that protocol. Since the protocols are not compatibl
3. 333.▲
   by zodiac 9y ago

   He meant "how long before technology advances, due to Moore's Law or whatever, to the point where it's really cheap to brute force the key space". Not "how long it takes from the moment you attack it to the moment y
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   by zodiac 9y ago

   But it does make sense as an analogy? In this case the contents of the safe correspond to the plaintext, the key that opens the safe is the private key, and having the safe without the key is like having the ciphertext without the private k
5. 335.▲
   by zodiac 9y ago

   Yeah, of course that's probably the reason.
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   by zodiac 9y ago

   I understand that we should consider the human cost in this sense, but if you're going to appeal to the empathy I have for the people who lose jobs, you can't ignore the people which benefit from the "industries being sent ov
7. 337.▲
   by zodiac 9y ago

   The article is really asking "why does the tech industry accept Saudi money?", not "why does Saudi Arabia invest in tech companies?"
8. 338.▲
   by zodiac 9y ago

   I wonder how some of the legal doctrines described would treat stolen zcash, since anonymity of some transactions can be guaranteed mathematically (assuming some cryptographic assumptions). If a jurisdiction would, for a broker that didnt k
9. 339.▲
   by zodiac 9y ago

   Post-fork, two coins like BTC and BCH are not fungible either from the networks or from a user's point of view
10. 340.▲
    by zodiac 9y ago

    I don't think this analysis is about cross-exchange arbitrage
11. 341.▲
    by zodiac 9y ago

    > Amazon doesn't give money to investors. You mean "Amazon hasn't given (much) money to investors so far". It's an important distinction, whether you agree with their argument or not.
12. 342.▲
    by zodiac 9y ago

    Idk, we seem to live fine with thousands of fiat currencies, stocks, bonds, and derivatives, all non-pairwise-fungible. Markets could make it so that you'd just buy utility tokens when you need them, and only investors would need to ca
13. 343.▲
    by zodiac 9y ago

    You're right, but MC rollouts work better (better estimate) for some games than others.
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    by zodiac 9y ago

    I think the only thing about go that enables this technique is "turn-based perfect information 0-sum game".
15. 345.▲
    by zodiac 9y ago

    There are project like MakerDAO that indeed use smart contracts (plus fiat price oracles and some other things) to implement monetary policy without any "pilot".
16. 346.▲
    by zodiac 9y ago

    1. If in your use-case it's important to let the user recover from lost keys, you can have some multisignature recovery (I designate n trusted parties like friends, family, governments etc, if I lose my key they are allowed to together
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    by zodiac 9y ago

    > Special relativity is a fact. The math behind GR and QM contradict each other. We have a large amount of empirical evidence for a speed limit for information travel, yes, but since we don't even know how the universe works (ie a m
18. 348.▲
    by zodiac 9y ago

    How would you have preferred to be informed about the fork?
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    by zodiac 9y ago

    > They can easily funnel all internet traffic to Toutiao They can't force users to download the app and use it (without us knowing it), can they? They could control the content it shows users, but how does that make the stats inaccu
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    by zodiac 9y ago

    If we define "the bar" as "people's expectations for what a useable module system looks like" you can set it without being novel at all
21. 351.▲
    by zodiac 9y ago

    In normal PoW, if you own a botnet, unless your botnet has a significant % (something like 25-51% depend9ng on details) of global hash power you're economically incentiviced to work on the main chain rather than try to "take over&
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    by zodiac 9y ago

    While your criticisms are valid, you're criticizing just one implementation of "a blockchain", namely chains secured by CPU-bound PoW. There's plenty of other implementations with different trade offs. You could design y
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    by zodiac 9y ago

    You should ask the people doing healthcare with blockchain, or whatever it is you're confused about. I agree, oftentimes they just have no idea what they're talking about. Sometimes they do though. It's worth noting that I th
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    by zodiac 9y ago

    > If the 'value' of executing contracts in $/gas exceeds the cost of renting AWS/EC2 nodes you're basically created a market for mining arbitrage, and perverse incentives where those miners want to push the price
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    by zodiac 9y ago

    > Why? Click the link to find out! The money was to put in some kind of ads or sponsored content
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    by zodiac 9y ago

    Which US constitution clause would prohibit the US government from launching a 51% attack?
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    by zodiac 9y ago

    > Note that some of these bugs are in an optimizer, something a security-focused package handling money shouldn't even need Contract callers pay gas fees to execute the contract so inefficient contracts literally waste transaction f
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    by zodiac 9y ago

    I think large states definitely have the resources to launch 51% attacks
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    by zodiac 9y ago

    There's some discussion about that here https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1287
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    by zodiac 9y ago

    Written in 2014 though