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Quantum Hardening Bitcoin: Cryptographers init PQC engineering and review(lclhost.org)
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by DINKDINK 2y ago
>Given the public ledger of Bitcoin, I would hardly say it has "censorship resistance". Conflates two orthogonal issues: Identifiable payment vectors and publishing preservation / ability to be censored.
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by DINKDINK 2y ago
The cryptographic properties of an L402's HMAC provide stateless authentication/verification which sub services can then be provisioned with payments to compose API calls in novel ways. E.g. Prior to L402, services needed to cong
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by DINKDINK 2y ago
>There is no such thing as "wasted energy". Your argument's basis is detached from reality: https://orientalnewsng.com/global-gas-flare-heightened-by-15... Thankfully, there are market participants who are
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by DINKDINK 4y ago
comments are focusing on the protocol's message content which is not the source of the ability to track broadcasters. The ability comes from detecting nuances in the RF signal: >BLE [snip] imperfections are introduced by the shared
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by DINKDINK 5y ago
All economic goods experience production pressures when their replacement costs are lower than their market prices. When the marginal production costs of a money is effectively 0 and the market price for new money is >0 (Seigniorage), t
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by DINKDINK 5y ago
This is the discussion around prices/exposure swapping/speculation I wanted to occur. If someone has the ability to buy yes exposure at 1 cent, subsequently kill me, and then collect 100 cents that's pretty high pay out odds.
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by DINKDINK 5y ago
The available price is 99 cents
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by DINKDINK 5y ago
>Prediction markets would influence the processes they're supposed to be impartially observing. Who said anything about impartiality (/cordially a strawman)? Changing behaviors is a feature not a bug. Your health insurance wri
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by DINKDINK 5y ago
A more accurate phrase is "Event Derivative" A derivative (a contract which is representative of some good, right, entitlement) based on the outcome of an event occurring or not. Event derivatives are all around us. You buying fir
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by DINKDINK 5y ago
>Now you know what it is like to be a black person What makes you think this person isn't black? Maybe the first step we can take to ensuring all people are treated with dignity and respect is to not assume Group X is that group oth
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by DINKDINK 5y ago
ttyplot is a handy tool to plot ongoing, time series data from STDIN. https://github.com/tenox7/ttyplot ping 8.8.8.8 | sed -u 's/^.*time=//g; s/ ms//g' | ttyplot Example
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by DINKDINK 5y ago
Let's think of cancers as biological errors in the growth instructions for cells. ITT, people are pointing out that ionizing radiation can cause genetic perturbations to cause cancers. Let think of that as a bit-flip in the genetic c
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by DINKDINK 5y ago
Paxos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos has existed for more than 30 years. If it were easy or simple to issue a money with distributed signing, it'd have been done before Bitcoin's PoW<->Difficulty
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by DINKDINK 5y ago
Developers have no ability to coerce what software bitcoin users run -- that's the entire point of bitcoin. If a competing developer fails to gain user adoption, it's on them that they haven't convinced users to switch conse
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by DINKDINK 5y ago
When a producer's margins increases, it doesn't mandate that their costs / waste increases. When margins increase, it allows, but doesn't mandate, production to be expanded -- either by new entrants or existing producer
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by DINKDINK 5y ago
I find this post very confusing. >I've read both the Bitcoin and Ethereum whitepaper and there's nothing about grievances of traditional governments usage of printing of their currencies and >[The desire to be a part of a &q
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
Do you think the Roman Catholic Church will give up the Geocentric status of the Bible? Like it or not, political power structures have no ability to impose their preference on rebellious reality. Governments lost the war against informati
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
What's your expectation for how effective that would be? Let's compare some existing bans, say prohibited cannabis farming: * Large energy use (lights, fans, pumps?) * Very characteristic energy use (high, relatively invariant) *
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
"Pumping water down hill is more efficient than pumping it sideways" The CoP of a heat pump is dependent on the temperature potential across the heat pump. Caution to the reader who thinks one could pump heat from frigid external
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
"I print a free newspaper. The margins are good if I put interesting-enough content in it and businesses pay me to place ads. An Indian retailer pays me for ads because my readership is high in India. Sometimes to get better content
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
This article has several inaccuracies 1) "blockchain inventor David Chaum" Chaum developed methods to do blinded ecash, there's nothing "blockchain" about a central database checking blinded signatures for double sp
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
Would you please either cite the source for your recollection or retract it? Hal had always denied being bitcoin's author: "he confirmed that he had corresponded with Bitcoin's creator, but denied any connection to the i
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
>In a buyers market. With the small block size, bitcoin is a seller's (miner's) market and refusing to upgrade preserves their market power - hence the tragedy of the commons. The produced good (SHA256 hashes and the transferab
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
The most aggravating aspect of the Dunning-Kruger effect occurs in people who know about the Dunning-Kruger effect: often they believe there can be _no_ case where the bulk of a distribution is above average. The easy example is: The avera
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
So if you hire a plumber to fix your sink, you have to pay them with all of your life savings? Else, you'd have profits left over, right?
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
Producers are subservient to consumer demand. No amount of production can force a consumer who refuses to change their consumption into buying an alternate good. If a town demands exclusively kosher bread, bakers cannot survive by baking
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
>your analysis is grade school level Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't analyze anything. My goal was to assert: Inflation is present in the US economy, Home prices as an example; and to provide some relative bounds on what
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
>That's assuming there's no return on the investment, of course. Was there an assertion that there isn't a return on investment? Asserting that the inevitable outcome of rampant income redistribution is systemic collapse
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by DINKDINK 6y ago
>Inflation has been been normal Inflation's been normal? Maybe we don't share the same reality. Let's continue with the USA, which previous commenters have be referencing. The median price of a US home has gone up 45% [1]

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