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Responsible disclosure in the Cryptocurrency Age(medium.com)
4 points by altoz 8y ago|0 comments
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by altoz 8y ago
Not surprising: Keynesian economist doesn't like Austrian economics explanations. Surprising: Bitcoin part is largely left uncriticized. I would say the author of this article is clearly biased against the Austrian view that make Bitco
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Ask HN: What programming laptop should I get for my kid?
3 points by altoz 9y ago|4 comments
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by altoz 9y ago
Not surprising: Nearly everyone from Silicon Valley that's progressive/liberal thinks there's no problem or that the problem is something else. Nearly everyone not fitting the description above thinks there's a problem a
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by altoz 9y ago
If you want to hear this article read out loud, this podcast has this article along with some commentary: https://soundcloud.com/noded-bitcoin-podcast/noded-020
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Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?
180 points by altoz 9y ago|98 comments
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by altoz 9y ago
> Once a transaction gets confirmed on one chain, it's permanently able to be spent on the other. That's simply not true. If the utxo gets spent on the other chain, the two coins are permanently split. > Also, automated syst
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by altoz 9y ago
If you're transacting with an exchange or a merchant and accidentally send both coins (as a result of a replay attack) instead of one, they're going to give it back. It's not nearly the disaster this article makes it out to b
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by altoz 9y ago
Opt-in replay protection was merged in a few days ago. https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/commit/a3c41256984bf11d95a56... In any case, if you believe Bitcoin's main value proposition is as a great store of
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Blockchain 101 – Elliptical Curve Cryptography(eng.paxos.com)
78 points by altoz 9y ago|6 comments
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A Gentle Introduction to Bitcoin Core Development(medium.com)
11 points by altoz 9y ago|1 comments
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by altoz 9y ago
I wrote a similar article on the difference between ICOs and VC investment. In short, the investor gets much less in an ICO: https://medium.com/p/why-icos-are-very-different-than-seed-c...
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by altoz 9y ago
Corrected
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No Sean Spicer Didn’t Make Some Secret Bitcoin Transaction(medium.com)
60 points by altoz 9y ago|17 comments
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by altoz 9y ago
Hi, author of the Medium article here. The block containing the transaction was mined at 4:57pm EST (21:57 GMT) on 1/26: https://blockexplorer.com/block/000000000000000001b12145b9ba... https://blockchai
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by altoz 9y ago
There's a whole slew of designers and UX people, so whatever you see is definitely deliberate. They do a lot of usability testing, not just for the website, but the app, mobile site, etc. You would not believe how many iterations of so
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by altoz 9y ago
Former employee here. It used to be a 2-person company before it was acquired. A large part, surprisingly is scale. During Black Friday to Cyber Monday, for instance, the site is hit pretty hard by all the on-line shoppers. There's als
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by altoz 10y ago
Where was this article the previous 8 years?
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Bitcoin Realism Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love 1MB Blocks(medium.com)
2 points by altoz 10y ago|0 comments
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by altoz 10y ago
There are a lot of reasons Bitcoin is worth more than other cryptocoins. I lay out an analysis here: https://medium.com/@jimmysong/why-bitcoin-transaction-capaci...
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Why Bitcoin Will Get Scaling Without Segwit or Large Blocks(medium.com)
4 points by altoz 10y ago|0 comments
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by altoz 10y ago
This reminds me why calling out a company on twitter for something that goes wrong is way more effective than calling customer support. Basically a life lesson: Public shaming is way more effective than the processes set up to handle these
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by altoz 10y ago
If he really was a 10x engineer and it was a "small team" (say 6 people), wouldn't firing the other 5 have been the better move?
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by altoz 10y ago
I'm not sure how this is a story. This startup has been around since at least 2014: https://cointelegraph.com/tags/storj $100k of funding after 3 years of development doesn't really seem newsworthy.
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by altoz 10y ago
First, yes, there are large farms of miners, but that's only some of the mining power. While these mining farms can be targeted and shut down, a significant amount of mining power is actually held in places that wouldn't be easy t
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by altoz 10y ago
the seen: people it helps the (mostly) unseen: the higher burden on everybody else Is the tradeoff worth it? That's the question.
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by altoz 10y ago
Most altcoins are bought and traded using BTC as the onramp.
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by altoz 10y ago
The dinner choices were the worst. Where's steak or grilled chicken? Basically, the only meat options were a hamburger (with bun) or kosher hot dogs.
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by altoz 10y ago
Well said. There's this assumption that when people don't do what you would do, that they're misinformed, when in fact, they may very well have the same information, it's just that they disagree with you. In other words,
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by altoz 10y ago
tl;dr Your software sucks because you don't have enough technical talent. + sales pitch to develop technical talent at your company.

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