cryptophile

17 ms·

1.
by cryptophile 12y ago
Take her around the world--nice and, not so nice places; then decide if you still want to get married. I think that this is the wrong approach. Anybody is suitable for marriage, on the condition that their culture says that there is no ot
2.
by cryptophile 12y ago
People are always compatible, if they have to. That is why rampant marriage failure is a cultural problem, not an individual one. Therefore, if you just avoid to pick someone from the wrong (western) community, you should already be ok.
3.
by cryptophile 12y ago
I do not believe that marrying the "wrong person" is fundamentally that common. The problem is rather that it could be simple and easy to divorce someone for the inevitable quirks that you do not want to learn to put with. That is
4.
by cryptophile 12y ago
Distributed signing is useful in other contexts too. It does not always have to be bitcoin-related ...
5.
by cryptophile 12y ago
It has always been like that. Women have never "fallen in love" with men who are not sufficiently socially successful. There is nothing new under the sun in that respect. But then again, "socially successful" is a very r
6.
by cryptophile 12y ago
Enlisting more cores in order to get something done faster, you know, by splitting the work is indeed a serious pain. I recently wanted to get lpsolve to split an integer branch-and-bound programming problem across multiple cores and then g
7.
by cryptophile 12y ago
Trust that I have implemented no back doors. Yes, you are right. This entire NSA thing is bad business for American companies. Even an erstwhile global darling such as Google suffers from this. They are now being viewed with suspicion ...
8.
by cryptophile 12y ago
It does not even matter that "the majority of Tor users are using it for nefarious purposes". Any attempt at intimidation will work out exactly the other way around. Doing anything that the NSA do not like, is "cool"; ev
9.
by cryptophile 12y ago
The NSA strategy of spying on everyone only works when most people are not aware of it. The surprise element is now gone. They can undoubtedly already see the effect of the recent scandals in a serious decrease in quality of the information
10.
by cryptophile 12y ago
It would be enough to attack the machine holding the decrypted bitcoin key in order to steal the money. So, you still have that dreaded single point of failure problem there. The security solution consists in forcing the attacker to attack
11.
by cryptophile 12y ago
Unfortunately, multisig forces you to use the blockchain. There are use cases where you don't want that. SSS, on the other hand, seems too complex to feed back through the ECDSA signing algorithm. In the link above they just use the fa
12.
by cryptophile 12y ago
Uber is actually a good example of how existing regulations can be a formidable barrier to startups; or even any kind of innovation. You are not just free to offer a new product or service that competes with existing ones. The incumbents wi
13.
by cryptophile 12y ago
They may not have a choice. I can perfectly well see why they erect barriers and put large obstacles in front of people trying to cross their borders. The problem is rather that startups should not demand that you physically move over there
14.
by cryptophile 12y ago
I personally think that companies should avoid asking anybody to physically come over. Working or even partnering up remotely is perfectly possible.
15.
by cryptophile 12y ago
To some extent, you may still need to be physically present in the US/Silicon Valley in order to join in on some of the startup fun. However, it is often possible to do that without moving over. I personally only participate in a start
16.
by cryptophile 12y ago
A method to explode a bitcoin private key with SSS into multiple secret parts and use them to collaboratively sign transactions has unfortunately not yet been discovered. What exists already, though, is something similar. Instead of fitting