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by flarex 2y ago
The decoy method doesn't even work because a smart criminal could just check your exchange withdrawals for amounts. You'd have to hope that they were ignorant enough.
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by flarex 2y ago
It's becoming increasingly difficult. Data leaks, address and name leaks and chain analysis have made it easier to track who owns what. If crime agencies are able to track wallets down then criminals are too.
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by flarex 2y ago
Google is a privacy antagonist. Apple is privacy focused because it suits their business. Apple has been privacy focused for years and has built several technologies to prove it. It's not hollow marketing to build privacy software.
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by flarex 2y ago
There is no serious person that could think that Google is a privacy focused company. Their entire business is founded on knowing everything about their users. It's an ad company. They need user data to function and they will never rel
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by flarex 2y ago
Okay but from an evolutionary sense which company should we be supporting. The one company that is somewhat moving towards privacy or the 10 others that don't give a shit. Which one should survive. Would you like to see companies that
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by flarex 2y ago
I'm not aware of any other company of Apple's size (or anywhere approaching) that have been as committed to privacy tech. Of course they are not perfect and sometimes get it wrong but they constantly release new technologies that
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by flarex 2y ago
Homomorphic encryption is broadly useful and in fact should be ubiquitous for remote computation that leaks private data (not to comment specifically on Apple's implementation). They did open source it though, which gives you an idea t
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by flarex 2y ago
Not really they are moving into homomorphic encryption where the entire query and processing is encrypted and Apple has no knowledge of the what you actually requested.
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by flarex 3y ago
That's the Bahamas not Bermuda.
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by flarex 3y ago
Augur and Numerai are unlikely to be successful long run given their current usage. Filecoin is up in the air, Brave seems to be doing okay.
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by flarex 3y ago
It has inbuilt clients that connect to Tor, IPFS and an ad blocker that can generate a small amount of income just for browsing the web. Their token is used to pay users for receiving adverts. ICO probably wasn't necessary but at the t
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by flarex 4y ago
It should also be noted in the 7 years since launch that a large portion of that 59% would have been sold or lost and hence re-distributed to other users on the platform.
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by flarex 4y ago
Some ecosystems have made significant progress on in browser and mobile light clients. For example: https://github.com/paritytech/substrate-connect/
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by flarex 4y ago
Modern light clients don't use that much battery and are optimised for mobile usage. They even have very short start times making use of snapshotting and back filling headers i.e. you ask all nodes on the network that latest snapshot h
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by flarex 4y ago
North Korea didn't use them yet to layer stolen funds. Just a matter of time before ZCash and Monero developers are all arrested if this is the precedent.
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by flarex 4y ago
People have been using the Tulip bulb analogy for 12 years. What's stopping most people at this point is they understand the analogy doesn't fit.
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by flarex 4y ago
I think that the best way for Coinbase to combat this is to make as much information public as possible in as close to real time. For example they have a listings website - make every application public in real time. If there are meetings a
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by flarex 5y ago
PoW equally rewards early participants because they take the lions share of the initial blocks. Satoshi is a multi-billionaire. There are very few blockchains that don't heavily favour early adopters and for good reason: it acts as a b
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by flarex 5y ago
Blockchains solve the trusted intermediary problem which is far more general concept than double spending. It's also a common misconception that blockchains are anonymous; they are pseudoanonymous and there are companies devoted to de-
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by flarex 5y ago
My intuition tells me that if an asset class rises steadily (albeit with volatility) for 10+ Years the majority of investors would be in profit. Anecdotes aside. Do you have data that suggests otherwise? I would be surprised if you did.
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by flarex 5y ago
Scams, criminals, ponzi schemes and MLMs. Usually when those are used to describe crypto there is no accompanying explanation of why those are relevant or apply in a particular case. There are many ways to genuinely critique crypto that don
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by flarex 5y ago
It's the easiest to use because of the prevalence of phone numbers and transferability between phones. These properties that give it the best user experience also make it the worst form of 2FA. TOTP and hardware keys are more secure bu
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by flarex 5y ago
He must have been hit with a wrench already if he thinks that they wouldn't just have him type it out from muscle memory.
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by flarex 5y ago
Not only that. If you renounce citizenship you are exit taxed on all your assets worth over 2 mil as a disincentive to high net worth individuals from jumping ship. Most aggressive tax regime in the world in many respects.
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by flarex 6y ago
Unlikely as there is an ice age built-in to eth1 which will steadily increase the time between blocks until none are produced. There should also be a hard fork which includes code which just stops the old chain on block x. Anyone that wante
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by flarex 6y ago
You also work for Blockstream. Maybe there could be some bias there?
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by flarex 6y ago
Had a similar issue with an image I tried. qemu: uncaught target signal 4 (Illegal instruction) - core dumped
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by flarex 6y ago
"Advanced Protection prevented your Google Account from signing in. This security feature stops most non-Google apps and services from accessing your data to keep your account protected."
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by flarex 6y ago
They took the best features from a number of different projects and gave an equal opportunity for all participants staking to earn tokens. Most other tokens/projects have been VC funded with an uneven number shares allocated to early f
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by flarex 6y ago
They probably shouldn't have published their admin (public) keys in advance. That way it would have been impossible to "front-run".

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