freedaemon

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by freedaemon 6y ago
Saw this earlier and found this post to be a useful introduction: https://continuations.com/post/620550894200684544/meet-clari...
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Governance models for crypto tokens(medium.com)
1 points by freedaemon 9y ago|0 comments
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by freedaemon 9y ago
> For instance, unique usernames are impossible without a centralized username registry. This is Zooko's triangle and was squared by blockchains. Namecoin (2011), BNS (the Blockstack Name System, 2014), and now a bunch of other full
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by freedaemon 9y ago
Has squatting gotten worse on Namecoin? Squatting is fairly hard to handle in decentralized naming systems in general. Namecoin got a lot of squatting issues mostly because of the pricing function (price of names dropped over x years, and n
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by freedaemon 9y ago
Love the ZeroNet project! Been following them for a year and they've made great progress. One thing that's concerning is the use of Namecoin for registering domains. Little known fact: A single miner has close to 65% or more minin
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How Blockstack could address Amazon S3 outages(forum.blockstack.org)
1 points by freedaemon 10y ago|0 comments
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by freedaemon 10y ago
So it impacts the DAO and potentially impacts other deployed contracts (we don't know yet). It's an issue with Solidity because it doesn't even do static analysis to give the programmar a warning. It's not that programme
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by freedaemon 10y ago
Agreed the original article does a great job. However, without the "sensational" title and simpler explanation people were not paying proper attention to this. The original article discussed a bunch of other things as well -- ever
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by freedaemon 10y ago
It's an exploit because you can do this live on the DAO (and potentially other deployed contracts) today. Vector of attack for future contracts but already impacts the DAO.
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Chasing the DAO Attacker’s Wake – A second exploit(pdaian.com)
194 points by freedaemon 10y ago|171 comments
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Microsoft Building Open Blockchain-Based Identity System(bitcoinmagazine.com)
3 points by freedaemon 10y ago|0 comments
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Next Frontier in Proprietary Services vs. Open Protocols(medium.com)
5 points by freedaemon 11y ago|0 comments
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Things Engineers Do to Move to the US(medium.com)
7 points by freedaemon 11y ago|6 comments
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Bitcoin hashing power bigger than all Google datacenters(medium.com)
8 points by freedaemon 11y ago|0 comments
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The Slack Hack Showcases the Broken Model of Centralized Data(medium.com)
3 points by freedaemon 11y ago|1 comments
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by freedaemon 14y ago
Oh even the Gordon Brown public apology mostly talked about him as a 'codebreaker' in World War II
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by freedaemon 15y ago
So exploit them while you can? Interesting philosophy. I personally would hate working for a dumb boss.
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by freedaemon 15y ago
It's hard to find competent suits. And their understanding of tech is reducing, I'd suspect, as tech gets more complex.
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by freedaemon 15y ago
LOL, I just gave Google as an example and I don't even work for Google ;-)
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by freedaemon 15y ago
But why can't tech people be the top management? Google has never had a suit as CEO. Don't think their VPs are suits either. But it's true for most of the business world. Let me put this another way: are hackers inherently not suitable fo
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Ask HN: Why do hackers work for suits?
3 points by freedaemon 15y ago|13 comments