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by hnolable 9y ago
MORE RUST PLEASE! :D
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by hnolable 10y ago
The part you're missing is that Bitcoin is totally fine if it never changed from how it is today. Anonymity will come via Tumblebit. Lightning network can already work even without segwit. Segwit never getting activated may even be a
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by hnolable 10y ago
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/01/26/segwit-benefits/#block...
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by hnolable 10y ago
Yes that's the issue here, the miners are playing politics by trying to flex their power. But no one is willing to play petty games. There's an obvious win for everyone sitting on the table ready to go. Political games will be
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by hnolable 10y ago
You admitted that "The whole reason people want bigger blocks is for higher transaction throughput on-chain." And said that "Segwit doesn't deliver that". Segwit delivers that.
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by hnolable 10y ago
You can play semantical games but segwit gives about 2x onchain capacity. And the only thing holding it up is a group of chinese miners/pools. Anyone truly wanting more onchain capacity should be engaging those miners/pools. Of
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by hnolable 10y ago
Segwit requires 95% of miners to activate. Currently about 75% of hash power is controlled by a group of chinese miners/pools. This is about the % of hashing power that is missing for Segwit to activate.
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by hnolable 10y ago
If Eric was serious about this he would have targeted this post at chinese miners who are stalling on activating segwit (which is a 2x blocksize increase and the foundation for instant & nearly free txs via the Lightning Network).
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by hnolable 11y ago
Shares are valued by people based on three things. Future direct cash you receive from the company based on the shares you hold (e.g. dividends/distributions and share buybacks). Voting power (i.e. control) in the company based on th
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by hnolable 11y ago
OTR anyone? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7252159
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by hnolable 13y ago
Ripple's consensus algorithm pretty much has this licked. https://ripple.com/wiki/Consensus - http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/10180/what-are-th... - http://bitcoin.
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by hnolable 13y ago
Yes I get that, I think there is a new DH for almost every message, much better than TLS. The problem is we have no idea what the NSAs abilities are in terms of actual cryptanalysis/cracking, but we do know that they have an immense d
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by hnolable 13y ago
I believe the weakest link in OTR is its Diffie-Helman key exchange. If you break that you get the symmetric key and can decrypt everything passively. OTR has been using a 1536 bit modulus for its Diffie-Helman exchange since 2004 [1] (Th
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by hnolable 13y ago
Fair enough, although their technology can be appreciated separately from the pre-mine. Anyone can fork it and do a purely mined version.
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by hnolable 13y ago
Ripple is also working on the same thing and is supposedly releasing them "soon": https://ripple.com/wiki/Contracts
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by hnolable 13y ago
If you're interested in a Bitcoin like currency without mining check out Ripple.
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by hnolable 13y ago
All the supported curves in TLS are most likely influenced by the US government (NIST, ANSI, and SECG). So we don't really have an option to use curves with a non-US provenance. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4492#
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by hnolable 13y ago
No, the DHE/ECDHE (ephemeral key exchanges) don't protect against MITM, it protects against passive dragnet decryption. But the RSA/ECDSA/DSS part (certificate signing) does. All TLS ciphersuites include certificate si
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by hnolable 13y ago
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256 is not forward secret (if you have the certificate private key you can passively decrypt all past/future sessions) so removing it is a great idea. I'm only responding to what you said and not makin
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by hnolable 13y ago
Does anyone know if there are any issues with the javascript OTR library they use ( https://github.com/arlolra/otr )? Or are all the issues only with their custom multi party chat encryption system?
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by hnolable 13y ago
Does anyone know if there are any issues with the javascript OTR library they use ( https://github.com/arlolra/otr )? Or are all the issues only with their custom multi party chat encryption system?
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by hnolable 13y ago
My understanding is app.net is trying to be a paid version of twitter. There was/is much debate whether it could ever take off. This is the first time I've ever seen someone link to it. Although now I realize that the link is t
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by hnolable 13y ago
I guess they didn't mark their cookies as 'Secure'. Oh well, the real story here is an app.net link at #1 on HN.
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by hnolable 13y ago
Just use Google through a VPN you trust. Same threat model, better results.
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by hnolable 13y ago
Here's something to ponder... Sure once in a while your bank/CC payment system protects you from a shady merchant... saving you what... 100$ (max?). Personally in my entire life I can't remember charging back once due to a shady merchant b
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by hnolable 13y ago
Totally agree with you on that. But let's compare your trust of your bank vs your trust of your mattress or your safe or your brain password that no one but you can produce.
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by hnolable 13y ago
Wow, so it _is_ true, that's the confirmation I was looking for. Really hard to believe. I knew if they did shut them off they would point to the fact it's still "beta". The subscription feature has been labeled beta since it was release
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by hnolable 13y ago
That sentence is confusing at best. "If you don't have your own payment processing" What does that mean? I thought Google Checkout was my payment processor? Do they mean if you already have a payment processor other than Google? And if
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by hnolable 13y ago
Anyone have any idea if this effectively terminates any existing recurring Google Checkout subscription payments (on November 20)? If so, that's kind of a big deal. Cutting off merchants from their revenue stream is a great way to get peo
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by hnolable 13y ago
NSA, China, Russia, most governments really, and possibly a lot of banks, could do a 51% attack and shut down transaction processing... or do double spends, but shutting down all transaction processing seems more damaging. This won't ever

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