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by rxl 12y ago
Thanks! Really appreciate it. 1. The replication factor of the DHT is set to be high. 2. We'll be committed to seeding the network and will work with others to have them run nodes. 3. We will provide a full index of the DHT, so the dat
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by rxl 12y ago
Bitcoin technically has the capability to store at least 1K bytes per transaction using multi-sig outputs. 66 bytes per output * 15 possible outputs (for standard transactions) = 1K bytes. And you could do even more than that with non-stand
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Onename (YC S14) Goes Open-Source to Decentralize Auth(blog.onename.io)
40 points by rxl 12y ago|0 comments
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Why Consultants Love Terminal.com(blog.terminal.com)
2 points by rxl 12y ago|0 comments
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NewsGenius Annotates New York's Proposed BitLicense Regulations(news.genius.com)
1 points by rxl 12y ago|0 comments
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Fork the Proposed BitLicense Regulations on Github(github.com)
1 points by rxl 12y ago|0 comments
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Bitcoin Could Change Voting the Way It's Changed Money(motherboard.vice.com)
6 points by rxl 12y ago|1 comments
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by rxl 13y ago
Hey Thomas, thanks for your comments. 1) Every username system has some limitation on usernames. Look at Twitter. There are 650 million twitter users, and all of them picked usernames in the same global namespace. This demonstrates that usi
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by rxl 13y ago
Hey, thanks for the feedback! I love your pgp-messenger idea - you should do it! And you're right - the pretty front end is a big component. Two things, though - 1) we're working on open sourcing the profile crawler 2) it shouldn&
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by rxl 13y ago
Yes, when importing the private key into Namecoin-Qt, it needs to be in wallet import format. Make sure it's a Namecoin WIF, though. You might find this library helpful: https://github.com/halfmoonlabs/coinkit .
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by rxl 13y ago
No this is a feature. Big profiles (larger than 519 bytes) are chunked into multiple key-value entries in the blockchain. The "head" chunk has a next pointer to the next chunk and so on. The head chunk's key is the username,
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by rxl 13y ago
Apologies for the delay! We are trying really hard to handle the barrage of incoming requests and will get back to you shortly!
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by rxl 13y ago
We're working on a profile updating tool for the typical user and should have it out in the next couple of days. In the meantime, if you're somewhat tech savvy, you can update your profile as follows: 1) download/install Name
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by rxl 13y ago
We don't have your private key, and so we have you write down a passphrase that can derive the key (sha256(passphrase)). In addition, we have a last resort mechanism to help you recover your private key if it ever gets lost. We use sha
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by rxl 13y ago
Yes, we want to support Dogecoin soon. One simple thing we need, though, is an icon similar to the fontawesome bitcoin icon.
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by rxl 13y ago
A login system is definitely on the roadmap! We just decided to focus on the initial usecase of bitcoin payments. You're right, the global namespace very well might get crowded, but we'll see how it plays out.
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by rxl 13y ago
Include the spaces. Exactly as it appeared.
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by rxl 13y ago
We need to be clearer with this so apologies for the confusion. Calculate the sha256 of the passphrase to get the namecoin private key (in hex form). Then import the pk into namecoind or namecoin-qt with importprivkey.
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by rxl 13y ago
You can get the private key for the bitcoin address we created for you by calculating the sha256 of the passphrase you wrote down. We're working on improving this process and in the mean time we'll clarify further. Thanks!
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by rxl 13y ago
Ok we will clarify this, thanks for the feedback.
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Senate Banking Committee Hearing on Bitcoin [video](banking.senate.gov)
37 points by rxl 13y ago|5 comments
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Game Theory and Bitcoin(freedom-to-tinker.com)
2 points by rxl 13y ago|1 comments
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by rxl 13y ago
Ah you're right, it's not really a buying guide. The comparison chart is sortable though.
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3D Printer Comparison Chart(ryaneshea.com)
2 points by rxl 13y ago|3 comments
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Performance of Bitcoin vs other asset classes this year(imgur.com)
4 points by rxl 13y ago|0 comments
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by rxl 13y ago
Great suggestion. A system like this would also work well to: 1) increase the variability of information consumed by the community 2) combat group think (which is all too prevalent these days on HN) 3) provide a more level playing field for
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by rxl 13y ago
Bitcoin, Litecoin, Feathercoin, etc. are all decentralized currencies, and this fact should give you at least one very good reason to trust them. Ripple has been pre-mined and is not decentralized, but in fact controlled by one entity (rega
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by rxl 13y ago
First, let me quote http://ripplescam.org/ : But wait – you can become your own validator! [...] The consensus system ensures there is only one ledger – the most accepted one. If you run your own validator, you must
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by rxl 13y ago
Ripple has several huge problems that will prevent it from gaining as much steam as other cryptocurrencies. First, OpenCoin pre-mined the XRP's so they could hack the cryptocurrency trend and make tons of money if their currency took o
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by rxl 13y ago
This article is quite sensationalist and doesn't seem to consider the fact that every company today is in a different stage of its life cycle. FB was founded in 2004, while Google was founded in 1998, so it's appropriate to compar

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