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Ask HN: Bitcoin malleability (split transaction)
1 points by skloubkov 13y ago|0 comments
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by skloubkov 13y ago
Pretty interesting read. Didn't know about use of gift cards, pretty cleaver. Any idea if the "mules" (from the article, the guys who get items shipped to them) would be in legal trouble?
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by skloubkov 13y ago
Isn't it better to overlay this whole security level over existing infrastructure (Skype or something) and take advantage of that? Seems like this new protocol wouldn't work too well with offline messages, storing previous convers
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by skloubkov 13y ago
Chrome - 31.0 16.97 IE - 11.0.96 2.83 Firefox 25 - [nothing showed up] Seems like test is focusing on something that IE optimized heavily
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by skloubkov 13y ago
Ouch, that market crash: http://markets.blockchain.info Here is another article: http://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/1384688...
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by skloubkov 13y ago
Just a suggestion, but perhaps you should provide a screenshot or a demo page. Seems like it would help since its all about visuals for the project.
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by skloubkov 13y ago
Difficult to get as sign-off on re-write of large systems when there technically nothing broken.
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by skloubkov 13y ago
This. I was implying that length of the string should mean length in characters, not bytes. This could lead to broken code and would require programmers to keep in mind both. I have switched from php long ago, but remember odd naming conven
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by skloubkov 13y ago
While I understand why this was done (for the sake of comparability), I feel like its better to bite a bullet and slowly phase out broken functions over several versions. Warn initially (few versions) and then raise exception/critical
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by skloubkov 13y ago
Someone that was trying to do money laundering (knowing in advance that it was illegal) got taken advantage of by bigger conman. Don't see why anyone would feel sorry for this guy. Would you feel bad for a robber that got caught?
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by skloubkov 13y ago
Reminds me of this: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about... College presidents act as a face of an institution, paying someone extra 100,000 could mean bringing in millions extra in donations&#x
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Photosynth 2.0 Preview [WebGL](photosynth.net)
1 points by skloubkov 13y ago|0 comments
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by skloubkov 13y ago
Seems like a privacy hole. Mailer can setup url that is composed of random words and is unique per email. Ex: www.tracker.com/weather-dog-city-nice.jpg could identify you + timestamp of request and bam, you have record of: valid email,
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by skloubkov 13y ago
While I really see potential of asm.js couple of things about execution (including this title) 1. Brings my browser to its knees (Firefox here) 2. Security. They seem to open themselves up to a whole lot of potential hacks (I hope their cod
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by skloubkov 13y ago
Pretty interesting meeting. Seems to cover more than just bitcoin, and includes the reasoning behind Assange's drive. Highly recommend listening to the actual audio file (its linked in the article): http://wlstorage.net&#x2F
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by skloubkov 13y ago
Would be cool to be able to tap to pay instead of scan to pay.
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by skloubkov 13y ago
I think this comes from the fact that Bitcoin transactions cant be refunded, but PayPal ones can be. So buyer could cancel the purchase and keep bitcoin with merchant being unable to do anything.
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by skloubkov 13y ago
>>The added bonus? No middlemen taking a cut from the transaction, he says. While low, there are actually transaction fees. Bitcoin payment has already been used on many websites and seems to work well for them. PayPal offers much mor