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Michael Saylor's Bitcoin Treasury Firm Strategy Sells 32 BTC(decrypt.co)
7 points by trotro 4mo ago|1 comments
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by trotro 4mo ago
These companies are selling subscriptions for what is basically AGI, yet you think they should have the same valuation as Crocs (yes, the footwear company) ?
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by trotro 10mo ago
If the goal is just to buy and hold, then you wouldn't use perps, not only because of counterparty risk but also because the funding rate is typically positive, meaning you pay (usually ~10% APR) to be long. The point of perps is: - Ea
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by trotro 11mo ago
Feels like a Temu version of Ramanujan's constant [0]. [0] https://mathworld.wolfram.com/RamanujanConstant.html
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by trotro 1y ago
FYI you can go to wa.me/<phone-number> on your browser to start a WhatsApp conversation without having to create a new contact.
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Introduction to Programmable Cryptography(github.com)
2 points by trotro 2y ago|0 comments
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Pedigree Collapse(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by trotro 2y ago|0 comments
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by trotro 2y ago
But formalization is the easy part for humans. I'm sure every mathematician would be be happy if the only thing required to prove a result was to formalize it in Lean and feed it to the AI to find the proof.
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by trotro 2y ago
The methods are know, but the solutions to the IMO problems weren't. So the AI did extrapolate a solution. Also, there's no reason to affirm that an eventual cure for cancer requires fundamentally new methods. Maybe the current me
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Some reflections on the Bitcoin block size war(vitalik.eth.limo)
4 points by trotro 2y ago|0 comments
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by trotro 2y ago
So how do these huge buybacks actually work? Like, do they just buy them in the open market? Or is it all OTC?
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Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems(eprint.iacr.org)
233 points by trotro 2y ago|124 comments
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by trotro 2y ago
Notwithstanding the extremely low probability of winning, lotteries aren't even fair, i.e. the ticket price is far lower than the expected earnings. I wonder if it would make sense to democratize cheap high risk, high rewards instrumen
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Marine Cloud Brightening(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by trotro 3y ago|0 comments
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SEC Must Review Grayscale's ETF Bid After Previous Rejection(coindesk.com)
18 points by trotro 3y ago|0 comments
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by trotro 3y ago
They don't depend on the blockchain, but the fact is that most recent research on these topics has come from the blockchain/cryptocurrency space. One interpretation is that crypto companies need security and privacy, while big tec
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by trotro 3y ago
I know this is tongue in cheek, but there's a lot more to crypto than the scams and failed projects exposed on web3isgoinggreat. One example is all the amazing new research in zero-knowledge proofs, MPC, FHE, and modern cryptography in
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by trotro 3y ago
I also recommend https://cryptohack.org to practice exploiting common cryptographic vulnerabilities.
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by trotro 3y ago
Same here, it's also by far the most convenient way I've found to share files between devices on my network.
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by trotro 3y ago
Porn. What you're missing is porn. Or generally, anything that's much better experienced directly than through a screen. Think about virtually hiking Mt Everest, diving the Mariana Trench, walking on Mars, etc. The technology cert
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by trotro 4y ago
And that's how you get people that think that every website starting with "https" is secure and legit, even though it's trivial for malicious sites to use TLS. Fundamental cryptographic primitives (encryption, signatures
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by trotro 4y ago
Crypto allows irreversible transfers, but traditional reversible transfers are also possible on smart contract chains, although definitely not the norm. The real bug is that irreversibility, and immutability in general, isn't possibl
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by trotro 4y ago
Didn't think I'd see a "I've got nothing to hide" argument on HN. Are you also against E2E messaging apps for the same reason? Being able to anonymously transfer value should be a fundamental right, as part of our f
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by trotro 4y ago
> You "need" a stable coin because you're trying to have your cake and eat it too: US dollar-like liquidity and value preservation without US dollar financial regulation. What about transferring value anonymously? Apart fr
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by trotro 4y ago
Good think about crypto is that you can just look at the code! Here is the Tether USDT contract https://etherscan.io/token/0xdac17f958d2ee523a2206206994597c... . There is a map `isBlackListed: address => bool` that s
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by trotro 4y ago
The closed forms of S(n) are known and are related to Bernouilli numbers. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulhaber%27s_formula .
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by trotro 4y ago
> I have never once wished my identity could be involved in a cryptocurrency for any reason. Worldcoin tries to solve this exact problem. There's already a way to involve your identity in crypto, namely centralized exchanges using K
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by trotro 5y ago
Have you had a look at gas prices recently? A transfer costs between 1$ and 2$ depending on the time of the day. It's still much higher than it should be, and let's hope that will change soon with the merge and L2 adoption, but t