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I really think you're overstating things because that's not true for a majority of people. A 0-day found in open source code is no different than a 0-day in closed source. In both cases you need to responsibly disclose it to the maintainer and sit and wait for the fix to trickle through support channels. With open source you can attempt to submit a patch.

If I found a bug in ssl, I can't imagine I'd re-compile that and track down every package I use that relies on it and re-compile those. Everyone uses their own build system and managing dependencies suck. I'd try and mitigate the risk against those tools until fixes were distributed through normal channels--just like I would in Windows or macOS.

If I was a large company, with closed source software I would have a vendor agreement to get fixes/changes, with open source I would have the expertise in-house and extra labor (or I'd have an agreement with a support company like Red Hat much like closed source software). A small company likely won't have the expertise in house or the spare bandwidth to mess with those things. For home users it would have to be someone with a serious hobby and specific skills.
To be fair to their sense of confidence, there are a number of billion dollar companies that still aren't profitable, correct?
And killed the public API :(
This surprised me. I thought the term "Comic-Con" was sufficiently genericized that the trademark would be unenforceable. While I'm familiar with comic con, I certainly wouldn't have been able to tell you that the only "officially licensed" event was in San Diego.
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There is a thread on the site with the original Bitcoin paper right now. The first sentence of the abstract:

> A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.

A peer-to-peer network without going through a financial institution. The design was certainly intended to scale up to large numbers of small transactions.
hn started getting interested in bitcoin the same time as my parents.
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The idea is that bitcoin is decentralized. But common sense tells you that by having an append only system, eventually you will need a supercomputer to deal with the blockchain.

Naturally, the blockchain will have to be hierarchical, or find ways to compact it.
Liberapay unforutnately isn't able to handle USD as cheap as EUROS...according to https://liberapay.com/about/faq:

What are the payment processing fees?
The fees depend on the payment method as well as the currency.
When adding money into Liberapay the fees are:

Card (EURO): 2.106% + €0.21

CARD (USD): 2.925% + $0.35

Bank wire (USD/EURO): 0.585%

Direct debit (EURO): €0.59

Direct debit (USD): not supported

Withdrawing euros to a SEPA bank account is free, transfers to other countries cost €2.93 each.

Withdrawing US dollars costs $3.51 per transfer regardless of the destination country.
Her books are not that good; she's much closer to Dan Brown in terms of her success than people would think. The right product at the right time, quality is not paramount. Same as the Hunger Games, or Twilight, or Goosebumps.

If it were quality, Diane Duane or many, many other skilled writers would see success.
Dude, the Winklevoss twins are Bitcoin billionaires. This is hardly the currency of the proletariat.
But that's false. You always need some capital to make an investment in anything, but anyone with the foresight to recognize bitcoin's potential back in 2010 could mine and/or buy coins essentially for nothing.
I thought the big miners were the ones pushing for increasing block sizes b/c it would create an even higher barrier to entry to successfully mine a block that would allow the big miners to get bigger and consolidate power...
> I was surprised to feel relieved that she didn't actually text me.

Why?
That's about 19 minutes and 59 seconds longer than what would be acceptable for a digital cash system.
It's not a rigorous idea, but I'm not sure what you might be wanting to read about, exactly. However, given that most of the language features that the article described are relatively new to the language, or are proposed language features, I think the author has a strong claim.
One EMP strike could take down this tulip bubble ponzi bonzi garden scheme.
Wait, why are autonomous vehicles not AI anymore?
This may end up repeating the mistakes of a decade or two ago: after a business leader gets two requests rejected, they are very unlikely to go back with a third request - they will simply outsource every future request. Soon the IT departments were being downsized because they couldn't get business leaders to use them instead of going outside.
It also disincentivises investment, resulting in an economy less productive than it could be, and with built-in bias and stratifying wealth transfer, not unlike the system of bankers it seeks to replace.
Fees are in sat/wu not $.
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I don't think you're wrong and there are other problems too. Widespread Bitcoin adoption would require more energy for mining coins than the entire world can currently produce.
Demonstrably incorrect.

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=bitcoin+site:news.ycombin...
Thanks for sharing this. Of all the Sathoshi candidates, Hal Finney seems to be the closest (Not my analysis, but I tend to concur). Although he always denied it. When I read this[1] early reply by him, he seems to totally grok it.

[1] http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2009-January/...
This isn't just a thought experiment. This is genuinely what driving on Autobahn is like. You might think you are overtaking fast in 150kmph but then theres an even crazier guy coming in 200 behind flashing you for going too slow.

Both alternatives are equally common, either you slow down to 60 and let the 200 car pass, or you stay in the overtaking (maybe speed up a bit of of courtesy) and let the 200 guy slow down. In my experience the faster usually has higher priority unless the traffic is very heavy, because by going faster they also disappear faster and don't hog the left lane for as long as someone overtaking at a slower speed.
Well, would that happen we would have a lot more to worry about than the price of a virtual coin...
If you buy a debit card with $1000 on it with an ounce of gold, do you now have a gold debit card?
The person shipping it doesn't need to know who the sending or receiving parties are, just where the pickup and drop-off are.
Cash is decentralised.
I think I'm living in a different world than yours. Where I live, it's all different that what you said.

The block size hasn't increased. Instead, a new chain forked out with an 8MB block size, it's called Bitcoin cash.

Lightning network hasn't launched yet. A few people are testing alpha on the main net and that's it. (Btw I'm a skeptic of lightning network so i'm not advocating lightning network here).
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Satoshi didn't predict mining pools, but they were fully aware that mining nodes will be in minority. It's mining pools that produce centralization problem, not mining hardware.
I bring it up because he's promoting the Bitcoin Core vision for Bitcoin, and I am criticizing that vision. I'm giving a name for the stance that he has for communicative efficiency. How is his vision different than Bitcoin Core's?

>>Key custody and transaction fees have nothing to do with each other.

What are you talking about? They have everything to do with each other. If the average tx fee is $100, you will not be able to have bitcoin sent to your own private key unless you are handling large amounts of value - amounts that are way beyond what the vast majority of the world population deals with.

>>Miners aren’t altruistic, they won’t hash for free.

What does this have to do with having control over your own private key? You're changing the subject instead of addressing the fact that the Bitcoin Core idea of $100 transaction fees means the vast majority of the world population will have to rely on trusted third parties to control the private keys to their wealth, which totally contradicts the purpose of Bitcoin as described in the white paper.
It was a spur of the moment thing. I just didn't like feeling like I was asking for her number when it was only about the product.

Obviously, this is a dumb way to feel. But from what I've heard on HN and other places, this type of thing is starting to become more common. Men are starting to take precautions like never having a one on one meeting alone with a female coworker.

How much worry is the correct amount of worry? We only get to make one mistake before we're labeled and it follows us around the rest of our lives.
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Unfortunately, it seems like people with imposter syndrome are a far less likely to execute than the ones with the goal of being a douche bag. But, I do appreciate this interpretation as well.
Yeah it's amazing how little people complain about this issue, especially when alternatives exist that leave the idea of a blockchain intact (proof of stake, for instance).
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>When ideas can't be discussed, pressure builds.

Sexual harassment is not an idea, it's a form of assault.
I'm using $ as a unit of account because people have a frame of reference for it. Any real world value can be described as its dollar equivalent, and frequently is for understandability.
it would and it will imo. I just don't think bitcoin is it.

It has however bootstrapped a few potentials. Until its decided which that might be, bitcoin kinda serves its purpose.
This has always seemed to me to be the elephant in the room to me.

I brought this up with some ethereum devs at one point in a forum a year or two ago, and they addressed the questions pretty openly and graciously, but I still wonder about it. Essentially, they talked about the presumption of branches, subchains, etc. When that happens it seems the system would be a little more complicated than the classic crypto-libertarian currency model.

These chains get pretty large, and the overhead in terms of time and storage space seems well beyond what most people are used to now. Maybe people just have to get used to 15 minute payments, and having an extra drive or computer for financial transactions, as the cost of decentralized finance and economics, but from the current vantage point it seems burdensome to me, and only more so as adoption would grow.
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Well, I see some sort of correlation here.

*EDIT: Two options - either there are so many brilliant finance people looking for jobs or finance is not so important (although it obviously should be).
On iOS the only way to get a push notification is via an app. Mobile Safari doesn’t support push (or service workers).
Is there any loss in that? The integrated music recognition if Google Now rarely fails me, and when it does, Shazam wasn't able to recognize the song either.
Dosen't the blockchain already compact? Correct me if i'm wrong but once a block is hashed and confirmed as the most recent block, why would you need to store the previous blocks?
pretty sure there are parallels with DNS. If BTC is the root of trust networks then that is probably enough for one protocol - and good enough to survive.

Root node back others networks (think top level domains and delegated subdomains). IMO, it needs to be _very_ expensive to keep minimal blockchain size and avoid spam.
It looks like a mistake, not malice.
You claim niche popularity is wrong, then you claim majority view is wrong, which is it?

> I never said anything about Discord blocking Cloudflare.

It's the same thing wrt blocking disposable emails.

You know why I told you to review that conversation? Because you are so dead set on viewing me as someone who is wrong that you haven't even considered that I agree with you. All I tried to do was give you some perspective but that's apparently as futile as talking to a 2D plane.
>>This should terrify you. Think of a world in which you cannot collect taxes, and that not even prison can strip the wealthy of their coins. The wealthy will be able to do whatever they want.

The state can exert control over all real estate, and can control the flow of physical goods within its jurisdiction (and into and out of its jurisdiction), whether or not it has control over the flow of money. Taxes will never disappear. They will just decline.

I share Friedman's view that the effect that electronic cash will have, of reducing how much the government taxes, will be beneficial to society:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK_xv_4KpzM

If we don't impose non-political checks on government power, it will continue to grow, to the detriment of the economy:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMnxtDwUQAAiuSy.jpg:large
Speculators are shareholders.

Bear stearns had pledged 104% of their capital. They weren’t the only one in such a condition, and in this sense it is unfair, but the closing down was justified.

The law was changed from “mark to market” (the standard evaluation for decades) to “Mark to fantasy” specifically so that many bankruptcies would not need to be declared - but without a $700B injection at the time, many more would have happened.

You cannot have consistent book keeping if two entities can book the same item at the same time for materially different values at the same time. It is as simple as that.
Larry was axed because people were afraid he was assaulting someone. They were wrong about that. But he lost all his leadership roles anyway.
My view of BTC is as digital gold, in that, it is the standard to which other easier-to-trade (digital or fiat or not) currencies are anchored in (so like gold standard). Ever since I started reading about it, this was how it was sold. The new gold standard. In this regard, high transaction fees/times was expected. POW is a feature, not a bug.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Full_node

"Full nodes are the most secure way to use Bitcoin, they do not suffer from many attacks that affect lightweight wallets...[a]s explained previously, full nodes enforce the consensus rules no matter what. However, lightweight nodes do not do this."
Sorry to nitpick, but -

Your link shows some early posts on HN about BitCoin

How do you know when his parents got interested in BitCoin?

(Otherwise, how can you demonstrate his statement is incorrect?)
> How is this expected to work with 7 billion people using it for every tiny financial transaction?

https://lightning.network/

tl;dr: a network of off-chain, transitive payment channels. two on-chain transactions (to fund and settle channel) allow for ~unlimited, ~free, ~instant transactions across a p2p network of nodes off-chain
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root DNS services do not service _every_ lookup _but_ they back delegated authorities, which does scale. Same for blockchain tech.
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I stopped mentioning my parents the same time I moved out of my childhood room.
I think that vitamin D defficiency may have contributed to start of my Multiple Sclerosis! I used to sit mostly inside all summer programming. So be careful.
I'm not sure about Clash but there are often game mechanics that kick in to heavily multiply your rewards. Spending $X gets you Y in game value but spending $2X gets you 5Y. And then it can compound with follow up offers targeted at the player/whale which may not be generally available.

So I don't doubt your figures but there's probably a "one week whale" trajectory that's built into it to give quick gratification for something like $250,000. Still seems outrageous but they can discount digital goods differently than retailers can.
Why would people be interested in it when you can build for modern systems? I get the nostalgia factor, but other than that?

Maybe you should document it, then make it easily accessible so that people have minimal friction getting started.
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In America, cash production is only legally done by one centralized entity, and it is done by them on a regular basis. As far as I know, this holds true in all developed nations.
I see this as the 1.0 era of blockchain. There may yet be an amazon or a google lurking amidst all of the pets.com ICOs out there. If I had to guess who would survive, I would say SAFE.
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Part of the problem is that this regulation works from the other side too, but doesn't get as much attention. Optometrists have been trying to expand their practice into other areas in ways that seem reasonable to me, but then physician groups start to wield FUD tactics to stop them.

So what should happen is smartphone app provides another option, optometrists shrug because they have so many other things to offer, physicians shrug because they have other things to offer, etc.

But what's happening instead is the physician groups are staking their turf, and the smartphone apps are coming out, and optometrists are kind of squeezed, and fight back in all directions.

The problem isn't that optometrists aren't capable of offering other services in a capitalist-competitive sense, it's that licensing regulations are preventing those services from existing.

If the congress wasn't so busy in some damn pissing contest over payments in the health care system, they might try to enact more structural improvements, like massive licensing deregulation.
How that amount is calculated and how transparent it is (to Mozilla or similar partners)?
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Common sense does tell you that, but knowledge of computer science tells you otherwise (and of course where it contradicts common sense is the only place science is useful). The appending grows linearly, the price of storage falls exponentially, so storage wins in the end (regardless of the multipliers). Too bad really, as it would be more interesting if chains got too heavy and we had to constantly switch to new ones.
Although, I'd be hard convinced that people accept the push notification dialog on websites at even 5% of what they do with apps.
Full nodes must store the hashes that are generated from previous blocks. If they didn't, how would you know that the most recent hash really is the generated as a result of hashing the previous block recursively? A malicious attacker could forge a previous block, act as the next one is the current block based on the hash of the forged block, and there would be no way to verify that the hash of this block is valid or invalid.
Anyone have any idea on how this will affect the new Salesforce mobile? They recently unveiled this huge thing where you could rebrand their app and deploy it to app stores through config only. I'm about 50/50 on "this is going to ruin it for them" and "Salesforce can throw money at it to be a silent exception"
Segwit was a 4x block size increase.

Lightning works. You can go download the repo and make apps with it today.
> You think Bitcoin is a decentralized store of value? Tell that to all those people whining about the Mtgox bankruptcy proceeding

That is a gross misrepresentation and a misunderstanding of the point of a decentralized store of value. "All those people whining about the Mtgox bankruptcy proceeding" were not using a decentralized store of value. They were using a centralized broker that handled things for them. If they kept their own private keys and managed their coins directly, in a decentralized way, they would be still whole today.
However, let's say I run a dollar store.
Can I afford to do an exhaustive verification for every dollar I receive? maybe not.

There are security features built into each bill that help me establishing if it's legit or not, that I can do myself without third parties.
Not sure if you're intentionally referencing it, but NASA did have to deny that it was running a child sex slave ring on Mars during the election after an accusation by an Alex Jones guest.
People now envision bitcoin as 'store of value', and less like an actual currency. I imagine there are many technical and financial reasons why it will never be suitable as a currency. (Deflationary by design, technical limitations on size of blocks leading to slowness of transactions)

Does being unsuitable as a currency mean it's also unsuitable as a 'store of value'? The answer to that isn't obvious to me.

The value of the US dollar comes in part from our ability to pay taxes with it (and perhaps ultimately from the US military). Cryptocurrency has no central authority to enforce its value via taxes or military, and isn't particularly suitable for day-to-day transactions. Without either of those properties, I have a hard to imagining it being a particularly good store of value. But we'll see. I think we're all watching an interesting experiment unfold in real time.

I don't think the current price of btc has anything to do with whatever utility it may or may not have as a currency or store of value. The price is entirely informed by speculators hoping to sell it the following day for 100% ROI. I think a collapse is inevitable.
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Chrome has a serious issue with too many tabs open in the same window. Eventually the tabs cannot become any narrower and will ovwrflownto the right with no way to scroll. This is a known and unfixed issue since day one. So the Chrome UI does provide a sort of limit on the number of tabs you can reasonably have open and comparison becomes difficult. I use Vivaldi which is also based on blink and has a better UI for many tabs. This browser has way worse memory consumption than Firefox and I believe the results are similar to what you would get with Chrome.
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Lightning allows instantaneous and cheap payments without the need to hit the chain. Mimblewimble allows for pruning of block chain history down to a few dozen bytes per historical transaction in the limit. If it is still an issue then at some point we could decide to checkpoint the UTXO set of a block sufficiently buried in the past (say, 1+ year) and just sync from there.
Yeah that's true. I would hope they would make that a different function though. Google uses NNs for the android keyboard autocorrect now and it will incorrectly change correctly spelled words that I wrote 3 words back because it decided I wanted to write a more "likely" sentence. It replaced "worry about that" with "sorry about that". The shotgun approach of NNs in certain scenarios is infuriatingly frustrating. Sometimes an exact match is preferable to a probabilistic method.
Payment channels (which Lightning Network uses) allows for unlimited transactions, but not an unlimited number of users, because — as you say — two on-chain transactions (deposit+withdrawal) are required to initiate and finalize a transfer. Given that the Bitcoin blockchain can only handle ~20M transaction per month, this means only 20M people can deposit to/withdraw from the Lightning Network (LN) per month.

To this critique, some reply that merchants will just start trading unsettled (off-chain) LN transactions to pay their suppliers, but no one has presented any model of how this would work in a real economy, with merchants needing to pay suppliers, who need to pay their suppliers, who need to pay their employees.
How is energy consumption correlated to adoption? Thought it was the result of the mining “competition”, as the difficulty adjusts to the mining power