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It started with the "agile" cargo cult, and it continues...
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There are two major hurdles that all of the altcoins have. The first is that it will be much harder to build a userbase to critical mass in a world where bitcoin does a pretty good job.

The other, more difficult problem is building trust in the underlying mechanism. The systems have to be open to take advantage of Linus's Law "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", but there has been such a proliferation of altcoins that I doubt there are enough skilled eyeballs to go around.

There are a lot of people jumping on the altcoin bandwagon hoping to be the next Satoshi. It is almost certain that some of those altcoins will have fundamental flaws. If they fail catastrophically, the reputational damage will, no matter how unfairly, impact upon all of the others. That will make the job more difficult, even for the worthy contenders.
Font rendering seems a bit off on the site, and font choice seems off in the design.

Here's how it looks on a rather vanilla Windows 7 with Chrome: http://i.imgur.com/hq8wZzY.png
Network effects should keep multiple cryptocurrencies from gaining much traction. The security of Bitcoin is far greater than any other Bitcoin-like cryptocurrency, and almost no merchants accept alt-coins as payment.
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No. But when journalism, art, and science intersect, expect casualties.
"How to quit XXX" can mean many things.

* Smoking: How to stop a nicotine additiction

* Alcohol: How to stop an alcohol additiction

* Vi: How to end the program once you have started it out of curiosity. (Hint: Kill process from another console and never look back)

* Facebook: How to find the hidden options to erase your account and data.

The pretense of the article is a bit idiotic, but I am not sure it is to be taken at face (haha) value.
Why don't you ever reply to anyones resume? I've had 5 people apply here and never get a response.
That's nice. So, develop some balls and actually say "I think Bitcoin is a pyramid scheme" rather than quoting TV. Or you could learn some maths and determine for yourself why it's not.
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It'll always have some value and may always be traded. I'm sure people still own and trade pogs but I wouldn't call pogs a currency.

When I said that it'll fade into history I meant that sites like Amazon will never accept it. By definition, currency is "the fact or quality of being generally accepted or in use".

If it isn't widely accepted, it's just not currency IMO.

The primary benefit seems to be anonymity and the majority of people don't care about that. I live in the US and we already have an anonymous form of money (cash) and I rarely see that used.

Why would "normal" people start using a more difficult to use currency just to be anonymous?
Someone from outside of US can't work?
tl;dr:
Bitcoin wouldn't be Ponzi Scheme if it could become money. It can't be because its price is too volatile. Therefore bitcoin is Ponzi Scheme.

My answer:
Volatility is inversely proportional to the wealth that has been exchanged into bitcoin. At the moment individual with few hundred million $ could swing bitcoin market up and down as he pleases. It will be much harder if people stuff trillion dollars or so into bitcoins.
In my experience, debit/credit card refunds show up at my bank essentially instantly - my available balance reflects it within a minute the vast majority of the time.
Don't discredit your knowledge here. You knew or learned:
- How to install GPG
- How to open a terminal
- How to change directories
- About file extensions

Maybe it's not advanced by HN standards, but you can do things that most email users would struggle with.
I'm not sure how you could look at HN and think it's anything but zealous about Bitcoins. You'd have to have some deep and powerful victimization complex.

I only ever see comments like yours on Bitcoin articles. Most every other article, HN is even more negative, and everyone goes along with it, but as soon as it's about Bitcoin, "How dare you say those things!" It's almost as if you've convinced yourself of Bitcoin to the point of not being able to handle anyone questioning it. Your mind just can't comprehend why anyone would not hold the same view as you.

I wonder what that sounds like?
Man I would love one of those Security Consultant positions in London. Keep one open a bit so I can brush up on my skills? :P
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That's actually pretty normal - your body doesnt conduct well, people die because of current in the sub 500ma range, a bigger issue is once hold of AC, sometimes you cant drop it.
>> "All the more reason to automate operation of trains"

We don't know what the cause was yet (unless you're basing it on the speculation of passengers/witnesses). Automation may not have helped.
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If mining additional Bitcoins at present is not economically viable than Bitcoins are not (currently) a fiat currency. The cost for the fed to increase the money supply is $0, the cost to produce a Bitcoin is equal to the cost of the hardware and electricity to produce it. I'm not sure if the definition would change once the maximum limit of Bitcoins is reached.
I was recently (Thanksgiving) discussing this with the owner of a small tech company. Our consensus was that if Satoshi was not Szabo, Satoshi at least read Szabo's works. The article doesn't spend as much time on the similarity of Szabo's ideas to those of the Bitcoin whitepaper, but I encourage anyone who is interested in this topic to read some of Szabo's stuff.

His website, http://szabo.best.vwh.net/ is currently experiencing capacity issues, so here's a cache link:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Additionally, his blogspot: http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/
Why is it important who Satoshi is?
if you can, check this too http://bit.ly/1b6jWaJ
It's gone up 1,000% since October, so that's hardly a wild prediction.
You can't exactly use "digital signatures" and "cryptographic proof" as distinguishing characteristics among crypto researchers. Many of the phrases noted are similar overly verbose academic writing. "It should be noted" at 5% and "can be characterized" at 1% do not add up to a 0.05% chance of non-Nick Szabo writing the paper.

Even if we agreed with the statistics, the "one in a thousand" would be relevant if we had some other reason to suspect Szabo. He could simply be that one in a thousand who matches.

The article is somewhat persuasive, but more certain than the evidence presented seems to justify.
Damn, is there video being streamed anywhere?

Edit: I guess it already took off by the time I saw this.
I'm in the humanities. I could learn programming but I took the comment to mean that having a phd in a field would help getting a job. I don't think my phd would help to get a programming job, would it?
That's fair. But "Border agents can read your private messages" conveys a rather different idea than "Border agents can read tabs you leave open".
A lot of this seems plausible. The one part that is really weak, though still interesting, is the way the textual analysis was done. Robust stylometric analysis uses the frequency of use of the most frequent words (think stop words, like it, of, an, the, or, on, etc.), not the topic-bearing words.
> Also I see that your GH page lists that you're from India? Many companies may find it difficult bringing on a candidate from overseas (HN's audience is predominantly US), although with the right company, remote work would be possible - however, remote work is probably difficult to pull off unless the company is absolutely confident in you as it is.

I am not a fan of remote work either.
However, I am willing (in fact want to) to relocate if I am satisfied with the profile offered!

P.S. This post was supposed to be a reality check for me(and others like me) and not a shameless plug for getting a job :-)
It is not important: it is interesting for some people. A historian might use the term "important" but curiosity is the source of a lot of human endeavours.
The first address has a balance of 0.01 BTC... how would you be able to use it?

I tried importing the private key on Blockchain.info but it gives an error of "Error importing private key: TypeError: Cannot call method 'toBigInteger' of null". Coinbase import feature also gives an error.
What exactly should they have broken the government up over? How would that have helped in any way?
Excessive based on what metric? Inventing the worlds first successful peer-to-peer crypto-currency? Zuck @ Facebook, and other startups (Square etc.) made their founders far richer. Do you realize how hard it is to build trust in a currency even if you are a government?
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I would really appreciate it if acdha could explain how they view this comment as a threat. acdha made the same claim elsewhere in this thread as well.

It appears that some people are attempting to lower the bar for something to be a "threat" to be any statement made by someone they don't like (or they've been told not to like).
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Bitcoin is not a Ponzi Scheme because those rely on deception. If you'd set up an enterprise and clearly advertised that gains come from money later entrants contribute (as long as new entrants come) it wouldn't be Ponzi Scheme. Ponzi Scheme promises returns to everybody, and lies about where they come from.

Bitcoin is as open, transparent and honest as anything can be. Everything from the protocol, through the implementation to the all the transactions themselves are public. No one hides the fact that the gains in bitcoin price come from people wanting to buy bitcoins more and more. No one promises that this will always be the case.
Thanks as well. I've been intrigued by Graeber, though I've also suspected him of an ideological bias. Not that economic orthodoxy doesn't suffer from a similar bias. DeLong's list of howlers is going to get some strong looking at.

Graeber's response to the criticism doesn't instill much confidence in him. Though DeLong setting up a taunt-o-matic is a tad interesting....
I'm in the humanities. My dissertation is an ethnography of video game players which could get me some job in the video game industry but I think it would be hard to find and not as easy as the original post indicated.
I wonder what randomwalker, who has done serious research on textual deanonymization, thinks about this.
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Wei Dai is another relevant person, with his b-money ideas and bitcoin's use of the crypto++ library.

But who cares?
Yours is a paranoid theory. This future you're worried about is just as possible with elevators and yet we don't see it happening. It'll be just as difficult to get away with because of how unusual accidents will be with self driving cars.
Have you starred this issue? https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=217173
It's one of the many ways in which we discourage diversity in tech.
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We might not know the answer to why it is important, until we know who he is.
Couple of questions (again following up on OP's hypothetical stream).

1. How is a small team of programmers to know that you will be able to collaborate with them effectively within the space of an interview ?

2. What exactly do you mean by "competitive problems" or "puzzles"? What is off-limits?

I am asking 2. to identify what you mean by a puzzle. For example, let me take the substring matching problem. There are a ton of ways of doing those which for me traverse the realm of being both puzzles and also in some ways important computer science questions [1]. You could do brute force. You could have a moving hash window and use that to check if the substring is present. (Sort of Rabin Karp). You could build a trie called a suffix tree. Now the way intuition works (at least for me) is that you either know how to solve it, and then you sort of recollect the details in a few minutes. Or you have no idea of how to do it and probably don't know how to create a solution like that unless it was super critical that you go figure this out. And the problem is that the real world never throws things straightforward at you. Curveballs at least in the engineering world require transforming previous solutions into something new. So unless you grok trees, how will I know if you really will be able to spot that a random problem is just a tree problem with some modifications and then go ahead and implement it, instead of say spending a few weeks refreshing graphs.

[1] http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/19759/core-algor...
Do Japanese use anglicized "colour" & "favour" etc?

If so, I would only expect an inconsistent application of this spelling if he were impersonating a Japanese person writing in English (though the same could be assumed if there were multiple writers).
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What is the purpose of identifying who Satoshi is at this point?
I hear you, however it is worth remembering that space wizardry is just basic engineering done to the nth degree and it keeps engineers in the country who might otherwise have left. If you want your engineers to help find solutions to the problems of poverty in India, the first thing to do is to make sure they stick around and having a space industry helps with that.
His analysis is fairly compelling. I imagine if a few others were also able to confirm this with their own independent textual analysis, it is extremely likely this is Satoshi Nakamoto.

The author needs to give more details of how he performed this: "an open, unbiased search of texts similar in writing to the Bitcoin whitepaper over the entire Internet, identifies Nick’s bit gold articles as the best candidates". If true, this is the most convincing argument I have seen thus far.
It's not particularly important, but it would be interesting to know, and if Bitcoin succeeds he could easily become the wealthiest person in the world.
I'll repeat what our CEO said in the NYTimes article "He said MarkLogic is performing up to standard, but “the network and the storage systems are not properly sized and not properly run.”

Put any database on top of the resources that were provided and I think performance "below expectations" would have been likely.
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