Excited to read this. Their piece on heroin won a pulitzer last year: https://www.cincinnati.com/pages/interactives/seven-days-of-...
Of course trust is still involved. The whitepaper specifically puts "trust" in the context of trusted third parties ("financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments"), and…
Expensive and slow seems to be the point. An attacker would need to spend an inordinate amount to change just the most recent transactions - this provides high confidence that the chain is immutable and secure. Maybe…
I think you're right, he seems like a super nice dude in his interviews :)
Exactly this. Kipchoge would probably be insulted that the OP uses the term "run" in describing anything that's slower than 5:15 pace.
People want a coin that can give them 1000x gains, the next iteration of "buying btc in 2010." Far < 1% of those people has ever used a cryptocurrency to make a purchase. Related, but not directed at prev comment... If…
Sorry for the confusion, there was a spectrum. I don't think we're in disagreement here, you may be envisioning things that were not happening. To clarify, Security Guards checking badges wore suit jackets and did not…
Yep. My company paid a lot of money to sponsor a booth and make sure the majority of our interactions were with customers that we could sell to/partner with. Having a free for all would have greatly diminished the value…
Mostly agree. The Salesforce employee should have been able to escalate the issue to the right people to get it solved. Simply having a Salesforce employee vouching for them should have been rejected, as it was. There…
The event is massive, something like 180,000 total attendees. They actually shut down Howard St. between 4th and 3rd and roll out astro turf and put up fake rock formations and stages. There are tons of different badge…
Personally, I would like to thank Salesforce for a strong security presence at the event. There were bomb sniffing dogs, many security staff, and vehicle barriers with armed guards at street entrances. Despite being a…
The most apparent reason is that ETH does not have a set supply cap, whereas BTC is 21,000,000.
Excited to read this. Their piece on heroin won a pulitzer last year: https://www.cincinnati.com/pages/interactives/seven-days-of-...
Of course trust is still involved. The whitepaper specifically puts "trust" in the context of trusted third parties ("financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments"), and…
Expensive and slow seems to be the point. An attacker would need to spend an inordinate amount to change just the most recent transactions - this provides high confidence that the chain is immutable and secure. Maybe…
I think you're right, he seems like a super nice dude in his interviews :)
Exactly this. Kipchoge would probably be insulted that the OP uses the term "run" in describing anything that's slower than 5:15 pace.
People want a coin that can give them 1000x gains, the next iteration of "buying btc in 2010." Far < 1% of those people has ever used a cryptocurrency to make a purchase. Related, but not directed at prev comment... If…
Sorry for the confusion, there was a spectrum. I don't think we're in disagreement here, you may be envisioning things that were not happening. To clarify, Security Guards checking badges wore suit jackets and did not…
Yep. My company paid a lot of money to sponsor a booth and make sure the majority of our interactions were with customers that we could sell to/partner with. Having a free for all would have greatly diminished the value…
Mostly agree. The Salesforce employee should have been able to escalate the issue to the right people to get it solved. Simply having a Salesforce employee vouching for them should have been rejected, as it was. There…
The event is massive, something like 180,000 total attendees. They actually shut down Howard St. between 4th and 3rd and roll out astro turf and put up fake rock formations and stages. There are tons of different badge…
Personally, I would like to thank Salesforce for a strong security presence at the event. There were bomb sniffing dogs, many security staff, and vehicle barriers with armed guards at street entrances. Despite being a…
The most apparent reason is that ETH does not have a set supply cap, whereas BTC is 21,000,000.