MORE RUST PLEASE! :D
The part you're missing is that Bitcoin is totally fine if it never changed from how it is today. Anonymity will come via Tumblebit. Lightning network can already work even without segwit. Segwit never getting activated…
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/01/26/segwit-benefits/#block...
Yes that's the issue here, the miners are playing politics by trying to flex their power. But no one is willing to play petty games. There's an obvious win for everyone sitting on the table ready to go. Political games…
You admitted that "The whole reason people want bigger blocks is for higher transaction throughput on-chain." And said that "Segwit doesn't deliver that". Segwit delivers that.
You can play semantical games but segwit gives about 2x onchain capacity. And the only thing holding it up is a group of chinese miners/pools. Anyone truly wanting more onchain capacity should be engaging those…
Segwit requires 95% of miners to activate. Currently about 75% of hash power is controlled by a group of chinese miners/pools. This is about the % of hashing power that is missing for Segwit to activate.
If Eric was serious about this he would have targeted this post at chinese miners who are stalling on activating segwit (which is a 2x blocksize increase and the foundation for instant & nearly free txs via the…
Shares are valued by people based on three things. Future direct cash you receive from the company based on the shares you hold (e.g. dividends/distributions and share buybacks). Voting power (i.e. control) in the…
OTR anyone? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7252159
Ripple's consensus algorithm pretty much has this licked. https://ripple.com/wiki/Consensus - http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/10180/what-are-th... -…
Yes I get that, I think there is a new DH for almost every message, much better than TLS. The problem is we have no idea what the NSAs abilities are in terms of actual cryptanalysis/cracking, but we do know that they…
I believe the weakest link in OTR is its Diffie-Helman key exchange. If you break that you get the symmetric key and can decrypt everything passively. OTR has been using a 1536 bit modulus for its Diffie-Helman exchange…
Fair enough, although their technology can be appreciated separately from the pre-mine. Anyone can fork it and do a purely mined version.
Ripple is also working on the same thing and is supposedly releasing them "soon": https://ripple.com/wiki/Contracts
If you're interested in a Bitcoin like currency without mining check out Ripple.
All the supported curves in TLS are most likely influenced by the US government (NIST, ANSI, and SECG). So we don't really have an option to use curves with a non-US provenance.…
No, the DHE/ECDHE (ephemeral key exchanges) don't protect against MITM, it protects against passive dragnet decryption. But the RSA/ECDSA/DSS part (certificate signing) does. All TLS ciphersuites include certificate…
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256 is not forward secret (if you have the certificate private key you can passively decrypt all past/future sessions) so removing it is a great idea. I'm only responding to what you said and…
Does anyone know if there are any issues with the javascript OTR library they use (https://github.com/arlolra/otr)? Or are all the issues only with their custom multi party chat encryption system?
My understanding is app.net is trying to be a paid version of twitter. There was/is much debate whether it could ever take off. This is the first time I've ever seen someone link to it. Although now I realize that the…
I guess they didn't mark their cookies as 'Secure'. Oh well, the real story here is an app.net link at #1 on HN.
Just use Google through a VPN you trust. Same threat model, better results.
Here's something to ponder... Sure once in a while your bank/CC payment system protects you from a shady merchant... saving you what... 100$ (max?). Personally in my entire life I can't remember charging back once due…
MORE RUST PLEASE! :D
The part you're missing is that Bitcoin is totally fine if it never changed from how it is today. Anonymity will come via Tumblebit. Lightning network can already work even without segwit. Segwit never getting activated…
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/01/26/segwit-benefits/#block...
Yes that's the issue here, the miners are playing politics by trying to flex their power. But no one is willing to play petty games. There's an obvious win for everyone sitting on the table ready to go. Political games…
You admitted that "The whole reason people want bigger blocks is for higher transaction throughput on-chain." And said that "Segwit doesn't deliver that". Segwit delivers that.
You can play semantical games but segwit gives about 2x onchain capacity. And the only thing holding it up is a group of chinese miners/pools. Anyone truly wanting more onchain capacity should be engaging those…
Segwit requires 95% of miners to activate. Currently about 75% of hash power is controlled by a group of chinese miners/pools. This is about the % of hashing power that is missing for Segwit to activate.
If Eric was serious about this he would have targeted this post at chinese miners who are stalling on activating segwit (which is a 2x blocksize increase and the foundation for instant & nearly free txs via the…
Shares are valued by people based on three things. Future direct cash you receive from the company based on the shares you hold (e.g. dividends/distributions and share buybacks). Voting power (i.e. control) in the…
OTR anyone? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7252159
Ripple's consensus algorithm pretty much has this licked. https://ripple.com/wiki/Consensus - http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/10180/what-are-th... -…
Yes I get that, I think there is a new DH for almost every message, much better than TLS. The problem is we have no idea what the NSAs abilities are in terms of actual cryptanalysis/cracking, but we do know that they…
I believe the weakest link in OTR is its Diffie-Helman key exchange. If you break that you get the symmetric key and can decrypt everything passively. OTR has been using a 1536 bit modulus for its Diffie-Helman exchange…
Fair enough, although their technology can be appreciated separately from the pre-mine. Anyone can fork it and do a purely mined version.
Ripple is also working on the same thing and is supposedly releasing them "soon": https://ripple.com/wiki/Contracts
If you're interested in a Bitcoin like currency without mining check out Ripple.
All the supported curves in TLS are most likely influenced by the US government (NIST, ANSI, and SECG). So we don't really have an option to use curves with a non-US provenance.…
No, the DHE/ECDHE (ephemeral key exchanges) don't protect against MITM, it protects against passive dragnet decryption. But the RSA/ECDSA/DSS part (certificate signing) does. All TLS ciphersuites include certificate…
TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256 is not forward secret (if you have the certificate private key you can passively decrypt all past/future sessions) so removing it is a great idea. I'm only responding to what you said and…
Does anyone know if there are any issues with the javascript OTR library they use (https://github.com/arlolra/otr)? Or are all the issues only with their custom multi party chat encryption system?
Does anyone know if there are any issues with the javascript OTR library they use (https://github.com/arlolra/otr)? Or are all the issues only with their custom multi party chat encryption system?
My understanding is app.net is trying to be a paid version of twitter. There was/is much debate whether it could ever take off. This is the first time I've ever seen someone link to it. Although now I realize that the…
I guess they didn't mark their cookies as 'Secure'. Oh well, the real story here is an app.net link at #1 on HN.
Just use Google through a VPN you trust. Same threat model, better results.
Here's something to ponder... Sure once in a while your bank/CC payment system protects you from a shady merchant... saving you what... 100$ (max?). Personally in my entire life I can't remember charging back once due…