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>Given the public ledger of Bitcoin, I would hardly say it has "censorship resistance". Conflates two orthogonal issues: Identifiable payment vectors and publishing preservation / …

The cryptographic properties of an L402's HMAC provide stateless authentication/verification which sub services can then be provisioned with payments to compose API calls in novel …

>There is no such thing as "wasted energy". Your argument's basis is detached from reality: https://orientalnewsng.com/global-gas-flare-heightened-by-15... Thankfully, there are ma…

comments are focusing on the protocol's message content which is not the source of the ability to track broadcasters. The ability comes from detecting nuances in the RF signal: >BL…

All economic goods experience production pressures when their replacement costs are lower than their market prices. When the marginal production costs of a money is effectively 0 a…

This is the discussion around prices/exposure swapping/speculation I wanted to occur. If someone has the ability to buy yes exposure at 1 cent, subsequently kill me, and then colle…

The available price is 99 cents

>Prediction markets would influence the processes they're supposed to be impartially observing. Who said anything about impartiality (/cordially a strawman)? Changing behaviors is …

A more accurate phrase is "Event Derivative" A derivative (a contract which is representative of some good, right, entitlement) based on the outcome of an event occurring or not. E…

>Now you know what it is like to be a black person What makes you think this person isn't black? Maybe the first step we can take to ensuring all people are treated with dignity an…

ttyplot is a handy tool to plot ongoing, time series data from STDIN. https://github.com/tenox7/ttyplot ping 8.8.8.8 | sed -u 's/^.*time=//g; s/ ms//g' | ttyplot Examples: https://…

Let's think of cancers as biological errors in the growth instructions for cells. ITT, people are pointing out that ionizing radiation can cause genetic perturbations to cause canc…

Paxos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos has existed for more than 30 years. If it were easy or simple to issue a money with distributed signing, it'd have been done before Bitcoi…

Developers have no ability to coerce what software bitcoin users run -- that's the entire point of bitcoin. If a competing developer fails to gain user adoption, it's on them that …

When a producer's margins increases, it doesn't mandate that their costs / waste increases. When margins increase, it allows, but doesn't mandate, production to be expanded -- eith…

I find this post very confusing. >I've read both the Bitcoin and Ethereum whitepaper and there's nothing about grievances of traditional governments usage of printing of their curr…

Do you think the Roman Catholic Church will give up the Geocentric status of the Bible? Like it or not, political power structures have no ability to impose their preference on reb…

What's your expectation for how effective that would be? Let's compare some existing bans, say prohibited cannabis farming: * Large energy use (lights, fans, pumps?) * Very charact…

"Pumping water down hill is more efficient than pumping it sideways" The CoP of a heat pump is dependent on the temperature potential across the heat pump. Caution to the reader wh…

"I print a free newspaper. The margins are good if I put interesting-enough content in it and businesses pay me to place ads. An Indian retailer pays me for ads because my readersh…

This article has several inaccuracies 1) "blockchain inventor David Chaum" Chaum developed methods to do blinded ecash, there's nothing "blockchain" about a central database checki…

Would you please either cite the source for your recollection or retract it? Hal had always denied being bitcoin's author: "he confirmed that he had corresponded with Bitcoin's cre…

>In a buyers market. With the small block size, bitcoin is a seller's (miner's) market and refusing to upgrade preserves their market power - hence the tragedy of the commons. The …

The most aggravating aspect of the Dunning-Kruger effect occurs in people who know about the Dunning-Kruger effect: often they believe there can be _no_ case where the bulk of a di…