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> This report of someone spending 800k already might well even be part of the scam, the same way any con artist on the street will have stooges pretending to throw in cash in order…

Note for those surprised by the price tag and talking about whales: this is not like your typical in-game purchase like a special sword, unique mount, or even skins in CS:GO. These…

Assuming this is an honest question and not a lame attempt at a gotcha: as more people switch to a vegan diet we will gradually stop breeding them in the first place, so there are …

Good points, thanks. Followup question: how does a node coming online know not to trust China's (longer, censoring) chain? It wasn't online to have the transaction in its mempool, …

>You know the transaction exists, and at some point (i.e. after a certain number of blocks), if the transaction isn't included in the chain, you can conclude with reasonable certai…

You are mostly correct. Except only your Bitcoin client sees the checksum/address, the raw transaction has just the pubkey hash encoded in the address. So there is no checksum for …

This requires colluding with a miner, since nodes will reject a transaction that spends the same output as a transaction they've already seen. For a small payment like a coffee, it…

Programming Bitcoin [1] guides you through building a Bitcoin implementation in python starting with the fundamentals, like what you are doing. [1] https://github.com/jimmysong/pro…

Problem is even though Facebook was restricted to a very small set of people, each of them could interact with most/all of the people they wanted to (other college students). Same …

You make it sound like ether can only be used to pay for gas. It can also be transferred to another account in a transaction, it's the native currency for making payments. It will …

The market making algorithm for Bitcoin is: the highest bid and the lowest ask.

His point is some of the cheapest energy in the world is renewable (like hydroelectric energy in China), which is what Bitcoin is using. Bitcoin mining can take place virtually any…

It's based on what people are willing to buy or sell it at. Like anything else...

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Everything about this is very (2008) 1. Skeuomorphic torn-paper edge at the bottom 2. Loud background image on the body 3. Text is unreadably small on mobile 4. php

Please, I come on HN to escape all of this.

If it was the same person who made all of the robberies (not Mr. Bah, but the person who stole his identity) then the facial recognition worked flawlessly. Unfortunately "Stolen ID…

weight and size and the fact most people don't know how to put one on properly or use one and there's usually not enough time to prepare in an emergency and it would be utter chaos…

> I had created a Google Developer Account simply so I could pass on the login details to my app developers who uploaded and updated the app via my account each time. Sounds like o…

A DFS would be you check your living room, you check under the cushions of the sofa, you tear open the cushions and comb through the insides... all before glancing at your bedroom …

> For instance say you have two groups of woodworkers, one group has an average IQ of 90 and another group has an average IQ of 100. > It's a smart bet that the 100 group has more …

Don't forget that this time of year is now ruined for this manager. But not enough to stop them from shopping on Amazon during Black Friday and contributing to those human costs. "…

It'd be funny if the puzzle was to count graves. Then you would answer 20. Either there are 20 and you're right, or there are only 18 so the caretaker digs 2 more for you and your …

Why does it only benefit rich people?

> Also, it's unusable for legit business transfers since you absolutely have no idea how much money the other ennd receives. Can you expand on this? What do you mean you don't know…