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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…

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 …

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 cap…

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 …

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 ins…

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). V…

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... - http://bitcoin.stack…

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 cryptanalysi…

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…

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. ht…

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 T…

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…

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 …

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 …