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Comment #48087365
A high-throughput multicast Bitcoin transaction distribution system, with a roadmap towards billions of transactions per second. Features: - Control channel for block header announ…
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Comment #44798526
LLMs still leave something to be desired for DevOps related work; infrastructure code. There is still not really enough context available when crossing the division between the har…
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Comment #41543508
Craig is still Satoshi, no matter what a court has (temporarily) ordered him to state. Craig has followed the legal process 100% for years at this point, paid every (massive) court…
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Comment #40318892
Will this processor suffer from the same vulnerabilities as was just discovered on the previous M1-3?
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Comment #39483217
BTC is 7 TPS because MasterCard et al neutered it. Bitcoin is professionalizing. It's built for everything in the world to be timestamped with super low transaction fees.
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Comment #39483103
This is more Bitcoin than BTC at this point. It follows the whitepaper completely. 3 Petabytes of data after 6 months. This is all done on AWS currently.
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Comment #39483073
Bitcoin BTC tops out at 7 TPS. Visa tops out at around 50,000 TPS. This is just an initial target test. Bitcoin scales unbounded. 10M TPS next target. This is also just layer 1. It…
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Comment #39482426
A new distributed version of Bitcoin is now processing 1 million transactions per second. It's doing this on a test network setup between the USA, Europe, and Asia. People said it …
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Comment #39447288
Bitcoin wallets are collections of private keys and corresponding public keys. They may or may not also be linked together hierarchically using ECDSA math, and possibly encrypted a…
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Comment #39315296
SWATing. Security concerns for certain people.
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Comment #39234371
Check this out. IPV6 integrated with Bitcoin generated addressing. Every packet gets a unique address. Security implications are profound. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.15842.pdf
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Comment #38544188
It's a case of grift by continual fundraising on (mostly) false cybersecurity fears. There are no really useful quantum computers and there won't be because it's mostly a scam. Fee…
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Comment #37861056
No. I eat whole foods, mostly organic, no artificial anything if I can help it. I can't eat out much anymore because of not knowing what is in the food. I switched to maple syrup o…
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Comment #37857796
Yes. I stopped eating refined sugar and drinking any alcohol and my 90% hearing loss in one ear + tinnitus has gone away in about 3-4 months. I was suffering with it for years. I a…
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Comment #31756503
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j0yESuI96c
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Comment #31752883
Originally, Bitcoin had no limits in place including the block size. That was added later. The original protocol scales to trillions of transactions per second. The secret is the M…
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Comment #31752847
Think on solving BGP vulnerabilities through micropayments.
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Comment #31752620
Think a new IP address for every packet.
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Comment #31752616
IPV6 becomes supercharged when you layer it with the original Bitcoin protocol. It integrates Cryptographic Generated Addresses in IPV6 which is an extension that has been around f…
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Comment #29289508
There's a lot of research that contradicts these notions, and also practical advice on how to remedy through food choices, if one is inclined to look into it. As with anything, it'…
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Comment #29227747
Ignore at your own potential peril.. BTCers don't care, apparently https://coingeek.com/could-taproot-privacy-features-make-btc...
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Comment #23700906
https://indeed.com -- You can specify remote
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Comment #20451624
No, it's not Paul, but wouldn't it be ironic if it turned out that the designer and architect of the original Bitcoin protocol was (partially) responsible for putting him behind ba…
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Comment #5894823
The computational cost of Bitcoin mining not only serves to bootstrap the totality of the BTC into the ledger but also is designed to protect the network. It is also a teeny-tiny f…