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What I really look forward with BECs (although simple atomic interferometers based on ultracold atoms would do, too) is super-sensitive magnetic field detection. One can detect mag…

> you mostly can’t buy stuff with it Sometimes I cannot buy legitimate stuff without them. Just today, I bought some books for which US credit/debit cards refused to work. And I se…

Sorry, but this looks like a completely uneducated opinion. There were many attempts to create virtual money which cannot be shit down, and all of them dated before Bitcoin failed …

Well, this doesn't look right to me. Imagine that the moon is actually a filter at the path of the sunlight. Sun's temperature is 6000 K. Moon's surface is pretty black: it reflect…

Meanwhile, Elon Musk acquired more than 50% of the space launch market (while 5 years ago it was Russia who owned it). Don't troll, buidl!

https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/609756/as-it-t...

Reg A+ is indeed easier than an IPO. I've seen some companies doing that, and it's 1 year pushback, to say at least. One year is an insanely long time these days!

I don't think you're right. Under this impression, most of cryptocurrencies are securities. However, SEC said, they're not: https://twitter.com/mikebutcher/status/94048757549149798…

You're not correct. I think, less than 50% of ICOs are not securities. But the way to prove is exactly this: ask a lawyer

All right, but if the coin is inseparable part of the resource, it cannot be a security. There is a thin line here. Imagine a coin securitizing Bitcoin miners ("cloud mining coin")…

There are two things here: * It's not OK to raise 200M with no team and product; * Compliance only creates obstructions, not protection.

What's even more surprising is the position of Coinbase: "Given how useful it is for criminals to have financial accounts that are seemingly unconnected to them, I view this featur…

Oh wow! I didn't ask for the last one, but this is insanely interesting also!

I would apply it instead of garbled circuits here https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/591 . Although slower, it feels like TFHE would provide better security against an active adversary. …

Yes, I understand. I was thinking about: a) smart contracts controlling something within the encrypted data based on publicly available data; b) encrypted key-value store where you…

That's a seriously cool thing to have in the toolbox! Does it produce only encrypted output, or can it optionally produce unencrypted results also? Can it optionally use public dat…

I think so. It is similar to CloudHSM, but you don't have to trust Amazon!

It basically allows some untrusted party to convert ciphertext which you can decrypt to a ciphertext which someone you granted access to can decrypt. It's like "instead of decrypti…

I think, the biggest latency hit will be from re-encrypting a symmetric key which encrypts messages, once in a while. This will result in occasional delays of ~0.25 ms (that's how …