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skateboarding is a very bad example here - there is a noticeable difference in the quality/bearings of a "beginner" equipment that comes from Walmart/Target that costs ~60, and a p…

What are the advantages of Empirical vs q/kdb+?

elliptic curve is a type signing algorithm (like blake2b or sha). if you dont understand what an EC is i dont think you also understand why rolling your own would be a bad idea. th…

IOTA is vaporware and gives all blockchain projects a bad reputation by association. You are right on your points and forget that they rolled their own elliptic curve so you cant u…

the lack of awareness around nano is puzzling to me. I assume its because nano became known around the end of 2017 along with many scam coins, and thus became associated with them.…

im not sure why this is being downvoted. this is clearly the case here. the user and the miner are colluding (or the same party). the user does not broadcast their tx publicly, onl…

No problem! Not much of a pedigree, but I think the articles stand by themselves.

this is a poor ripoff of Lyn Alden's work: https://www.lynalden.com/global-dollar-short-squeeze/ (02/20/20) https://www.lynalden.com/great-depression/ (03/12/20) https://www.lynald…

BTC fees are currently ~$2.50 (11PM EST 4/30/20)[1] [1] https://twitter.com/CoinFees/status/1256045351024418821

tezos is attempting to solve this by incorporating on-chain governance - its dPoS and has a code deployment mechanism with a long voting process (multimonth). They have done 2? upg…

Cool writeup! Although I agree those captcha's are fairly trivial. In college I wrote a term paper on breaking Microsoft's captcha (which is a little harder but not by much) twice:…