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I think decentralized mixing is on the horizon and may become baked into bitcoin wallets down the line. I'm speculating based on the emergence of protocols like FairExchange and Xi…

Waiting for six confirmations is enough, as it's been shown both in theory and in practice. I was correcting the parent as saying Bitcoin loses transactions is false. The network n…

> - Loses accepted transactions!!! (blockchain forks, orphan blocks, etc) From a distributed database perspective the Bitcoin blockchain is broken and loses data: like a decentrali…

I may be wrong here but assuming you're broadcasting to both networks, your transaction is valid in both XT and Core so they'd both try to add it to a block. The only bitcoin that …

I'd say moving and looking for employment are two very stressful things for any individual, and for Waterloo co-ops we have to do at least one of those things every 4 months. Never…

I'm a big proponent of ~3 people offices as opposed to an open floor plan. There are many ways to "opt-in" to interactions: - lunch/dinner is done in a dining area - I invite peopl…

Lower fees for everyone (merchant, user, CC company). Most people will gladly give away their privacy to pay less.

This is a really well article outlining how the man-on-the-side attack on Baidu is carried out. The only flaw here is the logical leap that goes from "Baidu is being hijacked" to "…

I agree... I didn't even realize there was a videos section between the "Try it" and the "Features" section until I read your comment.

... (3) The complete street address need not be disclosed as required by paragraph (1) if the vendor utilizes a private mailbox receiving service and all of the following condition…

It's innocent until proven guilty isn't it?

A tool doesn't fail because it's difficult, it fails if its difficulty is not worth the results it produces. A chainsaw is more difficult than a plain old saw. You gotta make sure …

"We know the Harper administration is stuck as being part and parcel of Five Eyes, and that the CESC has conducted spying for the NSA, using Canada's good name for nefarious purpos…

I'm not the parent but I've never had issues with Iceweasel. There was a time when the user agent string did not contain "Firefox", but it does now [1] (that might have caused you …

People will recommend "testing" to you but I would advise against it... My path was: stable->testing->stable, because while on testing random stuff would break (laptop wouldn't sle…

There's this: https://talky.io/

Yes. The "total pool of bitcoins" is actually less than 21m, considering the lost ones. Does it matter, though? Whether the max is 21m or 20.1321029 ...

The numbers are being modified. In the other thread, someone posted a screenshot of the then-current results for snowden: http://i.imgur.com/jv9t4X0.png