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It has been the goal since day one. The Ethereum protocol was designed with PoS in mind and has a built-in difficulty bomb[1] to prove it. In short, this difficulty bomb makes it e…

I hear this argument a lot and have a genuine question. How does Bitcoin electricity usage compare to something that achieves a similar goal? A good example is gold—many people com…

> cryptocurrency has a finite volume of transferrable currency This is true of Bitcoin. Others, such as Ethereum, have a known inflation schedule, which would help alleviate the is…

> Telegram supports end-to-end encryption ("secret chats") with no logging -- as far as I know there is no proof that these chats are untrustworthy. The argument I've heard is that…

This seems like a great way for newcomers to learn the basics of `git` though GitHub. A great move by GitHub to try to capture this market of users who may not yet be comfortable w…

RegExr [0] does a great job of showing individual highlights even when they are in a sequential string. You can try to implement this if you want instead of showing a callout with …

One of my favorite things about htop are some of the projects that have been created that are modeled after htop but focus on information other than system resources. Cointop [0] i…

The best part of this repository is that the authors and the commit dates reflect the true date of the event: James Ashley authored and JesseKPhillips committed on Dec 6, 1986 8th …

To take advantage of the ICO hype. Telegram could never have raised $1.7B in different, more traditional medium.

As a non-designer, I am finding it easier and easier to get something professional looking up. Couple this with Material-UI and a solid looking template and you could have a beauti…

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I would argue that this is not just banks but a number of different services. This entire Github repository [1] and this Twitter account [2] are dedicated to sites with dumb passwo…

Google Fi is the only provider that I know of to best protect against SIM swapping due to the fact that there is no human interface. An attacker would have to get control of you Go…

Interesting read. As an FYI, Table 1 (Strengths and Weaknesses of Payload Delivery Ratings) is unreadable on mobile.

True. During the Libra hearing, one of the senators basically turned to his peers and said (paraphrasing) "Why are we worrying about this now? We have a million other issues of muc…

I would argue that Libra is competing directly with the US dollar. It is a new form of currency for a user to obtain and use within the Libra ecosystem. I would imagine that the id…

What time period? In the US? In communist countries? I would imagine what you said has been the case in many time periods in many different countries, but I am sure there are other…

What other times in history have private corporations taken on government entities and succeeded? Have any of these attempts been on this scale and against an entity of this power …