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skloubkov

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  1. story
    Ask HN: Bitcoin malleability (split transaction)

    Recently there have been many attacks where transaction was modified to generate new hash, however I am curious if its possible to take a transaction with multiple inputs/outputs a…

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    Comment #6956810

    Pretty interesting read. Didn't know about use of gift cards, pretty cleaver. Any idea if the "mules" (from the article, the guys who get items shipped to them) would be in legal t…

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    Comment #6945180

    Isn't it better to overlay this whole security level over existing infrastructure (Skype or something) and take advantage of that? Seems like this new protocol wouldn't work too we…

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    Comment #6942491

    Chrome - 31.0 16.97 IE - 11.0.96 2.83 Firefox 25 - [nothing showed up] Seems like test is focusing on something that IE optimized heavily

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    Comment #6926420

    Ouch, that market crash: http://markets.blockchain.info Here is another article: http://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/1384688...

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    Comment #6922187

    Just a suggestion, but perhaps you should provide a screenshot or a demo page. Seems like it would help since its all about visuals for the project.

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    Comment #6919492

    Difficult to get as sign-off on re-write of large systems when there technically nothing broken.

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    Comment #6919485

    This. I was implying that length of the string should mean length in characters, not bytes. This could lead to broken code and would require programmers to keep in mind both. I hav…

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    Comment #6919280

    While I understand why this was done (for the sake of comparability), I feel like its better to bite a bullet and slowly phase out broken functions over several versions. Warn init…

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    Comment #6919080

    Someone that was trying to do money laundering (knowing in advance that it was illegal) got taken advantage of by bigger conman. Don't see why anyone would feel sorry for this guy.…

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    Comment #6916230

    Reminds me of this: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about... College presidents act as a face of an institution, paying someone extra 100,000 could mean brin…

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    Photosynth 2.0 Preview [WebGL]

    Preview of next gen photo-stitching from Microsoft

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    Comment #6896527

    Seems like a privacy hole. Mailer can setup url that is composed of random words and is unique per email. Ex: www.tracker.com/weather-dog-city-nice.jpg could identify you + timesta…

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    Comment #6895327

    While I really see potential of asm.js couple of things about execution (including this title) 1. Brings my browser to its knees (Firefox here) 2. Security. They seem to open thems…

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    Comment #6895072

    Pretty interesting meeting. Seems to cover more than just bitcoin, and includes the reasoning behind Assange's drive. Highly recommend listening to the actual audio file (its linke…

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    Comment #6883765

    Would be cool to be able to tap to pay instead of scan to pay.

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    Comment #6883761

    I think this comes from the fact that Bitcoin transactions cant be refunded, but PayPal ones can be. So buyer could cancel the purchase and keep bitcoin with merchant being unable …

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    Comment #6883678

    >>The added bonus? No middlemen taking a cut from the transaction, he says. While low, there are actually transaction fees. Bitcoin payment has already been used on many websites a…