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socrates1024

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About socrates1024

Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Cryptography, programming languages, and cryptocurrencies. http://soc1024.ece.illinois.edu/

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    That's falsifiable though, in a way the other examples are not. You could sample the population of users after the change to the product

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    Comment #34032273

    How big are its coffers though? - Mit: $26.4B - Yale: $42.3B https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University_endowment https://news.mit.edu/2022/endowment-2022-1007

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    Why would this prove the necessity of regulations? This occurred within the realm of regulations, not in the wild west. FTX.US is a regulated entity in the US, and FTX Intl wasn't …

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    Comment #31838222

    Write an M.L. Stine book is probably a good gpt-3 prompt

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    Comment #28805798

    exponential in what?

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    Comment #21341457

    pretty much what we use at zcash foundation https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zfnd/tree/master/about

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    Comment #18885791

    Note that the technical problems made it more complicated and messy to reproduce the build, but didn't outright prevent it. Mainly the executable binaries were reproducible, but ot…

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    Comment #18266395

    Another related resource (seems similar to the design of ethernaut) https://github.com/pdaian/hackthiscontract

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    Comment #16692832

    Even more recent changes have made this better too. The research in the paper only goes up to Apr. 2017 or so. Since then, the "recent zone" has been a) reduced from 5 days to 3 da…

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    This isn't a good explanation. The result of this research is actually that even if you opted in to privacy during mid 2016 to jan 2017, you wouldn't have gotten it.

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    Comment #16502920

    Contrary to the article, Tor is not a private non-profit. It's a publicly supported non-profit.

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    Comment #16046886

    This is a great explanation for why theory is valuable.

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    Comment #15659734

    The Ethereum VM is single threaded, so this isn't actually a problem

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    Comment #15459011

    Ethereum foundation is not the custodian of the network. This is a debatable point, since it's not perfectly clear what that would mean. Ethereum Foundation doesn't own the miners …

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    Comment #15401917

    I'd definitely recommend this book, it's great! Comes with decent video lectures and such too. (disclosure: am a coauthor) Also, this course page has some useful links and lecture …

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    Comment #14799229

    You might also try https://github.com/akosba/jsnark which is a frontend for libsnark. An entire reimplemented alternative is Pequin (and related projects by Michael Walfish's group…

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    Do you think it would be possible to improve the EVM by adding E's notion of concurrency? One constraint would be the need to have deterministic scheduling, since every execution w…

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    Comment #14697329

    Turing-completeness has very little to do with this. - The bug causing the DAO debacle did not involve loops or jumps or weird machines or other behavior associated with Turing-mac…

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    Comment #14467586

    Try implementing the DAO as a decision table?

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    Comment #14136580

    For an even bigger coincidence, the new Monero project to add support for I2P is called Kovri, a prefix of your username!

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    Comment #14136567

    Also see the complementary block explorer associated with the paper: http://monerolink.com/ We found tens of thousands of transactions that included ten or more mixins but could st…