Where is their office? Looks like they're all working out of some beach house somewhere in the South Pacific.
in Santa Teresa Costa Rica
Okay, looks like this place: http://www.skyloftcostarica.com/. Wonder if that's full time or just a field trip.
Show HN: A Browser-based Blockchain
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#92I thought general opinion from security experts was browser based crypto is DOA...
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#95Ok, you have a roadmap, but I'm left with more questions than answers, e.g.: if a blockchain relies on every node having a ledger of the whole transactions, and bitcoin's ledger now occupies more than 100GB, then how is this supposed to work when the ledger becomes big? Also, how do the 'instant' transactions work?
it uses the Mini Blockchain scheme https://cryptonite.info/files/mbc-scheme-rev3.pdf
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#96I have a soft spot for removing barriers and making things accessible so this really resonates with me. With a single click of a button I'm connected to the network and have started mining. Pretty awesome! I also love how the P2P is visualized in a straight-forward way. I definitely think this will help demystify blockchain technology. You immediately realize that you're part of a decentralized network and that block…
"demystify blockchain technology" is a perfect description for our intention! thanks!
If this is an educational product then it would be even better to expose more details to the user. For example, the fundamental steps illustrated in the Blockchain Demo (https://anders.com/blockchain/). A nimiq blockchain explorer would also be a nice feature.
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#97Just ask here if you need some test coins. I already mined a first block.
Incredible. A cryptocurrency exchange is born in a HN comment thread.
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#98Before anyone gets too excited because the page doenst make this clear, you are all mining on the Test block chain, not the release block chain, the coins are worthless, they are fine for playing around with though.
What's preventing people from simply continuing to use this testnet? It's decentralized, after all.
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#99Interestingly, I'm getting a significantly higher hash rate in Chrome than in Firefox (12,000 vs. 600). This is despite the fact that Firefox has a higher priority on my OS (High vs. Normal) and they're both using the same amount of CPU. What hash rates are you seeing on your machine/browser?
Firefox is probably slower because it uses the javascript implementation of the hashing algorithm:
https://github.com/nimiq-network/core/blob/master/src/main/p...
Chrome implements the WebCrypto API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Crypto_...
I think it uses this interface: https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/third_party/WebKit/Sour...
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#100Just ask here if you need some test coins. I already mined a first block.
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