Dutch move 122 tons of gold out of US to Amsterdam by maxwellhill in worldnews

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Perhaps we should use currency with intrinsic value instead of fiat paper notes and numbers.

Dutch move 122 tons of gold out of US to Amsterdam by maxwellhill in worldnews

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Bitcoin doesn't have servers. It doesn't have anyone controlling it. You can follow the open protocol and run your own node and be part of the network.

This is like saying all email servers in the world will become hacked. Not going to happen.

WikiLeaks founder: Google works for US State Department by [deleted] in worldnews

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So that's why you should start encrypting things.

https://gnupg.org

https://subrosa.io

https://truecrypt.ch

Assassin's Creed Unity Patch 3 Notes - Over 300 fixes by Brandhor in Games

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So, still no PC performance patches?

Brandis Chief of Staff redacts Senators Metadata as it would "prejudice the protection of an individual's right to privacy" by Mr_Mac in australia

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ZDNet is being DDoS'd over their abysmal coverage of Bitcoin.

Are there theories how we could send data between earth and mars in real time? by Guybrush_Deepthroat in askscience

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Passing information faster than light will break causality, think the grandfather paradox.

A "possibility" of breaking the speed of light is as probable as finding out the second law of thermodynamics violated. We have so much evidence to the contractory that you'd basically need to throw out all research since 1900 if FTL is possible.

Are there theories how we could send data between earth and mars in real time? by Guybrush_Deepthroat in askscience

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Indeed. You cannot travel faster than light, or pass information faster than light. That is absolutely impossible. Don't think this will be possible in the future - most of science fiction is fiction.

Now, we might be able to 'bend' space-time (eg wormholes) or develop quantum teleportation, but neither of them breaks the speed of light and is quite different to what you might imagine. Or we could hibernate and make the journey to Mars feel like a night. We cannot break very core fundamentals of the universe.

There Are More Atoms In A Drop Of Water Than There Are Drops Of Water In All The Worlds Oceans. Is It True Or False? by LolTacoBell in askscience

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A difference of 103 when the order of magnitude is around 1022 is fairly close.

How to anonymize my voice while preserving "aspects of my speech that I can improve over time''? by [deleted] in AskNetsec

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There are situations where we expect to get hit on, say a bar. Waiting for a train is not one of these situations. You're not going to have much luck other than making us think you're a little bit of a creep.

Western Union filed a copyright claim against me for posting the parody ad to my large facebook page by token_dave in Bitcoin

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I've never used Facebook and never will

Western Union filed a copyright claim against me for posting the parody ad to my large facebook page by token_dave in Bitcoin

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Parody is protected under copyright law.

How to anonymize my voice while preserving "aspects of my speech that I can improve over time''? by [deleted] in AskNetsec

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You, what? Seriously, stop being weird and trying to pick up strangers outside a train station. Chances are, they're busy.

Keeping passwords safe while inputting them on an unknown computer by HeloRising in AskNetsec

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The "type all letters in notepad and copy paste them" does not work. Basically ALL key loggers show clipboard changes.

If you have a web server, set up a jsonp page where you can make it display certain plaintext content from your phone. On the actual compromised computer, use developer tools to get the password, set the textbook input value to it, and then edit out your password from your jsonp page.

Clunky? Yeah, don't do that. Make an extension + app that automates this and get rich!

GAW Miners Continue Scam While CoinFire Is Defaced by Future_Prophecy in Bitcoin

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Gaw are absolutely scammers, nice ad hominid! So why do you keep spamming your crappy news site? You're not supposed to post your own content on Reddit more than the 10/90 rule.

If you want to spam your site, use the reddit advertising system, not alt accounts.

GAW Miners Continue Scam While CoinFire Is Defaced by Future_Prophecy in Bitcoin

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Blogspam from qntra, the leading "we can only whore views from reddit" news site.

Noghi Continues to Pay Bills after ATO Ruling by Noghi in Bitcoin

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LivingRoomOfSatoshi was free.

So sick of these "dog ate my homework" excuses from pro players by smurfscale in GlobalOffensive

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Well, one of the more popular hacks have "748 online in CS:GO".

Why do people think LiteCoin is dead? by rleiss2 in litecoin

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No, it isn't. Read the Bitcoin whitepaper.

51% is for 100% chance.

10% of mining power is enough to double spend 10 minutes.

The only reason it hasn't been demonstrated in Litecoin is because there is no fundamental difference with Litecoin (the shorter block interval does not change 'competing transaction' attacks, which must be executed in seconds), and nobody cares about Litecoin anyway.

Why do people think LiteCoin is dead? by rleiss2 in litecoin

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Irrelevant. To pull off a double spend without mining collusion, the interval you have is seconds. 2.5 minute blocks vs 10 minute blocks makes no difference, as the difference is seconds.

To pull off a double spend attack with mining power, the block interval doesn't matter.

Why do people think LiteCoin is dead? by rleiss2 in litecoin

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SHA256 is faster than scrypt, but has endured 10x more cryptanalysis than Scrypt.

Scrypt being slower doesn't make it any better. It just makes the difficulty less.

Why do people think LiteCoin is dead? by rleiss2 in litecoin

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You've never addressed my point of:

  • security of transaction = (block interval * number of blocks) * network difficulty

Litecoin offers no meaningful advantages over network security.

Statement from KQLY (in French) by ESEAsapphiRe in GlobalOffensive

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VAC does.

VAC reads file names of all files on the C drive. (This can be simply confirmed via Process Monitor, csgo.exe). Files that match a certain pattern have the first 2048 bytes of the binary sent to valve, along with the MD5 (found via decompilation).

VAC reads your hard drives USN journal, and will kick you if your USN journal is unusually fresh / cleared.

Fortunately, we (AA) mitigate it with our ring0 protection that patches the Windows kernel. We have had zero VAC detections (and are not caught by this latest ban wave) since the introduction of ring0.

Why do people think LiteCoin is dead? by rleiss2 in litecoin

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When you are making a person to person transaction, the guy isn't going to double spend because you know their face. It is no different from being handed a very well looking counterfeit note.

You are assuming that people will wait for 1 confirmation. Most transactions don't need that. Furthermore, security of a transaction is dependant on confirmations * time per block, so a Litecoin confirmation is equal to only 0.25 Bitcoin confirmations. For the same security merchants need to wait for 24 LTC confirmations.

Why do people think LiteCoin is dead? by rleiss2 in litecoin

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The average user isn't going to use using sites like BTCe or whatever. They're going to use Bitcoin to shop, and I've never waited for a single confirmation when buying stuff through Bitpay and Coinbase.

I just gifted someone reddit gold. The transaction was instant, Gold was instantly credited to their account. Why? Coinbase sends a notification to reddit if there is a double spend so they'll revoke gold, but credit it asap

Why do people think LiteCoin is dead? by rleiss2 in litecoin

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There is a significant cost to having to take in account multiple currencies with their own differences and different exchange risks, as well as additional costs with securing wallets and systems used to hold additional cryptocurrencies.

This cost naturally leads to one currency, which equally applies to cryptocurrency. You are forgetting there is zero difference between Litecoin and Bitcoin to the average person... There's no "choice", why would anyone use LTC over BTC?

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