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dsyrkon New technology has enabled cyber-crime on an industrial scale

In understand and my point is it makes such approaches dramatically more feasible. It might not activate though, 90% is a high threshold.

dsyrkon New technology has enabled cyber-crime on an industrial scale

Not for much longer the upcoming taproot feature will dramatically improve on-chain privacy.

dsyrkon U.S.'s Biggest Gasoline Pipeline Halted After Cyberattack

I’d be curious to know how much ransom is being asked. Before Bitcoin something this big was impossible to try and pull off.

dsyrkon The origin of Covid: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box?

Except even if they report fake numbers if there was actually significant outbreaks we would hear about it still. It would leak. Something is super odd.

dsyrkon The origin of Covid: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box?

Isn’t it also becoming more and more suspicious that they appear to literally be almost the best country in the world at controlling it. We are talking multiple orders of magnitude better. I struggle to understand how exactly.

dsyrkon Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive

Basically they use par2 multi-file archives for cold storage with each archive file segment scattered across different physical locations. Always fun to see the kids rediscovering tricks from the old days.

dsyrkon Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?

Wait what?! There is a way to egress from free from Backblaze B2! That’s a big deal if true.

dsyrkon Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?

fyi that 10k includes no drives.

dsyrkon Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today?

I’d like to add I’d agree with the parent comment and add some specifics.

Buy storage servers from 45drives they basically build same hardware as Backblaze uses. Add copper 10G nics to the servers.

https://www.45drives.com/

Get necessary switches 10G with 40G uplink ports. Whatever your favorite. Use 10GBaseT to the servers.

Install hardware in a quality data center. Like one of theirs -

https://www.digitalrealty.com/

And get 10G virtual cross connects to AWS.

Back of the envelope calculation you need 30TB raw, so about 60 servers. They aren’t really that power hungry so 10 per cabinet. 6 cabinets. at least 6+2 switches.

Software wise you have lots of options with this infra. High upfront cost but low MRC vs all other options. Assuming you have skilled sys admins who know what they are doing.

dsyrkon Turkey Bans Cryptocurrency Payments

The largest and most sophisticated holders of crypto assets would be using multi signature wallets with a protocol between multiple private and secure participants. How does a gun allow you to seize private keys? We are back to they can threaten to kill you? But there is a problem, if they do they lose the keys also. Guns and weapons are massively less effective against crypto assets in comparison to traditional assets. If one owns a factory and doesn’t pay taxes, those guns work very well in comparison.

dsyrkon What Should We Do If Extraterrestrials Show Up?

Fast forward maybe another 2-5k years in human progress and let’s make the humans the aliens and some creatures perhaps like dinosaurs or maybe early intelligent like pre-historic cave men but “beneath” human progress on a habitable planet somewhere within a 100ish light years from earth.

What would happen? We will have sent our automated probes to their planet, programmed to find moving objects, large/small and observe them. We will measure all aspects of their habitat.

Then what? We will sit down for tea and compare our feelings of pride? We will attempt to teach them something they don’t know?

I don’t get it. It seems super binary to me, alien life will either be so advanced they are tourists or scientists observing us on our “nature preserve” ... or they will have eyes on our real estate. I don’t see romantic in-betweens as remotely realistic and never have.

dsyrkon What Should We Do If Extraterrestrials Show Up?

I don’t agree with any of what you conjecture. Assume you have much better technology as ours but we roughly correct in our current understandings of physics and energy. So let’s try building space habitats with square foot like our planet’s surface that can accommodate exponential growth in demand, really? Before you say well they will have a different habitat, that’s easy, we can even almost solve that, little DNA programming we can likely adjust our DNA to incorporate features that make earth’s atmosphere habital. Now the “incredible” resources to get here. It’s nonsense, the first arrivals will be automated probes, lightweight. Again we can almost easily do this and we just got started.

Lastly, the idea we aren’t looking for habitable planets with in the back of our minds colonies is silly, of course we actually are, we can make all the excuses we want to try and justify our real intentions.

We are on exactly the path I suggest they are likely on. Find planets, send probes, sample lifeforms if found. Send seeds. It’s the universal life force that makes us do it. It’s what life does, expand, replicate, grow, spread.

dsyrkon What Should We Do If Extraterrestrials Show Up?

Earth is likely very very valuable galactic real estate. Terraforming barren planets or moons is incredibly energy intensive. Assembling habitats in space also potentially quite frustratingly complex. Earth from a technical perspective has incredible resources. Aren’t we already pointing our latest telescopes at nearby solar systems looking for “habitable” planets? They are gonna want your planet sorry. Maybe they will work out an Indian reservation like proposal because the guilt is hard for them.

dsyrkon Turkey Bans Cryptocurrency Payments

Are you familiar with “Buried Treasure”?

https://www.coindesk.com/russias-darknet-criminals-have-a-no...

It will be impossible to regulate on and off globally. Yes banning mainstream access will drop demand and access to crypto currencies temporarily but long run the government currencies are in a losing battle. Improved scaling solutions, micropayments, and privacy upgrades are all coming soon. Bitcoin already processes more reliably and with greater transactions than Fedwire.

dsyrkon Turkey Bans Cryptocurrency Payments

You seem to vastly overestimate the power of your government and you are very naive to believe it will have the effect Turkey’s government wants. Turkish bazaars are neat places and the population has decades of experience dealing with an inflationary trash fiat currency, Bitcoin demand in Turkey will increase not decrease. Check back with me in 8 weeks.

dsyrkon Turkey Bans Cryptocurrency Payments

That’s actually exactly the point. Tanks and jets are pretty useless to extract private keys. They were great and confiscating gold or nations or oil fields. Fiat currency is tightly linked to war. Your immediate reaction shows that. But your tanks and jets are garbage and your governments should stop spending resources on them, they won’t help in anyway trying to confiscate crypto currency.

dsyrkon Turkey Bans Cryptocurrency Payments

But unless it is globally everywhere, which it won’t. it will eventually fail. If you study the history of money, which I have, basically eventually the “better” money wins. This is the case for the last 5000+ years of human history across many civilizations. What we have is the emergency of “better” money. Fiat has huge advantages if a nation needs to wage war, among many other features, but those features have lost utility over what new cryptocurrency can offer. Governments will obviously fight back soon, but I believe will lose completely in the long run.

dsyrkon Turkey Bans Cryptocurrency Payments

ok I’ll take your bait and it’s an easy answer the smart ones don’t. We aren’t even in the first battle of the coming war to wrestle currency back into private hands. My question for you would be why do you think governments even stand a chance? Try shutting down the internet, US SEC chairwoman admits will be very hard to stop without extreme technical measures. Please tell how are they going to stop cryptocurrency? With silly bans like Turkey’s? What a joke.