hapnin

It's still nuts that one satoshi is equal to 73 of any nation's currency, inflation or not.

This would be a game changer if it works as advertised.

You speak truth. The sad part is that early Buddhism was revolutionary in that women were given the same rights and powers as men to quit society and join the monastic community. According to tradition, the first woman ordained by the Buddha was his aunt, Mahāprajāpatī Gotamī.

Point taken. Merci.

Although the article mentions the QC threat to all encryption schemes, it's clickbait to just single out Bitcoin in the title.

You're correct. John Erlichman, convicted Nixon aide, said as much:

"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

1994, talking to journalist Dan Baum, Legalize It All: How to win the war on drugs, Harper's Magazine, April 2016

This looks promising and worth keeping an eye on. Good luck with the project!

This is cool. Another possible use is as an oracle for smart contracts.

Note: souq.com is based out of Dubai, as is Telegram.

Please leave the personal comments out. Thanks.

JP Morgan was recently sued for defrauding cryptocurrency buyers. We can be assured the corruption is intertwined.

Because AGs are rather selective in who they'll prosecute for fraud.

Since no players of note went to jail in the Bailout 10 years ago, we can be reasonably sure the corruption is still entrenched. AGs know what side of their bread is buttered.

Too bad they didn't question the big banks as assiduously 10-12 years ago.

The scope is too small here. QC will wreak havoc on online banking, telecommunications and everything else that depends on unhardened classical cryptography.

"It’s not often that you write a paper proposing a hypothesis that you don’t support."

We should all do this at least once. What a great practice.

It is odd that time is measured in full cycles and our concept of space, in part, rests on a half-circle.

Obligatory:

https://xkcd.com/1323/

You can short Bitcoin on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange:

http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/bitcoin-futures.html

Bitcoin is worth 5x what it was this time last year. BoA is huffing glue.

The genie can't be put back in the bottle, counselor. Move on.

Blockstack looks like it would fit here:

https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack/blob/master/README....

This is the saddest sentence in the article:

"The Fundstrat advisor states that roughly 30 percent of the digital asset holders worldwide are Americans"

This shows how behind the curve Americans have become.

Almost 30 years later, it sounds like they're still arguing for the Clipper Chip in some manner:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

Most of the hate for it is spite and envy combined with a little bit of groupthink.

Whoever builds the Whatsapp for Tox would achieve legend status. It's a cool protocol but still a diamond in the rough.

Technically, it's not a ponzi. It's still stupid.

The initial problem was solved. It couldn't be solved using a mundane DB.

Scaling is a separate issue. I don't believe scaling is even mentioned in the original white paper.

That's a different point altogether. The original question was what does a blockchain solve that a normal DB can't.

The first sentence of the Bitcoin white paper describes a problem that can't be solved by a normal DB.

"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution."