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Let's hope they are using a good multi-signature scheme.

jafakuon Inside the world of longsword fighting

The girl says "size shouldn't matter". Yeah right, because you are fighting for points.

jafakuon Composer.js: a framework for building complex single-page applications

I would pick a different name. The dependency manager everyone in PHP uses has the same name: https://getcomposer.org/

It will be a pain to google anything about your project. Take a look at stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=composer

jafakuon Bitcoinfs: A minimal full Bitcoin node in F#

Shouldn't submissions and comments stand on their own merit? What does it matter who submitted it?

jafakuon LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (2006)

Test your pills? How? Anyone can do it?

jafakuon LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (2006)

You guys know scientists are supposed to ask questions, right?

jafakuon LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (2006)

I'd say the first point is kind of important, considering it's a synthetic drug and not a plant. I have no anecdotes for LSD, but a few people died in my city after only a normal dose of ecstasy (no alcohol).

jafakuon Winklevoss Twins Aim to Take Bitcoin Mainstream with a Regulated Exchange

What's your point? Bitcoin has other uses too, eg: http://proofofexistence.com/

jafakuon Winklevoss Twins Aim to Take Bitcoin Mainstream with a Regulated Exchange

> lol you need more then a dictionary

Says the guy who confuses "then" with "than".

jafakuon Winklevoss Twins Aim to Take Bitcoin Mainstream with a Regulated Exchange

I didn't say they were the same, I said they were both investments. You need to work on those straw men.

jafakuon Winklevoss Twins Aim to Take Bitcoin Mainstream with a Regulated Exchange

> Not sure which bookstore accepts bitcoins, but you might want to invest in a dictionary. :o) Or amazon coins, dogecoins, aurora coin, blackcoin, coinye's, dark coins, etc etc.

I won't fight over a stupid dictionary definition, but in case you want to know: The one I used I took it from one. Now what? Do you have any algorithm so that we can achieve consensus on this, or I'll have to accept what you say as a doctrine? The fact that you insist so much on a definition makes it clear that your argument is pretty weak, you have no clue how to attack Bitcoin anymore. You just have an irrational hate against it and want it to go away.

And I don't consider any of those coins "investments". They are redundant, they don't do any significant thing that Bitcoin doesn't, and Bitcoin has a much larger network effect, which is one of the most important things for a protocol and a currency.

> That's 50% plus one

Since you keep saying that, let me explain that simple majority isn't 50% plus one, it's >50%. For example, if we have 9 participants, the majority would be 5, not 5.5.

> Why do you think there are so many different crypto currencies. They all are greedy and want to harvest as much in the early stages of their mining, maximum returns on investments.

Yes, people are greedy. Some try to innovate, some just copy/paste the code, like your beloved dogecoin. But what's your point anyway?

> And if i don't seem to understand, in your eyes, what proof of work is, then please elaborate.

It's an algorithm for achieving distributed consensus, and the cost is those hashes. If you think distributed consensus is worthless, that's a separate issue and you should discuss it as such.

> Only thing they managed so far in my opinion is to create a somewhat, (its not,) anonymous payment system that allows the selling and buying of things that are generally illegal.

Cash is much better for illegal activities. Do you know who said this? The FBI. But your hate is too strong to accept this.

> So to get back to evolution theory, there certainly isn't a consensus on this around the world.

I'm talking about the scientific community, obviously. What do I care what preachers or soldiers say about a scientific issue?

> Have a good and happy mining weekend :)

What makes you think I mine? I don't mine Bitcoin, just like I don't mine gold.

jafakuon Winklevoss Twins Aim to Take Bitcoin Mainstream with a Regulated Exchange

It doesn't seem like exchange is stopping:

https://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-...

I love how Bitcoin is destroying all these economic "theories".

jafakuon Winklevoss Twins Aim to Take Bitcoin Mainstream with a Regulated Exchange

> There's a reason they're called pyramid schemes

Just because someone call something a pyramid scheme, it doesn't mean it is one.

jafakuon Winklevoss Twins Aim to Take Bitcoin Mainstream with a Regulated Exchange

Ok, so you agree that his quote is irrelevant.

jafakuon Winklevoss Twins Aim to Take Bitcoin Mainstream with a Regulated Exchange

Downvoted for stating facts. Way to go, HN!

jafakuon Winklevoss Twins Aim to Take Bitcoin Mainstream with a Regulated Exchange

> -- Jackson Palmer, author of Dogecoin.

Does replacing Bitcoin's logo with the picture of a cute dog now make you some sort of authority on distributed consensus algorithms?

> And i share this point of view.

And just like him, you don't even understand PoW.

> consensus means all members of a party agree upon something. Not just 50%+1, majority rule.

Actually, consensus means "majority opinion". And I don't know where you got the 50%+1 expression from anyway, or why you think it matters . What are you referring to, exactly? Would you say there isn't consensus for the validity of the theory of evolution, just because initially, or even today, someone disagreed?

jafakuon Winklevoss Twins Aim to Take Bitcoin Mainstream with a Regulated Exchange

Do you realize what you just said applies to every successful investment? If you started investing in Apple early, you would be rich too. Does that make Apple a "pyramid scheme"? Or maybe, just maybe, it's just that riskier investments have bigger rewards?

Don't be so stubborn please.

jafakuon Winklevoss Twins Aim to Take Bitcoin Mainstream with a Regulated Exchange

"Also it never made sense to me that I could have been richer if I had access to those fancy super-fast CPUs to "mine" the Bitcoins."

So that's where your hate comes from. I see...

jafakuon Winklevoss Twins Aim to Take Bitcoin Mainstream with a Regulated Exchange

If you think jewelry is what gives gold most of its value you are a little confused.

jafakuon Winklevoss Twins Aim to Take Bitcoin Mainstream with a Regulated Exchange

Actually, Bitcoin is already accepted by more people than many fiat currencies.

jafakuon Winklevoss Twins Aim to Take Bitcoin Mainstream with a Regulated Exchange

The hashes are not being "wasted", it's the cost of Proof of Work. By definition, it can't be useful for something else. It has to be "wasted". I can't understand how you can see that it's being used to secure the first decentralized digital currency ever, that people all over the world are already using, and at the same time say it's being wasted.

jafakuon Accept donations on your site instantly

The development effort of integrating Bitcoin is nearly zero with payment processors like Bitpay/Coinbase.

jafakuon Stripe raises $70M at $3.5B valuation, double that of January

They will probably try to create other scamcoins like Ripple and Stellar.

jafakuon Initial thoughts on the Rocket announcement

"They are free to use Docker as a single container format."

Yes please, that's my preferred format.

jafakuon Java for Everything

Does anyone know a good starting point for learning not just Java, but how to install everything I need? I consider myself the Neo of OOP and a master devops, but every time I tried to use Java I hit a wall of unreadable manuals/guides , software impossible to install/maintain, and mixed opinions among Java devs. Like it can't be used without a dedicated sysadmin.

jafakuon Wanderers: a short film of humanity's expansion into the Solar System [video]

> These days we like to think that we've escaped the malthusian limit, as first world nations tend to have a naturally shrinking population

Ugh, that's not how we escaped Malthus' predictions. We escaped precisely thanks to scientific discoveries and technological advancements.

jafakuon Hard-won lessons about money and investing

Consider also buying a bunch of bitcoins. The reward/risk ratio is too high in my opinion.

jafakuon On the Origin of Celebrity (2013)

What's up with Americans and Julia Roberts? I don't even find her attractive.

jafakuon What an Uncensored Letter to M.L.K. Reveals

Nah, you'll do whatever you are ordered to or lose your job. You don't need to know why. Scratch that, here's why: freedom. Now you can feel good about that wire you just cut, that letter you just signed, or that "terrorist" you tortured for years.

jafakuon What an Uncensored Letter to M.L.K. Reveals

Even if you had a perfect corruption-proof government design... What can you do about it? You are not in charge, and have no way to influence the people in charge.