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nutschig··on Bitcoin Miners Signal Revolt Amid Sluggish Blockchain
Cryptographic security with end-users holding their keys isn't an available feature for modern finance.
nutschig··on Twitter discloses national security letters
Fingerprints like this: https://amiunique.org/fp
nutschig··on Twitter discloses national security letters
Knowing what fonts / styles any one author uses could be used to group together internal intelligence structures.
nutschig··on Zcash begins
No conviction needed in civil forfeiture.
nutschig··on Carbon Nanotubes Finally Outperform Silicon in Transistors
Silicon is not the best transistor material ever. For example, gallium arsenide can run at a switching frequency of 250 GHz thanks to faster electron velocity and higher electron mobility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium_arsenide#GaAs_advantag...
nutschig··on Video games are essential for inventing artificial intelligence
Kenneth O. Stanley and Joel Lehman have a great book out on measuring novelty, and using it to search large parameter spaces for interesting behaviors.

http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/noveltysearch/userspage/ http://www.amazon.com/Why-Greatness-Cannot-Planned-Objective...

I'm a big fan, and would love to talk about this anytime.

nutschig··on Why the practical applications of Bitcoin will be limited
Gavin argues that 1000x is possible. With the latest features of header-first syncing, and simultaneous multiple downloads of blocks, we're doing pretty well.

https://blog.bitcoinfoundation.org/blocksize-economics/

In the future, the blockchain inital sync should be torrented by default.

nutschig··on Guns, Drugs and Money [video]
Bitcoin.
nutschig··on The $9B Witness: JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare
Exit the financial system. Use Bitcoin.