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Re:Ask HN: What's the best way to learn about the blockchain? by lacker on Saturday September 24, 2016 @01:21PM (#12571725)
Learning about blockchains can certainly be disconnected from Bitcoin. Go read the Ethereum docs for example.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best way to learn about the blockchain? by jerguismi on Saturday September 24, 2016 @03:52PM (#12572333)
Ethereum stuff can also prove how to do things wrong... The DAO is a good example of that, and now the recent ddos attack.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best way to learn about the blockchain? by AroundTheBlock_ on Monday September 26, 2016 @12:13PM (#12583050)
TheDAO is an example of a mistake on the path towards building something better/safer. You don't think airbags have ever killed people? Faulty seatbelts? Did Tesla abandon auto-pilot because of a few accidents? Do I need to go on and on? This is a nascent technology, of course there are going to be missteps along the way, and to hold it against Ethereum forever is an incredibly cynical point of view for supposed technologists.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best way to learn about the blockchain? by brighton36 on Saturday September 24, 2016 @04:38PM (#12572547)
There are no uses for turing complete smart contracts. Multisig and nLockTime perform all the same functions with lower risk and greater scalability.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the best way to learn about the blockchain? by heliumcraft on Saturday September 24, 2016 @05:14PM (#12572683)
Looking forward then to the deluge of DApps coming to Bitcoin using Multisign and nLockTime, just go to http://dapps.ethercasts.com/ and copy paste ideas to Bitcoin using Multisign / nLockTime, should be easy peasy. Oh yeah, and all can be done with Multisign & nLockTime, so I wonder why Counterparty and now Rootstock are implementing Ethereum's virtual machine, strange.

Wish you and your partner in crime stopped spreading false information and just focused on Bitcoin. It should stand on its own merits not on dishing other projects.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best way to learn about the blockchain? by AroundTheBlock_ on Monday September 26, 2016 @12:14PM (#12583063)
Chris DeRose, you have no power here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBGWtVOKTkM

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best way to learn about the blockchain? by shp0ngle on Saturday September 24, 2016 @03:23PM (#12572198)
That's true, but it's still basically a cryptocurrency, with some out-there applications (that are not really that reliable, yet).

But yeah you are right.

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