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Re:Zerocoin: making Bitcoin anonymous by ezyang on Thursday April 11, 2013 @08:12PM (#5535739)
Expected wait time: infinity!
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Re:Zerocoin: making Bitcoin anonymous by anologwintermut on Thursday April 11, 2013 @08:35PM (#5535829)
If you believe that then I have a lottery ticket to sell you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox
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Re:Zerocoin: making Bitcoin anonymous by krcz on Thursday April 11, 2013 @08:40PM (#5535847)
Can I play as many times as I want?
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Re:Zerocoin: making Bitcoin anonymous by krcz on Thursday April 11, 2013 @08:29PM (#5535804)
Not really, it's silly to talk about expected value here. There's just no such distribution.
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