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Re:Who’s Afraid of Bitcoin? The Futures Traders Going Short on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @12:52PM (#15907735)
There was an unintentional fork on August 15, 2010, when "[an] attacker exploited [an] integer overflow bug that permitted an attacker to create several billion bitcoins". [source][0]

There was an unintentional fork on March 12, 2013 caused by previously disallowed number of tx inputs (?) as resolved by [BIP50][1].

[0]: https://blog.blockchain.com/2016/02/26/a-brief-history-of-bi... [1]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawi...

UI suggestion: Instead of showing a list of things, just put them on the map
Re:Just Enough Bitcoin for Ethereum on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @12:20AM (#10378530)
There are a few projects working on this. One problem is key management and giving the app a connection to the blockchain. If you do key management in the webapp and read from the blockchain via a centralized API, thats not much of an improvement over existing systems. Ethereum core's solution to this is a special browser, but it is still under development. I'm working on a project[0] that takes this on, but is still a couple months out from a public beta. Its a bit of a hack but it manages a zero-install solution by having a sort of browser-in-browser that intercepts transaction signing requests and provides access to blockchain data. Can't wait to get it out there.

[0]: https://metamask.io/

Gitlab as id/auth provider, eh? What is out there in terms of id/auth appliances that are sufficiently generic/cross-platform?
names are hard, but i implore you to continue your search
so are you guys like an incubator for decentralized apps?
Re:Working Toward Bret Victor's “Learnable Programming” on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @05:07PM (#10082196)
here's a JS implementation of Bret Victor's "Learnable Programming" demo http://www.fullstack.io/choc/
Re:Banks Forgot Who Was Supposed to Own Dell Shares on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @02:14AM (#9889974)
Colored coins are a clever hack. Newer blockchains like Ethereum[0] are designed to have yet-unthought-of things built on top of them.

0. https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper

Re:How necessary are var, let, and const? on Monday June 01, 2015 @04:28PM (#9641906)
It doesn't in v8 -- what do you mean by `should`?
Re:Ethereum Security Bug Bounty on Monday January 26, 2015 @01:05PM (#8948470)
Re:Microsoft Band on Thursday October 30, 2014 @05:10AM (#8531981)
As a comparison, worth noting that the watch does not have GPS without the paired phone. So if you wanted to go out for a run and track the course, you would need to bring the phone.
Re:AI Swarms on the Blockchain on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @02:12PM (#8494148)
Just because its a decentralized system, does not mean the problem is best solved with a blockchain. It is but one tool in the toolbox.
Re:Apple Mac Mini on Thursday October 16, 2014 @03:21PM (#8466965)
The above calculation was for 32bpp:

3 colors * 1 byte * (8 bits/byte) = 32 bits

Re:Voice Viewer on Saturday August 09, 2014 @03:28PM (#8157800)
If I were to throw a js one together, I would use these as a starting point:

[0]: http://web-apprentice-demo.craic.com/tutorials?tutorial=33&d...

[1]: https://webaudiodemos.appspot.com/input/index.html

Re:All Our Patent Are Belong To You on Thursday June 12, 2014 @04:02PM (#7885649)
If I were building a giant battery factory, I would also encourage others to make electric cars.
a source of some confusion: zerocoin !== zerocash
I've worked on a project that used Blockly and found it to be great : )
Re:Avow-CI Is No More on Monday April 14, 2014 @11:50AM (#7586871)
Shouldn't we name names in this case? This behaviour should be part of the company's public image. Or does that just greatly increase the legal risk for the author?
"Seven percent of the test group could bitshift"
Re:IRS Says Bitcoin Is Property on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @03:25PM (#7468288)
define 'reality'
Re:2048 – multiplayer on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @12:47PM (#7386706)
use webrtc, easy. then you wont even need your own backend.
Re:2048 – multiplayer on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @12:42PM (#7386679)
plz enable github issues
If you haven't seen it yet, checkout this value and time scrubber, a pretty faithful recreation of Bret Victor's demo http://www.fullstack.io/choc/
Re:Lavabit's Dark Mail Initiative on Monday November 04, 2013 @05:03PM (#6671508)
"sell the sizzle not the steak"
im saying it would be trivial to implement LOGO in choc
I work on various open-source learnable programming projects and would like to make myself available to provide support for your lesson plans involving choc. aaron [at] kumavis.me
you're seeing the tree and missing the forest -- this isnt about the examples its about the technology they feature. write a LOGO turtle example, then you can scrub its instructions, and execution
Re:Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In? on Thursday February 14, 2013 @05:14PM (#5222803)
Yerba Buena. Where are all these states you guys are talking about? I don't see them on the map...