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Cryptographic security with end-users holding their keys isn't an available feature for modern finance.

Fingerprints like this: https://amiunique.org/fp

Knowing what fonts / styles any one author uses could be used to group together internal intelligence structures.

No conviction needed in civil forfeiture.

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...

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.

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.

Bitcoin.

Exit the financial system. Use Bitcoin.