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I've search high and low and absolutely can't get my hands on one.

os support on the rock64 is not quite there yet however but given the features@pricepoint i expect it to catch up

for one, why are _researchers_ using largely obsolete technology; for another, many high performance computing tasks perform significantly faster on 64bit (e.g., lmdb)

do you really think something or better and cheaper is impossible? the rpi is _the most overpriced sbc on the market_ particularly if you're not using it for raspbian (32bit only) and the module ecosystem

nanopi neo2 and rock64 are better and cheaper alternatives

there are also more powerful alternatives of the same footprint and at same or slightly cheaper price point (rock64)

i am questioning why they are using immensely popular and commensurately overpriced but yet woefully underspecced components instead of something better and/or cheaper

is it just because 'raspberry pi' makes for a hot title in a press release?

the rpi value prop is the community support but that would mean that this cluster is running a 32bit os - so what really is the point of using these instead of something smaller and cheaper or same size and more powerful for the same money

I'd guess it's some sort of legal/accounting move, something beneath the surface. Doesn't really make much sense otherwise.

http://www.sandia.gov/news/publications/labnews/articles/201...

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7xz35e/us-law-enf...

http://www.sandia.gov/news/publications/labnews/articles/201...

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7xz35e/us-law-enf...

http://www.coindesk.com/elliptic-partners-with-risk-controls...

That this subset of transactions is not safe is not news, nor is it even original research - it was covered in research more than 2 years ago by The Monero Project itself - and is something the project has addressed since and is working to further improve even beyond the recommendations of this paper.

Lengthy discussion on reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/65dj7u/an_empirical...

Both Bitcoin and Monero have fair distribution; development of neither is done by for-profit LLCs financially supported by any pre-mine, miner tax, insider investment/ICO, or other fancy scheme paid out by either the underlying monetary system or taxed from the users and/or those securing the network, and while Blockstream Inc. does employ Bitcoin Core developers, Monero development is entirely decentralized without even a foundation to its name.

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2016-Februa...

It might even be worse if it wasn't as such - a security-oriented business that, motivated by Bitcoin's shortcomings, does due diligence on anonymous crypto and genuinely concludes that Zcash, in its current state no less, is the answer? Come on.

http://archive.is/vnmkv

I am relieved that 'Keybase chose Zcash' purely on merit after an exhaustive and objective selection process, and that this potential conflict of interest is transparently disclosed in the linked adverticle - wait, they did no such thing.

Does it concern no one that this security-focused company is shilling for other (fundamentally questionable) products?

>When you spend money, you basically say "I am one of 2^256 people", where 2^256 is usually fairly small.

Disappointing/embarrassing level of insight from a crypto project leader - here's a good layman-friendly video https://youtu.be/GEVm1dMn5Ks?t=14m to bring you up to speed (the simplified example is continued at 20m).