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Re:Bitcoin rises 3% after topping $73,000 since March on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @05:38AM (#41993250)
They can just turn off their asics when they mine at a loss
Re:The Distributional Consequences of Bitcoin on Sunday October 20, 2024 @12:04PM (#41896266)
With lots of comments on stackernews

https://stacker.news/items/732289

How do you know?
That would be hilarious
Segwit activation
Adam is mentioned in the Bitcoin white paper. Would you he have done that if he was Satoshi?
Re:Ark on Bitcoin Is Here on Monday September 23, 2024 @03:30AM (#41623339)
What about the Bitcoin blockchain is broken in your opinion?
Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @09:48AM (#41579706)
> US manufacturing

America is a continent.

Re:Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn on Monday September 16, 2024 @04:26AM (#41553942)
Other bc's are centralized and don't need it as they can just revert or change their state.
> will be awarded in a logarithmically declining emission schedule until about 2040.

Correction: 2140

Re:Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (Race) on Friday August 30, 2024 @12:12PM (#41402070)
Have a look at simplex.chat
Re:Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (Race) on Friday August 30, 2024 @12:11PM (#41402049)
Not just that, nsa can observe enough of the whole intrnet traffic and do deep packet inspection. Afaik tor does explicitly not protect against such an observer in their threat model.
Bitcoin does not require all that energy it actually protects itself by making it more difficult to mine when more energy is thrown at it. See difficulty adjustment.

But people will throw more energy at it in the future. There is no reason to put all unused energy into Bitcoin mining.

Wbtc already happened. Bitcoin-pos already happened
Re:Script.aculo.us – Web 2.0 JavaScript on Thursday August 15, 2024 @06:57AM (#41254647)
mootools ftw! Feels like 20 years ago
Re:Full-RBF by default merged into Bitcoin Core on Thursday August 08, 2024 @04:37AM (#41189364)
Isnt /r/btc the bcash guys?
Re:Bitcoin Investors Buy Puts Aggressively on Thursday August 08, 2024 @04:34AM (#41189349)
Read "Broken Money" by Lyn Alden.
Who issues the id?
Re:Why the Bitcoin Security Model Is Broken on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @03:48AM (#41106945)
> The US government certainly has the budget and the power to be able to do a 51% attack and wipe out all faith in Bitcoin but they have no incentive to do it.

Certainly? How do you think they would do it?

Re:Why the Bitcoin Security Model Is Broken on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @03:44AM (#41106929)
Aaaaaannd it lost all its worth
Re:Why the Bitcoin Security Model Is Broken on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @03:44AM (#41106924)
Segwit2x had 2 off by 1 errors and never worked
Re:Why the Bitcoin Security Model Is Broken on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @03:42AM (#41106921)
1 sat/vByte
First approach (by Swiss Post) was rejected by swiss citizens.

https://sarahjamielewis.com/evoting/

I wonder what @nullc thinks of this
Why use lightning when you can use visa?

Hint hint hint

Re:Install Docmost – open-source Notion Clone on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @09:01AM (#41045511)
What does databases do?
Re:Ask HN: Any way to borrow compute from Apple M1 on Thursday July 18, 2024 @12:04PM (#40997010)
If you are in the same network try https://pinokio.computer