Sunday, November 24, 2013

Our future: Population control through data mining

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Our collective future will be dictated by statistics, cheap cloud storage and data mining, not politicians. NSA's PRISM is a symptom, a...
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

"Solution" to bitcoin volatility

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The Washington Post's wonk blog posted this interesting bit by Neil Irwin: Bitcoin Needs A Central Banker .  The article is tongue-in-ch...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

Speculation: Are bitcoin thieves revealing NSA back doors?

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Bitcoin is rather unique in that everyone in the world has a direct financial incentive for finding weak ECDSA private keys.  Compromise a ...
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Friday, August 30, 2013

On stolen coins and transaction blacklists

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This blog post was originally email, written in response to a reporter's questions, such as:  Why can we not recover or blacklist stolen...
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Journalists Are The New Terrorists

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The detention of David Miranda is only the latest example of a new trend, where journalism is now terrorism, and journalists are pursued as...
Friday, August 16, 2013

Original SIN

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Recorded for posterity. jgarzik@pum:~/node_modules/libcoin$ node sin-test.js  { created: 1376709207,   priv: 'bc65f94b4142be3c6c0b0...
Friday, August 9, 2013

Bitcoin, free markets, and wanting your ASIC mining hardware now now now

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The reddit comments discussing the Avalon status update are particularly amusing, embodying signature American impatience:  "I want ...