Sunday, March 23, 2014

Arthur C. Clarke on economic meltdowns and network congestion

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Here is a fun passage from Arthur C. Clarke's Rama II fictional novel, published in 1989.  It presents an arguably realistic crash scen...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Bitcoin Core v0.9.0 release overview

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The Bitcoin open source project has released a major new version, 0.9.0.  This update brings the usual basket of fixes, performance improv...
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Monday, February 24, 2014

How to support bitcoin core development

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After this CoinDesk article , various fora have asked how to support bitcoin core development.  Here is a quick list, in order of personal ...
Monday, January 20, 2014

blackbox: Bitcoin-enabled, decentralized cloud

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Rethinking data centers, one node at a time Bittorrent and bitcoin have proven the power of peer-to-peer, decentralized networking.  Amazo...
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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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