Friday, June 13, 2014

Bitcoin and 51% mining power

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Meta: This doesn't cover all incentives. More a high level reminder for new folks. Tweet : #bitcoin mining market under-studied & ...
Thursday, June 5, 2014

Why I will not be joining the NSA protest

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(copied from a twitter rant ) Some random points about the NSA and global surveillance: Today, in 2014, paying low volume retail prices...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Bitcoin and the kernel-in-a-kernel security sandbox problem

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When considering sandboxes and security jails, the problem space is interesting.  There is an increasingly common pattern. I call it ...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Cost of a DIY NSA?

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A core thesis of mine these days is that citizens worried about NSA surveillance are only seeing the tip of the iceberg.  Computers get chea...
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Monday, April 14, 2014

On Amazon, bitcoin and Stan Lee

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After experimenting with bitcoin in July 2010 (" the great slashdotting ") and finding it to be a sound design, my thoughts ran in...
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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