Wait a minute. You're telling me you don't ALREADY backup your important data at least weekly?
None of my important data is as sensitive and vulnerable as my unencrypted bitcoin wallet. I suppose if the wallet was encrypted I could drop it in my dropbox dir, or maybe if it were possible to keep my keys in KeePass and serve them over KeePassHTTP that would work. Currently backing up my wallet and synchronizing it across computers is a manual process, if it's not for you then you have a very specific type of backup/synchronization strategy that happens to work for this particular file. (lol congratulations) |
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Having many addresses improves privacy and makes it easier to keep track of payments from multiple sources.
I guess that payments from multiple sources is useful for most people, though I've never used different addresses for each person myself. I also guess that each published address could potentially mean lost funds, so a wallet per address would be out of the question; now I see the need for deterministic wallets! This data could (and probably should) be stored elsewhere. I agree. A separate cache in some table for each inbound address in some other database would be ideal. Maybe also hold the time when the address was generated so there's no need to scan the entire block chain if you add a new address to an old client. For purposes of backup, you only NEED to backup the wallet.dat every time a new address is generated. That's not very user-friendly at all though, and if you mess up it can cost you everything you own. Are there any plans to solve this issue? It's by far my biggest complaint, savings wallets are easy but actually having one for day-to-day use is a chore |
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hard line libertarianism allows for social responsibility, and even encourages it, for renewable resources.
I don't understand. I mean all kinds of social responsibility, not just issues to do with shared resources but the whole "hands off my shit", "fuck you", selfish, antisocial attitude associated with libertarian political stances. |
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Are there clear advantages of having a wallet that mutates whenever we open the Bitcoin client, or is this an artefact of some other design decision?
I can see several disadvantages:
1) My wallet file constantly changes, so I need to keep backing it up every time I use it.
2) It grows over time, becoming harder and harder to manage.
3) If I replace it with an old backup, I have to rescan because (I'm assuming that) transaction cache data exists within the wallet (why?!)
4) If my computer crashes while Bitcoin is writing to the wallet then it has a chance of becoming corrupted.
Is there a good reason why we don't have just one address held in a file that never changes, that's easy to back up and holds no state data?
Do we need all 100 addresses in there, do we need more than one or two?
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You've never actually suggested anything to replace any of my theories. If AnCap is so destructive, what do you suggest in its stead?
I personally think that if there was an ideal form of politics that worked well in all situations then we'd have found it already, the fact that we haven't is testament to how much of a non-trivial problem it is. Hard line stances are often childish views of a complex world, for example hard-line libertarianism completely lacks social responsibility, which is not a sensible nor practical way to run a society. Hard-line socialism tramples on personal liberty, which is also not sensible. |
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At least this batch of techno-alarmists is more entertaining than the last 50.
Fire bad! Thok like cold meat! Wheel Bad! Thok like walking!
As a singularitarian and technology geek I welcome our robot overlords, I just can't imagine new types of jobs for humans if technological change continues at its current rate. If AI can do every job a skilled and creative human can, you've got a lot more to worry about than your naughty bits. I completely agree. Fire up the paperclip maximizer, we've got a solar system to tile! I agree that automation doesn't nec hurt workers, but it doesn't nec help them either under the current arrangement, as most of the profit from that productivity gain gets captured by the super-rich. If we lived in a different socioeconomic system, I'd be a lot more excited about advancements that allow productivity to be gained, because then it is much more liekly that people will actually have the choice to work less and maintain a basic standard of living - eg the mythical world where the dripfeed essentially provides you basic shelter and food for next to nothing and one can build on top of that. Yeah, Russell wrote about a 4-hour work day almost 80 years ago. We've got all this extra productivity and no extra slack, no change at all. |
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Automation doesn't wreck the economy. Imagine how many scribes were put out of work when the printing press was invented.
Imagine how many harvesters were put out of work when the tractor was invented.
Automation doesn't ruin the economy, it shifts it.
We'll see about that in the next few decades when AI can not only do any job that even the most skilled and creative human can do, but can be trained much faster than the redundant human workforce. Prostitution might survive for a while, but I don't fancy manning a glory hole through my golden years |
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I agree with hashcoin, this is an incredibly useful thought experiment and a brilliant attack on the Bitcoin system itself.
So let's ignore the trolly context and get down to the technical details of the attack: Is it possible to encode a small, encrypted jpeg thumbnail in the block chain without mining the block yourself? If so Bitcoin is vulnerable to your run-of-the-mill troll and this should be addressed.
If it's not possible to do unless you actually mined the block, what's from stopping some serious adversary from encoding encrypted child porn into blocks and then releasing the key later on?
What should we do if this happens?
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i didnt see too much wrong with you selling you moderators position. if you sold it to a shill someone would just make a different subreddit.
Anyone who would pay money to be a moderator of a community based on trust and responsibility is not someone who should ever be a moderator. |
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You should make a "No, we don't accept Bitcoin" sticker that we can stick in places next to their "We accept Visa / Mastercard" signs. It would be fun to stick them in shops!
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To be fair, BTC isn't really an investment used by investors. It's still a toy used by geeks, even our BTC speculators are just geeks with money to play with.
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Denying a man the right to his own life in terms of physical restriction, harm whether it be a threat or actual action. I do not compromise when it comes to this.
You didn't define any of those three terms. It was supposed to be a little wordplay exercise for you. |
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I think if someone else reasonable puts their hand up for it, that'd be better... but who decides reasonable is up to the particular forum I guess. In communities such as Reddit I'd say that a meritocracy is the best way to run things. If you do the most for the community and are respected by the community then you should have the most power, but only so that the community benefits. I don't visit r/bitcoin enough to be involved in any of the politics though, so couldn't recommend anyone else. |
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Maybe. Nothing is completely secure, you need to weigh up how risky is it for you to put any sensitive data on your computer, and how much BTC you have to lose.
How secure is your computing environment? If you are running it on your Windows PC with a dodgy license key and is full to the brim with pirate games and software, no antivirus and hasn't had an update in months then you shouldn't be storing more than 0.5BTC on it.
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Yes because preventing another from committing harm, theft and murder against another is slavery.
That's an incredibly childish response to what ought to be a thought-provoking point. Before you continue, can you define harm, theft and murder? |
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I quite like the idea of what 7 languages in 7 weeks tries to do, although I wouldn't have picked those seven languages they're a pretty good selection. 7 languages in 7 weeks? Why not Japanese, Spanish, Italian, English, Latin, Mandarin, German and French in 7 weeks? A programming language worth learning is something you learn to think in, which means committing several years to its mastery. Something you can learn in a week is not something worth learning. Do you actually know anyone who learned Haskell or even C in a week?! http://norvig.com/21-days.html |
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Property rights? You acted against the spirit of the website, the reason why it exists, against the interests of everyone who was subscribed and only in the interest of your own greedy, self-serving, corrupt and morally bankrupt ass.
In short, f*ck you. I that hope you're never given a position of power anywhere ever again
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Bitcoin is, for some reason, highly polarizing. For every person who loves it, there is a bitcoin critic who hates it. I believe the bitcoin critics suffer from Stockholm syndrome. Stockholm syndrome is a "paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein hostages express empathy and have positive feelings towards their captors; sometimes to the point of defending them," according to Wikipedia. Bitcoin critics have fallen in love with the bankers who pillaging them and lash out at the solution to their problem.
What you just wrote reads like "everyone who disagrees with me has a mental condition" |
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I was wrong.
If you really tried to sell r/bitcoin then you're not only wrong but you're complete scum. |
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