there is one implementation of the function that takes the dice rolls as an input, and uses the SHA256 of that as a seed. SeedSigner. That's a weird code! It basically generates the random bits but uses it as a string instead of binary! The computed hash is the hash of that string not exactly the same as using the bits directly. The developed possibly had no idea how to convert bits to bytes and compute that hash P.S. Using HMACSHA would be useful to combine entropies. For example if you don't want to rely fully on computer generated random or fully on user (dice) generated random you could generate both and then compute HMACSHA256 of them using one as the key and the other as the message. I haven't seen anybody do this either though.
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Time will tell if the power of marketing and "first mover" can withstand the sorry shamble of rubble that Windows has quickly become.
It's not enough to just be the first one in the field, you have to make actually good stuff to convince people to stay. That's why so many people still use Apple even though they were laggards behind MS in the 80's and 90's.
I don't think that much is going to change with passage of time alone. It is evident that people are too lazy to make a change. Take web browsers for example. The closed source proprietary software called Chrome that is mining user personal info has more than 65% of the total number of users on all platforms while the far superior and open source Firefox has less than 4% (according to Wikipedia).
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Spinning 1TB drives are under $40.00 as are 512GB SSD it's no longer that big a deal.
The thing is people don't buy computers or their hardware to be dedicated all to bitcoin. For example my 4 TB HDD space is used for my files and it doesn't have that much space left for blockchain, same as my SDD which I use for 2 operating systems and their installed programs and their related files which take up a lot of space. So not much space is left for me to dedicate to bitcoin's full blockchain, this is where pruned mode is very useful.
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The best example is Windows. And yet, number one in usage. That's the power of marketing. Good point. Another major reason is the first mover advantage that Windows has though. Not to mention the fact that Linux has major differences that has discouraged many regular users from making that migration.
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The hypocrisy of this coming out of BBC is absurd. TickTok is Chinese based so they are allowed to write such an article but they are never allowed to write any articles about the terrorism that has been advertised on social media outlets like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook over the past 3 weeks, all 100% allowed by these platforms and the governments as long as they did it in Persian encouraging Iranian protesters to go violent. Here is one of many examples of an asshole posting a guide about how to make Molotov Cocktails on Instagram: https://imgur.com/fzMLA70 (the guide is censored for obvious reasons). It is worth knowing majority of these individuals inciting terrorism on these platforms live in London. Some of them currently work at BBC...
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I have no problem with closed source wallets if the developers pledge to compensate any coin that is stolen if there is a problem with the code, otherwise the security of the central platforms is considered higher than the closed source wallets.
It is not only about stealing users' coins, it is also about "stealing" users' personal data, which is very hard, if not impossible, to spot early in the case of closed-source wallets. Developers of closed-source wallets may be experienced enough to avoid introducing critical bugs in their wallets, but if they behave maliciously collecting and selling the information about users' transactions to whoever pays more, you have no way to catch them red-handed because everything essential is hidden from public view. Even if they promised to compensate for all my losses, I wouldn't use their software because I wouldn't be sure if the money they offer me hadn't been earned by selling my personal information and the information of others. The best example is Windows. It is closed source and historically all versions have had backdoors many of which were put there intentionally so that they can access your machine like the backdoors placed in Windows and used by NSA to access your webcam and a lot of other things! It is so much easier to do something like that in a closed source cryptocurrency wallet. Specially the light wallets that depend on a centralized server to sync and use encrypted communication.
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BTW, that will sink the European Union. Because after the Brexit, Germany was the main "donor" nation within the EU. Southern nations such as Italy and Greece are largely dependent on fund outflows from Germany. In case the revenue surplus vanishes in Germany, then in the long term EU will fail to exist. The model of richer northern countries such as Germany subsidizing poorer southern nations such as Italy will be difficult to maintain. Or they can survive by increasing the taxes even further, which is like a double edged sword.
Exactly. Germany is already dealing with a lot of problems, which is the reason for all the new round of protests and the Right wing and all the pro-Russians gaining support, etc. Besides, all these "unions" and alliances are good for as long as everything else is fine but the moment shit hits the fans, it is every little country for itself. Shit hit the fan a long time ago which is why Brits started that whole Brexit thing. Countries are already forming new "groups" like UK and France are doing these days. I'm curious to see what the New World Order holds for Europe though. For example will the Europeans go back to pre-WW2 dark ages when they had a war amongst themselves every 1-2 years?
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Just because some idiots make statements on the internet about something that is going on (ie. the bull run) doesn't mean they caused it. If I say that the sun is out during the day that doesn't mean my statement brought the sun out That is exactly what people like Musk, McAfee and the likes of them do. They see there is something trending on the internet and they jump on board and try to become the leaders of that thing or at the very least be seen. In reality they just advertise themselves and make money from that publicity. For example McAfee used it to run a side business where he was paid millions to advertise scam ICOs and made a lot of money that way.
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features and observation to put into consideration before investing in a crypto project.
You should never "invest" in altcoins because in order to invest in something it has to have long term potential which can only happen if they offer real utilities. Since altcoins don't have any real utilities, they don't have any long term potential. This is why the "trading" market is very active and prices are too volatile in a scheme called pump and dump. Basically people make bets on altcoins in short term during their pumps and make a quick profit by dumping them before others. Meanwhile those who baghold altcoins miss all that action while watching their "investment" melt away. This is true about all the altcoins too. For example ETH used to be worth twice as much as its current price in 2017 and any bitcoins you'd invested in it is now cut in half since it got dumped and could never recover. But in short term it has good pumps and you could have ridden to increase the amount of bitcoins you own which actually has a lot of utilities hence long term potential.
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Projects can pay someone professional and wp might look cool but there would be no substance in project itself, and then there is tron whose wp was plagiarize yet it's relatively successful.
Success is not defined by scale of the pump, it is defined by adoption and Tron has failed already when it comes to adoption. The thing about all the "top" altcoins is that they can only get pumped better than the rest of them but they are just as useless. The reason for better pumps are also due to having better pumping teams!
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What will the Russians do in anticipation of winter if their troops do not have proper equipment and winter clothing?
This reminded of the first days of the invasion when the Russians had forgotten to bring enough fuel and got stuck In this most combat-ready part of the Russian army, it will either surrender or die, because the retreat routes are under the complete control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Are they really? Looking at the site @DrBeer shared some time ago ( https://deepstatemap.live/) all the occupied regions are directly connected to mainland Russia (through land or sea of Azov, also accessible through the Black sea). The Ukraine progress is also pushing Russians back not surrounding them or cutting them from behind to be able to cut any of the supply/retreat routes.
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Its what people heard from the media though. Once they heard it, its stick to their mind that Russia is a terrorist.
Although as I've told him before, using the term "terrorist" makes no sense about Russia but in a way his comments here make some sense considering that he claims to be from Ukraine. It's tough when another country is bombing your cities. Wheat war is not going to happen. This is for sure. I have my words - mark them
It is marked because the "food war" is already happening. In Afghanistan, the Talibans were also called terrorist until they won which they are now in control and now they are the government. So its just it, they are called terrorist until they win. If you consider the freedom of Ukraine then what about the freedom of Russia?
The more messed up thing is that sometimes they aren't terrorists until they start losing. Like ISIS or Da'esh! Initially while they were cutting heads off, US was calling them "freedom fighters" fighting Asad regime as opposition!!! But then Iran started the war against these terrorists with the help of the Resistance and as their defeat became apparent, US started changing its position...
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Well, Marx already spoke of the inevitable end of capitalism, and not only has it not happened so far, but it has made humanity reach a level of prosperity and welfare that would make him turn over in his grave if he could see it.
All these "ism"s end eventually as the history has shown. Capitalism has already failed and I don't know how you call the current situation in the world a "level of prosperity and welfare" considering that capitalism literary changed the meaning of "middle class" since it turned them into lower class and the lower class to absolute poverty. The capitalist world where a small number of people (1-2%) hold all the money in the world and the rest are in so much debt and are living hand to mouth is shouting failure.
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Inflation is a good thing normally, in a small amount because that means you are growing as a nation and you should be growing.
Wrong. Inflation is actually showing that there is something wrong with the economy since they have been printing more fiat than they should. Otherwise value of fiat wouldn't have dropped in first place causing that inflation. Alright, everyone know fiat will collapse due to high inflation, but does everyone stop using fiat money? nope.
To be fair the problem is not with fiat or its centralization or the fact that governments force you to use it. The problem is with them printing more of it every day. Even more so in times of crisis when the governments go on a printing spree like during COVID19 or even these days during energy crisis in the West.
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Imagine those that started buying it at $55,000, what could have been their fate now?
It is good to know that people were asking the same thing about those who bought at $5,500 when price had fallen to $3,100! 2. I bought the ones I hold on an exchange when I speculate a bullish market for it, but exchange them for a stablecoin when a bearish market is detected (I repeat the process often). 3. I bought the ones I use for spots and futures trading, and I exchange part of my profits regularly to fiat, pay for external transactions and add more funds to my non-custodial wallet as explained in reason 1.
Both of these are very risky for many reasons. For starters using centralized exchanges and leaving funds there is a great risk since they can get hacked, scam or run away with your money. It is also risky obviously because you are talking about short term trading in a volatile market specially in futures market that is even more risky. Another risk that may be overlooked by most is usage of stablecoins that is using centralized shady coins that could disappear or drop down to 0 at any time. Even the biggest ones like Tether. That's not to mention the risk of the company freezing your funds.
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You can't because you are not supposed to. Whitepapers are basically the abstract idea about the project and what makes the project good or bad or scam is how that idea is implemented. For example you can't really figure out what bitcoin potential is by reading the paper since that will only introduce the general idea about what bitcoin is trying to achieve. Not to mention that sometimes the idea is very good but the implementation is terrible/scammy like ethereum where the idea of a "decentralized smart contract platform" is good but they implemented a centralized platform for scammers with lots of protocol flaws and a mutable blockchain.
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No reason to do the experiment. Someone else caught up with you, and accomplished a 51% attack with 100 blocks deep reorg. Absolutely nothing happened, because there's absolutely no decentralization, no immutability and no integrity behind this clown show in the first place. There was no change even in the price. BSV-ers simply don't care; it's all about what Craig tells them. Craig's perspective is BSV's consensus mechanism. They should have done it to exchanges in order to force them to delist this scam coin. Send a large amount of BSV to the exchange. Sell it and withdraw the money. 51% attack and reverse the transaction. Send a message to the exchange telling them you'd send the money back after they remove it
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And of course I agree that even against such a bastard regime, the use of nuclear weapons is not the right move.
Usage of any type of weapons of mass destruction against any country under any circumstances is wrong. Whether it is Nukes that Russia is threatening others with or the biological WMDs that US has been manufacturing inside Ukraine (and elsewhere) and have been threatening the whole world with. the country is a global terrorist attacking a neighboring country that they themselves signed up to protect and respect its borders and ensure its inviolability. The terrorist country heroically declares a "2-3 week short operation to denify ( )", which has been going on for 9 .. but months ... Your problem is that you don't want to believe that there is no difference between Russia and United States. The "special operation" inside Afghanistan was also supposed to be very short and yet those "terrorists" got stuck in Afghanistan for 20 years while murdering civilians. The more they lost the more violent they got and destroyed more of that beautiful country. They even used the biggest non-nuclear bomb (eq. 11 tons TNT) there to cover up their weakness.
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The code was initially hosted on sourceforge and was only later moved to github which is part of the reason why initial binaries/releases are not found on github. Additionally you can always delete older releases, I don't know if they actually did it though. You can still find the code from 2009 using git. For example here is the repository at first commit on Aug 30, 2009: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/4405b78d6059e536c36974088a8ed4d9f0f29898How to turn these files into exe? Same way you do with any other source code! You install a compiler like Visual Studio, then download the source code and all install all the dependencies it needs (eg. C++ software development tools) and finally compile the code.
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