My concern is that that increase has been 64.9% in 24 hours. Ripple certainly has promise- but I can't see what has happened in the last 24 hours to force that move in the market- that's a stupid amount of money. It'll correct, and it'll hurt it- and I suspect whomever is behind it, knows that.

It depends on how they do it- if the ICO is a full sale with just a white paper and some vague promises- I think they're already dead, except for the gullible. If on the other hand, it's split into multiple rounds, linked to delivery with clear proof of progress, then it's here to stay- it's already killing the traditional Venture Capital model, and that's actually not a terrible thing.

Bug in Geth 1.6 or above. Workaround here: https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/15435/how-to-compile-solidity-contracts-with-geth-v1-6

Go ERC-20. Waves has some promise but lacks critical mass that Ethereum definitely broke through in the last 12 months. End of the day when developing on someone else's platform you want the biggest audience possible- that is Ethereum, and it isn't going to change any time soon.

This is brilliant- I've had to explain this to people using a whiteboard and I've just ended up with blank expressions. Bookmarked, and will be shared- you've just got yourself a regular reader, keep up the good work.

Exactly- the problem isn't lack of the basic capability, it's lack of an easy to consume solution for developers, an already bloated transaction confirm time lead, and prohibitive cost for it. Smart Contracts aren't an Ethereum innovation (despite a lot of press saying so which shows how little they understand anything crypto) but they did make it a first-class feature that does enable adoption of their platform. As Microsoft used to say when they were winning against all comers 'Developers! Developers! Developers!'- the question of whether cost per execution, security and other barriers for adoption either fade or become the sin that comes collecting like 32-bit applications, platform security and VB 6.0 was on Windows.

I'd argue that the bigger problem is that for what it is offering, massively distributed compute, it's ridiculously expensive-  400 million times more expensive when compared logical pound for pound with say AWS. Its dream of executing code everywhere doesn't really work with the current pricing.

Totally agree but Crypto targets do offer high rewards- it's less that Krack makes it easy to directly hit you with a MITM, but it does make you easier to flag, trace and devote more time to (seen some really concerning attacks against some individuals).

On the VPN point, yeah, it amazes how many people think it's optional or do it for their laptop and not their phone (...?). See enough hacks, you get paranoid quick, and I've seen some quite amazing ones.

Since he's flip-flopped on his position 4 years ago- yeah. I think it might be dawning on him that in a decentralised world, he's as useful as a chocolate teapot, and so are all his glad-handing friends. BTC was always a declaration of war directly on his handling of the 2007-2008 crisis and the behaviour of the banks.

The two questions are:

1) whether the rumour that the NSA identified Satoshi Nakamoto (https://medium.com/cryptomuse/how-the-nsa-caught-satoshi-nakamoto-868affcef595)- whoever he/she/they is/are is true. If they have, Satoshi has a shit ton of BTC (claims vary but it's in the 100,000s), and they could deploy in very disruptive ways.

2) Can they control the ingress and egress of fiat into cryptocurrency and back? They certainly gave it a really good shot a few years back at the height of the Silk Road drama, and it's an easy choke point.

I'm going to take a contrary position. I think that the biggest influencers won't be the standard answers- finance, etc because they're generally carbon copies of off-chain solutions.

Rather than talk about specific verticals I think it is better to look at the horizontals: trust, reputation, decentralization, repudiation, logistics, small, contractual execution and micro businesses all stand to be utterly changed by the blockchain. I think the blockchain is fundamentally going to end up being as big standards like HTML- the effect will be pervasive, to the point the web pages you look at won't exist on centralized servers but in distributed fabrics, enable long dreamed of goals like the Semantic Web- the possibilities are genuinely endless and touch many different faucets. I suspect it'll very quickly get to a point where whether you're using a chain or not will be utterly transparent to users- that does require a lot of work on transaction speed and scalability, but you can certainly see it on the not too distant horizon.

My favourite disruption we're starting to see is the revenue model of the largest tech companies in the world- rewarding content contributors for their work rather than selling their content & data to advertisers to make money hats whilst espousing egalitarian ideals. Only have to look at the YouTube advertising shitstorm to see the problem is near breaking point.

The only change has taken direct action specifically against ICOs. All the others- US, UK, Canada, Australia, South Korea, and I'm sure Japan will- have restated the same guidance: if your ICO looks like a security, functions like a security, and has worse risk than security, then it is a regulated instrument and you have to go through all of the legal requirements that an IPO does. That's not the end of ICOs- it's the end of the ICO Pyramid Schemes in the same way that regulation ended the Penny Stock Pyramids that existed in the 19th Century.

We should all welcome that- it means ICOs have to well designed, deliver exactly what they promise to their investors, and are held to higher standards. There is a really simple way of avoiding it: ICO tokens with an actual legitimate utility, not speculative instruments.

I'm pretty certain it won't- I saw the same bullshit back in the early days of BTC, and here is the fact of it: all cryptocurrencies are based on a common belief in them- they have value because people ascribe value to them. I've heard people talking about Ethereum in my barber shop, awareness is that high. Combine that with the EEA, it's here to stay. If the core developers change- doesn't matter, happened with Satoshi on BTC, happened a dozen times since then. It's also clearly not vaporware- it exists, it has an active and vibrant community of people building on their chain. Will it ultimately fulfill it's promise? That's a more interesting question and a slow death not a big bang question- but that faces all of the cryptocurrencies, they have to innovate to stay relevant and deliver on what they say even if they don't do it in the timescales originally planned.

Good luck with Ark btw.

Update your drivers- it's not just about clockrates, it's about the driver-API interface as well.

That depends where you live and how committed the attackers are- if they can narrow you down, they will. For example, here in NYC- I can probably see 50, 60 home wifi networks from desk in my home office (I live in a big building but not that high up)- that get's worse as I walk around, and there are known areas where people are more likely to be in the Crypto scene. A VPN is definitely a pre-req (generally in life IMO, but people don't like losing speed)- another alternative is put your wallets in an encrypted VM (encrypt the disk, and encrypt booting it up), have that always spin up a VPN on network connect, that allows a lot of separation, encryption and traffic obsfucation so they can't see random DNS queries going to places like 'bitcointalk.org' and know you're into Crypto thus making you a more interesting target.

Thanks all

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My personal account got locked (likely because I logged on from NY when I was originally from the UK- account is that old), I've emailed and DM'd the mods and admins of the site multiple times since- is there anyway to get my account recovered?