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HashBasher··on Ten Years of Bitcoin
How can a newspaper prove that the block wasn't generated prior to the publish date? If I were to hash the headlines from a 1969 "ON THE MOON!" article, would it prove that my block is older that the bitcoin's genesis block?
HashBasher··on An elevator in a Chicago skyscraper fell 84 floors, requiring a dramatic rescue
How far would an elevator have to fall to entirely take out a building?
HashBasher··on Who paid 99¢?
Much better use case for lightning network.
HashBasher··on Who paid 99¢?
Quick and clever way to nab some card numbers.
HashBasher··on More Than 150 Vulnerabilities Discovered in US Marine Corp Websites
Contract goes to the lowest bidder.
HashBasher··on Crippling DDoS vulnerability put the entire Bitcoin market at risk
$80k on average regardless of hashpower?

Then it would be a total cost of ~$160k with the loss of potential revenue.

HashBasher··on Crippling DDoS vulnerability put the entire Bitcoin market at risk
Plus cost of electricity of keeping his miners on until he manages to mine a full block.
HashBasher··on Crippling DDoS vulnerability put the entire Bitcoin market at risk
Wouldn't the cost be significantly higher than $80k since the miner would have to keep his machines on for quite some time at a loss in order to mine a full block?
HashBasher··on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are useless
I think bitcoin can be compared to gold in the sense that people use them both as vehicles to store value. Obviously they have different manifestations (digital and physical) and different use cases, but both have the unique characteristic of being rare and therefore valuable.
HashBasher··on BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON
It's called an exit scam. Many have done it, few notice and even fewer care.
HashBasher··on Bitcoin Hash Rate Rapidly Growing Despite Price
In the past, only bitcoin users were criminals. Now miners too!??! Only groups left are developers and businesses.
HashBasher··on Bitcoin Hash Rate Rapidly Growing Despite Price
Bitcoin hashrate is a lagging indicator. It takes months to get the equipment and set it up. This is probably a result of the Dec boom.
HashBasher··on Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown
How can I add new notes? Or is it just a single page for all notes?
HashBasher··on VS Code June 2018
Plus, if t hey end up screwing it up very badly, we can just fork it and maintain a good version.
HashBasher··on Here’s Some Cryptocurrency. Now Please Use It
The rebuke from XRP investors is to "go do more research". Headline catching articles predicting the future value of XRP is not research!
HashBasher··on How to Pay Remote Employees
Thus no bitcoin...
HashBasher··on What dinner time looks like across the USA
Ya david and kathy are loaded. both currency and offsprings
HashBasher··on [dead]
this was not commonly known?
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