mitchellberry

Why should it even be discussed anyway? Some accounts seem intent on creating a "special" reddit here.

Would love to see some technological solutions to this problem currently afflicting millions, but this is just general world news and the associated opining.

It's noise and nothing more.

A stolen hardware key is likely to be noticed though.

Perhaps a better approach regardless of how it's stored is notification of use?

To be pedantic you just named a name.

So I have a friend who worked the security control room of large commercial building in Sydney, would visit him on the weekend and hang out there. This was not an important place, random corp offices of minor companies.

These cameras were 360 degree and nicely hidden away, you could zoom in and see the pimples on people across the street at decent resolution.

This was 10 years ago, betting against cameras improving since then or in future probably isn't a good idea.

Just an anecdote.

For a library that does such a good job of simplifying the complex, that design choice always perplexed me.

When you look at their example import code it makes even less sense. People who need shorter object names already do that, no need for it to be at the library level.

Fair call, parity bug and dao are indefensible, the fact they were both so intimately involved with Ethereum makes it a magnitude worse.

I just wanted to lament that for all the money sloshing around there isn't more work being done on security.

Serpent is deprecated, there's no first or second there.

Also think you are confusing poorly made cookie cutter erc20 tokens as representative of smart contracts in general, it is most certainly all a mess, but perhaps those treating alpha software as production ready is the real problem?

Last i looked the biggest user of gas and thus what is keeping your jaded investment afloat is ENS, no token just a pure smart contact. It has been running fine for a year.

Sadly we have people investing into hairbrained marketing brochures created by unqualified people in their underwear rather than proven products, in a free world I see no solution to this other than education.

On the other side of the equation we have people like Dan Guido seeking funding to make formal verification frameworks and the commmunity barely even notices nor puts it on a pedestal like every doomed ico that comes along.

Mailfence.

I'd be very interested to hear the problems with protonmail, considering all they claim to see is email metadata.

Edit: ok some quick googling says its related to ddos protection, which is still in effect currently, the malicious intent here seems overstated.

The official statement - https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/protonmail-isr...

Considering nearly every adult provides a photo of higher quality to their respective governments it does seem a tad conspiratorial and like a lot of unecessary effort.

Also being a part of the 14 eyes means if the United States wanted my biometrics all they need to do is ask. My country is already moving towards real time cctv identification in airports etc. using biometrics from any issued license / passport.

Boolean outcomes everytime.

The "team" section of that page doesn't contradict what I said at all.

When stating easily verifiable information about the cryptocurrency industry the proof/sources request as some form of rebuttal seems to be a very common respone, always find it intruiging that many either don't want to search themselves or perhaps simply want to use it as a way to discredit a comment.

3rd result from googling "friedman bitfinex":

http://www.friedmanllp.com/insights/auditor-engagement

Now you said Friedman "explicitly stated it was not an audit", I searched and all i can find is blog posts and reddit threads. Any chance you could procure this explicit statement? Thanks.

The url I provided says the compete opposite and itself links to the original source I offered.

Undoubtedely, I'm not going into bat for the financial industry here, but essentially it comes down to the delegation of trust that is required with many transactions, financial or not

> None of the bitcoin core developers have much experience in network engineering

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors

Many are anonymous or use psuedonoyms. Cohort easily over 100.

Seems like an incredibly bold assertion to make about such a large group of developers.

None of those things have ever bothered me, but mobile phones and apps are all righthanded. The back button is hardwired into most phones (all?) and the dominant thumb cannot touch it without shifting my whole hand, sounds insignificant for those who don't experience this but try to imagine it everytime you press back.

Waiting patiently for a lefthanded phone. Getting close to a decade now.

Lappland is a magical part of earth. Abisko forever holds a place in my heart.

Tough people in an even tougher place, takes a certain mentality to live up there.

A token only redeemable for bitcoin collapses and you think that will hurt the price of bitcoin? It will hurt the price of tether certainly, the other side of the trade will boom.

Always amazed that some fail to grasp this, tether disintegrating is a solid buy for bitcoin, apart from the bad media coverage, which going by current standards has no effect on price. So that's $600m desperately trying to get into bitcoin all at once, this likely happening within a space of ~72 hours, think about it for a moment.

Its a space where millions are raised on nothing more than a whitepaper, probably a bit idealistic to expect rational actors.

Bitfinex has been undergoing third party audit from Friedman for months now. No one cares though and still throw accusations around like confetti.

Anyone who knows this fact and doesnt trust Friedman as a multinational auditor/accountant should say as such, rather than repeating blatant falsehoods.

It quite easy to see what others have to gain from the negative coverage.

Exchanges ddos each other all the time, its a shady industry, 15mins downtime for poloniex can double the weekly income of small exchanges.

I'd hope hn readers see between the lines a bit more rather then jump on bandwagons.

https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/202

http://www.friedmanllp.com

It would be a good introduction to solidity and the 3rd party problem of smart contracts.

An example betting contract for anyone interested (note it was eventually refunded and not run):

https://etherscan.io/address/0xf4b8ccc5734ed7d2d8beb5fddd223...

And an overview with some reasonable criticism:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethdev/comments/6sd8hl/mayweather_v...

In Australia there is no taxes on the family home and it isn't counted as an asset for welfare purposes.

So we end up with this bizarre situation where people in multimillion dollar houses can and do claim the aged pension.

Headline is misleading. This already exists and has for a long time, essentially they seem to be seeking a realtime database, currently there is delays and inter-agency issues on weeklong scales.

Though the government hasn't been clear on usage and whether it will extend to public cctv much like seems to be happening in the UK.

Anecdotally, have an old passport with a cleanshaven photo and a recent drivers license with a beard. Australia has an automatic customs system based on biometrics, been through dozens of times and the epassport system will only work if i have a beard as exists on my most recent license photo.[0]

Despite being routinely swabbed for explosives because of beardedness (about 30 seconds extra) have now learnt to travel with a beard in order to save the 15 mins extra from being diverted into a customs queue. It's well worth it.

[0] https://youtu.be/2SAnexoNUAM

A warmer ocean and unchecked agricultural sediment runoff seem to be the main reasons. One of these is controllable by the government.

Crown of Thorn starfish outbreaks also wreck havoc, but isnt as bad as the other two issues. Believe there is still a reward for divers who remove them from the reef. Ecological bug bounties.

Every summer is a lottery as to how serious the bleaching will get. Locals and politicians highly dependant on tourism have a short term conflict of interest in denying what is happening out there.

Edit: Quick search and it seems the bounties were just a pipe dream, was just a proposal rather than reality.