sittingplant

> After some trial and error, Kate realizes that Bumble doesn’t round its distances like most people were taught at school. When most people think of “rounding”, they think of a process where the cutoff is .5. 3.4999 rounds down to 3; 3.5000 rounds up to 4. However, Bumble floors distances, which means that everything is always rounded down. 3.0001, 3.4999, and 3.9999 all round down to 3; 4.0001 rounds down to 4.

How exactly would you figure that out? Of course once you have a full working solution it's easy, but how do you distinguish this when you're just tinkering with it?

Miners have always been free to implement whatever logic they like, though. If you send out a mass communication saying "Address 0x12345 belongs to a very mean guy" and every miner out there denies service to that address, the decentralization properties of your system haven't been violated anywhere.

If I understand correctly, the lifetime appointment is meant to avoid political pressure. Don't you think the judges might be swayed to vote one way or another if they knew there was a vote coming up in a couple years and they'd be on the chopping block?

right, good point

security keys maybe? Seems hard to phish a physical key touch.