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Comment · 8 years ago
Sounds like a bank or venmo type service...
Comment · 8 years ago
Your appeal to celebrity icons does nothing to address the inherent problems with the lightening networks design.

Maybe you can explain the solution to the problems highlighted?

Comment · 8 years ago
And keys in memory, which increases the attack surface - especially noteworthy with the intel bugs.
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
Proof of Work algorithms are not hard to calculate, it's simply designed to increase capital costs to access writing to the database (adding the next 'block' set of transactions to the blockchain).

The actual math amounts to a best effort guess in a lottery for write access to a database.

The network would function just as fast with 3-10 computers as it does with 3 billion times the amount of "computing" power.

In summary, Proof of Work is designed to waste as much energy and capital input as possible.

Comment · 8 years ago
Even if OP is a Registered Investment Adviser registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, it sounds like Kasian Franks could be in violation of The Investment Advisers Act of 1940, 15 U.S.C. § 80b-1 through 15 U.S.C. § 80b-21.
Comment · 8 years ago
Kasian Franks, are you a Registered Investment Adviser registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission?

Even if you are it sounds like you're in violation of The Investment Advisers Act of 1940, 15 U.S.C. § 80b-1 through 15 U.S.C. § 80b-21.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/feeonlyplanner/2011/05/19/are-y...

Seems like a conflict of interest which I'd imagine your lawyer should have been aware of if you're part these two ICO fintech startups - starmine.ai and vectorspace.ai

https://vectorspace.ai/

http://starmine.ai/

interesting story from an investor who got burned from the starmine ICO due to inability for starmine to be listed on exchanges:

https://www.reddit.com/r/icocrypto/comments/73xbo2/starmine/

Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
You misunderstand.

If a smart contract relies on an external data source from a normal server (oracle), then why even take the risk of deploying the smart contract?

If you're using an oracle for a data source you might as well do everything on a normal database.

Comment · 8 years ago
What's the point of using the network then?

Why not do everything more efficiently via the "oracle" server?

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