pilgrim689

Waiting for six confirmations is enough, as it's been shown both in theory and in practice.

I was correcting the parent as saying Bitcoin loses transactions is false. The network never loses a valid unconfirmed transaction.

> - Loses accepted transactions!!! (blockchain forks, orphan blocks, etc) From a distributed database perspective the Bitcoin blockchain is broken and loses data: like a decentralized MongoDB, but slower by several orders of magnitude.

When a block is orphaned or when there is a fork, transactions are not lost, they'll always be present in the main chain. Or said another way, all miners are trying to mine the unconfirmed transactions in their mempool. If one miner ends up finding the winning block, transactions they didn't include that were included in an orphaned block are going to be mined in the next block.

What you may be referencing, though, is not "lost transactions", but rather double spends? What I said above holds true assuming no one else is trying to spend the same outputs. However, if you wait 6 confirmations (the recommended amount before you should consider a transaction "accepted"), you won't see double spends, either.

I may be wrong here but assuming you're broadcasting to both networks, your transaction is valid in both XT and Core so they'd both try to add it to a block.

The only bitcoin that become unusable in one chain are those that come from a post-fork coinbase transaction.

I'd say moving and looking for employment are two very stressful things for any individual, and for Waterloo co-ops we have to do at least one of those things every 4 months. Never-mind the "deadlines and school".

I'm a big proponent of ~3 people offices as opposed to an open floor plan. There are many ways to "opt-in" to interactions:

- lunch/dinner is done in a dining area

- I invite people out for a coffee break

- I can go hangout in a common area

- I can just walk in to someone's office just like I would walk to someone's desk in an open floor plan

- I bump into people while walking down the hall, grabbing a snack from the kitchen, etc.

There's just so many ways I interact with people at the office, that making sure I'm surrounded by people I can't look away from or mute all the time is completely unnecessary.

And I don't want to have to blast music into my ears all day and wear horse blinkers just to get some continuous hours of distraction-free creative thinking done.

Lower fees for everyone (merchant, user, CC company). Most people will gladly give away their privacy to pay less.

This is a really well article outlining how the man-on-the-side attack on Baidu is carried out. The only flaw here is the logical leap that goes from "Baidu is being hijacked" to "Baidu is being hijacked by the Chinese government"

I agree... I didn't even realize there was a videos section between the "Try it" and the "Features" section until I read your comment.

... (3) The complete street address need not be disclosed as required by paragraph (1) if the vendor utilizes a private mailbox receiving service and all of the following conditions are met: (A) the vendor satisfies the conditions described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 17538.5, (B) the vendor discloses the actual street address of the private mailbox receiving service in the manner prescribed by this subdivision for the disclosure of the vendor's actual street address, and (C) the vendor and the private mailbox receiving service comply with all of the requirements of subdivisions (c) to (f), inclusive, of Section 17538.5.

It's innocent until proven guilty isn't it?