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Comment · 5 years ago
Heads for anyone thinking of applying: I took the half hour or so to fill out their application and was instantly denied. I suspect it was because I don't have a proper CompSci degree (I have a degree in Chemical Biology and have been working as a Software Developer for six or so years).
Comment · 6 years ago
I took at little stab at it earlier this year and made a very basic POC using PhaserJS [https://github.com/te0d/web-tabletop]. You can see what the code does at [https://bored.blue/].

It has a hardcoded background and limited token options, but you can see it live update token positions between the users connected. I actually decided to take another look at it yesterday and I'd like to add some preset game options. And very importantly, add persistence (right now the websocket server keeps each table's state only in memory).

Comment · 9 years ago
Edit: Filecoin does mention smart contracts in its white paper.
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Comment · 9 years ago
Ah ok, I think that a 51% attack is what I was describing. I would update my comment, but it appears that I can no longer edit it.
Comment · 9 years ago
For those out of the loop, miners work together in pools to combine their mining power. With more mining power, the more likely it is for them to mine a block (of the blockchain) and divide its payout among members of the pool. Pools cause centralization of mining power. You can see a list of pools and the percentage of their mining power at [https://blockchain.info/pools].

Looking at the chart, you can see that the top 5 mining pools can collude in being a single entity to "control" the blockchain (I believe this is called a Sybil attack [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack]). Now keeping incentives in mind, the idea is that people using bitcoin have faith in the system. That gives bitcoins value. Miners get paid in bitcoin. If they were to manipulate the blockchain, that would most likely cause bitcoin's userbase to lose faith in the system and thus what the miners would be stealing would suddenly have little to no value.

I'm not positive, but I recall hearing that pools have been intentionally been made smaller to keep users' faith in the system. Perhaps the goal of these majority mining power is not to steal bitcoin but censor certain users? That may be a bit more complicated depending on the users' opinions on a case-by-case basis. Fun stuff :)

Comment · 10 years ago
Gross stuff which is actually a collection of microorganisms. And reading further, there's the idea that our exposure to this gross stuff may be beneficial and one of the few ways we're still exposed to it. Or harmful.

Very interesting stuff in my opinion. Have studies like this been made more accessible due to cheaper sequencing?

Comment · 10 years ago
Steven Levy's "Crypto" [http://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/books/crypto] is a good read on this topic if you're looking for something more in-depth.
Comment · 10 years ago
Is it possible to verify that these coins are among the ones stolen?
Comment · 10 years ago
Couldn't find too much information on this, but I see that [https://support.gdax.com/customer/portal/articles/2436336] under "Is GDAX's ether hot wallet insured?" states "The majority of ether and bitcoin deposited to GDAX is held in highly secure cold storage." (GDAX is Coinbase's exchange platform) See also [https://www.coinbase.com/security].
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
Also, you can click on the little green arrow next to links on Google and click Cache to view the cached version. This "cache:" operator is pretty nifty though.
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
I haven't played with this too much, but does Mist need a local copy of the entire blockchain? If so, I'm not sure these decentralized applications will be accessible to the average user. On the other hand, the application in the tutorial directly deals with Ether so the user may already have a fully validating node. Are decentralized apps created on Ethereum intended to always involve Ether? I suppose Ether is used to reward the miners for hosting the application?

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