How safe is the bitcoin cryptosystem and the communication network
against targeted attacks?
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On 12/06/11 4:21 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote:
Am I the only one who thinks it's not coincidence that the (supposed) major
use of bitcoin is by people buying hallucinogenic substances?
The best way to think of this is from the marketing concepts of product
diffusion or product life cycle.
On 2011-06-13 9:26 AM, Ian G wrote:
However. Unless the laws of financial conservation have been repealed by
the design, those who follow have to invest a lot and come out with less...
Financial conservation does not apply to money. If paper currency
collapses, and is replaced by gold, those
On 2011-06-12 6:13 AM, John Levine wrote:
Useful for something, but not useful for money. I can't help but note
that the level of economic knowledge in the digital cash community is
pitifully low, and much of what people think they know is absurd.
(Anyone who thinks that a gold standard is
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:44 PM, James A. Donald jam...@echeque.com wrote:
On 2011-06-12 8:53 AM, Nico Williams wrote:
A fiat currency with no capital controls and reasonably free
trade is probably the best currency system yet. Details do matter
though.
If operated by far sighted men with
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote:
I think Sparta had it right in this instance: put the public officials
on trial when their term is over, and make them accountable for their
actions. Its funny how those lessons were lost.
Doesn't help. The trials
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.com wrote:
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote:
I think Sparta had it right in this instance: put the public officials
on trial when their term is over, and make them accountable for their
We can therefore see that someone has to make that worth mean
something, so for this we need an issuer sometimes known as Ivan.
It's beyond the scope of a crypto list to discuss this in depth, but
typically Ivan would deposit $1 for every issued electronic dollar in
some bank account
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote:
I recall Obama boasting: My Administration is the only thing saving
you from the pitchforks of the American people [sic] at a banker's
lunch after he took office. On the campaign trail, he received over 1M
USD from
... I don't think it's fair to blame private financial institutions
for the ill-effects of an ill-advised government plan to subsidize
housing ownership by individuals. Without Frannie, CRA, or anything
of the sort I don't think we'd have seen the degree of
financialization of housing that we
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:33 AM, John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote:
Sigh. This is both unrelated to crypto, and just plain factually
True, so I'll drop it.
wrong (although it is considered gospel in some political circles.)
There's much to debate here that doesn't belong on this list. I'll
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