Re: [Cryptography] actual journalism, was LRB article, Satoshi's Trump Card

2017-07-03 Thread James A. Donald
Confused by this - Merkle trees inherently don't grow to enormous depth. I am pretty sure that if I give a definition and say "A Merkle tree is such and such", a bikeshed war will ensue over my definition of Merkle tree, which war will probably result in Perry blocking my posts. So let me de

Re: [Cryptography] actual journalism, was LRB article, Satoshi's Trump Card

2017-07-03 Thread James A. Donald
On 03/07/2017 4:31 PM, Ben Laurie wrote: Confused by this - Merkle trees inherently don't grow to enormous depth. The bitcoin hash chain grows to enormous depth, and arguably it is a Merkle tree that testifies to all transactions everywhere that ever taken place in bitcoin. If you say it is

Re: [Cryptography] actual journalism, was LRB article, Satoshi's Trump Card

2017-07-02 Thread James A. Donald
On 03/07/2017 7:28 AM, grarpamp wrote: Yes they're "scams" in that hardly any of the more than hundreds of effectively cloned coins out there are bringing any substantial new developments or combinations of capabilities that will cause them to float to a top ten position long term. The coin to

Re: [Cryptography] actual journalism, was LRB article, Satoshi's Trump Card

2017-07-02 Thread grarpamp
On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 5:37 PM, John Levine wrote: >>Then maybe some combination of them could earn some crypto coin. > > Having looked at the articles the author wrote before and after the > pair he wrote last year on the Craig Wright affair Didn't notice a pair, unless this video makes the firs