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SEC Documents Detail Scores of Fraud Allegations Against Coinbase

pilgrim689 — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 03:12:10 +0000

Article URL: https://mashable.com/2018/06/20/sec-coinbase-complaints-fraud/#NXTZN8CH.iqF

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17361804

Points: 13

# Comments: 1

New comment by pilgrim689 in "Sneak Peek at Bitcoin's Upcoming Killer App – Open Bazaar"

pilgrim689 — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 22:49:47 +0000

I think decentralized mixing is on the horizon and may become baked into bitcoin wallets down the line. I'm speculating based on the emergence of protocols like FairExchange and Xim http://forensics.umass.edu/pubs/bissias.wpes.2014.pdf

New comment by pilgrim689 in "Blockchain technology could reduce role of banks, says BIS"

pilgrim689 — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 17:31:48 +0000

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.

New comment by pilgrim689 in "Blockchain technology could reduce role of banks, says BIS"

pilgrim689 — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 07:30:22 +0000

> - 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.

The Evolution of a Freelancer

pilgrim689 — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 19:55:34 +0000

Article URL: http://swizec.com/blog/the-evolution-of-a-freelancer-lessons-from-the-hallway-track-at-dyfconf/swizec/6734

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10341852

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by pilgrim689 in "Bitcoin XT 0.11A"

pilgrim689 — Sun, 16 Aug 2015 03:14:47 +0000

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.

New comment by pilgrim689 in "Waterloo Co-op: A Blessing and a Curse"

pilgrim689 — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 02:59:04 +0000

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".

New comment by pilgrim689 in "Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace"

pilgrim689 — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 19:03:43 +0000

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.

New comment by pilgrim689 in "OneBit – Mastercard PayPass Integrated Bitcoin Wallet"

pilgrim689 — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 18:24:33 +0000

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

New comment by pilgrim689 in "China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub"

pilgrim689 — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 03:49:13 +0000

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"

New comment by pilgrim689 in "The New Haskell.org"

pilgrim689 — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 21:00:43 +0000

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.

New comment by pilgrim689 in "Coinbase Raises $75M from DFJ Growth, USAA, NYSE, and More"

pilgrim689 — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 18:57:49 +0000

... (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.

New comment by pilgrim689 in "An Extortionist Has Been Making Life Hell for Bitcoin’s Earliest Adopters"

pilgrim689 — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 17:54:35 +0000

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

Hey, Tech Workers: LA or SF? (Chart)

pilgrim689 — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 19:29:44 +0000

Article URL: http://recode.net/2014/06/11/hey-tech-workers-la-or-sf-chart/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7879956

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by pilgrim689 in "The reason Angular JS will fail"

pilgrim689 — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:45:52 +0000

A tool doesn't fail because it's difficult, it fails if its difficulty is not worth the results it produces. A chainsaw is more difficult than a plain old saw. You gotta make sure it's fueled up, oiled and whatnot. You might even have to read instructions the first time! But is it worth it? That's the question, and it goes completely unaddressed in this post.

New comment by pilgrim689 in "GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide"

pilgrim689 — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:14:53 +0000

"We know the Harper administration is stuck as being part and parcel of Five Eyes, and that the CESC has conducted spying for the NSA, using Canada's good name for nefarious purposes."

Is it just the CSEC or both CSEC and CSIS? Why are we not hearing more about the NSA-style violations made in Canada? I can't believe that we aren't participating in all this...

New comment by pilgrim689 in "Debian 7.4 Released"

pilgrim689 — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 18:27:00 +0000

I'm not the parent but I've never had issues with Iceweasel. There was a time when the user agent string did not contain "Firefox", but it does now [1] (that might have caused you problems?). And if you're using wheezy, there are backports to the latest Firefox (iceweasel) packages. I usually see the update on the same day or the day after the official Mozilla release.

[1] since 2009 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=399633

New comment by pilgrim689 in "Spotify position in support of systemd in the default init debate"

pilgrim689 — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:10:57 +0000

People will recommend "testing" to you but I would advise against it... My path was: stable->testing->stable, because while on testing random stuff would break (laptop wouldn't sleep when I shut the lid, UI glitches, etc.). Plus, on testing I had to frequently update packages I didn't care about updating. I use stable now and when I need a recent package I now instead: compile from source/find backports/use a vm/vagrant

It's the price I pay for a stable system. Vagrant for my dev environments makes "stable" a much easier choice.

New comment by pilgrim689 in "Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?"

pilgrim689 — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 15:24:47 +0000

There's this: https://talky.io/

New comment by pilgrim689 in "Missing hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site"

pilgrim689 — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:36:59 +0000

Yes. The "total pool of bitcoins" is actually less than 21m, considering the lost ones. Does it matter, though? Whether the max is 21m or 20.1321029 ...