Maybe the selfish-mining emperor doesn't have any clothes.

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Why is a selfish-mining attack with bad propagation (γ=0) still profitable?

The 2013 selfish-mining paper by Ittay Eyal and Emin Gün Sirer [0] introduces a variable γ:

We denote by γ the ratio of h...

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Is that why everyone is so friendly today? View quoted note →

#Toothbleed? View quoted note →

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I generally don't both evangelizing Bitcoin with merchants. Every human on the planet knows it exists and makes a conscious choice to not use it, even by inaction. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink. However, whenever I'm stuck in one of those loops where I have to email both the merchant and the creditcard company to get their shit together, based on useless error messages along the lines of "computer says no", I do judge people. Quietly. Why do you choose to make your customer experience suck?

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Codesigning and notarizing is a pain when you also want deterministic binaries. But it should work for now. View quoted note →

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