I remeber them doing this with Galileo flown in to jupiter. Mixed sadness and pure impressiveness. However there was some talk that it might have caused a nuclear explosion on Jupiter as Galileo had 2 two radioisotope thermoelectric generators. This explision then could have started a chain reaction as jupiters contains high amounts of tritium and deuterium.
This would make for a fun scifi plot, from the perspective of Jupiter natives. "These assholes from Earth dropped a nuke from orbit. They appear to be preparing to do the same to our cousins on Saturn. What do we do now?"
I was picturing a large number of classic flying saucers with domed tops rising en masse from the surrounding clouds, pointing themselves towards earth, and speeding away. I mean, we did just drop a bus on them.
> However there was some talk that it might have caused a nuclear explosion on Jupiter as Galileo had 2 two radioisotope thermoelectric generators. This explision then could have started a chain reaction as jupiters contains high amounts of tritium and deuterium.
This is just about as likely as CERN generating a Earth-eating black hole. RTGs can't generate a nuclear explosion.
Why? Assume that the value of these altcoins do not change, and see how many you can mine given a certain amount of time. The value of altcoins could very well go down, but for the sake of demonstration you could still calculate a very rough estimate, no?
> Assume that the value of these altcoins do not change, and see how many you can mine given a certain amount of time. The value of altcoins could very well go down, but for the sake of demonstration you could still calculate a very rough estimate, no?
And likewise if you assume values for the cost of apple seeds land, see how many apples you can grow given a certain amount of time - and the value of apples could very well go down - but for the sake of demonstration you can also calculate a very rough estimate of apple orchard profitability, no?
One problem is that the cost of electricity varies enormously. In some times and places it can cost many times the average. In others it can be literally free.
I guess this is great for contemporary squatters: steal electricity from the grid, get paid for the electricity used to heat your squat, by mining and selling bitcoin...
It is commonly accepted that the mxGoT willy bot was the cause of the price rise in 2013 from 200 to 1000 dollars.
History
Gox started as a trading platform in 2010 by McCaleb. He sold this to Mark in 2011. It is rumored that Mark was using customers BTC to expand Gox or/and it was already sold to Mark missing 80,000 BTC. When the price started to go up, Gox was forced to create the willy bot to try and buy back (at a higher price) the bitcoins they missing as they were running a technical fractional reserve). The willy bot drove the price up because it was always buying and in turn defeated its own purpose as it ended up bankrupting MxGot by driving the price so high that they could never hope to recover the missing btc. I wonder if they had not created the bot if they could have made GoT solvant again over a longer time frame.
This sort of thing is still happening, Poloneix is rumored to be inside trading, There was a DDOS attack a few days ago which caused price drops and it is rumored the Dossers were shorting the currencys on the exchanges. One of the exchanges had such little liquidity that a whale was able to dump eth yesterday causing a massive price drop on one exchange (which I am prety sure they then used to buy up cheap coins but you never know)
Anyone activity trading in Cryptoland is at the mercy of these whales, they are mainpulating price, daily pump and dumps on alts and no regulartion
That said, I cannot stop watching it all, i just hlod coins I like the technical merit of
This is just what stock exchanges were like in the 19th and maybe early 20th centuries. Reading "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" which covers the period ~1890s-1920s I was stunned by how common (relative to now) inside trading, price manipulation and short squeezes were.
Most of these are now prohibited which I'm sure doesn't eliminate them but it makes them much less common - short squeezes in particular are now very very rare. BTC markets obviously won't have any restrictions.
In that book he actually describes how he can't manipulate the market even though he was blamed for it i real life. The moral is that the market cannot be forced into submission and you need to just accept that fact and take what it gives you.
I think perhaps a better example would be the bulk shipping industry during November of last year; take a look at DRYS in particular. $5 to $120 in a week, followed immediately by a breakdown right back to $5. (It's split a bunch of times since then, so the adjusted prices on a current chart are different, but what's important to note is the exponential shape of the price action in conjunction with absolutely zero fundamental reasons for a price increase.)
If you care about Privacy in your crypto Monero really is the current fore runner. BTC is only pseudonymous and given KYC of the exchanges everything in bitcoin land can be traced.
To make use of Segwit wallet software must upgrade to support it, that is a lot of work for Wallets Devs that generally are not getting paid for their work.
It is arriving as a soft fork to get round cores instances that hard forks cannot happen (even tho other cryptos have done it. Eth/XMR). The soft fork is not backwards compatible and bits exchanged by segwit will only be protected by segwit enabled nodes but in fairness with a 95% activation threshold that will be 95% of the network.
We have a number of mining pools now stating that they will not run segwit without a hard fork for a block size increase, the est hashrate is 10-15% that will refuse to run it, this will either mean core need to change their 95% requirement OR simply say no block size increase and no segwit.
Personally and sadly if bitcoin cannot grow past its current limits, I do not believe it will keep its first mover position.
Just seems insane that something that was marked as a global payment network is limited in its size. It is like limiting BGP routing tables to a size and saying "only certain people can play", and if you want to play, just pay more.
I'm not the person you replied to, but I can answer this.
Segwit is technically a soft fork, which means that it has some degree of backwards compatibility. Segwit will be redefining a previously-unused opcode in the bitcoin stack machine, which all old clients should treat as a NOP. So old clients will continue to operate normally with old transactions, but they will see segwit transactions as junk and be unable to validate them.
In the past this hasn't been much of a problem because soft forks have always implemented optional features. However this time it will be a problem, because the plan is to move all transactions over to Segwit. Any client that hasn't been upgraded once Segwit is activated will likely see no transactions at all, the same as if there had been a hard fork. So that's why they added a 95% activation threshold.
The UK is not going to stop, they are just going to make it legal thanks to the UK’s Investigatory Powers Bill. There is no opposition to it in the commons, minus SNP, LibDems I think our last chance to stop it is once again with the lords which I have little hope for, "wont they think of the children"
Direct quote “It is difficult to assess the extent to which the public is aware of agencies’ holding and exploiting in-house personal bulk datasets, including data on individuals of no intelligence interest …" They admitted in 2013 that the data collected is of "no intelligence interest". Anyone before snowden was called a nut job saying the government was doing this, it was all true
Encrypt everything. This is going to force me to VPN to a VPS outside of the UK and route my house's http/https traffic via that, not hard but annoying. Sadly that will then put me on another list where all my traffic is recorded for later decryption.
A limitation of "encrypt everything" is that many of the bulk datasets you referred to aren't taken from communications surveillance, but rather from other kinds of transactional, subscriber, or governmental records, which are maintained by other organizations (like a bank).
We can defend against a lot of communications surveillance by encrypting our communications, but these other data sources are still there and are mostly unaffected. (Note that this is also true outside of the UK.)
I don't know exactly how to address that. It seems like the main options are avoiding interacting with the institutions that create the records, persuading them to retain much less information about people, trying to get dramatically greater legal protection for other kinds of third-party records, or some kind of major cultural shift where institutions fear turning data over or governments fear requesting it.
Also, some datasets might exist partly because companies are legally required to retain certain records, so even if they didn't want to know that much about you, they may be mandated by law to have some of this information.
Eh, it's how I originally watched it maybe 10 years ago when I couldn't find it anywhere else and someone strongly recommended it to me. Glad to see at least some of it on archive.org which would suggest the licensing and legality are sorted out.
I got me an AppleTV Gen2 and I love it. Even actively looking for more Gen2s but they are rather expensive now.
The Gen2 could be rooted, and XMBC installed with Addons. It offers a great interface, stylish hardware and using XMBC I can link the apple TV directly to my home Nas and stream media from that. Something I never liked about the appleTV was being locked in to only being allowed media in the 'apple approved way' hence the rooting.
I have a few android boxes but they are just not as tidy
Does not really relate to the post just a random overshare
I been looking at this for years just so I can finally finish the game as the copy I have has the last level bug where you cannot keep the doctors happy and they all leave.
That being said I think I been watching it for 10 years :/
