That article does mention how conflicting blockchains are an issue and that you can’t achieve zero-confirmation transactions without involving third-parties. Bitcoin’s intrinsically decentralized nature creates a global economic system from which no one can be excluded, including criminals, terrorists, and despotic…

Even the little video you posted below (at 21 minute mark) states that there are conflicting transaction histories and the most recent blocks in the chain aren’t reliable. There are always competing blockchains creating a persistent issue of reliably determining who has exactly how much. The only people who would be…

Seriously dude, if he had ANY idea what he was talking about he would’ve said that the value and status of every single person’s bitcoin is only reliable up to like huuuuundreds of chains ago. Like, if only he knew, he might’ve mentioned how there is constant “mathematical” disagreement with which are correct nodes…

Thank you for the Sizzlean reference. It brightens my gloomy Holidays to make fun of the terrible meat product I grew up on, the terrible meat product which helped pave this miserable road.

This reminds me of the time my aunt got extremely upset at that guy who turned his dead cat into a drone copter.

purport to displace the President’s exclusive constitutional authority to recognize foreign governments, including their territorial bounds

I am a man. When I got cancer my dad made it a point to tell me “hey you shouldn’t tell anyone you have cancer”. It wasn’t the right thing to tell me and it was quite some damaging advice. This topic comes up often in group too.

I honestly read the title as “How to mail bees”. Thought all this was about shipping bees until about halfway when I saw the broken bottle and it went on about protecting each bottle. I knew something was wrong when I couldn’t find the part about how to jam the bees into each bottle. When it all finally made sense I…

Check out Endless Sky! Its a basic but really cool space trading/combat game - free AND available for Apple! I quit playing Elite Dangerous when it turned into a boring grind (especially if you don’t pay for Horizons). Started Endless Sky couple weeks ago; I’m really into the story and its a much more satisfying…

And all these years I thought this person was Lucy Punch.

“Clinton doesn’t just want you to know that the alt-right like Trump”