Topic: XMR vs DRK - page 20. (Read 69785 times)

Also consider the Bullshit assymetry principle

Granted, not knowing how much energy Evan and co needed to create DRK, I cannot tell if refuting it takes 10 time more energy.

Another concept I had the fortune of learning from Moneroans is Cunningham's Law

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

I said trade volume. Not "volume of a cryptocurrency".

He said that volume of the cryptocurrency had nothing to do with liquidity

I don't think toknormal should have much reason to doubt himself, considering he was called one of the most astute members of this entire forum by Anonymint, who is himself a genius when it comes to math and cryptography.

Yeah. I did get pwned on that point - encryption is a branch of cryptography and it's encryption that he stated was part of cryptocurrencies, not cryptography.

Yeah. I did get pwned on that point - encryption is a branch of cryptography and it's encryption that he stated was part of cryptocurrencies, not cryptography.

Dude you got pwned. Take a break from Bitcointalk for a while. Your reputation is even muddier than the Shadow fanboys.

Well, this certainly is a rip roaring thread.

Everybody is passionate about their various technologies, coins, devs, pet loves / hates, to the moon, to the floor. I have been called a liar, everyone's been called a troll and life is a scam.

Bitcointalk at its best 

It would seem that you actually do not understand what cryptography is in the modern sense.

A fundamental nature of information is that it wants to be freely copied everywhere to everyone. That any bit is equal and indistinguishable from any other bit of the same value and that any bit is eventually known to all who care.  Cryptography is all that technology by which we hope to confine and constrain the nature of information, to put up fences and direct it to our exclusive purposes, against all attacks and in defiance of the seemingly (and perhaps actually) impossible.  Digital signatures are cryptography by any modern definition and utilize the same tools and techniques (for example, a DSA signature is a linear equation encrypted with an additively homorphic encryption), and suffer from most of the same challenges as the message encryption systems to which you seem to be incorrectly defining cryptography as equivalent.  Moreover, the use of digital signatures isn't the only (or even most relevant) aspect of cryptography in cryptocurrencies-- e.g. the prevention of double spending of otherwise perfectly copyable and indistinguishable information in a decentralized system is a cryptographic problem which we address using cryptographic tools, and-- like all other practical cryptography-- achieve far less than perfect confidence in our solution. As are more modest ends like interacting with strangers but not being subject to resource exhaustion from them.

Far more so than other sub-fields of engineering, cryptographic systems are doing something which is fundamentally at odds with nature and share an incredible fragility and subtly as a result (and perhaps all are failures, we have no proof otherwise).

A failure to understand and respect these considerations has resulted in a lot of harmful garbage and dysfunctional software.

Oh and didnt you know? Life itself is a conspiracy. Basically it's all a scam and nothing is real!

'Those are conspiracy theories that anyone can come up with, and has no bearings in fact'

You are aware that a conspiracy theory can be factual aren't you?

ofc it wasn't, there is no real anonymity in DASH/DRK. How do you break smoke?

This is a lie. The bug allowed the exploiter to collect a disproportionate amount of the block reward. Anonymity was not broken, never has been.

STOP LYING!

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9121458

i dont think fluffy is really qualified to comment on masternodes to be honest but just my opinion.

if you are genuinley interested in investing in DASH and worried about masternode security, just consider that right now there is ~$12m DASH running masternodes around the world, if its so easy to take them Fluffy and troops are saying, then why hasn't 1 DRK been taken from one yet.

Quite the opposite. Dash/DRK had it's code reviewed when it was closed source, yet a amateur coder was able to find a flaw in Darksends coding that allowed for deanonymization, just hours after it was open sourced.

Saying that cryptonote is somehow connected to the NSA is the same as saying Bitcoin is somehow connected to the NSA and that Satoshi Nakamoto was a government entity. Those are conspiracy theories that anyone can come up with, and has no bearings in fact. Using them makes you look like a troll. The same and more could be said for Dash, as someone(a newbie account) came and said that Dash was compromised by the government back in 2014.

can i go now, this is really weak attack point you resorted to now and its boring?

EDIT: and....gone

'Those are conspiracy theories that anyone can come up with, and has no bearings in fact'

You are aware that a conspiracy theory can be factual aren't you?

Again, back in 2014 there were cases of masternodes being compromised by attackers, so yes more than 1dash/drk(More than 1,000 actually) has been compromised/stolen so far.

Quite the opposite. Dash/DRK had it's code reviewed when it was closed source, yet a amateur coder was able to find a flaw in Darksends coding that allowed for deanonymization, just hours after it was open sourced.

Saying that cryptonote is somehow connected to the NSA is the same as saying Bitcoin is somehow connected to the NSA and that Satoshi Nakamoto was a government entity. Those are conspiracy theories that anyone can come up with, and has no bearings in fact. Using them makes you look like a troll. The same and more could be said for Dash, as someone(a newbie account) came and said that Dash was compromised by the government back in 2014.