It might be worth taking a look at Mattereum [0] as an example of work in this area.
Much of their work has been on how to make smart-contract based 'ownership tokens' (akin to NFTs) enforceable in existing courts in as many global jurisdictions as possible. They believe that they've found a way to make their arbitration system enforceable "in 150+ countries via the 1958 New York Arbitration Convention" [1].
Vinay Gupta ('hexayurt' on HN [2]) is co-founder and CEO and may be able to enlighten further.
AFAIK only the pool operator can see the full set of transactions for the block being mined. Pool workers only get to see the block header for the new block. This header only contains the hashed root of the transaction tree, and so they are unable to front-run private transactions in this way.
Wow, this is really appropriate for the day I've had today. Repeatedly failing to get a brand new install of Bitcoin Core to index and sync with the blockchain. I finally dusted off my Memtest86 and voila, bad RAM stick!
I suppose crypto would fare pretty badly inside this language, or has anyone thought about this kind of thing?
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BTW, whatever you do don't overuse the 'flag' feature on stories as it seems when this is revoked it is permanent! I lost mine when trying to encourage news other than the passing of Steve Jobs.
Failing a 'dream bard' like you mention a fairly good alternative is a laptop (scraptop) with a broken screen. It may need to be fairly high end, e.g. many Lenovo models I've seen (even X series) have two m-PCI slots available for Wifi.
It possible that the ballot box is no longer the biggest tool in your kit. Stick your neck out, support a local cause that is affected by this perverse phenomenon if you can. Myself, I have been arrested multiple times and have convictions relating to environmental protest (terrorism?). Do not underestimate the empowerment that comes from taking the leap of faith to back up your convictions with acts of resistance.
Bluemix is too little too late, and appears to be an advertisement for all the open-source 'cool' tech that IBM did not invent.
Let's not even get into the fraud that was the share-buyback (second only to Apple I believe). Now that's ended the tricky question of where that elusive revenue will come from looms its ugly head.
I'm pretty fucking scared about what a company in decline with an arsenal of patents like IBM's is going to do to hit its EPS targets in the next few years.
I think what will happen is for any given target a weighting will be inferred, giving the likelihood of that person being sarcastic or joking.
As more and more data about us is collected, about what we say/type vs. what we actually do, this has the potential to become more accurate over time.
Facial and voice-tone analysis, analysis of our peers' responses to what we say/write, analysis of our actual movements/purchases compared to what we say/write ("I'm so going along to that Nickelback concert at the weekend...!") etc., combined with leading brains in stats and ML lead me to think this problem could be tractable to some extent in the future. Scary :-/
If something like this comes to be, and is deployed 'wholesale', it has the potential to influence our behaviour, and over generations, alter our definition of 'sarcasm' by what we are able to get away with saying. Insidious!
That said I hope Charlie is right and that humans can game the system significantly that it is a non-starter.
I didn't say you won't get your money but that legally speaking the money, once deposited, is not yours any more, it is an asset of the Bank. This is why you'd need insurance/government-guarantees during a bank failure, otherwise you'd be treated just like a stock or bond holder who holds no collateral.
"From a legal and financial accounting standpoint, the term "deposit" is used by the banking industry in financial statements to describe the liability owed by the bank to its depositor, and not the funds that the bank holds as a result of the deposit, which are shown as assets of the bank." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deposit_account
Don't forget, 'real' bank accounts work like this as well. The money is no longer yours once you deposit into an account. The bank represents it as a liability on its balance sheet. As an account holder you are an 'unsecured creditor' of the bank. I have a feeling a lot more of us will be aware of this arrangement within a year or two, once the bail-ins begin.