FHE will probably take a while to become practical. Remember, the first schema was published only in 2009, which is very recent in cryptography standards.
Secure multi-party computation can achieve similar objectives (compute on encrypted data-sets), but is much more mature research-wise (first schema dates back to the 70s) and can be practical for large algorithms today. See http://enigma.media.mit.edu/ (disclosure - I'm one of the founders)
Yes, that is exactly the case. The idea is to let 3rd parties use the data without ever having direct access to it. They can't reconstruct it, and only get the result of the computation.
1) More electricity it used, but it has some benefits. What is the social and financial cost of data breaches and identity theft? Hopefully at scale a system like Enigma can help with that.
2) At scale, you are correct. Blockchain scaling is a problem that a lot of people are working on, hopefully it will be solved in one way or another. If it doesn't, we'll need to find another solution or Enigma will fail.
Unfortunately every market is highly manipulated... And in any market you deal with people who have more information than you. The game is trying to understand the manipulation.
I don't think the bot is responsible for either bubble.
But, if it was, the bitcoin world owes everything to Mark Karpeles. Because of the price surges it got all the media attention, VC investments, hundreds of companies popping up, millions of users...
Fact - cycling creates short leg muscles, hamstrings in particular. For those of us who have tight hamstrings, which is most males (according to my subjective, biased observations), this is not good. Creates back problems later on.
I agree that some cycling is better than no activity. But I would say that going to a hooker every night is also better for you health wise than staying in and watching tv, as long as you wear at least 2 condoms.
Right, but in other activities if you practice safely and under professional supervision you can usually minimize the risk. Here the movement is short and repetitive which in turn builds short muscles. It's a "feature", not a corner case "bug".
Uri wasn't full-time at Waze for a while now.. he co-founded Feex almost 2 years ago, and he's also not full time there. He does a lot of angel investments. I don't think that him joining Google was every a possibility.
They did a successful pilot in Israel this past year. A lot of people use them and saved significant amounts of money. They use the Waze founder for PR but he is not the real story, the service is.
Secure multi-party computation can achieve similar objectives (compute on encrypted data-sets), but is much more mature research-wise (first schema dates back to the 70s) and can be practical for large algorithms today. See http://enigma.media.mit.edu/ (disclosure - I'm one of the founders)