A high-performance quantum-inspired random number generator that leverages quantum mechanical principles in classical computing environments. This library simulates quantum phenomena on classical hardware to generate high-quality random numbers with proven entropy characteristics.
the last article "Calling All Hackers" touches on this. There are still plentiful communities and resources outside of the mainstream internet. A lot of what I personally refer to as the "real internet" are these smaller indie sites and communities.
I am often skeptical of innovations in cryptography, could any crypto experts snuff this one out? The OP claims it is superior to RSA but hasn't necessarily verified these claims.
If one accepts that a cryptography expert would publish either a peer-reviewed academic paper or a comprehensive article instead of a twitter post, then one may conclude OP is not a cryptography expert. Additionally, the focus on length ahem and no other metrics is a common symptom of non-experts (I posit an 8MB key is not practical). The moral of this story is, it is wonderful and encouraging to have a new idea in any domain, but the next step is to ask yourself (or a few select individuals), "how do I evaluate my idea?" _Everything_ you will learn while answering that question will be valuable. Posting to twitter almost never is.
"A few days ago, another sensationalist news story emerged, promising new clues regarding the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto: Allegedly, an old message signed by Hal Finney had surfaced (published by Martin Shkreli in [this] blog post), suggesting that Paul Le Roux was the person behind the synonym of Satoshi Nakamoto."
Surprised and not surprised. There's a lot of devs that know a little SQL, but I think it's different when you're mostly using ORMs to abstract away the DB. For business users, you pull up a GUI like this or the one that comes with the DB and sometimes spend hours writing queries and exploring the schema, so you get used to these kinds of tools... especially if you have to move between several databases. I'm sure plenty of devs, do as well, but probably a smaller proportion. It's a great project though.
I use Datagrip as my primary tool when connecting to DB, but DB Browser is still used several times each month because the simple CSV import, adding index and view data.
I even copy-paste DB Browser in Application folder on Mac, to be able to run 2-3 instances at the same time.
Yep, this is how I spent High School, although I did have prior interest in computers. I started tinkering with Debian on a hand-me-down HP pavilion and ended with a ThinkPad T60 with Arch. Developed a lot of skills that helped me get started in my career.
If you dig a lot you will find a footprint. There is evidence that there was a small core team and that satoshi may not be a single person, if it is, he is most likely to be Wei Dai. The other likely alternative is of course the hypothetical state-backed actor.
> There is evidence that there was a small core team and that satoshi may not be a single person
"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." - Benjamin Franklin
It seems highly improbable that a team of any size would have been successful at keeping this a secret for this long, let alone not wrestle for control of vast BTC wealth.
I have a pet theory that the smart people at the NSA are aware that politicians with 4 year terms aren't effective at long term financial planning. The current debt situation coupled with the last ~30 years of mostly loose monetary policy has set the US up for serious problems if it doesn't come up with another world-changer like the ICE, electric light, or internet. Hence, Bitcoin is a hedge industry could embrace against a failing dollar.
I know the US isn't solely or originally responsible for those, but boy it sure ran the ball a long distance.
As far as the US government is concerned, this primary effect of Bitcoin and other crypto is a weakening of their ability to enforce sanctions and prevent money laundering.
If Bitcoin was a government program, it probably wasn't the US government. I'd guess North Korea, Iran, Russia, etc. One of the countries heavily bothered by US-led sanctions, or at least one that doesn't already have an important ~global currency to disrupt.
It seems to have grown mostly in the English-speaking world to start with, but that doesn't seem like a fatal flaw of my theory.
Tor was created to allow contacting people securely from within restrictive regimes, wasn't it? Doesn't seem like the same thing to me. The US has a history of free speech advocacy, not of encouraging others to be able to spend money freely.
It's also a big government though, it is quite possible that some part would have driven something like Bitcoin for its own reasons. It just doesn't strike me as very likely compared to the alternatives.
Most likely, in my estimation, is still probably it being started by non-government to be clear.
I'm pretty sure the US can already do both, and that neither of those would be easier with a US backed cryptocoin.
Literal American cash dollars (which tend to work everywhere, even anti-American regimes) under the table would be more secure. But then assets in other countries are probably just paid through shell companies in those countries with local currency or something.
On the other hand, if they were Wei Dei, they wouldn't exactly say "Ah yes of course, I wrote this paper but don't use that name, use Satoshi" but they would of course say "Oh I didn't know, I'll put a reference to it in my paper".
i don't get why a lot of people in tech want to be more computer than person. it seems people tend to forget that our role as PEOPLE in an organization of PEOPLE is to do deliver solutions for PEOPLE. a little bit of psychological screening to determine someone's' personality to see if they're a good fit for the department/corporate culture is not necessarily "weird" or off-putting or a net negative in many ways. i received a very similar test interviewing for my first "real" job nearly 10 years ago.
Not necessarily OpenAI GPT powered, but local LLMs have gotten pretty good over the past few weeks. I am most interested in using an LLM for automation with tools like AutoGPT and Godmode.space.
I prefer using an LLM locally if possible since it gives me more control and I don't have to worry about the additional cost or OpenAIs infrastructure being under load.
