There was a section of IBM's quantum computing challenge that had you encrypt/decrypt logical qbits by transforming their phase state to a known degree. If the state was altered in-transit, than the inverse transform will not cancel out correctly.
the challenge also mentioned that for it to work in practice, the qbits themselves would have to be transported somehow.
> Austin was just a bunch of housed and employed people quietly dying because our government is anti-humanist.
Good lord.
It was a once in a century weather event. Austin and Texas in general celebrates a limited government. So you should take responsibility and prepare accordingly.
If you seriously feel like the city government is anti-humanist and out to get you, then maybe you should pack up and leave town immediately.
Sounds like they’re doing far more for their community than the average person. Texas would be in much better shape if it had more people like that, especially in positions of power.
> I haven't yet heard a rational explanation for just how badly ECDSA mangles the Schnorr protocol in exactly the way that means a lot of implementations end up with horrible security holes.
I thought schnorr was under patent for a bit, so an open alternative was needed? Also ECDSA does allow for recovery of the public key from the signature, which can be useful.
Can you? I've read a few articles from journalists who went there only to find that vendors refused their payments, or asked for Visa instead.
The one from Bloomberg comes to mind: "He tells me surfers sometimes ask if he’ll take Bitcoin. He’s taken it on a few occasions, but the dips in price burned him. “Now I tell them it’s $25 if they want to pay in Bitcoin,” he tells me. “You don’t know when it’s going to go down.” " [1].
That's also to say nothing of the leader of the nation potentially losing millions of public funds day-trading crypto on his phone, the Bitcoin Bonds that no one bought, or the IMF refusing to offer funding to the impoverished nation as a result of this callous fiscal policy.
Not storing media sounds odd (prone to linkrot), but I guess this feature is likely optional?
I'm not an expert but the SSB scaling issues seem related to the architecture being tied to the sigchain, & general feed immutability. This makes it very difficult for pubs to, for example, accept/process subsets of posts or do anything out-of-order. It also makes it impossible for clients to limit local database storage, especially mobile clients where that might be at a premium.
Even just the existence of ephemeral notes seems to indicate there's no such architectural limitation so that sounds really hopeful.
There are several implementations of core across various languages, not including custom forks of core.