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Home :: Internet 12 Feb 2018 Why is it so hard to run a Bitcoin exchange? Internet One of the chronic features of the Bitcoin landscape is that Bitcoin exchanges screw up and fail, starting with Mt. Gox. There's nothing conceptually very hard about running an exchange, so what's the problem? See more ... posted at: 22:55 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://www.jl.ly/Internet/bithard.html 01 Feb 2018 How many people can you pay with bitcoins? Internet An aquaintance wrote: I think it's an open question as to whether that belief can sustain a meaningfully high Bitcoin price. There has never been a currency or asset that has been so easily tradable among every person in the world (even among anonymous people). ... See more ... posted at: 13:15 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://www.jl.ly/Internet/bitsome.html 28 Jan 2018 How do you turn a typesetting language into an identifier system? (Not easily) Internet Unicode's goal, which it meets quite well, is that whatever text you want to represent in whatever language, dead or alive, Unicode can represesnt the characters or symbols it uses. Any computer with a set of Unicode type faces and suitable layout software can display that text. In effect, Unicode is primarily a typesetting language. Over in the domain name system, we also use Unicode to represent non-ASCII identifiers. That turns out to be a problem, because an identifier needs a unique form, something that doesn't matter for typesetting. See more ... posted at: 22:59 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://www.jl.ly/Internet/uniid.html 22 Oct 2017 The hack back bill in Congress is better than you'd expect Internet Rep's Graves and Sinema recently introduced H.R. 4036, the catchily named Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act or ACDC act which creates some exceptions to criminal parts of computer crime laws. Lots of reports have decried "hack back" but if you read the bill, it's surprisingly well targeted. See more ... posted at: 16:31 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://www.jl.ly/Internet/hackback.html 10 Aug 2017 Supporting new DNS RR types with dnsextlang, Part II Internet Yesterday's article introduced my DNS extension language, intended to make it easier to add new DNS record types to DNS software. It described a new perl module Net::DNS::Extlang that uses the extension language to automatically create perl code to handle new RRTYPEs. Today we look at my second project, intended to let people create DNS records and zone files with new RRTYPEs. See more ... posted at: 19:17 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://www.jl.ly/Internet/extlang2.html

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