Not so sure that's quite it. Having reflected on this a great deal over the years, I would say that many of Wittenstein's insights about language and life are more closely expressed as Tathata. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tath%C4%81t%C4%81]
Just curious. Legally speaking. If someone was to "guess" the private key to an account with hundreds or thousands of bitcoin, could they legally move the bitcoin and take control of it? Or is it just as much an act of theft as guessing someone's car door code and driving off with the car? I can't imagine there is any legal precedent for such a thing.
Legally stealing you still committed theft. Just because you have the technical ability to pick a lock doesn't give you the right to enter a room and take someone else's stuff. And there is a lot of legal precedent that hacking weak passwords is still hacking (also an illegal act even if you don't steal anything) and the theft of digital goods is still theft.
Practically speaking, if you actually managed to get hundreds of thousands of bitcoin, you're going to have someone very interested in getting it back. The legal argument might not even concern you if the previous holder of those bitcoins thinks that most likely way to recover their money by hiring thugs to hurt you.
> Legally stealing you still committed theft. Just because you have the technical ability to pick a lock doesn't give you the right to enter a room and take someone else's stuff. And there is a lot of legal precedent that hacking weak passwords is still hacking (also an illegal act even if you don't steal anything) and the theft of digital goods is still theft.
No, it's not so clear cut. Using a hacked password is illegal because it's unauthorized access to a computer[1]. The hacked passwords themselves are not illegal, otherwise sites like haveibeenpwned couldn't operate. In the BTC/crypto scenario, there's no unauthorized access occurring.
More than that, there's no link between a BTC address and a real identity. If I log into your bank account with a hacked password and get caught, law enforcement can quickly determine that I was trying to access something I didn't own because the bank has many details on the identity of the account owner. If I use a guessed private key to transfer BTC out of your wallet, how would you dispute my claim that I was the original owner of the wallet? Where's the proof that your private key wasn't the guessed copy?
> Practically speaking, if you actually managed to get hundreds of thousands of bitcoin, you're going to have someone very interested in getting it back. The legal argument might not even concern you if the previous holder of those bitcoins thinks that most likely way to recover their money by hiring thugs to hurt you.
lol This is just pure fantasy. People haven't even gotten their coins back from Mark Karpelès[2], and he's a very visible and public figure. If an anonymous person randomly generated a private key and moved coins, nobody's going to be sending thugs after them.
Shape seems to be a very superficial trait. One need only consider an elephant's trunk. In terms of shape and size, it has more in common with my leg, but ask anyone, "What is an elephant's trunk?" and they will immediately tell you "A nose!"
When it comes to examining various lifeforms and fossil remains to determine ancestory, it seems to be more a matter of homology - the relationships between parts. Whether it's the same part over long periods of time (ex. comparing differences in the thumb) or different parts within the same individual (ex. comparing the big toe and thumb) or interspecies similarities (ex. the similarities of hands, feet, paws and flippers), evolution is a story of relationships, not size or shape.
I typed out a lot about how I've never compared my nose or leg to an elephant's trunk, but it seemed beside the point. The general idea was it's interesting to think of how we identify things, and this comment reminded me of Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy?[0][1] and the idea of psychic continuity.
Does that mean all Android users must now install the app to prevent getting Airtagged? That seems ridiculous and calling this a false claim is questionable ar best.
Someone needs to produce a timeline. My own impression was that Apple released the Android app after the first public cases of these shenanigans. But that’s based on my own possibly mixed memories of the various news cycles.
Yes, it's essentially a factor of cost, not electrical consumption per se. So at best I don't see it helping to reduce the carbon foot print. In fact, there is a chance the problem would get worse.
Consider the Braess Paradox as an analogy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox It's possible that increased efficiency (more capacity) would incentivize a greater number people to mine until usage was higher than before - similar to how expanding roadways creates more traffic. Then again, there might not be the time for the problem to get worse before people realized that money is the bottom line, not conservation. Why bother with greener chips.. when it's faster chips that matter. That's one of the big problems with proof-of-work consensus. The game theoretics work against our survival interests.
