Doesn't really have anything to do with the public ledger aspect. They got busted because they were maintaining a backend service that their wallet was dependent on, and they were making money from it. Simply releasing a wallet with privacy features is still presumably legal (IANAL) due to free speech protections applying to code. The government can still prosecute end-users directly, but the same is true for users of dedicated privacy coins.
Monero may be a good option for some individual users right now, but it isn't a long-term solution for bringing financial privacy to the masses. That pretty much has to be done through Bitcoin wallets with privacy features. Bitcoin is already criticized for not scaling well, but Monero is far worse. If I remember correctly, Monero transactions are roughly 4 times as large as Bitcoin transactions, and they don't have any way to do off-chain transactions the way Bitcoin can with Lightning.
Bitcoin block 841,308 (most recent as I'm writing this) is 1,615,771 bytes and has 3,148 transactions, for an average transaction size of ~513 bytes.
Because a Monero transaction is about one and a half to two kilobytes
So yeah, about 3 to 4 times as large as an average Bitcoin transaction.
Keep in mind we have dynamic block scaling so that the blocks will get larger as more transactions come in.
That's not a scaling solution, though. Larger blocks provide throughput at the expense of decentralization, since fewer people will run full nodes as resource usage increases. Eventually it gets to the point where it becomes feasible for a government to track down and compromise all the remaining node operators.
It seems like lightning service providers may very well be considered money transmitters
Not sure how much this would matter. Lightning wallets don't care whether their channel partners are registered money transmitters, or just some rando operating through TOR or in a permissive jurisdiction. In the case of Samourai, taking down the backend rendered the wallet useless. Taking out a lightning node just temporarily inconveniences users that were connected to them.
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HardlightCereal seemed more like a crank than a troll, to me. Cranks are by definition at least somewhat annoying, and tend to get mistaken for and treated as trolls. They're not malicious the way trolls are though, and can be a positive influence. I think them drawing attention to this particular issue was a good thing, at least.
Possibly. I've seen comments from them here and there in various places, but it's true that I haven't had the responsibility of moderating them like you have.
I think it's actually a pretty old term. Definitely useful for the internet era though, now that we end up coming into contact with many more "interesting" characters than in the old days. xD
Moderator here. While it's reasonable to post your anime podcast here once, making a post for each episode is an excessive amount of self-promotion, at least for the activity level that we've currently got here. I'll leave your existing posts up, but please refrain from making any more of them.
Part 1 was just a simple search. Part 2 looked like it just needed a trivial modification, but with the removal of the one-way tiles, the result I was getting was getting for the example was too large. I switched to a different method of determining the path length, but didn't yet figure out what what I had been doing wrong. Since the search space was now significantly larger, my part 2 code took almost an hour to come up with the answer.
I rewrote part 2 to simplify the maze into a graph with a node for each intersection and for the start and goal tiles, with edge costs equal to the path length between each. This resulted in significantly faster iteration (17 seconds instead of 52 minutes), but didn't actually reduce the search space. I'm assuming there's some clever optimization that can be done here, but I'm not sure what it is.
The rewrite was still getting the wrong answer, though. I eventually figured out that it was including paths that didn't actually reach the goal, as long as they didn't revisit any nodes. I changed my recursive search function to return a large negative result at dead ends, which fixed the issue.
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