I think buying altcoins in bear market is a great idea but its better to just use excess money to buy them so that you can HODL for a long time until you reach your price target

Not sure regarding the implications of blockchain on coding languages, but I think smart contracts are really the niche where statically typed pure functional languages could shine. I'm talking about the languages  mainly from ML family: Haskell, OCaml, F#, Elm, PureScript.

Just imagine, your smart contract can be treated just as a pure function which takes some input and gives some output, no side effects, no typos, etc. Imho, this is the direction where languages smart contracts should lead to.

Hi guys, sorry but I am just dumbfounded by this figures... what's going on?
Not that I would be unhappy with $4700 for 24 hours of mining 

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I don't buy it either. ZEC is actually the coin. People always go to it when market is falling. Look even today ZEC was gaining value over BTC well before the market turned around. And then pumped hard and still up 13% over BTC while ETC not even 1%.

This is all at - 3/16/17 12:30 UTC

Let's take example of Bitcoin. Assume all nodes of Bitcoin network go offline for some reason. Now assume an adversary (a party who wants to do harm to Bitcoin) detects the situation and starts mining blocks. Since no one else is mining at that time, the adversary can create selfish (illegal) transactions and include them in his/her blocks. If he is able to build many such blocks on top of each other, when the parties start getting back online, they may have to accept those blocks with selfish transactions (since the longest chain wins). If those blocks are accepted, the adversary has been able to successfully do illegal transactions.

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Also, ETH has been holding on to it's price better than Bitcoin since mid-January (dropped 50% from ATH vs over 60%), Litecoin is still up some vs Bitcoin since then, a few other altcoins have been holding on AS WELL as Bitcoin.

While the answer depends on the exact consensus protocol used by the blockchain, one can expect the following:
1. No transaction will be recorded while all nodes are offline.
2. Previous transactions (in the last few blocks) will not be finalized for longer period if ever.
3. An adversary may be able to gain control of the blockchain with less effort/resources than usual.

The answer depends upon
1. If the offline event is caused by network outage, then the blockchain will likely resume operation when the connectivity is restored.
2. If the nodes have lost interest in the blockchain, it may never come back to life.

Подбери системы для которых оно несправедливо. Кто запрещает? Уверен тебе даже премию дадут за вклад в развитие ПО.

Это ещё почему? Гипотеза это предположение не имеющее доказательств. У САР теоремы обоснования, они же доказательства, имеются, а вот опровержение теоремы в виде абстракции архитектуры обладающей всеми тремя свойствами одновременно как раз отсутствует.

Source code will available on launch date, WP will be released laterr

Что касается блокирования сайта rbc.ua в Интернете - это очевидная глупость. Видимо вирус глупости перелетел к нам через границу из Украины, где заблокированы В Контакте и Одноклассники, запрещены российские фильмы и телеканалы, а артисты внесены в список Миротворца.

В принципе, я всем, кто интересуется биткойном, рекомендую проштудитровать Теорему CAP (там совсем немного текста)
Знание в принципе будет и просто полезно в отрыве от криптовалют. И то, это только
называется "теоремой", на самом деле так как мы не вводили аксиоматику и не привели доказательств -
это всего лишь эвристическое утверждение. Мы видим, что это так. Мы не видим ни одного контр-примера.
Но доказательства у нас по сути дела нет.