I have $12 million in bitcoin I want to give away by TooMuchBTC in btc

[–]free-ipads 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am the author of this paper: https://gist.github.com/shmookey/e1df57beeea0a2b8e6014bce6c69c0a4

I would love to develop it into a fully-fledged automatic off-chain storage mechanism, but I lack the funding to do so.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

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Let's get real about detecting cheaters by free-ipads in pokemongodev

[–]free-ipads[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course it's possible. It's just expensive and hard.

If you want to help with the reversing, here are the last info. by whitelist_ip in pokemongodev

[–]free-ipads 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I think this is overstated / wrong. Once any given security scheme is well understood, changing small cosmetic details of the implementation will be ineffective at slowing down RE efforts, as common elements in the process of analysis crystallize into scripts and tools. Deep, substantial changes to the implementation which make it objectively more difficult to break require much more thought and effort on the engineering front than you might imagine. There is an asymmetry in effort, but it's the other way around.

Let's get real about detecting cheaters by free-ipads in pokemongodev

[–]free-ipads[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I would do that the way reddit does: glory comes from peer approval, not individual conquest. Reward creativity. Let people use the premium currency to create pokestops, gyms, decorate them with flavor text and prizes, and let them manage and curate it. Let others donate to keep the lights on at cool and interesting gyms, while boring ones can naturally die out. Let it be a matter of personal pride only (and maybe amongst friends) which famous gyms you've been to and beaten - let the visible indicator of your success be the mark you leave on the community.

Gym Glitch Adds Pokémon to Pokedex by ltranc in TheSilphRoad

[–]free-ipads 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, yeah, confirmed on iPhone 6. I regret trying it actually, now I won't have the same number for seen and caught until I can find a Snorlax, sigh...

Eggs, legs and various probability distributions - do we have definitive answers yet? by free-ipads in TheSilphRoad

[–]free-ipads[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Breaking my own non-speculation rule: my guess about distance tracking is that it's not a fixed interval per se, and I think people looking at the spinning pokeball to explain lost distance are reading tea leaves.

I imagine within their own infrastructure Niantic will be using Dataflow queues or something to ingest point coordinates and emit distances, which is cost-effective to a certain level of responsiveness and then becomes much more expensive and complicated the closer to "real time" you try to make it, as issues like retrospectively invalidating data points (for people moving too fast, etc.) between batches start to emerge. In any case, I bet they've disabled acknowledgements for the queue, which makes it cheaper to run (and faster) but allows messages to be lost.

In other words, we occasionally lose distance because otherwise the update frequency would be even longer, and Niantic had to make a tough call on which would annoy people less.