--- a/handouts/ho08.tex Wed Nov 26 10:15:43 2014 +0000
+++ b/handouts/ho08.tex Thu Nov 27 17:52:17 2014 +0000
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
\begin{document}
-\section*{Handout 7 (Bitcoins)}
+\section*{Handout 8 (Bitcoins)}
In my opinion Bitcoins are an elaborate Ponzi
scheme\footnote{\url{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme}}---still
@@ -758,7 +758,7 @@
\noindent Finally, a government would potentially not really
need to follow up with such threads. Just the rumour that it
would, could be enough to get the Bitcoin-house-of-cards to
-tumble. Some governments have already such a ``impressive''
+tumble. Some governments have already such an ``impressive''
trackrecord in this area, such a thread would be entirely
credible. Because of all this, I would not have too much hope
that Bitcoins are free from government \& Co interference when
@@ -781,11 +781,10 @@
the UN, say, would find the money and incentivise people to,
for example, solve protein folding
puzzles?\footnote{\url{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_folding}}
-There are projects like
-Folding@home\footnote{\url{http://folding.stanford.edu}} which have
+For this there are projects like
+Folding@home\footnote{\url{http://folding.stanford.edu}}.
This might help with curing diseases such as Alzheimer or
-diabetes, which to a large portion baddies and goodies will
-suffer at some point. The same point is made in the article
+diabetes. The same point is made in the article
\begin{center}\small
\url{http://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-most-powerful-computer-network-is-being-was-504503726}
@@ -794,8 +793,6 @@
\end{document}
bit coin
-https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
-https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
A fistful of bitcoins
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf