handouts/ho08.tex
changeset 336 3cb200fa6d6a
parent 323 0629590fd299
child 339 0e78c809b17f
--- 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