diff -r 06d5fc15594d -r 3cb200fa6d6a handouts/ho08.tex --- 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