asciilifeform: who like, or at least were thought to like, faux contracts / 'partnerships' etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally a good bit of the 'startup' nonsense makes more sense when you realize that they weren't trying to get legit customers at all, but further chumps^H^H^H^H^Hinvestors
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i see ~generating~ a tx as a job for a specially-crafted box running from ROM and powered down immediately after
asciilifeform: trinque: this brought to you by the ministry-of-let'em-think-they-haven't-been-owned-yet
asciilifeform: dildo with razor blade rose embedded will have its uses
asciilifeform: and notice the implicit attempt to paint actual bitcoin as non-'theft-proof' and non-'fraud-proof'
asciilifeform: quite possibly, hitler is willing to settle for this.
asciilifeform: yes, 'they can't spend your coin' but neither can you without usg's permission.
asciilifeform: the 'multi-sig' idiocy is clinton's key escrow plain and simple☟︎
asciilifeform: Users can store their funds securely in our innovative and unique multisig voting pools, enabling users to perform fast, low cost, off-blockchain transactions, without having to trust anyone to hold the money! With theft-proof funds and fraud-proof receipts, our platform is the only acceptable solution ...' << wai wat
asciilifeform: and that his failure to do so - is complicity.☟︎
asciilifeform: i cannot help but conclude that torvalds could pull this plug any time he likes
asciilifeform: 'The Linux Foundation and Linux Standard Base are trademarks of The Linux Foundation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.' << how the fuq does this work
asciilifeform: lulzy, pretty much whole lizard committee
asciilifeform: ments to this work come from Accenture, ANZ Bank, Cisco, CLS, Credits, Deutsche Börse, Digital Asset Holdings, DTCC, Fujitsu Limited, IC3, IBM, Intel, J.P. Morgan, London Stock Exchange Group, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), R3, State Street, SWIFT, VMware and Wells Fargo.'
asciilifeform: 'The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced a new collaborative effort to advance the popular blockchain technology. The project will develop an enterprise grade, open source distributed ledger framework and free developers to focus on building robust, industry-specific applications, platforms and hardware systems to support business transactions. Early commit
asciilifeform: btw, mircea_popescu, ever ask torvalds why he doesn't shutter 'linux foundation' for pissing on ~his~ trademark ?☟︎
asciilifeform: see, everybody who expected that it'd be simply commissioned from 'lockheed' or similar, doesn't understand Phreeeeedom !1☟︎
asciilifeform: phreeeeee mark3t competition for candidacy to Offficial usgcoin (tm) (r) (c) !!111
asciilifeform: no reason other than previous link being a similar thing
asciilifeform: (resembled 'pandora', but was ~searchable~ - just type in the name of whatever, song, band, etc. and it plays. no ads. no business model...)
