asciilifeform: but the point i was trying to make is that your cpu is not transmitting to the proverbial black helicopter 24/7
asciilifeform: (there is a kind of 'valley' in between the ordinary weaponry and the 'glass' - e.g., tor diddles which would 'expire' immediately if publicly revealed, but are good for plenty of 'parallel construction' meanwhile, etc.)
asciilifeform: one may speculate all day re: the particulars of usg 'glass artillery', but it suffices to say that such is not fired at a crowd
asciilifeform: trinque: i won't comment on meta-nsa, but classic nsa works on statistical aggregates rather than individuals - at least when dealing with mass collections rather than targeted shots
asciilifeform: trinque: go, break the other winblowz schmucks' keys
asciilifeform: (and if not, we will likely learn about it soon enough)
asciilifeform: if this - then we can conclude that he had the backbone to pull the pin
asciilifeform: usg could find him inside an hour by, e.g., issuing an xp 'update'
asciilifeform: not because it is impossible to devise improved mechanisms - but on account of the 'pascal's wager' involved
asciilifeform: at the risk of beating the record of mircea_popescu's pessimism on the subject of 'future bitcoin': i currently suspect that protocol change might be the proverbial 'stone so heavy, god cannot lift'
asciilifeform had a thought: possibly, if satoshi's stash were ~larger~ than it is, he could be considered 'beyond reproach' if he were to surface and propose a fork, on the logic that he could not stand to gain from any deception. but it still would not rule out usgification, or simple error.
asciilifeform: (i.e. there are probably not 5bn 'turkey-buying-capable' dollars on planet)
asciilifeform: esp. given as it is denominated in zimbabwean unit
asciilifeform: and no $maxint pumped into the storage battery
asciilifeform: 'does not suck' today, i dare say, is a higher bar than in '09, when there was no bitcoin
asciilifeform: which did not suck (at least mathematically) in any particularly discernible way
asciilifeform: but suppose that it is something quite like bitcoin circa '09.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unless i misunderstood, your implication in earlier thread was that satoshi (in the person of his key) could pop up, propose some arbitrary strange, and have such carry weight on account of him being the famous satoshi
asciilifeform: american automobility has a very short life expectancy as a going concern
asciilifeform: thing is, gm/ford vs tesla is a 'best horse in the glue factory' contest
asciilifeform: fueling up jets from seawater + nuke plant, was the notion.
asciilifeform: no idea if it ever came up with a working nuke-to-petrol magic box.
asciilifeform: usg actually had (has?) some chick leading a crackpot mains current to hydrocarbon (yes, electrolysis + oddball catalysts) mega-wunderwaffen dept. in the navy
asciilifeform: and the water - doesn't wear out after 200 cycles
asciilifeform: decimation: who 'doesn't care what it costs' - uses pumped hydro
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: these are sop in the orc world, ru being perhaps the absolute epicentre. but in usa they are especially lulzy on account of the elaborate presences of 'doing business'
