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mircea_popescu: well in practice it seems it's mainly to drive people up the wall.
mircea_popescu: it's no such proof. it's proof that you are willing to allow the holder of key y to continue in your stead.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: obama holds an arab world summit, nobody goes, us press is all quiet on THAT score.
mircea_popescu: brilliant plan, brilliantly executed. meanwhile, the chinese go to putin's victory celebration, the us press derps about how the european heads of "states" missed the opportunity to be relevant.
mircea_popescu: decimation yeah totally. meanwhile the brilliant plan tostop supporting israel has resulted in an israel that could no longerr pull off the halfweek war, thus the arabs are no longer affraid of it, thus saudi arabia has no further need for the us alliance, thus they're trashing it.
mircea_popescu: the crowdsourced internet, putting pro comics out of business since september 1993
mircea_popescu: derp on trilema offers "military campaigns" as example of plans that worked (tm)
mircea_popescu: keys are identities. identities have to qualify themselves. the qualification happens to be pay 30 btc.
mircea_popescu: mpex does not discourage anything. mpex charges, because mpex is a business.
mircea_popescu: if you can upgrade your key for free, you don't have to pay mpex, you can just find someone with a key they don't want to use anymore and they can "upgrade" theirs to yours.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: jurov we're talking about this situation where the total number of keys mpex charges for is = to the maximal number of keys ever used. that is not happening.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell nubbins` yo nooblet, make a pink eyes banner ? :D
mircea_popescu: go into the shop get a new one made, what. you want to turn the old one in for a new one ?
mircea_popescu: and it specifically should be 'unsupported'. For all you know a key ends up rediscovered five billion years later.
mircea_popescu: My new key is X, use of Y key past this point is unsupported. Signed by Y.
mircea_popescu: ah, but mind that there's no in principle reason a computer might not exist.
mircea_popescu: so, the key is there. how do you COLOR it, that's your job.
mircea_popescu: you can't un-discover some integers in a certan mathematical relation.
mircea_popescu: i do not belive machines should have any imperium over valid keys.
mircea_popescu: you have a comment field in the keys as they are now. put in there "This key not valid after block 175552"
mircea_popescu: without human mediation, this is more of the "smart contracts" coolaid.
mircea_popescu: people have a way of coming to odds with their intentions
mircea_popescu: intentions need not be nor can they be part of signed matter.
mircea_popescu: there are some things that don't need fixing. what needs fixing re gpg is to use rsa throughout, rather than the current lulzatron.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field makes keys too big, doesn't actually offer anything other than the equivalent "at key promulgation, use it to sing a list of nonces, with understanding that statements w/io the nonce are void", let wot enforce this.
mircea_popescu: keys never expire. the meaning you give them may expire, and that's entirely your own personal problem. but otherwise, once found, the integers are there and can be multiplied.
mircea_popescu: owner 2 can always repudiate future signatures on the grounds that "it wasn't really me"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you have a discrete cristalline lattice of U, selected nodes get energized to the point they split, creating Xe
mircea_popescu: actually - lasered into a chunk of uranium, so that selected atoms turn into gas.
mircea_popescu: !rate silbert -1 Arrogantly ignorant twerp, de facto scammer through it.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla that's how the new garrs and nefarios and gigavps and etc run the same old scam. "it COULD be 11btc each. YOU HAVE NO PROOF IT ISNT"
mircea_popescu: spent millenia not even knowing there was a global namespace, perfectly happy.
mircea_popescu: (this is exactly how nature does it - as far as it's concerned the namespace is the genotype, as far as you're concerned you just use a nick for the fenotype)
mircea_popescu: or in other words, the solution to zooko's triangle is to use the local-global axe on the fucking knot. unique and secure names globally ; memorable locally.
mircea_popescu: as time goes by, i get more and more fascinated by the concept of "offended"
mircea_popescu: Adlai hey, wouldja like to advertise your jdif blog on /pol/ ?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c hey mike! can you make the bitbet banners in 728x90 ?