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bitcoingirl: the settlement has
a "Prosecution Fund" provision that would go after stolen customer assets
ThickAsThieves: who the hell wants to run the new mt gox with such
a cloud and debt hanging over its head
ThickAsThieves: " Smart money, however, is on the fact that today’s Fidor announcement will be the first domino in
a long chain of such adoptions.
davout: but it works with
a blockchain
pankkake: davout: the trick is to create
a currency and not do anything with it
davout: Apocalyptic: that fits the definition of
a stamp
Apocalyptic: <ThickAsThieves> bitcoin works for the same purposes and it isn't owned by
a company
ThickAsThieves: i'm not stating it as
a competitor to bitcoin, so much as the reverse
Apocalyptic: <davout> it's just in the continuation of debt money, it's not really
a competitor to bitcoin in any way << this
davout: it's just in the continuation of debt money, it's not really
a competitor to bitcoin in any way
davout: ThickAsThieves: i don't really see anything wrong with ripple as long as you take it for what it actually is :
a mechanism to transmit debt, for which you have to buy stamps from
a single company
ThickAsThieves: bitcoin works for the same purposes and it isn't owned by
a company
davout: it's interesting that they do that since ripple will then be
a direct competitor to both kraken and bitcoin.de
artifexd: I get the R. But when I paste the url to imgur, it shows
a key.
mircea_popescu: so. the plain domain has
a penguin. the :11371 however has
a changing icon
artifexd: I'm gonna go out on
a limb and say that something is screwy.
artifexd: In which case, no. I have something that looks like
a stylized R.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: considering the amount of work going into cardano << secure is
a relative, not an absolute term.
mircea_popescu: artifexd is one
a penguin and the other
a flashing gif ?
assbot: Need
a nickname, fluffypony.
gribble: Error: "\\\" is not
a valid command.
mircea_popescu: anyway they should chillax, plenty of people have
a ton of meaningless -10s
mircea_popescu: that's
a for instance. i know enough about the guy to tell you that if you're using the wot you're implicitly trusting him.
gribble: You rated user nanotube on Wed Aug 3 15:08:50 2011, with
a rating of 10, and supplied these additional notes: owner of otc and all around reasonable guy.
Naphex: i will prolly document it after i have
a full working example, prolly with some client front end to demo it
Naphex: you could encode pub key to specifiy user_id on
a deposit system
Naphex: thats nice cause i broke mine
a week ago:(
Naphex: if you want you can do SmartOS auth before writeing
a key, or just burn it down to read only
Naphex: you can if you want use the rng to generate
a priv key, but you can just as well upload one
Naphex: on an offline computer, in
a lead room
danielpbarron: i assumed that
a built-in RNG on the card meant that the key was generated on the card
Naphex: danielpbarron: if i'm bored i'd roll the dice and upload it on the card using
a clean linux/busybox boot ;]
random_cat_: anyone know the software (i think meteor based) developed at MIT (i think, maybe at cambridge) which allows for data protection against
a hostile server operator?
danielpbarron: is hash-selling still
a scam, or did someone figure out
a way to make that
a legit business?
Naphex: i mean whoever use bitcoin for normal purchases, and would want
a 'secure' hot wallet
Naphex: and deffinetly
a step up
Naphex: desfire3 / rfid cards are
a bit more secure imho, but there you go
Naphex: i have been working
a lot with smart cards/desfire3
danielpbarron: i didn't realize it has
a random number generator built in; I find it hard to believe it's cryptographically secure
ThickAsThieves: "The investment –seven months after
a $25-million infusion by Sequoia Capital, BlackRock and other investors—underscores
a growing appetite to fuel
a fledgling but fast-growing disintermediation of conventional banking."
mike_c: ooh, i see the once
a month s.mpoe sale is in effect
mike_c: or wait
a few days and I'll have
a script that you can include in the page that will link it to the bet it is displaying with your ref address.
mircea_popescu: apparently lulzing @the us contemporary nonsense has
a name and an acronym. neoreactionary!
mircea_popescu: "I use "sign" in the widest sense of the definition. It is
a wonderful case of an almost popular use of
a very broad word in almost the exact sense of the scientific definition." << this may actuallty be the only case where popular use actually coincides with scientific use.
mircea_popescu: isn't that
a substitute punishment for poor people that can't pay fines ?
mircea_popescu: i *think* it's based off some comment of mine from x years ago that being an admin is being
a superservant not
a superuser.
dub: [15:30] <gribble> Error: "up" is not
a valid command.
dub: [15:29] <gribble> Error: "up" is not
a valid command.
mircea_popescu: Still en route, police received
a third call reporting that the man had been struck by
a vehicle.
mircea_popescu: While police were on their way to the scene, they received
a call stating that the naked man was now doing pushups in the street.
mircea_popescu: Portland police first received
a call at 4:04
a.m. reporting
a naked man was running through traffic near Columbia and Portsmouth Ave.
mircea_popescu: i fucking use this for my own benefit, as it happens. "i've not spanked anyone in
a long time, who'd like
a red butt ?"
mircea_popescu: If schools cannot justify differentials in rates of punishment by race or ethnic group, they will face the loss of federal funds and be forced to undertake costly diversity training. The nation's educators can avoid sanctions by adopting
a racial quota system for student discipline. So as Roger Clegg, president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, predicts, "school officials will either start discip
mircea_popescu: bounce the only few times i ever wenbt to bruxelles i used to live-in with
a friend that did exactly that.
benkay: mircea_popescu: for them to be terms of art, there'd need to be
a field and for that field to have experts.
ThickAsThieves:
a term you will see more and more in bitcoin world i suspect
mircea_popescu: but
a start-up challenge can easily be identical neh ?
mircea_popescu: i mean i get it, hackathon is that make teams and do
a project thing
mircea_popescu: so openly admitting that im
a totally unhip and out of the loop curmudgeon : da fuck's supposed to be the difference between "
a hackathon" and "
a start-up challenge" ?
mircea_popescu: you can also ask ver how does it feel to have had
a bunch of btc way back, and now toi have none, and just hang on to the memories of back when he could throw k's at the foundatyion.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves no but looky : gavin quit, he can have his peace. asking shit out of nobodies
a la hearn or that egglund chick is like... no matter what yo uasked, it's still +ev for them
mircea_popescu: well ok, but i mean how would you cover fiat ? need
a buncha bank accts.
fluffypony: Vertcoin payment gateway, but dev it as
a white-labelled PayBee
fluffypony: we put together
a small board that consists of myself plus
a few others that were already involved in VertPay
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: backend stuff, the VertPay guys have
a dev team so some of the code's been discarded in favour of what they have, and some can be re-used
ThickAsThieves: i'm not sure if i have
a 'current' list lolstate, i may have taken
a screen shot of the lmb site before it went away, but otherwise, the 'list' of pending transfers was not saved
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: I found someone doing something similar to PayBee but Vertcoin-specific, so I struck
a deal with them and we've been sorting things out over the past couple of weeks
nahkunt: yes i agree and i think it's
a wise decision to start with just vert
fluffypony: nahkunt: definitely, that's the plan, but it's important for us to have
a definitive starting point
lolstate: TAT, do you still have
a current LMB share-holder/transfer-to-Havelock list?
benkay: nahkunt: "Merchant adoption is the single biggest driver in encouraging the spread of
a cryptocurrency." << sounds like
a ploy to hype
a shitcoin
ThickAsThieves: i'll start
a doc tomorrow (i'm not entirely sober atm) but basically who are the targets, and what are the main gripes and concerns to be expressed to each
benkay: nahkunt: let me know if you have anything that's less retarded than
a retarded thread on
a retarded forum.
bounce already has
a bit too much to read ATM :/
ThickAsThieves: lolstate, i do not know if danny is
a criminal, it's entirely possible he is merely 'criminally' inept
nahkunt: mircea_popescu: isn't that correct? i read about you on the bitcoinwiki, it linked to
a bitcointalk thread discussing it.
bounce: you already got
a list? (wiki? in public? maybe not
a good idea)
lolstate: TAT, that’s an interesting staement:
a) Danny is
a crim or… b)… ?