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fluffypony:
a bit of search and replace, change
a couple of constants, and then the genesis block
fluffypony: "writing"
a coin doesn't involve much effort
moiety: i kind of need to figure out
a house before i play with this
moiety: aw i wish this was
a thing
mircea_popescu: getting all the newspapers in
a lifetime doesn't take an aggregate of 5 years.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ideally, esp in patagonia (or mongolia) we could have
a specially trained pack of hunting women.
ozbot:
A complete theory of economics pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i know. i think it's
a neat idea. if i ever make
a tech park, that's how i'll run it.
Dimsler: lol that was
a good episode
mircea_popescu: GEORGE: (Still with
a tone) He is. You don’t know what I’m doin’ here.
kakobrekla: well, not to go into full detail, but my previous email did include: > I am
a member of local cheese making club, I am interested in free cake and no taxes.
kakobrekla: > You are
a rude bastard. No wonder I smelt
a rat. If Your attitude is an example of your support You will not have many happy customers. Glad I emailed you. Saved me
a lot of trouble.
☟︎ Naphex: now i know where all the bad looks come from, ever since i bought
a new car
mircea_popescu: anecdotes are worth about five satoshi each. get
a million, maybe it matters.
Dimsler: like you can make claims if its
a scam or not if you plan on settling up in btc
Dimsler: well i mean who cares if its
a scam or not
mircea_popescu: Dimsler i have people following me on twitter that still derp about how it's
a scam or w/e.
mircea_popescu: it's like 2.5
a liter, which comes to about 10
a gallon
jurov: here's $2.5
a liter, and it's one of most expansive
Naphex: Owner? - sounds like SS did
a bad job;]
Apocalyptic: <mircea_popescu> you're
a very ux minded fellow aren't you. // I concur
Naphex: but if you get
a shitty response, or at mitm'd something should be displayed
mircea_popescu: i couldn't need
a dns less : you know where to send funds becasuse yu get
a gpg signed deposit slip.
Naphex: and the datavalidates, it can easily show green on
a client
fluffypony: pankkake is "Popescu's co-troll"? I didn't know it was
a shared position
cazalla: VanCleef: yeah, we have
a reputation for that :\
Naphex: creating
a dns alias would go like this 1.get your server's pub ksk, 2. sign message of domain dnssec-ksk, 3. add record containing issuer
punkman: mircea_popescu: just selling other people's stuff, using
a lot of these marketplaces and networks and whatnot
Naphex: so here is
a working version of what i talked about earlier
punkman: mircea_popescu: how would that btc clickbank you mentioned work? surely not
a marketplace for crappy infoproducts
mircea_popescu: anyway,
a p2p cryptographically secure wot is
a good project for someone competent an' ambitious. good way to get on my wot list at any rate.
jurov: nanotube, why you can't for now just add
a column to the database and
a way to put signature(rating,message) there?
mircea_popescu: jurov afaik he has been working (for the past two years) towards
a distributed system
mircea_popescu: jurov for me, that nanotube i trust. in general, that there exist no documented cases of
a hijack.
mircea_popescu: cazalla no i was just looking for someone with
a lot of aff marketing exp.
mircea_popescu: cazalla btw, weren't you doing affiliate marketing for
a living ?
mircea_popescu: gpg is
a gnu implementation of pgp, which is the original public key cryptoi system
mircea_popescu: i honestly believe that from here to bitcoin being 50mn
a piece, this channel will not nor needs not over 1k people active.
mircea_popescu: i mean it's not like the problem doesn't have
a perfect solution alreayd.
fluffypony: so everything is open to interception and breakage, to
a greater or lesser degree
mircea_popescu: on one hand, having
a third party involved in any bitcoin transaction, in any way, is breaking the protocol. on the other hand, the pki/dns infrastructure is beyond rotten. tying it into any sort of live project is like taking
a spleen off
a rotting cadaver and putting it into someone's gut.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: looks like it comes up every year and nobody runs with it << because it's
a fucking stupid idea.
mircea_popescu: same principle. don't use
a public service of
a large provider that has the power to survive you in the market.
BohemianHacks: You are asking for
a computation on
a subjective matter, good luck getting real numbers.
mircea_popescu: Naphex: you could just use google pub dns servers, and place some trust on them, they support dnssec << myeah. some people learned the hard way why not trust linode. it cost them 40k btc or so, linode offered
a half-apology and $50 in vouchers.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell numeristrade you ever considered starting
a blog ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: except it wasn't the dude that started/owned Dragon's Tale << that was
a riot. tepi's face lol.
punkman: like NeoBee "felt" it was
a good idea to "invest" in excessive advertising
punkman: Buying tons of lotto tickets is dumb, but it IS investing. <- it "feels" like investing to
a lot of people, it's all about "feelings"
BohemianHacks: meh, this is
a waste of time. I get you are trying to prove
a point about safe investing, but thats the definition of the word. Buying tons of lotto tickets is dumb, but it IS investing.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to continue the saga of the poor word "invest" : originally, it denoted the act of comitting your army to
a siege. which was, expensive and dangerous
a proceeding.
BohemianHacks: "expend money with the expectation of achieving
a profit or material result by putting it into financial schemes, shares, or property, or by using it to develop
a commercial venture."
BohemianHacks: the dictionary dude, we have these things for
a reason
mircea_popescu: now, lotteries fail on b. and if you're not aware of this, it fails on
a.
mircea_popescu: BohemianHacks you can't, for the following reason : in order for something t obe an investment, it requires two things.
a) that you've done research and b) that the research indicates +EV.
BohemianHacks: "expend money with the expectation of achieving
a profit or material result by putting it into financial schemes, shares, or property, or by using it to develop
a commercial venture."
mircea_popescu: this poor word invest. it happens to be
a term of art in finance, of course, but it's been (recently, since the internet) been coopted as
a colloquialism
BohemianHacks: no, you are investing your coin in the hope to get
a return
BohemianHacks:
a quick google puts them in the same group, so its not like that is wildly off base
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: that makes me
a sad panda << you can take solace in the knowledge that the thing is complete bs.
mircea_popescu: you could have
a million acres dedicated to this, like
a sort of modern silicon valley / smarts farm. each accepted person gets his own line.
mircea_popescu: there's probably
a yurting period one could observe over the duration of his life, if he had the freedom do live in
a manner adequate to his own manner.
mircea_popescu: when full, build
a new one
a little off, carry whatever pieces of the old one you wish.
mircea_popescu: i suspect this would be the ideal living arrangement for the true hardware engineer : much like
a silkworm's. built
a yurt roughly 10 body lengths in diameter, fill it with material slower.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: decimation: no oven. space constraints. perhaps in new flat. << you know stan, i hear 500 bucks buys one quite
a few acres of open land in patagonia. and since it never rains... don't even really need
a roof.
mircea_popescu: (this is
a joke. based on "urbi et orbi", literally "to the town and to the globe")
fluffypony: cut-and-paste from
a Romanian phrasebook
fluffypony: oh wait nm, they don't actually have
a product
fluffypony: for only
a few SafeCoins (tm)
a day (tm)
Naphex: i'll build up
a service and see if we can poke holes in it, dnssec sign each zone, and reverse/point fowards for the addresses
Naphex: i might set up
a play service this weekend
fluffypony: ok but for the sake of simplicity
a person in control of their DNS records can just add
a TXT record for themselves with their BTC addy + signature, right?
Naphex: aye, or anyone just
a lookup function
fluffypony: that could work for merchants too if it's
a BIP71 compatible URI
fluffypony: dude you should seriously put this up as
a BIP for discussion
fluffypony: so the only way to do it as
a standard
fluffypony: they have
a financially viable reason to spew out bad records
fluffypony: if
a malicious person runs
a DNS server