asciilifeform: proposing that people who can't remember keys can function in civilization seems like an especially cruel lie
asciilifeform: and everyone seems to be eager to visit
asciilifeform: the 'store btc as service' folks make my brain hurt. it's as if there were suddenly chains of mega-restaurants where they pre-chew food
asciilifeform: how does mountain corp. decide which 'you' is you ?
asciilifeform: maybe i'm thick, but it seems to reduce to a poor version of 'brainwallet' but with a 'priest'
asciilifeform: how do the mountain people decide whom to disgorge a key to?
asciilifeform: the way that a child drawing a stick figure in mud 'begins to make sense', but a drunken hippie taking a shit onto a canvas doesn't
asciilifeform: well i said 'begin to' make sense, rather than 'makes sense'
asciilifeform: but afaik this is not what is happening
asciilifeform: re: the mountain: it would at least begin to make sense if the people involved provided an actual service - say, they hold keys and try to verify that you are the meatbag the key belonged to when you walk into an anal probe chamber
asciilifeform: when do we get a mountain for burial of pgp keys?
asciilifeform: you know, the fellow with the password
asciilifeform: do they also bury the user in the mountain?
asciilifeform: just feels like a mindfuck to wander into, e.g. leningrad hermitage and see... colouring books.
asciilifeform: i'm just trying to wrap my puny brain around the conundrum of why 'havelock' etc. still exist
asciilifeform: phacebook luserbase might pay with anal virginity, but at least they're not spending actual money
asciilifeform: money enters, booze, smokes, etc. come out.
asciilifeform: places where shops get robbed beyond some critical frequency tend to sprout 'chechen'-style kiosks. picture a shipping container, perhaps with a bit of extra armour, with a small hole.
