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mircea_popescu: my idea was to simply network a bunch of centralised gribbles.
mircea_popescu: nanotube's idea was to re-create the wot as a p2p thing of sorts, and he's been working at it for a while, but hey. it's hard.
mircea_popescu: then bitcoin became more valuable than all of san francisco combined
mircea_popescu: Adlai that's the idea. looky here : gribble/wot was created a few years ago,. when btc was worth nothing and nobody bothered distinguishing between taaki and gavin.
mircea_popescu: and they are teh premier unemployable math grad student cemetery.
mircea_popescu: dude, they're selling themselves as something more than "zack & miri make an agency"
mircea_popescu: i guess most initial combos have about 10ish mn possible representatives.
mircea_popescu: decimation yes but a single watsapp "could buy all of russia".
mircea_popescu: davout: Apocalyptic: RFC 5.2.2 sez a signature packet contains "Eight-octet Key ID of signer" << seriously in shock/denial about this.
mircea_popescu: that's basically the long and the short of it. nsa = national scriptkiddie association. a glorified derp club.
mircea_popescu: that's actually the difference between artist and script kiddie.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck woud be stupid enough to use a protocol for this job ?!
mircea_popescu: "famine is a disaster that opens the door to opportunity : you can swallow knots!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform iirc it's one of those where existence is mandatory but no-one's responsibility. so...
mircea_popescu: decimation i doubt they would meet my definition. things like "every boy under 16 must have 4 acres of forested hillside and a dog"
mircea_popescu: was that the one when they drenched the vaults ? lost ~10 trn worth of old paper ?
mircea_popescu: im pretty sure most landline infrastructure in eastern europe has never been maintained in any sense since at least 1985
mircea_popescu: decimation imo destroying the copper infrastructure is even dumber than destroying the family infrastructure.
mircea_popescu: cazalla i skimmed it. dude's begging you and errything. he's nobody i heard of, prolly some noob.
mircea_popescu: and it's still illegal to fuck with the copper in yurp.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is weird. in romania they keep the end battery on the pole next to you
mircea_popescu: they're really thinking of something that was utopia pre and probably post osmanli.
mircea_popescu: whenever people like taleb think of peace in their homeland,
mircea_popescu: thus accomplishing more than western europe + north america, by a damned sight.
mircea_popescu: it prevented the middle east issues for well over 5 centuries.
mircea_popescu: you're supposed to replace the other one with the key you're looking for
mircea_popescu: w.b-a.link/trust/7C1FBEC924FBD66531A02AE3F95E4E395927DC9C/FC66C0C5D98C42A1D4A98B6B42F9985AFAB953C4/json
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, the notary blockchain stamping mechanism.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can't forge past because you can' register old deeds.
mircea_popescu: what exactly is inheritance if not this, fundamentally, inheriting father's FIRM. ie, signature.
mircea_popescu: <PeterL> I don't suppose people pass keys down to their heirs? << people well might.
mircea_popescu: now, come 3714, it will be clear that uses ulterior to 3211 are null. but it will also be clear that uses prior to say, 3200 will still hold