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benkay: argentina has
a very very wealthy group of bitcoiners
TestingUnoDosTre: like I'm not worried about being scammed of 1000 bTC when I just bought it from someone who has
a million btc in holdings
benkay: just think about what i said for
a bit. it's just
a different perspective.
benkay: neat to be told what investing is from
a petro-engineer in training lol
TestingUnoDosTre: you sell them
a 50 BTC flash drive, maybe at
a discount price, and tell them they cant use it for 3 years or something
benkay: TestingUnoDosTre: every day i don't move those coins elsewhere is
a day of risking not having them.
radan: I knew
a guy in Romania who ran
a computer cafe
TestingUnoDosTre: So satoshi has
a whole boat load of 50 BTC addresses. Couldn't he just sell
a flash drive with the private key of one address without crashing bitcoin
benkay: radan if i might offer
a slightly different perspective, you didn't invest in Bitcoin - you bought some bitcoins.
radan: I went to
a public uni
benkay: everything about bitcoin on bitslog is worth at least
a perusal.
TestingUnoDosTre: could he not just sell you
a usb drive with the keys on it, and let you hold onto them
benkay: no guessing allowed. you have
a blockchain and can answer this question for yourself now.
benkay: more of
a scale thing than
a boolean thing, radan.
radan: the fed decides what USD will cost on
a given day, as I understand it
radan: I don't think dogecoin has
a regulatory body
radan: the USD is pegged by
a shadowy consortium of unelected figures
radan: okay, so there's
a cap
TestingUnoDosTre: but I also play around with android phones via xda, and I'm not content with just downloading someone else's kernel or firmware and not really understanding the different between
a stock android
Apocalyptic: I once wrote
a crackme entirely in ASM, was fun
TestingUnoDosTre: I'm mostly interested in playing around with controllers
a la beagleboard
Mats_cd03: that challenge is for the 0.001% of programmers that want to use asm on
a daily basis and probably possess masochistic tendencies
benkay: 's also
a question of what you want to *do* with computers.
TestingUnoDosTre: I've done some programming with C in an assembly course and some embedded C in
a robotics course, but I am mechanical engr by background
benkay: there's about
a light year between hacking on the kernel and using linux, TestingUnoDosTre.
TestingUnoDosTre: Pretty lights also has
a lot of stuff where the lyrics are kind of morphed so you don't pay attention to them quite as much, but some if it's
a little dubsteppy / up tempo
Mats_cd03: anyone here make
a run at any of the matasano crypto challenges?
benkay: dexX7: scp not
a choice for some reason?
dexX7: rephrased: i hate myself for being such
a newb
dexX7: wow i hate bitcoin.. and linux. so i invested quite some time to figure out how to dump
a leveldb database over
a shitty putty console only to realize that the result wasn't what i was looking for <_<"
MisterE: I have
a playlist I tell each one I made just for them
benkay: there is
a babe in my house.
benkay: "It was said that the boat could have been made as good as new by putting on
a new steel bottom, but that apparently Mr. Cochran preferred not to do that."
MisterE: still
a problem as of
a year or so ago
MisterE: US had
a terrible time with it and their new Aluminum hulled boats
Mats_cd03: that song is on
a playlist entitled, 'dongs'
TestingUnoDosTre: one of the antagonists is
a corrupt operating system... can't get much better than that
benkay: you may get
a kick out of LW then. moderately more populated solar system; better understanding of biology etc.
benkay: feeling kinda dated at this point, but i haven't read it in at least
a decade and you might not want to take
a dependency on my notions of things at that age.
benkay: til mircea_popescu is actually
a composite personality of
a bunch of humans educated by some well engineered weak ai
benkay: if your client broke the url, you'll get
a random page.
MisterE: until its not heh. I'd rather be
a cook in the military
Mats_cd03: step 1) sit in
a hot vehicle moving at 5kph waiting for
a bomb to explode
MisterE:
a soldier responsible for tasks such as building and repairing roads and bridges, laying and clearing mines, etc.
Apocalyptic: <Mats_cd03>
a sapper is
a combat engineer << that's what google told me too
MisterE: ahh
a sapper is
a mine clearer
MisterE: who was like walking around SF carrying
a sign that read BUST ME in neon letters
Mats_cd03: and rather suddenly
a rude man in
a shit suit shows up for an interview unannounced
Mats_cd03: logged into
a channel just like this one by accident from home once
MisterE: tor works it's 99.9%
a PEBCAC issue
TestingUnoDosTre: let's just say I don't even want anyone to know I just went into
a search engine and searched for bitcoin
MisterE: well it depends why you are using
a vpn
TestingUnoDosTre: I feel like I'm in
a chicken or the egg scenario. I want to sign up for
a vpn, paying with bitcoin, and linking it to an anonymous email address
benkay: your future wot 'value' is
a function of who's rated you, what #, and how long ago.
mircea_popescu: you could make
a key and baptise it mircea popescu right nao
mircea_popescu: anyway, the point being that whether your name is or is not associated with
a list of txn is not contingent on you typing the name in the gpg key gen process
diametric: I would however pay handsomely for
a buttsex button that worked as advertised.
benkay: consider how you might leverage
a strong WoT identity that you explictly control.
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre this is roughly the equivalent of someone not pushing
a button because it has "buttsex" written on it.
BingoBoingo: TestingUnoDosTre: If you want to get really fancy you can embed
a photo in your public key too.
TestingUnoDosTre: I was thinking that I would much rather have
a higher WoT rating with
a key that did not contain my name and email
MisterE: TestingUnoDosTre: check out how long they've had
a ns registration
TestingUnoDosTre: yah I would feel much more confident in
a face to face situation
benkay: Mats_cd03: you might enjoy
a book /Leviathan Wakes/
benkay: this isn't an internet thing where there's
a great big easy buy button.
TestingUnoDosTre: yes, but couldn't someone just build up
a WoT with small transactions and then run off with
a medium transaction
benkay: one scenario, someone's promising 7%
a month or something crazy.
TestingUnoDosTre: Alright, but here is what I don't understand. Didn't pirateeat40 or whatever his sn was have
a good WoT rating?
gribble: Error: "herp" is not
a valid command.
benkay: the best way to fund
a bitstamp account is with btc :D