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mircea_popescu: brianhoffman let me restate it. since shipping precludes practical anonimity, it makes sense to bundle the trust required to maintain pseudonymous identities with the trust required to police transactions, resulting in the following cutting of your mayo : centralized trade with decentralized comm network. which reduces your idea to reimplementing gpg over email.
mircea_popescu: <brianhoffman> mircea_popescu: you are asking about shipping of items across OpenBazaar? << yes.
mircea_popescu: dionyziz well not so much on your ideas whatever they may be, but moreover, how familiar are you with the wot as it works and is implemented currently ?
mircea_popescu: sooo apparently a mpex proxy (mpex.co) got dns hijacked ?
mircea_popescu: yeah. dun worry about it, worry bout something else :)
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla nah dun worry about it. not really a problem.
mircea_popescu: then you declare you're innocent, a week later they let you go because it was a mistake and there you go, two extra points. maybe three.
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 it's simple, have some people friendly in the press over at your hotel, have a policeman come and arrest you and confiscate a huge bundle of flour.
mircea_popescu: so what's your pr lady next move for you ? major drug scandal ?
mircea_popescu: yeah looks like they want to set you up for a heel role.
mircea_popescu: lol and fakekissing the guy ? ok, this was entertaining
mircea_popescu: tsk, pushing up your tits and being all bashful about your hip tattoo ?
mircea_popescu: (reason being that they proly learned english from 70yo little old ladies)
mircea_popescu: btw, dun call people dear in english. it's this 70 year old grandma thing to do, and for some reason all indian camgirls do it.
mircea_popescu: there's a coupla death metal bass players, brothers, by that name
mircea_popescu: was drinking a bottle of Jack Daniel's every night before I went onstage and another bottle while I was playing. That starts catching up with you real quick, and I started going blind in my right eye. So after a nice scare at the doctor's office about four years ago, I stopped."
mircea_popescu: Benton: "Yeah, they're real nice guys. We're in the process of suing them right now — for slander and everything else, dude. They're going around telling people I'm addicted to methamphetamine. You know what? Who hasn't experimented with a few things in their life? Big deal. So what if I experimented? They did, too! But, look, I don't even drink anymore, man. I mean, I'll have a Heineken every once in a while, but I
mircea_popescu: Benton: "It's been the fucking greatest thing in the world. Those two are a couple of idiots, man. I hate Eric and Brian Hoffman more than anything in this world, and I will not rest until I put shit straight with the fans. Up 'til now, everybody thinks I kicked them out of the band, but nobody kicked anybody out. They quit on their own, and I wanna set the record straight in regard to those two fuckin' pricks."
mircea_popescu: Decibel: Has it been weird writing songs without the Hoffman brothers [Eric and Brian, former DEICIDE guitarists]?
mircea_popescu: what if they're live baby rats for a certain brunette chick?
mircea_popescu: how is he supposed to deliver this without getting caught ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, the major stiucking point here being, so you have your openbazaar, and anonderp is selling a box of secret documents or w/e.
mircea_popescu: brianhoffman: i know that Dionysis feels the same way so please don’t be turned off by anything we throw out there as we’re not trying to stomp out others who are smarter on this stuff <<< well the s/use/leverage/g thing you got going is a bit weird.
mircea_popescu: punkman :we don't have timelocks yet << timecocks would be pretty cool too.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: links are fine as long as they aren't videos without tits << hm, thinking about it, that's exacly the rule, isn't it ? observant daniel.
mircea_popescu: which is why the multicentral approach seems to me better.
mircea_popescu: punkman: danielpbarron: we could have 10 gribbles and you could check that counterparty is authed against X of those << i recall discussions about wot bridges in here too. none of it is insurmontable, except, making a p2p wot.
mircea_popescu: brianhoffman: well we are exploring this potentially. admittedly it is a much loftier goal than expected at first. << myeah.
mircea_popescu: "He forks therefore he leads" lol. what do you do bri o wow he left huh
mircea_popescu: "OpenBazaar is an open source project to create a decentralized network for commerce online—using Bitcoin—that has no fees and cannot be censored."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they gotta learn to make better astroturf reddit accts, incidentally.
mircea_popescu: "[–]PWNY_EVEREADY 1 point 8 minutes ago Ahh what a community! A key bitcoin core developer was scamming/ripping off the community he supposedly believes in. Who needs regulation amirite?" i guess we have the new party line, if nothing else.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves "Go ahead, prove me wrong. I want you to." ? whay are we reading derppit again ?
mircea_popescu: or that he wrote the php code for the actual bot on karpeles' exchange or what ?
mircea_popescu: wait. is the thesis that the willy REPORT was authored by mostly garzik
mircea_popescu: so wait, you take the bitches for a swim while the game
mircea_popescu: here's some simple math : if 10 bn people peak oil = year 2064, 100mn people peak oil = year 7014
mircea_popescu: biodiesel is such nonsense anyway. what do you need fuel for if there's not a bunch of derps anymore, going from parking lot to parking lot ?