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mircea_popescu: how the fuck am i going to make gilded business cards then ?
mircea_popescu: "A proper approach to key management. This could be anything from centralized key management as in Apple's iMessage -- which would still be better than nothing -- to a decentralized (but still usable) approach like the one offered by Signal or OTR. Whatever the solution, in order to achieve mass deployment, keys need to be made much more manageable or else submerged from the user altogether."
mircea_popescu: "(Let's not get into the NSA's collect-it-all policy for encrypted messages. If the NSA is your adversary just forget about PGP.)" << best part :D
mircea_popescu: please get me some anti-eyeroll tape i might strain something.
mircea_popescu: "The lack of transparent key management in PGP isn't unfixable. For those who don't trust Google or Yahoo, there are experimental systems like Keybase.io that attempt to tie keys to user identities."
mircea_popescu: by now i can sorta distinguish the noobs from the veterans because the noobs send me gpg blobs with "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;" mixed in, whereas the veterans just neatly paste the pgp in the email body.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: as if you know, plaintext mail isn't end to end encrypted. why not ? i do it all the time.
mircea_popescu: sorry asciilifeform sorry chan. behind on my reading it seems
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it's so lulzy, the crap these people publish. "o i hate pgp, it's too secure, pls to use centrally distributed keys, so much lightyears better"
mircea_popescu: usg_press_machin if you read the logs, you've seen how well this entire "try and force mp into our preconceived headboxes" worked before.
mircea_popescu: i mean i get it, some people can't. which is fine. but don't go around claiming impotence as a virtue.
mircea_popescu: there is definitely something wrong if trying to present that as anything but fucking weird.
mircea_popescu: what's wrong with having sex while not getting an erection ?
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is a normal function of the adult mind, like writing, or like fucking. you're not into these for anything other than you know, being an adult, being alive, doing the things that there are.
mircea_popescu: to quote an old timer, "i have no idea, [you] just wandered in here one day and started talking"
mircea_popescu: bycicling isn;t a functon of people who can't ride bikes either. do you want more people to ride bykes ?
mircea_popescu: i keep forgetting about that and then talking at meanwhile devoiced ppls.
mircea_popescu: you can kill yourself with paracetamol too, doesn't make paracetamol faulty.
mircea_popescu: <usg_press_machin> But from a more practical perspective, some of the tools people use to interact with the blockchain e.g. brain wallets or faulty random number generators are weak points. << how do you figure this has anything to do with ecdsa ?
mircea_popescu: <usg_press_machin> Surely it can't be that easy. << why not ?!
mircea_popescu: usg_press_machin just how often do you check them hits ?
mircea_popescu: usg_press_machin i don't like you enough to pm. and no, not really. you can comment on it once it's done.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is resulting in an article, so. gimme an hour here.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the guy's "business partner" drones all about how "you gotta live in real anarchy". because totally nobody ever did it outside of his dumb american ass, being leeched by some somalis for a few years.
mircea_popescu: that's what teh boys got. how well bitcoin integrates (ie, how well some usg twerps nobody takles seriously have pretended to integrate with their puppet masters. herp.) and how unsovereign it is.
mircea_popescu: ECDSA is imperfect. The hunt for the perfect mining algo is ongoing; Bitcoin’s in particular has proven to be a tremendous waste of electricity, the process little more than an environmentally harmful race to the bottom. The protocol supports a mere 7 transactions per second. Protocol development has been difficult to implement on account of the centralisation of mining power and community inertia. "
mircea_popescu: it's not just preston byrne or this or that derp. it's about a hundred of them by now, and as the old saying goes : the problem with this world is that while smart people are hesitant, government shills are full of words.
mircea_popescu: for easy comparison, argentina legally allows prostitution, but not pimping. this is roughly equivalent to allowing lyft/uber but not the traditional style.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason the traditional "taxi mafia" is prevalent all over the world. that technology may force the government to release its extractive grip of said mafia tho... this is dubious. works for as long as people have the upper tech side, but this pendulum swings.
mircea_popescu: anyway, small, worthless transactions like say a cab ride aren't too adequate for this sort of application because people can't be arsed to bother.
mircea_popescu: so in this sense "stop being stupid and use the b-a model" is about a billion times more effectual than "here's how you could do it theoretically"
mircea_popescu: the reasons it's not well implemented are in no sense scientifical, but purely political, and so the solution isn't going to come from writing it up, but from a willingness to work with others already doing it.
mircea_popescu: anyway. yes, that's the concept, it's not particularly novel or revolutionary, even if everyone from facebook to amazon ratings implements it very very badly.
mircea_popescu: well that's what it is, this reads to me like someone joined b-a and went "you know what ? ima make an altcoin!!1"
mircea_popescu: there's nothing wrong with seeing something you like and trying to understand how it works, or implement it. there is however something wrong with seeing something you like and imagining you invented it. that something is that in exchange for the stroking of vanity, it also isolates you from the exact people you don't really want to be isolated from, id est, those people who actually do the things you like.
mircea_popescu: justusranvier so what is this, basically an awkward rework of the b-a voice model without acknowledging the source and practical use thereof ?
mircea_popescu: i hear great things about that bloomingdale's executives programme.
mircea_popescu: in other news, if anyone was ever curious, i give you horse vices.
mircea_popescu: and yes, it was served on a little stovelet at the table, with embers.
mircea_popescu: theodred that's typically romanian an ending. like -ian for armenians.
mircea_popescu: or else, i could document the best porterhouse steak in the history of porter houses everywhere.
mircea_popescu: BigBitz there's plenty of people in vegas already you know.