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mircea_popescu: and i think mixing together securitization of data and of metadata is an epic mistake.
mircea_popescu: tbh it seems to me all the enthusiasm of the darknet people is woefully misdirected.
mircea_popescu: i am strictly interested in keeping secret the messages passed back and forth.
mircea_popescu: i am not at all interested in keeping secret my identity.
mircea_popescu: you can't possibly deliver all those about apples, but keep all those about fish
mircea_popescu: well, if i give you a list of gpg messages encrypted to a bunch of my friend's keys
mircea_popescu: makes all route nodes unable to filter traffic, plain and simple.
mircea_popescu: you want an adressing scheme where the reading of packets depends on the destination's identity.
mircea_popescu: nah, you want an adressing scheme where the routing of packets depends on the destination's identity.
mircea_popescu: pretty secure crypto is like reasonably healthy whore.
mircea_popescu: not even compatible, mind you. pick port 90 and create a wholly and completely different thing.
mircea_popescu: tho an actually secure replacement for the web would be a decent use of bitcoin resources.
mircea_popescu: what business sends over its book just because someone wants to see it ?!
mircea_popescu: the only reasonable answer to this sort of crap being "get fucked"
mircea_popescu: dude srsly ? how is the us legal system still a thing ?
mircea_popescu: ssociated with Tidbit, a list of all websites running Tidbit's code and the name of anybody whose computer mined for Bitcoins through the use of Tidbit, although Tidbit's code was not configured to mine for Bitcoins.
mircea_popescu: But in December, the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs issued a subpoena to Rubin, requesting he turn over Tidbit's past and current source code, as well as other documents and agreements with any third parties. It also issued 27 interrogatories -- formal written questions -- requesting additional documents and ordering Rubin to turn over information like the names and identities of all Bitcoin wallet addresses a
mircea_popescu: they send you a pen, you film yourself fucking the pen and send the thing over
mircea_popescu: someone should just cut the gordian knot already and do SiPexchange.
mircea_popescu: one doesn't preclude the other and now you've jinxed it haven't you
mircea_popescu: im sorry i don't have a handy link to the 1905 study asking the population of manchester if they'd ever fly across the atlantic in a plane.
mircea_popescu: yeah, probably the head of the boss of whatever mob family paid for his position would work better.
mircea_popescu: they keep trying comebacks, but they aren't getting anywhere with them. meanwhile they bleed marketshare on good days, and they get taken out wholesale now and again.
mircea_popescu: in fact, the destruction of the original scumfest (the people gorupped around blf, bitcoinica, mtgox, the foundation) is the best thing that can happen for btc.
mircea_popescu: pLambert this is more of a nominalist thing than anything. bitcoin's long term prospects w/o mtgox are way better than with it.
mircea_popescu: davout even if it only goes down a little through mtgox being taken out of the basket.
mircea_popescu: in fact i still suspect the dwolla thing was a backroom deal between the two to strangle competition.
mircea_popescu: punkman the dwolla thing sunk tradehill, but mtgox was not seriously affected then.
mircea_popescu: punkman it's unclear but it was announced in april 2013.
mircea_popescu: every 80 bux in the price is like a million dollars due to all the magnificent leverage of options.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves srsly, if mtgox closes this month those puts will likely hurt.
mircea_popescu: pLambert anyone who missed all those warnings since april ?
mircea_popescu: "They test the system in the report -- and are, as one might expect, immediately hacked the moment the test computer connects with the Russian network."
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> pankkake: No one will remember Doge then. It will be HerpBuxx. Named after teen singer Derp Heiperp <<
mircea_popescu: pankkake after they get big enough and public enough, no force in the world can keep a corporation alligned to its long term interest.
mircea_popescu: the narrative i heard is more along the lines of "oh, yet another one of the schmucks that spend some time here doing nothing to be able to put google on their cv"
mircea_popescu: i think in googleterms "misspelling" is actually less of a stretch than "obscure language word"
mircea_popescu: that sweet day when a misspelling takes over a) the correct spelling ; b) wikipedia
mircea_popescu: i think we packed enough meta in there to mine at least a dozen blocks.
mircea_popescu: so i gather you're the poster child of the confused generation.