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mircea_popescu: this just in : mtgox server upgraded with wafflemaker!
mircea_popescu: "gox is trading on fake btc. gox proves this every year."
mircea_popescu: when that happens point ot point internet via wifi will be the workhorse and the mostly useless blockchain satellite will be the extended middle finger.
mircea_popescu: nobody wants a btc node in orbit, until it becomes a matter of land based isp's being assholes.
mircea_popescu: you can significantly improve that result by tgurning them
mircea_popescu: it's a seriously fascinating field, this, "given a 10cm cube, construct the best photovoltaic arrangement"
mircea_popescu: i've seen a buncha stuff trying to emulate fern leaves etc
mircea_popescu: some of the more interesting work in mechanical engineering is resolving the "optimal exposure" problem
mircea_popescu: that's about where it is, entry level sattelite is about 10cmc and about 1 watt.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform depends a lot of what you put on the cube too
mircea_popescu: TomServo for the past year or so he's been running around the margins trying to somehow become cool
mircea_popescu: "i'm a shopper, not a mathematician. this is why i can't use cash"
mircea_popescu: as far as i understand, m-of-n creates the m and n on the same m,achine, then distributes them
mircea_popescu: pankkake that just shows how the french youth has decayed.
mircea_popescu: i recall back in 2012 this site which gave you printed sheets m-of-n, as manty as you wanted
mircea_popescu: people's incentive to steal from you is how much you got, not how nice you are.
mircea_popescu: oleganza "if you are being nice to people" that's the silliest thing i heard all day
mircea_popescu: the no being there mostly for the benefit of the police.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you have to understand when they say no it's maybe.
mircea_popescu: consider the problem in its proper generality, as the byzantine problem.
mircea_popescu: yes, but you are thinking about it in a very narrow manner.
mircea_popescu: oleganza understand, i;m not saying this is bad. i am merely saying that "idiot proofing" is not its selling point.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform perhaps difficult to distinguish the man (who makes his time) from the time.
mircea_popescu: your scheme relies on the idiot comprehending m-of-n, which is a higher bar than comprehending "this is your wallet file, keep it safe"
mircea_popescu: oleganza that the idiot is going to share all the keys with the same friend.
mircea_popescu: you know, the one guy who perhaps could claim the first on that score.
mircea_popescu: personally, i wish caesar were still alive and affecting world affairs.
mircea_popescu: KRS|gotyawallet yes, a new chan was created a pparently, named -pricetalk
mircea_popescu: get out of here, people wished hitler was still alive in 1945
mircea_popescu: from a security viewpoint, however, it does not idiot proof anything.
mircea_popescu: this may offer w/e ui benefits, i can't discuss that in the abstract.
mircea_popescu: that may be, but we were discussing idiot proofing the wallet by a share to friends scheme.
mircea_popescu: this is not something that can be changed by technology.
mircea_popescu: "investing" by unprofessionals is and will remain a major security risk.
mircea_popescu: oleganza so basically you're not solving an actual problem, you're drawing.
mircea_popescu: oleganza idiot sends his pw and his backup to the same frined
mircea_popescu: there still exist unencrypted wallets in the wiold ?!@
mircea_popescu: so basically the moral here is, you can say exactly anything you wish
mircea_popescu: nubbins` basically if i told the guy "fuck you, you uninformed, intellectually lazy piece of scum" in response to his first email
mircea_popescu: oleganza this sounds like making it more idiot vulnerable.
mircea_popescu: you've done your part reclaiming that unfortunate word, ThickAsThieves wouild be proud
mircea_popescu: KRS|gotyawallet there's certainly a market, asciilifeform long wanted a host, i asked namworld for a price like a month ago, still waiting.
mircea_popescu: apparently just-dice is siolid competition for new york.
mircea_popescu: Fifty thousand people signed up online for New Jersey’s gambling sites in the first week. That compares with 741 who signed up for Obamacare during all of October.