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mircea_popescu: the mothership probably needs a different solution. this is what the xwingers use while in flight
mircea_popescu: nah, it's supposed to be the unbreakable instagpg item.
mircea_popescu: anyway. that sort of thing isn't the usecase here, not really. a classic pc implementation works much better.
mircea_popescu: which he figures they might think it's a little strange.
mircea_popescu: well i can't find it. somewhere phil zimmermann was saying that people still send him pgp encrypted email but he long since doesn't have the key so he usually responds to ask ppl to send it plainly
mircea_popescu: it's ideal usecase is not this, post pubkey on your blog, 20 years later still get encrypted email to that key (you've long lost)
mircea_popescu: well, see, the cardano is principally to be used with people you are in contact with.
mircea_popescu: if we ever end up selling these by the 10's of ks then an asic run becomes more reasonable and it probably will present a muchly different picture
mircea_popescu: so iot's a game of well what can we fit of what we need to have
mircea_popescu: maybe. the one constraint in there, you have to appreciate, is that since we're not doing asics for this,
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mircea_popescu: which suggests a great line to me : whenever someone wants to featurecreep me, i shall go "we're doing a cardan joint not a thomson coupling here"
mircea_popescu: just about. decentralised trust is about as clever as decentralised cunt.
mircea_popescu: moreover, you will have a sensible delay in all trades. what's better, one day a year of no trading or half hour lost to settle each individual trade ?
mircea_popescu: they;'re a useful tool in some contexts, but you still need to have an escrow agent
mircea_popescu: multi-sig txs are not a solution to the escrow problem really.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you can, but you have an escrow problem each time you do.
mircea_popescu: which reduces to a slightly braindamaged reimplementation of mpex.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` here's the thing : if you do it with addresses you don't really need the blockchain, might as well do it to gpg signatures.
mircea_popescu: because the handkling of fixed addresses is poorly understood because, again, idiots.
mircea_popescu: in the sense that old coinbase are worth that many btcdays
mircea_popescu: According to Pileggi, Scorsese cold-called the writer and told him, "I've been waiting for this book my entire life." To which Pileggi replied "I've been waiting for this phone call my entire life".
mircea_popescu: interestingly, the chick is actually french and she doesn't speak romanian. learned it phonetically.
mircea_popescu: english is so banal. i can only imagine what that'd have sounded like in romanian.
mircea_popescu: i think it's pretty much useful as a way to write for smartphones, but it does run in linux.
mircea_popescu: Arvixe (hosting) Openly and respectfully state that while they dont permit a TOR exit on shared hosting accounts, you are very welcome to run one on a VPS account.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform don't you find that amazon love quite damning ?
mircea_popescu: and i gave clear orders no futher bets to be accepted!!1 the entire system is breaking down!
mircea_popescu: pankkake : did you read the "At the end of this procedure, the working slate will have been re-formatted, and will appear empty - as Cardano no longer possesses the old block-cipher key." part ?
mircea_popescu: because this isn't a cool thing, this is a useful thing.
mircea_popescu: this is how the thing is intended to work. there aren't and won't be unrelated cases glued on because people think they're cool.
mircea_popescu: the definitive protection to this is a) don't lose physical control of the stick and b) destroy the slate.