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mircea_popescu: gentoo decided
they'll let bitcoin in
there as a luke
thing.
thickasthieves: this
turned into a whole fud in
the
trader chat,
theyre all FINCEN WANTZ BLACKLISTSZ!
bounce: it's a curious discussion. he gets
to patch
the gentoo bitcoind because he's a core dev? why isn't
that patch in mainline
then?
thickasthieves: i can appreciate luke-jr excercising his own voting/filtering rights
though
RagnarDanneskjol: speaking of: 01:00 <#bitcoin-dev> petertoddgwillen: haha, yeah
they do - mircea popescu had me buy him SomethingAwful passes with my credit card a few
times so he could
troll
there
thickasthieves: i know bingo mentioned it used luke's patches, but i didnt know
the patches has blacklists
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mircea_popescu: they go
to
the pink sheets,
to live as one of a few well specified chumpatron models
decimation: lol dogecoin volume has suddenly doubled on cryptsy
the past few weeks
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mircea_popescu: generally,
the proposition
that you'll "go
to heaven"
through a certain recipe is doomed
to create monsters
decimation: modern Methodism has degenerated into becoming fairly indistinct from
the "liberal religion"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: if capsule floats a microphone near
the
thermocline (naturally, by a wire
too
thin
to be lifted by) can 'pop' from 1000+km. << unless someone/thing
tried
to lift it prior
pete_dushenski: i guess i shoulda written "maybe you can start a branch of judaism
too!"
pete_dushenski: "Methodism is like Mormonism in
that it follows
the life and
teachings of a recently living man. Methodism follows Britain John Wesley (1703–1791) and Mormonism follows American Joseph Smith (1805–1844). Maybe you can start a branch of Christianity
too!"
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pete_dushenski: i
think i just mentioned
that in a footnote recently...
pete_dushenski: decimation:
they both had found
the
teachings of one particular man
to be worth branching off for
decimation: I guess one could make an argument, given
the *
cazalla: it's not good,
the only
thing
that stood out was
the guy
turned from enthusiastic
to gutted, you can't miss it
thickasthieves: i havent even
taken
the
time
to read 1 reddit post on
the movie
cazalla: dunno, i only skipped
through looking for good parts
cazalla: he shows his kid a bitcoin difficulty chart and says look at all
the people mining,
these bfls are shit so im selling em
mircea_popescu: "As he packs up his BFL units
to sell, he explains
to his son
that he
threw away his bitcoins and
their future because he is stupid and ignored MPOE-PR's posts on Bitcoin
Talk. Despite all of
this, Dan continues
to wear his Butterfly Labs
t-shirt
till
the end of
the film, as if it is a remnant, a small piece of a future he will not enjoy."
mircea_popescu: this'd be a decent idea for an oglaf strip : a retarded indian
that doesn't quite grok
the entire scalping business so he's going around with a string of pubic hair patches
decimation: it will be interesting
to see if
this bottom holds
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decimation: I saw
the "H1" clock at
the Greenwich observatory, it was a fancy machine
decimation: presumably
the closer one can get,
the more alternative retrieval methods become feasible
decimation: asciilifeform: hehe well certainly one would have
to calculate 'how close' one must be in order
to effectively
trigger release
decimation: nope, it would
take a few $1,000 in ovenized crystal oscillators and/or rubidium (rubidium clocks have a finite lifetime
though)
thestringpuller: i remember
there was a large bounty for
the chronometer during it's inception
thestringpuller: was electomagnetism widely discovered at
the point
the chronometer came about?
decimation: asciilifeform: indeed,
the first step for someone considering 'off-the-grid' navigation would be
to find a way
to keep
the 'fire' of accurate
time burning without external aid
thestringpuller: you know
time in relation
to your current position but not in relation
to
the mainland.
thestringpuller: well you didn't have a "torch" of
time when you left
the mainland...at some point watches didn't exist.
decimation: even in
those old days
they could reconstruct 'time' from solar observations & so forth, just
took awhile
to do so
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: it's funny how a quartz watch does what a very expensive device did during
the 1700's.
thestringpuller: decimation:
this is why it was so difficult
to
tell
time in
the sea during
the old days.
decimation: stellar navigation is generally only as good as your
time source
thestringpuller: but
the problem asciilifeform has described makes for more effort of retrieval in
the former scenario.
thestringpuller: i understand. my imagination likes
to run wild. I was
thinking of
trusting a >$100k fortune in BTC
to a paper wallet via
treasure hiding, vs.
the so-called "secure" hardware wallets
decimation: thestringpuller: I
think
the engineering is feasible, but it certainly wouldn't be cheap. As ascii emphasized in
that
thread,
this is for items worth >$100k 'hiding'
thestringpuller: but i don't
think many devices could withstand
the entire
trip
thestringpuller: this also intrigued me about dropping a message in a bottle down
the marianas
trench...
thestringpuller: the
titanic hid all but lost
treasures for nearly a century...
thestringpuller: well i guess
then
treasure hunters shall find it in future if you bite
the bullet before retrieval.
thestringpuller: modern
treasure hiding. i guess in international waters you have
to worry about pirates?
assbot: Logged on 30-08-2014 20:46:17; asciilifeform: but, as every
treatise on
the subject invariably begins with, first
try
to understand what is
to be hidden - and from whom
thestringpuller: looks like nothing is as secure as a good 'ol paper wallet buried like old school
treasure.
thestringpuller: lol. sounds like a mole. "trust our wallet". vendor uses backdoor
to steal all
the consumer funds.
mircea_popescu: the construction "isn't limited
to simply Bitcoin, but also Litecoin, Ripple and Dogecoin" is broken in
that it expands
to "isn't limited
to X, it's limited
to X Y Z and K"
thestringpuller: yea so when one of
these
things gets hacked is it an immediate game over?
cazalla: thestringpuller, 924 views for 11 articles, my only concern with
this plug in is it might be
tracking BingoBoingo and my own use of
the site
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: what happens when one of
these "secure" wallets gets exploited?
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