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nubbins`: this buyer was
the only person so far who
took me up on
the offer
to extend
the pgp chain of custody
ThickAsThieves: maybe have
the guy photograph it before opening
the package
nubbins`: at least
the month and a half of panicking is over. guy paid 6btc for
the coin inside, via escrow
nubbins`: re: package, my guess is
the express shipping label somehow got ripped off
nubbins`: ThickAsThieves,
that's pretty striking
nubbins`: 19 days
to cross canada is nuts :0
nubbins`: i've never had anything
take so long -- wondering what shape
the package will be in when it arrives
cazalla: with standard shipping, i usually get amazon orders
to here in around 2 weeks
cazalla: that's quite a long
time nubbins`
ozbot: Norway will cut
through an island in
tribute
to massacre victims |
The Verge
nubbins`: so i sent a coin
to australia on january 14. it
took nineteen days
to get from here
to vancouver, and finally arrived in australia
today
nubbins`: first shoulder
trimmed and cubed
mircea_popescu: i gotta stop reading on
this
topic jesus god
they're offensive.
mircea_popescu: SG: It has not been received well, many people are
telling me
to “leave Satoshi alone”. But when one starts having a huge impact on
the world, one loses his right
to anonymity.
mircea_popescu: TC: How has your digging gone over in
the BTC community? It seems like an unpopular
topic at best.
mircea_popescu: an attempt
to make financial
transactions easier
to mine for interesting data patterns: we need
to clear
that up before we start relying heavily on Bitcoin in our lives.
mircea_popescu: SG: I
think it’s very important
to identify Satoshi at
this point in Bitcoin’s history.
The “agenda” behind Bitcoin, if
there is any, cannot stay in
the shadow if Bitcoin is
to become a mainstream alternative currency, a challenge
to
the world’s monetary status quo.
There has been speculation
that Bitcoin may have been created by a government agency (the main employers of cryptographers of mathematicians) in
mircea_popescu: pLambert i was merely commenting on
the people held up for
the role by
the media so far.
pLambert: do we know
that Satoshi is a male?
chetty: well all
the Satochies could get
together and have a party
chetty: Crimea's parliament voted
to join Russia on
Thursday and its Moscow-backed government set a referendum within 10 days
jurov: it was supposed
to be at 30th,
then at 16th
jurov: chetty what,
they finally moved
the refendum
to yesterday?
chetty: Crimea votes
to join Russia
mircea_popescu: there are also
two individuals legally named satoshi nakamoto, one presenting himself as satoshi,
the other being presented by newsweek as satoshi
mircea_popescu: actually
this is pretty funny :
The New Yorker's satoshi is Michael Clear ; Fast Company's satoshi is (Neal King, Vladimir Oksman and Charles Bry). Business Insider's satoshi is Nick Szabo.
MisterE: it's going
to be huge cash when it sweeps america next 10-years
mircea_popescu: putin could get
the physics nobel for his crimeea contgributions
chetty: but
then he and O could make a club or sumthin
pigeons: omg, my husbandhas bad grammar
too, just like satoshi nakamoto
MisterE: it seems I come across double spacing less often now
though, maybe just me
mircea_popescu: like you know... i don't
think you can find someone doing
that in
the vc circus if your life depended on it
MisterE: well
this side of
the pond
pigeons: i
thought everyone did
that
pigeons: and
two spaces after periods
mircea_popescu: i guess
that one had
the disadvantage
that
the entire nonsense needed plane
tickets, and newsweek wouldn't spring
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually
there's already a dude claiming he's it
mircea_popescu: or whatever, fighting economic unequality and promoting
the virtues of an unspecified, bug ridden codebase and
the halfwits
that nursed it
to
this day
mircea_popescu: about fifty different ways
to go about it, all
taking five minutes.
mircea_popescu: or whatever, send 1 bitcent from
the genesis block
to 1newsweak98759843
dexX7: ah and in contrast one would simply sign some genesis coins and
that's it
☟︎ mircea_popescu: roughly equivalent
to some kid
trying
to resolve his upset at bitbet by "getting votes"
mircea_popescu: dexX7 yes. identity established not
through
the mechanism it is predicated upon, but
through "the agreement" of "the people", specifically
those who are
too stupid
to even understand what's being discussed.
mircea_popescu: "if you feel like your
time is up... don't... do anything... call
the... "
mircea_popescu: "if
there's a robbery don't do anything, call
the robbery people"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "if
there's a fire, don't do anything, call
the fire people"
mircea_popescu: but why ? if
the cattle harakiri'd randomly wed have all
these stale carcasses all over.
MisterE: farming has got
to go hydro and less land intensive
MisterE: why mircea_popescu say Ukraine is not productive and
that article says its where .ch wants
to buy its land becouse produces a lot of wheat?
nubbins`: i just bought
thirty-seven pounds of pork shoulder
antephialtic: mircea_popescu: do you
think
the article was an invasion of privacy?
dexX7: "I'm disappointed Newsweek decided
to dox
the Nakamoto family, and regret
talking
to Leah."
mircea_popescu: china i suppose is making some moves
towards relevancy, but i know jack shit about china
mircea_popescu: pretty much
the only places with actual government are white majority population.
nubbins`: federal fisheries minister
to angry mob: "i didn't
take
the fish out of
the goddamn water"