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kakobrekla: o yeah, we now have venzen here cause of that post, allegedly a friend of
heysteve.
kakobrekla: so
HeySteve you know this venzen guy ?
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HeySteve for 30 minutes.
venzen: hehe,
HeySteve just dropped off
pankkake:
HeySteve: and in most cases, those things don't even need the funding they ask…
mircea_popescu:
HeySteve lol that korea customs form rules. "please say if you have any magicks kthx"
mircea_popescu:
HeySteve exactly. letting people know about how their lives depend on bitcoin-ability is a charitable deed.
mircea_popescu:
HeySteve it... is. it has been, for a while. hence the serenissima.
mircea_popescu:
HeySteve yes, there is such a science. what do you think we're doing here.
jurov:
HeySteve: #linenumber, when you click in the time, you'll get it
jurov:
HeySteve, in the article, can you link to actual log line?
fluffypony:
HeySteve:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_laws <- I think that alone, which was only repealed in 1986, qualifies as such a severe restriction of freedom that it would not be untoward to say that the abolishment of Apartheid brought freedom to certain groups
fluffypony:
HeySteve: yeah, but celebrating a "freedom day" to commemorate the shifting of governmental power is a tradition all over the world - the 'Murkans have Independence Day, for eg.
jurov:
HeySteve: mining pools do it since forever, no?
fluffypony:
HeySteve: multi-sig is the solution to that problem
mircea_popescu:
HeySteve the list is you know, of bitcoin/personal blogs maintained by the locals
fluffypony:
HeySteve: "6 or 7 terahashes" - so like two ASICs?
mircea_popescu:
HeySteve cheaper than two guys with shotguns to back you up and a new pair of spatz every time some twennysomething spaz tries to be smart.
mircea_popescu:
HeySteve actually a site like that, WebContract or w/e, where you simply put up html forms for people to ul their contracts and you verify them
fluffypony:
HeySteve: the act of signing still requires a modicum of technical ability
danielpbarron: and this really happened; so anyway,
HeySteve had the good idea to get the cash guy to sign a GPG contract specifying his receiving address, before the face-to-face meeting
mircea_popescu:
HeySteve sure, if you find people willing to post videos on themselves on your blog, you may have something.
mircea_popescu:
HeySteve: this place is becoming a real Dragon's Den, I'm thinking of writing something to that effect << by all means. maybe get nubbins to draw us all as pony dragons.
MrWDunne:
HeySteve: For cold wallets we will be using multisig and of course we will have provable deposits.
fluffypony:
HeySteve: you linked to blockchain.info/ru/tags which is russian
fluffypony:
HeySteve: MTN's fibre-to-the-home stuff is coming later this year
fluffypony:
HeySteve: run a bouncer off a VPS or something, then you won't miss anything
fluffypony:
HeySteve: it depends on what electronics...typically for PC components it's just 14% VAT and a release fee (R15 - R30)
mircea_popescu:
HeySteve: "for the amount saved in mass, you may like to add extra avionics to BitSat." << satellite avionics ?
ThickAsThieves:
HeySteve, but note the newer cubes last the least amount of time
mircea_popescu:
HeySteve voice here is a wholly innovative, quite well designed thing. it has exactly nothing in common with "moderation" as used on the interwebs forums
mircea_popescu: <
HeySteve> timestamping doesn't initially seem to add much to a WoT, but I'm starting to think the more data points the easier to spot Sibyls <<< wot has timestamps as it is.
mircea_popescu: <
HeySteve> I'm still stuck on this Sybil thing :) if you identify a puppet troupe, is there a mechanism to neutralise it beyond information-sharing? << no, by definition.
mircea_popescu: <
HeySteve> a possible solution is moderation << doesn't work for bitcointalk.
fluffypony:
HeySteve: aka bitcointalk's "default trust" nonsense
fluffypony:
HeySteve: then you end up with a "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" problem
davout:
HeySteve: there is no "person who can't do that", there are lazy people
Apocalyptic: "we do everything possible to make Lavaboom easy to use while keeping the service as secure as possible."
HeySteve, you can't have it both ways
mircea_popescu: o hey look at that, sorta dott.
HeySteve is it released ?
mircea_popescu: <
HeySteve> well, in terms of WoT there is a time cost to registration with gribble << more like an intellectual cost. this is good, because idiots don't manage to figure out how to do it, which serves us and them.
mircea_popescu:
HeySteve it applies to the problem of putting a cost on the user.
mircea_popescu:
HeySteve understand tho : this is not quite unlike solid state physics, or radioastronomy.
mircea_popescu:
HeySteve this counterintuitively makes your system weaker.
mircea_popescu:
HeySteve so like a sort of a db backup maintained distributedly ?
mircea_popescu:
HeySteve i don't follow ? the wot is integrated with any cryptocurrency as it is. i can and have rated people for say... atc deals.
mircea_popescu:
HeySteve: I was a seller there, it's unfortunate there's no way to migrate feedback from shuttered markets... << which is why wot.
fluffypony:
HeySteve: when the wind blows or it rains our connection goes down, welcome to Africa
fluffypony:
HeySteve: oh new CNAME, may not have propogated yet
mircea_popescu:
HeySteve don't get me wrong, i'm not laying into you personally or anything
mircea_popescu:
HeySteve i tell you i dun see it. i estimate it to be worth in the 90-190 btc range. now what ?
fluffypony:
HeySteve: you'd have to ask nanotube for details, but with the vested interest from all parties in the WoT it isn't going anywhere
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fluffypony:
HeySteve: so mention at the outset of the article that the quotes may be unsubstantiated because of reasons mentioned above?
fluffypony:
HeySteve: it depends - if you're trading with them then they generally have to auth; whilst you can check with nickserv if they have enforce on and are identified Freenode have said that it's possible NS passwords were leaked coz of heartbleed
jurov:
HeySteve: look no futher that to ThickAsThieves here
mircea_popescu:
HeySteve: hmm, I should lay out my garden with hedges and such in the form of my GPU << then you could dress as an electron and run around there to mine.
BingoBoingo:
HeySteve: Honestly the biggest plus of bitcoin is that it compels WoT
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fluffypony: ;;rate
HeySteve 2 ~$500 ZAR interbank (EFT) transfer for my BTC/LTC, smooth like pineapple juice
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minersdidit:
HeySteve why do you prefer south africa anyway
minersdidit:
heysteve you are confused pal. the chinese yuan is defacto linked to the US dollar and the US bond market