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Peter Todd
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I wish my SSDs made sounds.

Note that the three months figure assumes a timestamp tx every 8 hours, approximately.

If people want that to improve, let me know and I can speed things up if people are willing to donate more. Depending on your threat model, faster timestamps are useful, even up to the limit of once a block. Of course, once a block is gonna cost a fair bit... 😂

Right now I have about three months of tx funds left. I'm also working towards getting funding for the server hosting costs, and should have that sorted in another month or so.

I pretty much always wear Merrel Trail Gloves. I've bought literally a dozen pairs of them over the years.

Yes! Rice agriculture emits a large % of all methane emissions and it's basically never mentioned.

I'm amazed that the CBC published this: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5037019?s=09

Makes sense.

Fog nets are a good and legit technology. But they only work in very specific circumstances: fog. Very few places have that kind of weather.

Basically the shortcut they're using is that the water is already in liquid form; fog is made of tiny droplets of liquid water. The net is just there to collect that liquid.

In the much more common circumstance when the water has evaporated into gaseous form, the only way you can turn it back into a liquid is by extracting enough heat from the gaseous water to condense it. That will always take a lot of energy.

“SOURCE® Hydropanels™ make "impossible" a reality.”

Every air conditioner and dehumidifier on this planet extracts water from the air. This product is no different and isn't going to do any better than an air conditioner in most climates. Fundamentally to get gaseous water out of air you have to cool it down to the dew point, which uses a lot of energy. There is no way to avoid that.

Scam.

I'll say it right now: OpenTimestamps could absolutely work with something unlike Bitcoin underneath. Hell, trusted time-stamping with it (specifically with one-time-use disposable keys) is on my to-do list. And widely-witnessed time-stamping has already been implemented.

Single use seals also could be implemented in a variety of ways. That's the whole point of coming up with the idea: to separate the cryptographical primitive from the implementation.

Exactly. The PO purpose of single use seals is to create a framework for generalizing the idea, as well as scaling single use seals.

Complaining about that is like complaining that OpenTimestamps is useless because you always could timestamp data with Bitcoin.

A perfectly ordinary inset sidewalk light. :)