Quick question about the payment surveillance networks. When I pay by credit and debit card, the issuer of course knows where I paid - in many cases even the location. But the question is - in the payment protocols (not only visa/mc, but apple pay, Google pay), is the name or other information communicated to the merchant? Either during the payment or later during settlement?
Of course when I pay online, the name of cardholder is usually a mandatory field, but what if I pay for parking for example in person, or a restaurant, ...
I don't know, probably possible. If it's smart, I don't know. The team that's been working on it full time for years has to be paid.
I don't even know if it's that great, I'm just telling you what they have right now.
I remember a story by the author of the original coin that became Monero. He said that Monero is proud to have a fair launch and he replied that fair launch is super easy when you take someone else's months of work, change the name of the coin, release schedule (probably one day worth of work) and post it on GitHub.
I'm not that strict with Bitcoin only and launches, I think open market for discovering what is fair and how to do these things is great. I think Ethereum was too much, but the market seems to be ok with it, it's very successful, people are actually paying fees and even holding, because they find it useful.
I personally did not see any moral contradictions, so I can't say if overlooking is worth it, because I don't have to overlook anything.
If you had trouble with his morality, forgiving is almost always a good idea.
Plus this has been recorded quite some time ago and I didn't even notice it was Breedlove to be honest, I don't know him that much, I played it because there was nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt in it and because of the topic.
I didnt realilze there was no token. Someone told me darkfi was based on ETH (Vlad I think). I'm doing something on layer 2 of bitcoin called glyphs which is a fork or Runes, but without the inscriptions. I think it will go quite well, and requires no new token because it's built on bitcoin.
https://github.com/glyph-protocol/glyphs/blob/main/README.md
I worked with Amir on a social network called Lorea before bitcoin, but Pablo and Amir left, and it never quite made it. But I didnt give up trying to build a social network on top of bitcoin, and helped make nostr 7 years later.
There probably will be a base token when they launch, but they've been focusing on building the primitives, not the token. The mainnet is not launched yet, but you can use the language, proofs and verifiers and of course all the infrastructure for developers. They have built for example anonymous voting infrastructure (AnonDAO).
It has nothing to do with Eth, Vlad is mistaken in this, they are not compatible with Eth, don't have a token on Eth nor use any infrastructure. They build it on utxo not account model.
I am not sure how successful it is going to be, but I'm glad that they are actually building some very interesting stuff that did not exist before at all, they did not do any kind of scam raising of money or anything.
Let's overload nostr:nprofile1qqsy6j4hxl30hdd0pl2epd9harr0uakn5q4f0y000ldv7cqlneg04kqpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucmewp5x2unsw4hxktn5dajxz7f09lw4c7 with submissions, so he has to release a new cassette every month!
Check out the digital version and let's make this ultra cool.
Yes, we organize the program of HCPP together, which is probably the only cypherpunk/ cryptoanarchy conference left.
I am a co-founder of Paralelni Polis Prague and Bratislava, but few people know it actually has its roots in Progressbar in Bratislava.
BTW: His project does not have any monetary policy, they did not launch a token, now it is more of a zero knowledge compiler and infrastructure. Plus a lot of infrastructure for anonymous development and coordination. And they are behind the Lunarpunk philosophy which I perceive as the natural continuation of Cypherpunk.
We lived in the same city for a while (Bratislava). He was an author of an independent implementation of Bitcoin back then (libbitcoin). One day we met in the hackerspace (Progressbar) and he drew a giant tree with many branches and said "I am going to teach you everything there is to know about bitcoin". And we went down every branch. Opcodes, mining, P2P, ...
It was back at the time when Bitcoin was much simpler and it was really possible.
Amir is amazing.
very unlikely unless you are trying to pirate software.
it is not unthinkable to use a vulnerability of media players and hide trojans in video files, but they would be fixed very quickly if it's a public torrent, if they are zero days they are usually used in a more targeted matter in order to keep the value.
of course keeping your media players up to date is essential.
From the bird app by Amir Taaki:
"How to basically get any media (movie, series, anime) for free:
1. install qbittorrent
2. view -> search engine
3. click "Search plugins..." on newly appeared Search tab
4. click "Check for updates"
5. click Close
6. search whatever you want. Make sure you order by Seeders
7. BONUS: use "download in sequential order" (when downloading new, or from right click menu) to stream your movie and play it in VLC or MPV
cypherpunks don't use 'streaming services', they use torrents."
is it in nutshell or some other mint?
I've tried looking, admittedly briefly.
Does anyone know how the stablesats (usd denominated) Cashu mints stabilize the value? Do they hedge on a centralized exchange? Is there a public code for these stable mints, can we run them or is the code proprietary for folks like Boardwalkcash and umint?
I know how it *can* work, I am interested in specific real-world implementations today and if I can run such a mint myself.
Yes. And each day of the year, there is some reason to celebrate. Bring back the good times of never meeting anyone.
Meetings are a capitalist invention anyway.
Your sarcasm detector is broken
Your sarcasm detector is broken
Yes! Bring back the gulag and no one will complain about the roads, ever!
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It is opt-in, everyone has signed the social contract in the womb. Otherwise they would not get visa to enter the country and would have to stay in forever.