Re: Satoshi's Trump Card

On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 8:08 PM, juan wrote: >> > official story is that 'some' of the keys from early blocks >> > are 'lost' but who knows if that's true... Depends on who the "official" is and what proof they have. >>Shoot, what about Mt Gox, the value of those

Re: Satoshi's Trump Card

On Sat, 01 Jul 2017 22:38:44 + "J.R. Jones" wrote: > On Sat, Jul 1, 2017, 17:03 juan wrote: > > > On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:15:59 -0400 > > grarpamp wrote: > > > > > Satoshi is estimated to have at least 1M BTC to leverage at > >

Re: GPG: Deprecated hash + local "game over" exploit

On 07/01/2017 03:17 PM, Steve Kinney wrote: > Last time I checked, this bug was dismissed by Debian as a non-issue, > saying that exploiting it would require physical access to the machine > and "physical access is game over." That's an excuse to leave the bug > in place, not a reason. I am sure

Re: Satoshi's Trump Card

On Sat, Jul 1, 2017, 17:03 juan wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:15:59 -0400 > grarpamp wrote: > > > Satoshi is estimated to have at least 1M BTC to leverage at > > will, > > official story is that 'some' of the keys from early blocks are >

Re: [Cryptography] Satoshi's Trump Card

> This is going to be the greatest wealth transfer in history, > from each, according to hir gullibility, to each, according to > hir ability to understand crypto and control market demand. Part of the crypto revolution... and what crypto-anarchist would not love to lure and transfer gullible

Re: Satoshi's Trump Card

On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:15:59 -0400 grarpamp wrote: > Satoshi is estimated to have at least 1M BTC to leverage at > will, official story is that 'some' of the keys from early blocks are 'lost' but who knows if that's true...

Re: Satoshi's Trump Card

On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 16:26:04 -0400 grarpamp wrote: > On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Kurt Buff > wrote: > > https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-ohagan/the-satoshi-affair > > "The full text of this essay is only available to subscribers of the > London

Re: Satoshi's Trump Card

On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-ohagan/the-satoshi-affair "The full text of this essay is only available to subscribers of the London Review of Books." Needs liberated by punks using the schwartz...

GPG: Deprecated hash + local "game over" exploit

Greetings, A couple of days ago Shawn pointed out offlist that my GPG installation was using SHA1 when signing messages. Although seven hash functions are included in GnuPG 1.4.16, SHA1 is still the default. For most purposes this is no cause for panic, but it's "untidy" at best and might

Re: Satoshi's Trump Card

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 12:15 PM, grarpamp wrote: > Satoshi is estimated to have at least 1M BTC to leverage at > will, anon, with zfg. Any disagreeable fork can be tranflooded > back to self and even whaled around for years to come. > With agreeable things endorsed and

Re: [Cryptography] Satoshi's Trump Card

On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 05:36:05AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > > As before, rich activsts will have two chains to play in... > > Analyses link to show potential exist of plural actors... > https://btc.com/stats/rich-list This is going to be the greatest wealth transfer in history, from each,

segwit2x and the end of the known BTC universe

The way some people are talking about segwit/segwit2x/big blocks is as if there is some sort of existential crisis like the polar ice caps were going to fall off from the excess heat from miners. For example, while this has a couple of good technical points:

Re: [Cryptography] Satoshi's Trump Card

> As before, rich activsts will have two chains to play in... Analyses link to show potential exist of plural actors... https://btc.com/stats/rich-list

Re: [Cryptography] Satoshi's Trump Card

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Erik Granger wrote: > That seems like a losing battle, if he decides to transflood the chain, > can't the fork simply ignore that chain? No idea what that means. Anyway... Keys (UTXO / addrs) from parent inherit spendably into both forks

Re: [Cryptography] Satoshi's Trump Card

> Please don't spam this mailing list with word salad proclamations. On the contary... In "trusted" / distributed cryptographic systems, especially digital currencies, the issues of things like witheld keys, founders BDFL influence, premining, early miners, ICO raison, DAO / voting rulesets,

Re: Problems with Privacy Shield records and NSA mass surveillance

There are rules laws and procedures and standard parrying. Then there is demand of multiple distributed even random requests by public till the squeaky wheel get greased just to go away. Raise a crowd, generate some noise, journo the absurdity.