Re: The best defense is a good offense. Was: Re: Silk Road gossip

2018-10-18 Thread jim bell
On Tuesday, October 16, 2018, 2:46:48 PM PDT, juan wrote: On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 19:42:38 + (UTC) jim bell wrote: >> Like Zenaan, I don't think this will be very expensive.  It will be >> intricate, but there will be plenty of money in Dark market insurance >> payments.  Everybody

Re: The best defense is a good offense. Was: Re: Silk Road gossip

2018-10-17 Thread jim bell
On Tuesday, October 16, 2018, 1:08:02 AM PDT, Steven Schear wrote: >Jim, >A much better solution to the problem of secure sales of controlled substances >is to eliminate conventional distribution. (I think we may have discussed this >more than two decades ago): use genomics.

Re: The best defense is a good offense. Was: Re: Silk Road gossip

2018-10-16 Thread juan
On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 19:42:38 + (UTC) jim bell wrote: > > >    Now, Chaum has a new cryptocoin : > > >   https://elixxir.io/ > > > Looks quite promising.   Given that it is occurring after nearly 10 years of > the experience of Bitcoin and, subsequently, hundreds of other crypto coins,

Re: The best defense is a good offense. Was: Re: Silk Road gossip

2018-10-16 Thread jim bell
On Tuesday, October 16, 2018, 1:08:02 AM PDT, Steven Schear wrote: >Jim,>A much better solution to the problem of secure sales of controlled >substances is to eliminate conventional distribution. (I think we may have >discussed this more than two decades ago): use genomics.

Re: The best defense is a good offense. Was: Re: Silk Road gossip

2018-10-16 Thread Steven Schear
Jim, A much better solution to the problem of secure sales of controlled substances is to eliminate conventional distribution. (I think we may have discussed this more than two decades ago): use genomics. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05659-z No reason such yeasts couldn't be

Re: The best defense is a good offense. Was: Re: Silk Road gossip

2018-10-15 Thread jim bell
On Sunday, October 14, 2018, 1:08:24 PM PDT, juan wrote: On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 21:02:50 + (UTC) jim bell wrote:    >> Fortunately, the advent of the Ethereum/Augur prediction system would likely >> allow this kind of protection system to be implemented in the relatively >> near future. 

Re: The best defense is a good offense. Was: Re: Silk Road gossip

2018-10-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 05:07:11PM -0300, Juan wrote: > On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 21:02:50 + (UTC) > jim bell wrote: >    > > Fortunately, the advent of the Ethereum/Augur prediction system would > > likely allow this kind of protection system to be implemented in the > > relatively near future. 

Re: The best defense is a good offense. Was: Re: Silk Road gossip

2018-10-14 Thread juan
On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 21:02:50 + (UTC) jim bell wrote:    > Fortunately, the advent of the Ethereum/Augur prediction system would likely > allow this kind of protection system to be implemented in the relatively near > future.  > They need to change their policies a bit, allowing the

Re: The best defense is a good offense. Was: Re: Silk Road gossip

2018-10-14 Thread grarpamp
> Thanks very much to John Young of Cryptome.org for keeping the AP essay > available to the public If a concern, you might want to look into submitting text / multimedia to archive.org and or one of the wikimedia foundation projects, or even gutenberg, for whatever their curated collections

The best defense is a good offense. Was: Re: Silk Road gossip

2018-10-13 Thread jim bell
On Thursday, October 11, 2018, 12:58:30 PM PDT, juan wrote: >https://freeross.org/railroaded/ Famous quote:  The best defense is a good offense.      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_best_defense_is_a_good_offense  About the time Silk Road 1 was taken down, October 2013, I suggested on