***SPAM*** Re: de Jong, Lovink, and Riemens: 10 Bitcoin

2015-12-02 Thread morlockelloi
This concern also applies to other lowly workers in data mining industries (which is really the only thing going on in data centers today.) Colocations (one 'l') are cold, noisy, often locked down to the point where one needs an escort to go pee, there are surveillance cameras all around the p

***SPAM*** Re: de Jong, Lovink, and Riemens: 10 Bitcoin Myths

2015-11-30 Thread morlockelloi
Compared to the trust in traditional currencies, the trust in Bitcoin is in the fanaticism end of the scale, due to the simple math - how much does it cost to subvert a currency: Traditional currencies, operated by the state-size actors, lose value when the state's economy and the state itself