Adlai

Last I checked, there's a single blessed node dishing out verifiable data. It's nicer than having a remote API that just hands you a trusted number, but it's a far cry from Nakamoto Consensus.

Comment · 11 years ago

Bitcoin transactions are much harder to censor than conventional fiat transfers, but the transaction graph is completely transparent.

Check out https://www.walletexplorer.com/

Comment · 11 years ago

First, the one mentioned in the parent:

  https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=26033

And a couple skimmed off the all-time best[1]:

  https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=31722 (Nitrous Oxide)
  https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=17787 (Mushrooms)
  https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=104336 (Ibogaine)
  https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=96838 (Methoxetamine)
  https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=68367 (Sensory Deprivation)

Obligatory honorary mention:

  https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=68111

[1] - It occurred to me that I selected predominantly positive, or at least 'wonderous', reports. Dig around and you'll find some that are less so.

Comment · 11 years ago

Seems like a good opportunity for a company that genuinely cares about employee health to make it easier for them to eat well by stocking the kitchen with healthy snacks.

Comment · 11 years ago

  People asking questions, lost in confusion
  Well, I tell them there's no problem, only solutions
    - John Lennon

The other solutions proposed here work at the wrong level. The approach taken by I2P[1] does away with the concept of globally squattable names[2], leaving public keys as the global identifiers and letting individuals define local nicknames or delegate to trusted lists.

[1] https://geti2p.net/en/docs/naming

[2] Even http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/squarezooko is susceptible to squatting by those who can invest (or rent) computing power.

PS: I had a chance recently to talk with a "DNSquatter": the doorman at a building I frequent. Poor guy bought tens of thousands of domain names, years ago, with money he had available for investment, and asked me for advice on how to cash out his investment. It seems to me that he's the victim of a chumpatron[3], rather than the scammer himself; although his actions do help keep the scam alive. I advised him to consider the money lost.

[3] http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1446

Comment · 11 years ago

Such scams only raise the price if the fools hold Bitcoin instead of what they most likely do: sell it for local currency. The scam's popularity does boost transaction volume, critical to the emergence of a fee market.

Comment · 11 years ago

Yet another article about the somethingization of money that doesn't mention decentralized currency, or even plain old digital. I get that people love hating Bitcoin, but isn't it fashionable at the very least to nod at the underlying technology?

Comment · 11 years ago

Today, Hock is on the advisory board of Xapo, claiming that "Bitcoin is one of the best examples of how a decentralized, peer-to-peer organization can solve problems that these dated organizations cannot." How about that pivot!

https://blog.xapo.com/announcing-xapos-advisory-board/

Comment · 11 years ago

Your government shouldn't care what form of money you're using, as long as it gets its fair taxes.