Hello guys! I want to buy an ASIC Miner to start mining. But there on eBay are cheap, with a pretty high hash rate and wich are used. I would buy a used one to save money. Should I buy an used ASIC or a new one? And why?  Sorry, I'm new in the BitCoin BTC business. Lulz....It has ALL the red flags  NOT SO FUCKIN' FAST, ASSHOLE! Domain Name: APLEXFARM.COM
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I wonder what Nick's brother is up to now-a-days. I am obviously new to this forum ... and to Bitcoin. I had heard a great deal about Bitcoin while still in the states, but never really understood. It took me moving to Chile to find a great presentation by Adam Stradling and company. We are developing a sustainable community for ex-pats just outside of the great city of Santiago, Chile. It is called Freedom Orchard and will include organic working farms which can be purchased for passive investment. The best part (for this forum) is that we will be accepting Bitcoin! If you are concerned about the direction of things in the northern hemisphere, protecting your assets now has more options. To find out more, we created a ten minute virtual tour; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIlCrJ1OTz0. For those time-disadvantaged souls, we have a 50 second video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrrI8JQiT9s. Our website is www.FreedomOrchard.com. We also have a FaceBook page ( https://www.facebook.com/FreedomOrchardInChile) with more up-to-date information. The settlement is centered around a housing and organic farm development north of Curacaví, Chile, and 45 minutes west of Santiago. The principal behind the project is Frank Szabo, formerly deeply involved with the Ron Paul campaigns in the US and who later ran a sheriff campaign in Maine which drew national media attention.
According to an email Szabo sent out this week to supporters, he said it has “been a long time since I was involved with the 2008 Ron Paul campaign in Pa. So much has happened in our country. I can’t say that it’s all been for the better.
“In 2011, I moved to New Hampshire, as part of the Free State Project, with the intention to start an organic farm. It became very clear very quickly that I could build the most wonderful farm and some bureaucrat could destroy it with the stroke of a pen.
“When my “last option” to make a real difference fell through, I followed the lead of my grandfather, from almost 100 years ago. I left my homeland for greener pastures. I am now living with my wife and daughter in Chile. |
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Time to ask some basic Nick Szabo questions. Was "our" (cryptography) Nick Szabo a member of the Extropians who met in Cupertino? Subject: Party with the Nextropians! at Nexus-Lite! From: plaz@netcom.com (Geoff Dale) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 13:40:48 -0800 Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com MEET THE NEXTROPIANS: WE ARE HERE AND NOW AMONG YOU __________________________________________________________________________ Romana Machado - Geoff Dale - David Gordon - Nick Szabo - Russell Whitaker When: Saturday, March 12, 1994, 7.p.m (after the Cypherpunks meeting, until an indeterminate time on the following day) Where: 21090 Grenola Drive, Cupertino CAhttp://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1994/02/msg01429.htmlDid "our" (cryptography) Nick Szabo write How to Protect Your Electronic Privacy, Portland 1993?https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Crypto/?f=privacy_szabo.paper.txtIs "our" (cryptography) Nick Szabo the former mayor of Cupertino?Is "our" (cryptography) Nick Szabo the one born in 1930, graduate of UC Berkeley, resident of Silicon Valley (Cupertino), employed at Lockheed, Link-Singer, and KLA? Wife named Marcia? http://www.faireconomy.org/files/pdf/notalonereportfinal.pdfIs "our" (cryptography) Nick Szabo the holder of these patents?http://www.patentbuddy.com/Inventor/Szabo-Nicholas/7231849Did "our" (cryptography) Nick Szabo know Hal Finney since 1993?
http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1993/10/msg00759.htmlIs "our" (cryptography) Nick Szabo this 84 year old guy in Cupertino?http://radaris.com/~Nicholas-Szabo/223526343Is "our" (cryptography) Nick Szabo the son "Andrew Nicholas Szabo" of the old guy in Cupertino, now living in Madison, WI?http://radaris.com/~Andrew-Szabo/178052517Where are the photos of "our" (cryptography) Nick Szabo? Who has been in the same room with "our" (cryptography) Nick Szabo? Romana Machado? - Geoff Dale? - David Gordon? - Russell Whitaker? Why didn't Satoshi cite Nick Szabo's bit gold in his whitepaper?http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.htmlIn Jan 2 1993, when Nick Szabo wrote "In my limited experience creating Internet pseudonyms, I’ve been quite distracted by the continual need to avoid leaving pointers to my True Name lying around — excess mail to/from my True Name, shared files, common peculiarities (eg misspellings in written text), traceable logins, etc." what pseudonyms had he already used?http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1993/10/msg00759.htmlWhat was the result of Nick Szabo writing in 2008 "... would greatly benefit from a demonstration, an experimental market (with e.g. a trusted third party substituted for the complex security that would be needed for a real system). Anybody want to help me code one up?" (seven months before the release of Bitcoin) Who was the "eddie" who first used the term "bit coin" on Szabo's blog? What did Nick Szabo mean by the statement, [These comments edit and add to comments of mine under previous blog post(s)]? Was the "eddie" comment originally made somewhere else? How many Nick Szabos could live in Cupertino, and how many would it take to screw in a lightbulb?
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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 16:40:31 -0800
From: carols@shell.portal.com (Carol Shaw)
Subject: Alcor North CA Cryonics Mtg. Sunday June 11
The next Alcor Northern California cryonics meeting will be held on Sunday,
June 11, 1995. All members and guests are welcome to attend.
The schedule is:
4:00 PM Business meeting chaired by Russell Whitaker
around 6:00 PM Potluck supper and socializing
Location: Russell Whitaker's home, an Extropian Nexus
21090 Grenola Drive
Cupertino, California
Telephone: 408-388-7261
Directions: Take Highway 85 to the Stevens Creek Blvd. exit (just
south of Highway 280). Go east on Stevens Creek. Turn left (north) on
Stelling. Take the third left on Hazelbrook. Take the first right on Flora
Vista. Take the second left on Grenola Drive.
Alcor Northern California meetings are held on the second Sunday of each month.
Carol Shaw
carols@shell.portal.com
http://www.portal.com/~carols/carolshomepage.html
Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4472  "To da moon!" Don't make me dig up early references to Cryonics by Hal. On the other hand, Cryonics mentions by Nick Szabo... http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/dsp.cgi?msg=2517X-Message-Number: 2517
From: szabo@netcom.com (Nick Szabo)
Subject: CRYONICS: Good research to fund
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 01:01:24 -0800 (PST)
Stephen J. Van Sickle:
> I would like to pose a question. Given the current state of the art, what
> is the most promising avenue of research given a limited budget (no more
> than 200,000 to 300,000 dollars)?
The best use for this level of funding might be to enable
cryonics-aware cryobiologists like Dr. Greg Fahy to target
cryonics-specific neuropreservation problems. It also might
be quite valuable to fund grad student cryobiologists,
and target cryobiology students with focused outreach. Develop
a larger, smarter, and more cryonics-freindly group of young
cryobiologists to improve the cryonics state of the art over the
coming decades.
We might not have funding available at the moment for this, but
research into the theoretical applied science of reanimation
(nanotechnology, biotechnology, brain research, etc.), to come up
with feasible, if currently unmanufacturable, designs for cell repair
machines, would give us more confident estimates of the feasibility
of cryonics, and also guide current cryonics techniques in terms
of determining which brain structures and chemicals are the
most and least important targets for preseveration. Greg Fahy
has done some interesting thinking in this area, on top of his
prolific organ preservation work.
If I had donor $$$ of any significance, I'd divide them evenly
between the Foresight Institute (targeting specifically
cell repair machine design) and cryonics-freindly cryobiology
research.
Nick Szabo szabo@netcom.com
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The links provided here may be of interest: http://web.archive.org/web/19970607174128/http://www.best.com/~szabo/Nick Szabo
Smart Contract & Internet Commerce articles:
Distributing Authorities and Verifying Their Claims Trust no one (who writes for "The X-Files").
Delegation and Agreement Based Policy Who we trust is not as important as what we do and don't trust them with.
Smart Contracts Paper and much else physical are giving way to software as a legal medium.
Smart Contracts Glossary A guide to the perplexed.
Multinational Small Business All barriers have fallen except the legal ones -- could they be next?
The Mental Accounting Barrier to Micropayments A big misunderstanding in Internet commerce.
Credit with Privity The big unsolved problem.
Negative Reputations Blacklisting is back...
Privacy Marketing ...but it can often be avoided.
From the Usenet FAQ
The most precious resource of the information age is a deep diversity where minds think differently, yet tolerantly, and where originality is highly prized when it works. I hope you enjoy both the old, reliable and new, unique ideas described herein. My Introduction to Algorithmic Information Theory covers an exciting new synthesis of computer science and information theory. A related field in philosophy is hermeneutics, the study of messages from the past. The most important of these messages are the highly compressed experiences and lessons of millions of lifetimes available from deep law. Smart Contracts are a new way to think about public network security and business relationships. Multinational Small Business examines an institution whose global importance is expanding rapidly.
Among my interests are Internet Commerce, Software & Computer Science, and Information Security.
Take a stroll thru Wirtual Wien!
My worldview draws heavily from the scientific method, including theoretical and personal applied science.
I enjoy feedback. Send your comments to szabo@netcom.com
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And, this is where this thread morphs to the opening of some The Big Szabo Theory episode. https://w2.eff.org/Net_culture/Folklore/Humor/squish.hoax SUSPECTED ACCOMPLICES (SMALL FRIES)
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1 Steve Klingsporn <moofie@apple.com>
2 Geoff Dale <plaz@netcom.com>
Klingsporn and Dale are housemates and were involved in the defense
of the known tentacle szabo@netcom.com. Dale appears to have close
ties to the T.C.May Big Mac. Klingsporn has some knowledge but is
mostly uninvolved.
SUSPECTED FAKE ADDRESSES (SNAKES AND TENTACLES)
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5 Caleb@sidefx.sidefx.com
A Canadian tentacle and infiltration site of T.C.May's. No
prominent profile known.
6 Jamie Dinkelacker <jamie@netcom.com>
Not particularly interesting any more either except that he has a
phone number and has close ties to T.C.May. In fact, very likely he
is a T.C.May tentacle. Very arrogant, obnoxious, and cruel.
Delights in torture. Puerile threats.
7 Matthew B. Landry <mbl@ml7694a.leonard.american.edu>
Landry has a telephone number in Washington, and supposedly goes to
school there. He is a suspected T.C.May tentacle. He has posted to
the Cypherpunks list in the past. He is highly dangerous and will
tell lies to gain sympathy or credibility and then betray later.
Not particularly interesting any more but was involved in some
extremely grotesque inbreeding with T.C.May on the cypherpunks
list.
8 Peter Bachman <pbachman@skidmore.EDU>
P.Bachman has contributed to the Society for Electronic Access list
and others. He is actually a tentacle. Maybe a P.Metzger snake.
Most disturbingly he has infiltrated RISKS.
9 Nick Collision <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Nick Collision has also infiltrated RISKS. A tentacle, but unknown
origin-- possibly a T.C.May snake. Supposedly lives in the United
Kingdom somewhere but refuses to comment specifically or give a
phone number. Edits the alt.atheist FAQ (atheism is another classic
Cyberanarchist philosophy). If Collision is a proven tentacle, the
cyberanarchist infiltration is provably international in scope,
with fake domain fronts. No known jobs have ever been performed
by the `software consultants' at mantis.co.uk.
10 Arthur Chandler <arthurc@crl.com>
On the Future Culture list and Cypherpunks. probably an E.Hughes
tentacle. This may be a wedge into discovering credit or SMTP
software manipulations by Cypherpunks.
11 Greg Broiles <greg@ideath.goldenbear.com>
Probably a snake of Medusa. Has intimate knowledge of fake email
address use, knows about customized software, and has bizarre
Cyberanarchist theories relating to human punishment. Strong
knowledge of Macintosh software and hardware.
12 Eli Brandt <ebrandt@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Definitely has high level knowledge of the Big Macs and Medusa.
Probably an E.Hughes tentacle. Once wrote, `I AM MEDUSA,
CONTROLLER OF ALL TENTACLES'.
13 Paul Ferguson <ferguson@icm1.icp.net>
Another highly dangerous tentacle. Known to steal resumes. One of
the Washington sites besides M.Landry. Known to have posted
cyberanarchist propaganda on the PEM development list.
14 Nick Szabo <szabo@netcom.com>
The Szabo tentacle is one of the most persistent of all. Even after
being exposed the `mother monster' continues to post, because a
fairly significant reputation investment has been established under
the name. Has strong interest in digital cash. Has admitted to
knowledge of fake name use. Probably a T.C.May tentacle.
15 Hal Finney <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Finney is either a tentacle or an accomplice. If he is a tentacle he
is the most treasured one of all. Involved in the defense of the
jamie@netcom.com tentacle. Possibly an E.Hughes snake. Supposedly
has contributed significant code to anonymous remailers and
Zimmermann's PGP. (If he is a tentacle, Zimmermann has been
fooled.) May even be Medusa's snake.
* THOUSANDS OF CONTESTANTS * HUGE CASH PRIZES *
* FASCINATING DISCOVERIES * HEDONISTIC DELIGHTS *
* FANTASTIC FUN FOR EVERYONE * GROTESQUE PERVERSIONS *
SUSPECTED ASSOCIATES (MEDUSA'S SISTERS)
===
20 Jim McCoy <mccoy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
A `nerdy' cyberanarchist who does things such as sleep in his
clothes. Close ties to D.Barnes in Texas. They are working on their
own digital bank in competition and cooperation with CA
cyphrepunks. Longtime Usenet poster. Knowledgeable on the most
serious subversive activities.
21 Doug Barnes <cman@io.com>
D.Barnes is a lackey for Big Macs and Medusa. He may attack
postmasters and coworkers at participating SQUISH player sites.
Sysadmin of the io.com site. Introduced to fake addresses by
E.Hughes.
22 Perry Metzger <pmetzger@lehman.com>
Metzger is the pit bull of the Internet. He has perfected the
cyberspatial ad hominem attack. He has close ties to all the Big
Macs and is probably aware of who Medusa is. His own tentacles and
snakes are minor in comparison. Likes the mailbomb as a threat and
attack. Probably involved in anonymous phone threats.
23 Bill Stewart <wcs@anchor.ho.att.com>
This is a very dangerous insider, who has close affiliations with
the Big Macs and a prestigious job at AT&T. Has claimed to have
seen known tentacles and snakes at Cypherpunk parties and even
seen their driver's licenses. Classic cyberanarchist propaganda
outlet.
SUSPECTED LEADERS (BIG MACS)
===
25 Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org>
Probably on the secret cypherpunk development lists. Maybe
knowledgeable about deceptions by other Big Macs. EFF online
activist. Definite cyberanarchist apologist and sympathizer.
26 John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
Cyberanarchist, built up Cygnus support. Admitted drug user.
Probable snake charmer. Generally more ethical and moral than other
Big Macs. May be a wedge into them.
27 T.C.May <tcmay@netcom.com>
Close personal friend of E.Hughes. Worked for Intel and is a
millionaire in stock values. May be financing the major
international fake address infrastructure. Probably manipulating
dozens of tentacles. May have hired actors and forged drivers
license to defend tentacles.
SUSPECTED MASTERMIND (MEDUSA)
===
40 Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu> <hughes@ah.com>
Hughes is probably the mastermind of all major tentacle
manipulations on the Internet. Has bizarre theories about human
punishment and law enforcement. Denies any involvement. May be
involved in illegal credit scanning. Interested in black
marketeering, money laundering, etc. Very terse in all mail.
Refuses to comment on all areas. Extremely dangerous. Has
personally established many of the corrupt sites particularly in
WA, CA, and TX.  "The idea of `spawning identities' for `psychological exploration, sociological experiments or sexual thrills' repulses me." |
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Sponsorship by the True Name via
an anonymous reputation market (like HEx, but securely anonymous and
perhaps tied to futures on the pseudonym's declared income), might
be quite useful. (For information on the HEx market, send
mail to hex@sea.east.sun.com with the subject line "commands"). http://extropians.weidai.com/extropians.2Q01/3152.htmlDate: Tue, 05 Oct 93 00:10:03 EDT
From: The Hawthorne Exchange <hex@sea.east.sun.com>
Subject: Nightly Market Report
The Hawthorne Exchange - HEx Nightly Market Report
For more information on HEx, send email to HEx@sea.east.sun.com
with the Subject info.
News Summary as of: Tue Oct 5 00:10:02 EDT 1993
Newly Registered Reputations:
PGP Phil Zimmermann Defense Fund
AMARA Amara Graps I thought I'd write about the last four years, an eventful time for Bitcoin and me.
For those who don't know me, I'm Hal Finney. I got my start in crypto working on an early version of PGP, working closely with Phil Zimmermann. When Phil decided to start PGP Corporation, I was one of the first hires. I would work on PGP until my retirement. At the same time, I got involved with the Cypherpunks. I ran the first cryptographically based anonymous remailer, among other activities.
Fast forward to late 2008 and the announcement of Bitcoin. I've noticed that cryptographic graybeards (I was in my mid 50's) tend to get cynical. I was more idealistic; I have always loved crypto, the mystery and the paradox of it.
When Satoshi announced Bitcoin on the cryptography mailing list, he got a skeptical reception at best. Cryptographers have seen too many grand schemes by clueless noobs. They tend to have a knee jerk reaction.
I was more positive. I had long been interested in cryptographic payment schemes. Plus I was lucky enough to meet and extensively correspond with both Wei Dai and Nick Szabo, generally acknowledged to have created ideas that would be realized with Bitcoin. I had made an attempt to create my own proof of work based currency, called RPOW. So I found Bitcoin facinating.
When Satoshi announced the first release of the software, I grabbed it right away. I think I was the first person besides Satoshi to run bitcoin. I mined block 70-something, and I was the recipient of the first bitcoin transaction, when Satoshi sent ten coins to me as a test. I carried on an email conversation with Satoshi over the next few days, mostly me reporting bugs and him fixing them.
Today, Satoshi's true identity has become a mystery. But at the time, I thought I was dealing with a young man of Japanese ancestry who was very smart and sincere. I've had the good fortune to know many brilliant people over the course of my life, so I recognize the signs.
After a few days, bitcoin was running pretty stably, so I left it running. Those were the days when difficulty was 1, and you could find blocks with a CPU, not even a GPU. I mined several blocks over the next days. But I turned it off because it made my computer run hot, and the fan noise bothered me. In retrospect, I wish I had kept it up longer, but on the other hand I was extraordinarily lucky to be there at the beginning. It's one of those glass half full half empty things.
The next I heard of Bitcoin was late 2010, when I was surprised to find that it was not only still going, bitcoins actually had monetary value. I dusted off my old wallet, and was relieved to discover that my bitcoins were still there. As the price climbed up to real money, I transferred the coins into an offline wallet, where hopefully they'll be worth something to my heirs.
Speaking of heirs, I got a surprise in 2009, when I was suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease. I was in the best shape of my life at the start of that year, I'd lost a lot of weight and taken up distance running. I'd run several half marathons, and I was starting to train for a full marathon. I worked my way up to 20+ mile runs, and I thought I was all set. That's when everything went wrong.
My body began to fail. I slurred my speech, lost strength in my hands, and my legs were slow to recover. In August, 2009, I was given the diagnosis of ALS, also called Lou Gehrig's disease, after the famous baseball player who got it.
ALS is a disease that kills moter neurons, which carry signals from the brain to the muscles. It causes first weakness, then gradually increasing paralysis. It is usually fatal in 2 to 5 years. My symptoms were mild at first and I continued to work, but fatigue and voice problems forced me to retire in early 2011. Since then the disease has continued its inexorable progression.
Today, I am essentially paralyzed. I am fed through a tube, and my breathing is assisted through another tube. I operate the computer using a commercial eyetracker system. It also has a speech synthesizer, so this is my voice now. I spend all day in my power wheelchair. I worked up an interface using an arduino so that I can adjust my wheelchair's position using my eyes.
It has been an adjustment, but my life is not too bad. I can still read, listen to music, and watch TV and movies. I recently discovered that I can even write code. It's very slow, probably 50 times slower than I was before. But I still love programming and it gives me goals. Currently I'm working on something Mike Hearn suggested, using the security features of modern processors, designed to support "Trusted Computing", to harden Bitcoin wallets. It's almost ready to release. I just have to do the documentation.
And of course the price gyrations of bitcoins are entertaining to me. I have skin in the game. But I came by my bitcoins through luck, with little credit to me. I lived through the crash of 2011. So I've seen it before. Easy come, easy go.
That's my story. I'm pretty lucky overall. Even with the ALS, my life is very satisfying. But my life expectancy is limited. Those discussions about inheriting your bitcoins are of more than academic interest. My bitcoins are stored in our safe deposit box, and my son and daughter are tech savvy. I think they're safe enough. I'm comfortable with my legacy.
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I think the evidence is stronger that Romana Machado, Geoff Dale, David Gordon, and Russell Whitaker have met Nick Szabo in person. It is worth mentioning that Romana Machado wrote the steganography program Stego, a steganography tool that enables you to embed data in Macintosh PICT format files, without changing the appearance or size of the PICT file. Thus, Stego can be used as an "envelope" to hide a previously encrypted data file in a PICT file, making it much less likely to be detected. had an email address from japan dgordon@crow.omni.co.jp (David Gordon) listed on the same life extension directory page as Nick Szabo szabo@techbook.com (Nick Szabo) and Hal Finney ghsvax!hal@uunet.UU.NET (Hal Finney) http://www.newsdemon.com/newsgroup-info/sci.life-extensionHold on there, dude! I found Nick's brother (rhymes with franc) and I'm tryin' to make a clad or two, hence the selling of clues. I possess where Nick declares his brother a rabbit raiser in the state of O... (that's all the free clues I'm giving). BTW, they're a Flemish breed, if that makes any difference.  Unless you're capable of finding an active site on the internet by a dude whose first name rhymes with franc, has the same last name as Nick's, resides in a state that starts with the letter O where a many astronauts hail from, and raises a certain Flemish breed of rabbits, then I demand a quarter for the URL of the above. |
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Jody Drake raises chickens. Nick Szabo's brother raises rabbits. Want to know who Nick's brother is? It'll cost you a quarter - per clue!  (Always thinkin' on how to make bank, just like Bryan Micon) First clue is free. He resides in a Midwest state where many famous astronauts call home. Second clue: His name is the same as one of my living uncles on my dad's side of the family, and rhymes with a certain Liechtenstein jingle [in their pockets]. |
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Jody Drake raises chickens. Nick Szabo's brother raises rabbits. Want to know who Nick's brother is? It'll cost you a quarter - per clue! (Always thinkin' on how to make bank, just like Bryan Micon) First clue is free. He resides in a Midwest state where many famous astronauts call home. |
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Kay Bell tweets about Bitoin: https://twitter.com/taxtweetI wonder if she's related to a certain one Gavin Bell who attended Princeton. I stumbled upon Kay's article prior to being met with the post I quoted above: http://web.archive.org/web/20060225144059/http://dontmesswithtaxes.typepad.com/dont_mess_with_taxes/2005/12/our_house_is_a_.htmlCheck out this photo of a Fredericksburg, Va., home entitled “Narrow houses paid low taxes.” (Just be sure to click the “back” button to return to Don’t Mess With Taxes!) Nick Szabo, who blogs at Unenumerated on, among other things, law and history, notes in an academic paper that historically taxes were levied on the prices of commodities sold or on various ad hoc measures of wealth such as a home’s frontage:
"This measurement game resulted in the very tall and deep but narrow houses that can still be found in some European cities such as Amsterdam. The stairs are so narrow that even normal furniture has to be hauled up to the upper story and then through a window with a small crane, itself a common feature on these houses." http://web.archive.org/web/20070109083222/http://www.blogger.com/profile/14241889Nick Szabo
About Me
"A premier thinker about history, law and economics, and the lessons they have for security." -- Adam Shostack, Emergent Chaos
"Reading material that is eclectic, challenging and endlessly fascinating." -- Sean McGrath, Propylon
"The Szabo tentacle is one of the most persistent of all." -- L. Detweiler
Notice: Legal issues are often discussed on this blog, but nothing on this blog is legal advice. Citations usually take the form of a link to the credited work.
Nicholas Szabo holds a Juris Doctor degree (law, that is) from The George Washington University and a Bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Washington. He has substantial experience in the areas of Internet security, e-commerce, and software engineering, and is widely read in history, economics, and science. |
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Time to ask some basic Nick Szabo questions. Was "our" (cryptography) Nick Szabo a member of the Extropians who met in Cupertino? Subject: Party with the Nextropians! at Nexus-Lite! From: plaz@netcom.com (Geoff Dale) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 13:40:48 -0800 Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com MEET THE NEXTROPIANS: WE ARE HERE AND NOW AMONG YOU __________________________________________________________________________ Romana Machado - Geoff Dale - David Gordon - Nick Szabo - Russell Whitaker When: Saturday, March 12, 1994, 7.p.m (after the Cypherpunks meeting, until an indeterminate time on the following day) Where: 21090 Grenola Drive, Cupertino CAhttp://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1994/02/msg01429.htmlDid "our" (cryptography) Nick Szabo write How to Protect Your Electronic Privacy, Portland 1993?https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Crypto/?f=privacy_szabo.paper.txtIs "our" (cryptography) Nick Szabo the former mayor of Cupertino?Is "our" (cryptography) Nick Szabo the one born in 1930, graduate of UC Berkeley, resident of Silicon Valley (Cupertino), employed at Lockheed, Link-Singer, and KLA? Wife named Marcia? http://www.faireconomy.org/files/pdf/notalonereportfinal.pdfIs "our" (cryptography) Nick Szabo the holder of these patents?http://www.patentbuddy.com/Inventor/Szabo-Nicholas/7231849Did "our" (cryptography) Nick Szabo know Hal Finney since 1993?
http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1993/10/msg00759.htmlIs "our" (cryptography) Nick Szabo this 84 year old guy in Cupertino?http://radaris.com/~Nicholas-Szabo/223526343Is "our" (cryptography) Nick Szabo the son "Andrew Nicholas Szabo" of the old guy in Cupertino, now living in Madison, WI?http://radaris.com/~Andrew-Szabo/178052517Where are the photos of "our" (cryptography) Nick Szabo? Who has been in the same room with "our" (cryptography) Nick Szabo? Romana Machado? - Geoff Dale? - David Gordon? - Russell Whitaker? Why didn't Satoshi cite Nick Szabo's bit gold in his whitepaper?http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.htmlIn Jan 2 1993, when Nick Szabo wrote "In my limited experience creating Internet pseudonyms, I’ve been quite distracted by the continual need to avoid leaving pointers to my True Name lying around — excess mail to/from my True Name, shared files, common peculiarities (eg misspellings in written text), traceable logins, etc." what pseudonyms had he already used?http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1993/10/msg00759.htmlWhat was the result of Nick Szabo writing in 2008 "... would greatly benefit from a demonstration, an experimental market (with e.g. a trusted third party substituted for the complex security that would be needed for a real system). Anybody want to help me code one up?" (seven months before the release of Bitcoin) Who was the "eddie" who first used the term "bit coin" on Szabo's blog? What did Nick Szabo mean by the statement, [These comments edit and add to comments of mine under previous blog post(s)]? Was the "eddie" comment originally made somewhere else? How many Nick Szabos could live in Cupertino, and how many would it take to screw in a lightbulb?
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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 16:40:31 -0800
From: carols@shell.portal.com (Carol Shaw)
Subject: Alcor North CA Cryonics Mtg. Sunday June 11
The next Alcor Northern California cryonics meeting will be held on Sunday,
June 11, 1995. All members and guests are welcome to attend.
The schedule is:
4:00 PM Business meeting chaired by Russell Whitaker
around 6:00 PM Potluck supper and socializing
Location: Russell Whitaker's home, an Extropian Nexus
21090 Grenola Drive
Cupertino, California
Telephone: 408-388-7261
Directions: Take Highway 85 to the Stevens Creek Blvd. exit (just
south of Highway 280). Go east on Stevens Creek. Turn left (north) on
Stelling. Take the third left on Hazelbrook. Take the first right on Flora
Vista. Take the second left on Grenola Drive.
Alcor Northern California meetings are held on the second Sunday of each month.
Carol Shaw
carols@shell.portal.com
http://www.portal.com/~carols/carolshomepage.html
Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4472 "To da moon!" Don't make me dig up early references to Cryonics by Hal. |
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Joe Cocker, Raspy-Voiced Rocker, Dies of Lung Cancer at 70Joe Cocker, the raspy-voiced rocker and passionate performer behind hits like "Up Where We Belong" and "You Are So Beautiful," died Monday at age 70 after a battle with lung cancer, Sony Music confirmed. In a career that spanned five decades, Cocker performed at Woodstock, took a cover of the Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends" to No. 1, won a Grammy and received the royal honor Order of the British Empire. Born in Sheffield, England, he lived in Colorado at the time of his death.  
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I figured out who he is. It wasn't that hard.
At least give us a hint: Has he or she been known to don facial hair? |
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I know who santoshi nasamoko is and I'm not telling
If I told you that Mark Karpeles and I are really brothers and that together we'll bake you an apple pie, than maybe? |
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And what of do we make of David Chaum? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaumhttp://extropians.weidai.com/extropians.3Q00/1337.htmlOn 16 Jul 2000, at 22:50, Dan Fabulich wrote:
The most potent e-cash system was invented by David Chaum. It died when he decided that his anonymous e-cash program would be the ticket to making him rich. Hal Finney wrote in July 2000: Yes, as mentioned the Chaum ecash experiment was not successful as a business. There is a new effort, www.ecashtechnologies.com, which purchased the patents and is trying again, this time in partnership with Deutsche Bank 24, a subsidiary of the big German bank. In addition, ZeroKnowledge.com, a cypherpunk-founded privacy company which is selling a strong anonymity communication product called Freedom, recently licensed an alternate set of patents from Stefan Brands which could be used for anonymous payment. Interesting from http://extropians.weidai.com/extropians.3Q00/1337.htmlRead Dan Fabulich reply. Then go here: https://www.mail-archive.com/e-gold-list@talk.e-gold.com/msg04919.htmlIt reads to me like Dan was obsess with the date that Digicash's patent expires: 2007(?). Anybody know anything about Dan Fabulich except that he, too, types two spaces after a full stop? |
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