I've just found something that jogged my memory from early 2010. I remember reading a forum board about something very similar to bitcoin / bitgold that I think I found via a search engine. I had registered on bitcointalk and was searching for bitcoin history at that time. So, the date of the board was probably 2007-2009. The board had very few contributors - I got the impression that one of the 3 main contributors was a university professor / lecturer type and had an advisory role over the others. I also got the impression (and this is from memory) that the other main contributors were 1 male and 1 female - perhaps students. The 'coat of arms' that I think I remember on the board was that of the George Washington University. https://www.gwu.edu/seal-mace-coat-armsI've searched many Universities and College websites for this 'shield' and this one is the closest match to my memory of it. I don't want to find 'Satoshi', but I would like to find and read that board - I've looked for it and I can't find it. Obviously it was freely available on the internet, but maybe it got archived or deleted ? Perhaps Phinnaeus Gage or someone else could help to find this ? I'll give it a shot, starting here, but still seeking the forum you described: http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.html |
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In the first protocol, every participant maintains a (separate) database
of how much money belongs to each pseudonym. These accounts collectively
define the ownership of money, and how these accounts are updated is the
subject of this protocol.
1. The creation of money. Anyone can create money by broadcasting the
solution to a previously unsolved computational problem. The only
conditions are that it must be easy to determine how much computing effort
it took to solve the problem and the solution must otherwise have no
value, either practical or intellectual. The number of monetary units
created is equal to the cost of the computing effort in terms of a
standard basket of commodities. For example if a problem takes 100 hours
to solve on the computer that solves it most economically, and it takes 3
standard baskets to purchase 100 hours of computing time on that computer
on the open market, then upon the broadcast of the solution to that
problem everyone credits the broadcaster's account by 3 units.
2. The transfer of money. If Alice (owner of pseudonym K_A) wishes to
transfer X units of money to Bob (owner of pseudonym K_B), she broadcasts
the message "I give X units of money to K_B" signed by K_A. Upon the
broadcast of this message, everyone debits K_A's account by X units and
credits K_B's account by X units, unless this would create a negative
balance in K_A's account in which case the message is ignored. Wei Dai "b-money"-1998Date Registered: October 20, 2010, 09:52:52 AM
Last Active: April 10, 2011, 11:29:36 PM https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1486.msg17788#msg17788Interesting two posts, to say the least. Signs up to post, then the last time time active posted his last post. http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/6/4295028/report-satoshi-nakamotoIn April of 2011, Nakamoto emailed Andresen to say that the Bitcoin Project developers "should try to de-emphasize the whole ‘mysterious founder’ thing when talking publicly about Bitcoin." No one has heard from him since. |
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This is a good idea. Simply use an address as your password, they are random and secure. Plus you can keep it in a list or address book and no one would think it's a password.
And this is the exact reason why I don't put anybody on ignore, whether warranted or not, for you'll never know when they'll share a nugget. As far as I'm concern, it's a genius idea. And, who's to say you have to use one of your own wallet addresses? And, you could simply generate X addresses solely for password purposes, never funding them. ~TMI BTCITW EDIT: Upon reading the rest of the comments, I see that there may be some concern for such a practice. Surely, once a wallet address is generated, a character or two or three could be change so that your now new password can no longer be found anywhere on the internet. For instance 13Lfcc8obgmBDGadoPHu3MSbN4sjSyWWoN (just copied and paste from BC) would become 31Lfcc80bgmBDGad0PHu3MSbN4sjSyWW0N. |
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Who's the wiseguy that put three, count 'em, three xBox Ones under my Christmas tree for my nephews, two them being pieces of shit (nephews, not the games)?
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Wasn't there some guy who, a couple of years ago, made a bunch of trades over Craigslist and ended up trading up from an eraser to a house or something?
http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/ and besides, he started with something real, whereas this is all a la virtual. |
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Ain't got a clue as to what's depicted above, but I was expecting to see chicken breasts and a wishbone.  |
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12 pack of beer for a 750ml bottle of really awful wine.
Traded for NEFT Vodka.  |
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Are you talking about the video that showed the whole process of producing the boards?
Why would one take it down? Are they getting ready to deny in court that they where able to produce/that they produced those boards?
(numble numble, maybe it's just to confuse us)
If this was a video taken in a third party production facility, then most obvious reason to take it down would be that they didn't have the proper permissions to shoot it in the first place - I gather from other projects that some facilities have fairly strict rules on photography. From the quality of the production, I don't see how the facility wouldn't have been aware that filming was taking place, let alone know where and how it was going to be viewed. |
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Anyone save a copy? Might have something interesting in the background. e.g. dates displayed on machine readouts.
After I viewed it, I spent close to 30 minutes viewing similar videos, feeling that I've viewed segments of it before, but abandoned the search. Something didn't feel quite right about it, but I'm not at all versed in the process. Hey PG, the board definitely looked like the prototype/schematic they were circulating. I would be skeptical that they faked the video. Now whether the board actually works at intended is a different matter entirely. Is it possible to have some outfit run only one board for filming purposes, regardless if the end result is used for any capacity? |
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Anyone save a copy? Might have something interesting in the background. e.g. dates displayed on machine readouts.
After I viewed it, I spent close to 30 minutes viewing similar videos, feeling that I've viewed segments of it before, but abandoned the search. Something didn't feel quite right about it, but I'm not at all versed in the process. |
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A pilot on a passanger plane makes an announcement. "We are running out of fuel, in order to make it to the next airport we need to lose some weight. Yeah you know what I mean, some people need to jump, any volunteers? Ok since no one volunteers we need to go by the alphabet, so A afro americans, B blacks, C chinese....
In the back seat there is a black guy with his son. The son asks "daddy which one are we afro americans or blacks"
The dad responds "shut up, now we are fucking niggers"
<whispering> "Good call, dad! Finally, we're in front of the Whities." <over the load speaker> "No more E's, and we're still over weight." <son to dad> "Looks like we're next, dad." |
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How do you know if a Chinese tried to rob your house?
You get home and your maths homework is done, your computer is upgraded, and two hours later he is still trying to back out of your driveway.
Why did the little black boy start crying when he had diarrhea?
He thought he was melting.
Whats the difference between a park bench and a black guy?
The park bench can support a family.
What is a Jews biggest dilemma?
Free pork
Why do black people only have nightmares?
Because the last one to have a dream was shot...
(I'm going to hell)
Since we have insulted, Asians, Blacks and Jews, lets not leave out the Gays. Whats the difference between a fag and a refrigerator? Ans: A refrigerator wont fart when you take your meat out. I was wondering where that noise was coming from... from the other room... I mean next door... What I mean is... Okay, you got me! It's a male goat. |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtlIcbZHDMkAssuming the alligator was successfully traded for a 12 pack of beer, what should the beer be traded for? Keep the initia virtual trade reasonable, with all virtual subsequent trades traded accordingly, i.e. no beer for car for house. The slower the growth rate, the more enjoyment this thread will become. Feel free to submit images. Opting for no reserve post, thus will document the subsequent trades below: Alligator 12 Pack Beer 750ml bottle of really awful wine NEFT Vodka
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Here's an image of a sun dog and cat:  |
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Some more inquiries: From: Steve S. Dmitry, My nonprofit Upaya Social Ventures is working to create dignified jobs in India's poorest slums. Our organization began accepting bitcoin a few weeks ago and a friend recently told me about Bitcoin 100. I would love the opportunity to talk about possibly including Upaya on your site - please let me know if there is any additional information from me and I will be happy to send it along. Thanks and looking forward to speaking soon. Happy holidays! - Steve Steve Schwartz Director, Strategy & Operations Upaya Social Ventures Aspiring Entrepreneurs, Inspiring Outcomes Microlending site. I'm gonna stay neutral on this one. Ca fait longtemps que je n'ai pas parlé français. Avoir du plaisir en revue celui-ci, Phinneas  From: erik To: me, Esther Hi Esther, Please meet my friend Dmitry. We met in DC in a group of people enthusiastic about innovative technologies that improve our society. He now runs a foundation that is looking for worthy nonprofits to donate to. I am also getting him in touch with over a dozen more organizations I have been connected to. I think he will really appreciate Naija Worldwide Charities. Dmitry's foundation is called BitCoin100. They arose out of the generosity of a few early adopters of an amazing currency called BitCoins (if you haven't heard of them, this might help) to promote the value of the currency for nonprofits: when donors make their donations in BitCoins, the recipient nonprofit keeps 100% (hence the name). None of the funds are lost to credit card or processing fees. BitCoin100 donates $1,000 to selected nonprofits who agree to accept the currency on their donation page. It doesn't take much work to get it set up, but I know the money could do a lot of good for your genuine and altruistic efforts. @Dmitry, Esther is a friend of mine with a great passion for improving lives of others. I met her in DC while seeking architectural and planning projects worth giving a helpful hand to and since then I have been collaborating with her on designing a hospital project in Nigeria. She is a passionate educator, and an inspirational leader. She founded Naija World Charities in 2008 and received national and international recognition since then. I know they could do a lot of good with $1,000 and I thank you kindly for your time helping out! Good luck! Hello Erick, Rassa,
Thanks Erik for the wonderful introduction, we do the best we can to help those less fortunate than us but it has not been easy. There are so many hurting people around the world whose lives will be improved just with a little help. We would love to be the change agent, the catalyst used in making that difference but at times it feels like our hands are tied due to funding. We work through the grassroots so we meet these people face-to-face, we eat with them sleep on their floors and listen to their stories.
Rassa, good to finally make contact with you. Erik has spoken so much about you and the wonderful work you are doing, I feel like I already know. I look forward to building on this new relationship and maybe collaborating with you in some of the programs that we do. Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Seems pretty good. Doubt there'll be any issues with this one either. And last one, From: santa esecreto hello dmitry. we've run an ad-free, not-for-profit, global-youth-oriented news & education service since 2005 called spectre. begun as a community email list, spectre became popular enough to grew in unexpected ways, including requests for reprints from nonsense nyc, arthurmag & motherboard, plus viral media tools like facebook, twitter, pinboard, pinterest, etc. the mission of the project is simple: to spread good ideas. as news curators we have become many people's favorite news source, in part because we do this mostly without editorializing. the main portal to much of that material can be found here, beloved in certain circles: http://spectrevision.nethttp://spectrevision.net/2013/12/10/price-discovery/anyway we recently became enamored with bitcoin and added donation and mining options to our site. so we are very excited to see your offer. do we in fact qualify? we hope so, and would be happy to explain ourselves further as needed. looking thru your grantees, we too are running a non-commercial education platform like antiwar.com or khan academy. we are a very small group of people, all doing this without much of any financial support since well, ever, so joining this new bitcoin economy is a somewhat exciting prospect please let us know if theres more information you need, and thank you for considering us santa - Please contact Dmitry (Rassah) at Rassah@xnicole.com with any questions or concerns and, moreover, if you oversee, or know of an NPO that could use a $1,000 USD endowment from Bitcoin 100. Bitcoin100 exists specifically to convince new charities to start accepting bitcoin donations. Many Bitcoin enthusiasts of various backgrounds from around the world have supported this project with time, effort and/or bitcoins. In order to use donated funds in a manner consistent with donor expectations, Bitcoin100 donates the Bitcoin equivalent of $1000 to non-political, secular charities that prominently display an option for supporters to contribute via Bitcoin on their website. Not sure about this one. Phinn, what questions would you ask them? Upaya: Let's consider another option with Steve Schwartz's cause. Since Upaya is already accepting bitcoin, let's have Steve Schwartz embed a bitcoin donation otion unto another site that he's affiliated with, namely seattlemicrofinance.org I will get caught up on the rest later today, for at the moment there's some barn wood calling me, and it's fuckin' freezin' outside, with the wind blowin' up my pink tutu. BTW, when am I suppose to take this off? |
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Honestly, it sounds a bit weird :/ Exactly what would be expected when such an entity is founded by two comedians: http://kvpr.org/post/sunday-assembly-look-organized-non-religionSixteen percent of people around the world say they have no religious affiliation. But even those who aren’t connected to a religion may still be looking for community.
That’s where the Sunday Assembly comes in.
In London earlier this year, stand-up comedians Pippa Evans and Sanderson Jones founded the godless congregation that they say has many of the elements of church, but without religion. Whether weird or not, I'm still curious if they would pass muster according to the guidelines set by Bitcoin 100. If so, I would love to contact them myself. Remember, our sole goal is to bring awareness to Bitcoin. ~Bruno Kucinskas |
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Good luck with the effort! Sent a small donation over. https://blockchain.info/address/1THRF26KAsDDLh1JyWB5Hbm5mYgN6LwZtFirst and biggest suggestion for the main site: When the send address is in ALLCAPS, it does not register as a valid address for me. Would recommend fixing that first, then fleshing out the rest of the content so it's easier to donate. Due to me putting all my eggs in one basket--roww.org--at the 11th hour (one of the main reasons for attending the Las Vegas conference), my grandiose venable endeavor turned into a bust. There were only three donations (linked above), of which the first one was mine. I think it's only fair to return the other two in FULL to the donors, one of which I quoted in this post, and the other is unknown at the moment. My donated amount will be donated to Dabs for his food program in the Philippines, oppose to Sean's Outpost of which I will continue to support. Dabs seems to be in better position to make sure funds are allocated accordingly. I will now pen a PM to Barnacle_Ed, expressing my thanks and making sure that an active receiving bitcoin wallet address is made available so that I can have Rassah transfer back his bitcoins. Would the other person who so kindly donated please PM me with proof that you are said individual so that you will also be refunded? Once again, thank you, fellow bitcoiners, for all the support whether you donated or not. ~Bruno Kucinskas |
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