Why is this?  I don't know anything about QM and only a little about crypto-- I'm assuming that somehow QM crypto can have an infinite keyspace, and that's how it's provably unbreakable, but that's just a wild-ass guess.  Do you have more information on your statement?  It intrigues me!

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I'm waiting for somebody to make a bitcoin bot for twitter and facebook like NerFighterSean did for reddit.

omg this would be awesome if somebody made a service to cheaply exchange PS for bitcoin.  im in the us with vpn and laundering money out of stars costs a lot of time and fees and is basically just a huge pain in the ass

This is a shame colored coins haven't gained more traction.  They're a fantastic way to create stock or something, and a great new way to make bitcoins (or at least some of them!) even more valuable.  It really is a good idea and good addition to bitcoin.

Intent and state of mind are completely useless (until further advances in neuroscience develop).  People can lie about intent and it's impossible to legislate.  All we can do is monitor actions and statistical consequences.  Intent and state of mind only matter inasmuch as they are precursors to, and puppet masters of, actions.

I've actually got an even better layout that requires NO distribution of any kind.  All that is needed is a bootstrapping method of connecting to peers.  That's it.  The rest is handled through local WOT ratings which users can query other users for to get a faux-distributed network wide wot rating on other players, and then multiple people "host" a game and collect my with m-of-n transactions or split or multiplied private keys, which are backed up by the table in the form of secret shares in the event of disconnect.  And then the actions can be proven and signed, as well as using a version of mental poker protocol to shuffle the deck in combination with zero knowledge proofs for hole card exposure, and the host simply holds the money, and the signed hand histories are the proof of the play, so you can verify that your cashout is correct, and in the event it is, you rate the host higher.  So accurate ratings develop very quickly, and the host also rakes the game, so he has incentive to stay honest.  It actually works very well on paper, but I don't know enough to implement it, and nobody else seems even remotely interested.  :-(

Violence and freedom are inexorably linked.  This is because violence can always overpower nonviolence, unless you have for example a non-violent shield or other defense-- however this only encourages the violent to come up with better violent tactics.  At some point the effort required to maintain defense -- the people killed manufacturing the shield -- becomes so expensive in both property AND human life that the most ethical thing to do is to kill the attackers.

Non-aggression only works until it doesn't.

It is not a victimless crime.  I could shoot a gun in public, randomly waving it about, and not hit a single person, but it's still a bad idea because the CHANCE of hurting another person was increased due to my actions.  The fact that I didn't actually hit anybody doesn't change anything.

I actually had a long argument with some anarchists because, among the many claims I made, I said all social contracts/laws/whatever all have an implied threat of violence.  I thought it was pretty straightforward.  If I want something, I take it.  If you try to stop me, we fight, and the strongest wins.  UNLESS there are social contracts or norms that allow society to decide which of us is "right" and band together to prevent even the strongest individual from overpowering the other.  It comes down to establishing normative principles in an attempt to lessen violence-- but the final enforcer is of course always violence.  One is just sanctioned violence that everybody agrees is necessary, and that's not really a bad thing, it's just worth pointing out.

You guys think social contracts are stupid or a joke because YOU are ethical, but what do you do without any contracts or other guidelines to prevent somebody who does not share your ethics from infringing on you?  And what if he is more powerful?  Without social contracts, Darwinian/Malthusian selection occurs with respect to economics and resources.  That's hardly a better solution than social contracts, right???

We are all very eagerly awaiting!  :-D

Can I do this with BOINC?

Are you guys high!!???  Don't fucking recycle or make unspendable old coins!  ONE OF THE MAIN FEATURES OF BITCOIN IS A STORE OF VALUE!!!

If and when ecdsa is cracked, everybody will hear about it.  And even if they don't-- making coins unspendable is WORSE than having them be stolen.  If they are unspendable, the legitimate account holder can never spend them.  If they are steal-able by cracked ecdsa, they may get stolen, but the account holder MAY ALSO SPEND THEM HIMSELF.  So in one scenario, the legit holder can NEVER spend them, and in the other, he MIGHT be able to.  MIGHT is clearly preferable to NEVER unless everybody universally agrees that spiting a thief is worth a lot of money.

Stop trying to make giant protocol changes!!  Leave britany bitcoin alone!!!!!!!!!!!

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First, let me say, no coins are in the wallet in this directory, so I don't care if I've screwed things up.  (I'm on Windows.) I got lukejr's latest next test, and have been running that, but then when I opened up the standard 0.7.1 client, it is re-downloading blocks that I know the nexttest already downloaded. Is it messing things up to be running these with the same datadir option enabled? The colored coins Armory only reads the blockchain as updated from the 0.7 version, and I'd like to try that out.

Ya no this is an entirely different thing unrelated to multisig

Yup.  It's not point and click in the main client, and I don't know enough to do it any other way.  So for me, Mike's utility is what I'm using.

I'm not proficient enough to read that, but it has me very excited because I at least think I know sort of what I'm looking at.  Oh boy oh boy oh boy.

In the mean time, it occurs to me 3rd party escrow can be done in this manner:  Alice has password used to create intermediate passphrase.  Bob uses phrase to make encrypted private key.  Bob then uses secret sharing to split the encrypted key up into 3 parts and gives Alice one part, Charlie (3rd party escrow) one part, and then Bob throws out the 3rd part since he already has the encrypted private key.  Alice also gives Charlie the password.

Now Alice has the password and 1 of 2 shares necessary to get the encrypted private key.  As does Charlie.  Bob has the entire encrypted private key but no password.  Any two out of the three of them can now work together to unlock the unencrypted private key.

The only problem I have with that is that Alice and Charlie can't verify that the shares they have will actually reveal the encrypted private key until it's too late (i.e. Bob screws Alice and so Alice and Charlie attempt to get the key, but Bob has simply spited them and the funds are now lost).

Also, Mike's utility does not split up encrypted private keys into m-of-n shares.

Yeah, that's exactly what I did, PDF then just text copy.  Worked just fine, just a minor pain.  Still, friggin awesome!!!!!