Introduce yourself :)

[Stoicanon]

Canadian guy here, just heard about bitcoins a couple months ago, and I live off the grid with no high-speed internet, so can't get in on the action yet.
I stayed up all night reading this forum, some of Morpheus's stuff about Goldcoin and stablecoin, and I am fascinated.  I see a day when there will be hundreds of distributed currencies, like Googlecoin, Exxoncoin, IBMcoin, GEcoin, maybe even Labourcoin (tagged to the value of 1 hour of unskilled labor) and so on, and a bunch of exchanges, and people will have highly diversified portfolios of currency, trading globally, without interference.  Despite what the Europeans are doing, and the Americans and the British, with their kleptocratic QE schemes and so on, a free market will arise, based on physical wealth.  As an anarcho-capitalist, this truly gives me hope.

An off the grid guy! I'm also like minded but not off the grid at the moment. Hopefully some of these *coins or p2p currency does take off because the power governments and elite bankers have over all of us is insane in my opinion.

Agreed

[icoico]

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[icoico]

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[Redjuice]

Red here! Newb in all things crypto-currency

[bitteriest]

New to bitcoin 
Love it !!

[Stoicanon]

BTC

[FreedomEqualsRiches]

Canadian guy here, just heard about bitcoins a couple months ago, and I live off the grid with no high-speed internet, so can't get in on the action yet.
I stayed up all night reading this forum, some of Morpheus's stuff about Goldcoin and stablecoin, and I am fascinated.  I see a day when there will be hundreds of distributed currencies, like Googlecoin, Exxoncoin, IBMcoin, GEcoin, maybe even Labourcoin (tagged to the value of 1 hour of unskilled labor) and so on, and a bunch of exchanges, and people will have highly diversified portfolios of currency, trading globally, without interference.  Despite what the Europeans are doing, and the Americans and the British, with their kleptocratic QE schemes and so on, a free market will arise, based on physical wealth.  As an anarcho-capitalist, this truly gives me hope.

An off the grid guy! I'm also like minded but not off the grid at the moment. Hopefully some of these *coins or p2p currency does take off because the power governments and elite bankers have over all of us is insane in my opinion.

Agreed

Likewise.  Long live BTC and all her profitable forks!

[Cheshyr]

I may as well throw in to the intro thread.

I'm an embedded design engineer who likes to poke and prod at new technology.  I actually started mining bitcoins in 2009, when it was fresh, but bailed early 2010 before it took off.  Sadness.  Now I'm looking through the current coins and innovations, and enjoying a bit of the altcoin culture.  Curious to see what falls out of all of this.

[icoico]

still

[Phridge]

Helloo! :~{]

[Kalen]

Hello !

[Tervel]

Newbie restrictions are really frustrating, however I guess that they cannot be avoided. Well, I need the five posts, so..
Hello!

[btc6000]

Fancy a crack at building a distributed exchange mechanism?

[codehalo]

Hi Codehalo here,

Lurked on the forum for quite some time... I guess if someone like Adam Back can register, so can I.

[iammagicmike]

Oh the ignominy of it - stuck in the newbie bin after 24 years of internet use, 18 years of linux, 30 years of programming from z80 assembler and up,  debating C++ template semantics with Stroustrupp while I was writing a parallelizing C++ source to source translator (before I evolved into a philosophically an anti-C++ person preferring C), enjoying USENET flame wars in the old days and tittering about newbies ineptitude

So anyway hi I am Adam Back, inventor of hashcash (the bitcoin mining function... all those mining cores and ASICs are grinding away producing hashcash).  So yep I contributed to the environmental crime of so far 40MW continuous mining.  We installed a 3.5kW solar installation but it seems like a small offset :|  I also implemented the opensource library credlib which implements Chaum and Brands ecash.  And actually reinvented offline multiple transfer Brands ecash (turns out someone else already figured it out when I asked Stefan).  I consulted for Nokia on ecash crypto back in 2002.  I worked at Zero-Knowledge Systems from 2000-2003.  So anyway I know a few things about ecash, privacy tech, crypto, distributed systems (my comp sci PhD is in distributed systems) and I guess I was one of the moderately early people to read about and try to comprehend the p2p crypto cleverness that is bitcoin.  In fact I believe it was me who got Wei Dai's b-money reference added to Satoshi's bitcoin paper when he emailed me about hashcash back in 2008.  If like Hal Finney I'd actually tried to run the miner back then, I may too be sitting on some genesis/bootstrap era coins.  Alas I own not a single bitcoin which is kind of ironic as the actual bitcoin mining is basically my hashcash invention.  (The only difference being a double hash for a bit of added design paranoia, the switch from SHA1 to SHA256 and defining fractional bits - hashcash difficulty can only double or halve - just count leading bits - bitcoin variant of hashcash defines the challenge as to find hashes < 2^x where x is the log2(difficulty)+32 in bits which is the same when there is no fractional part).

I am a strong believer in distributed trust models.  I was one of the early and vocal technical voices on the cypherpunks list.  Worked on distributed trust privacy tech and anonymity designs at ZKS (ToR is a newer re-implementation of their freedom network which includes my forward anonymity contribution), understand the risks of centralization, vocalized concerns about the risks of CA model, decade before we saw diginotar and others bring those predictions to fruition with Iranians and other CA operators issuing rogue sub-CA certificates for gmail.  I broke a number of crypto deployed systems most of which under NDA.  I have some concerns about centralization trends and how to avoid them on bitcoin.  Oh yeah I proposed something namecoin like also a decade or so back.

But for now I, just gotta get out of the newbie trap.

Ignominy, my word for the day

Adam

that's quite the resume

[Kalen]

gettin rdy to bitcoin mine hardcore!

[kinichiban]

Interested in DIY ASIC mining and Bitcoin market stability.

[mitsanaga]

hey all whats up. new to the bitcoin scene as a miner. ive been watching the progress on this new commodity since 2010-11 and am now financially able to start putting together mining hardware. let the bit minting begin..... mwa hahahahaha.

but seriously, im mitsanaga. and to be clear, im the only mitsanaga on the internet to the extent of my knowledge. so don't be afraid to say hi if you see me elsewhere. if its not me you end up talking to, let that person know that "their" name is already taken. (literally. i plan on buying the rights to the name... lol... maybe not, but i think most who read this post will understand what i mean)

[Avalon_user]

my Name avalon.

[BitHav]

Hello There!

I am an electronic engineer with long experience in the design and manufacturing of advanced electronic circuits and PCB manufacturing.

Previously I was thinking in designing my own ASIC chips for Bitcoin mining when Avalon decided to sell batch of chips and decided to make a shot at this, and postponing my previous thoughts.

Planning in buying a full batch of 10,000 chips as soon as I can put the money together.

I also can offer to manufacture the boards for the people that are buying chips but are unable to assemble them in working boards.  I will provide the printed circuit boards and all the additional components to make the boards functional. Will deliver working and tested boards in return for a fee (over the cost of ordering the PCB and the components, assembling and testing).

More information as soon as Avalon makes available its reference design.