Introduce yourself :)

[Stovemaster]

Hi there everyone.

Im from the UK, and finding it difficult to get on the ladder, but I will get there!

[1714020242]

1714020242

[chralash]

Hello,

I am a Bitcoin medium/early adopter, and the purveyor of content for chralash.wordpress.com. Figured it would be be worth getting a bitcointalk account since I've lurked here every day for 2 years.

[gonbo]

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

It is great.

[spdorsey]

Hello World!

  Just starting out. Thanks for the forums.

[mmmd]

Hi everyone,

I'm from germany and after having read interesting topics in this forum for some time, I decided to join.

[Aggrophobia]

need my last post to post in the mining section ...

[marc000]

This is the only forum I know that requires you to spam in order to allow you to post.

At least try to be constructive.

[tralala33]

Hey,

i'm new to all that cryptocoin stuff, but this seems to be an excellent place to get started.

tralala

[BitCoinMint]

There is alot to learn and im ready .....i'll be reading  the next page

[Turdit]

Former banker living in Austin TX (fedfunds trader for many many years). I have an indepth understanding of the banking system (specially the money creation) and its many flows. Got into the bitcoin story over 2 years ago but did not pay attention as I should have. Learning as much as I can now about that new ECO System believing it s the only path to the new order. And Yes crypto currency will rule in a very near future...

See you all around  

[SIMPIPO]

hello everybody iam simpipo

[FreedomEqualsRiches]

I look forward to contributing to some of the more philosophical parts of this forum, Ayn Rand (Enlightened Self-Interest) vs AnCap (Coercion-free society) and Nightwatch State (Just a wee bit of coercion for national defense), and how the new currency will fit into and interact with these ideas.  I fear that if BTC really takes off, and cuts the banks and governments out of the deal, we could bring about at a serious de-stabilization of the planetary economy, with possibly apocalyptic consequences.  Only time will tell, but in the end, better to die on my feet than live on my knees.

[GiganticDays]

Newbie from UK here.

[GER_Nexus]

Hey guys, I am GER_Nexus. Whatever.....

[skat23]

Hi!

I'm Skat from Italy and after months of lurking I decided to join!  

[sdczen]

Hi I'm a crpyto-currency-a-holic.  Where are the free donuts

[devise003]

Hi guys, I am new to the forum and being drawn to it by Ripple fx. I would really appreciate if somebody can extend me trust on rhdzXsn2GN8yegVPXDHNWSPMmxSbF9pYPC to get me started....

[hopelessinvestor]

i'm a hopeless investor that loves the thrill of risky investments

[shcnard]

Hello All,

I have been absorbed by all this crypto-currency info and am slowly getting my toes wet.

Don't think the wife is to happy with it.

Look forward to learning lots more with everyone here.

[keepinithamsta]

Been lurking for a while.  Have a 5x7950 machine running around 3Ghash.