The trees, and public currency, are something that all people need.
Special thanks to Travis Patron of Diginomics for expressing an interest in my “Bitcoin is AI” article and soliciting this response. This gives me an opportunity to expand further on my vision of proof of work consensus networks as a breakthrough in artificial intelligence research. You may want to reread part I to follow along....
Descent from Mt. Fiat - Via Market Arrete (Class IV, WI3, 8-20 years, full rack) If you've been a high mountain beak bagger, you know the drill. You look around, you take a few pictures. Yes, this was your goal. But what are you doing here really? This is a dangerous place to hang out. ...
So, you may have heard something about various folks going around claiming they are going to ban encryption. If you have any idea about what communication is of course, you find this extremely amusing. Basically, these folks are standing up on podiums and saying something along the lines of: "Hi! I'd like to be important,...
You will find these memes all over the place. It's likely not worth our attention so let's be brief. Here they are in an oversimplified format: "Banks controlled by Jews". "Illuminati controls Hollywood / Music Indoostr33z". First of all, by debunked here I mean "finally and permanently discredited" ((Do you know who I am quoting? ...
Yup! That hold water, like drizzle in a paper cup This one etched in stone, the chisel with the paper up I need a cut: a taper-up, edge-up Niggas can't measure up, I'm here to get the treasure up MF DOOM Information is water in an infosec bucket. How well does your bucket hold...
You can find me on freenode IRC using nick funkenstein or funkenstein_ in #woodcoin or #bitcoin-assets. If you aren't familiar with IRC use this link. You can email me using: funkenstein [\aT$$ woodcoin.org. This is my 4096 bit PGP public key: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v1 mQENBFSdAD4BCAC2I1/dI0BDC2k5ThatWH3uOyBgFX9frzfCwBZyXYxKmZTeQ2T/ RfS79GHGdckAdVqnEjgWUtjLKjkNqyFVuUpHAfb+Z/fhXOoxTRzMWrAllPpeRWdX UYGjhuCkakiedkSnLFRmaBcXBpLVlYrqK0daSIEww+B+NYGitnrAjnGwNH3l0/CX SN2aaj2CMoC6muCwcCjY47ZhS8cZtr3x6dwpJ9rEy2stMC+I2dSaVA+/j3ios1qr jVrD0HruKqcUgzDoju/t/Mp0cN2P7w+9FwYiIasL4RQFqCbRgFpgwsbCdywsYFyT xSLluOFcQEoSACcvEL/eFO4EUj9nwlBk29ivABEBAAG0MkZ1bmtlbnN0ZWluIChU...
Mea Culpa This post is a parody of the anthropic principle. However, it is also intended to be educational on the topic of the even tempered scale, aka "equal temperament". Why is pi > 3? There exist various mathematical spaces in which circles' circumferences vary in different ways. On the surface of a sphere for...