This is a postscript to my saga of the graphics-card disaster.
Thank you. everybody who occasionally drops money in my PayPal account. In the past it has bought test hardware for GPSD. This week I had enough in it to pay for the Radeon card, the one that actually works.
Your donations help me maintain software that serves a billion people every day. Thank you again.
Do you have a Bitcoin address we can send donations to as well? If not, I would appreciate it if you made one.
piggybacking on Maxwell’s comment, your thoughts on bitcoin?
>piggybacking on Maxwell’s comment, your thoughts on bitcoin?
Everybody wants to know that. I haven’t written about bitcoin because I want to understand it better before I do.
I’d be interested in an account of what you like and dislike about the Bitcoin project, and whether you think it’s a good way of moving power away from governments and corporations.
I would like to second Michael’s question/request regarding Bitcoin.
— FooQuuxman
You should set up thumbs-up/down or such, Eric. Sometimes we’d just like to show support for something someone else said. +1 to Michael’s comment. I’d like to know your mind on this subject.
>You should set up thumbs-up/down or such, Eric.
Can you point me at a WordPress plugin that does this?
One of the most entertaining aspects of Bitcoin is that transactions include a Forth-like scripting language — not turing-complete — and if you’re clever enough, you can use it to create things like cryptographically-secure assurance contracts. Or transactions which require two of three people to sign them, providing a mechanism for decentralized dispute mediation. Or secure transactions between Bitcoin and compatible currencies like Litecoin or the truly-anonymous Zerocoin. It’s like somebody combined every idea that anybody had ever had about cryptocurrencies, and then, wonder of wonders, people actually started using it.
About bitcoin. A very fishy thing of that currency is that about a quarter of all coins that can ever be in existence (close to half of all current bitcoins) are in the possession of the people who started bitcoin. This means they control the value of bitcoin by sheer market volume.
See the paper and discussion at:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/10/analysis_of_how.html