Actions from kevinmarks.comMovable Type Pro 5.22014-02-26T19:45:21Zhttp://www.antipope.org/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=feed&_type=actions&blog_id=1&id=3444Commented on Schadenfreude in Charlie's Diarytag:www.antipope.org,2014:/charlie/blog-static//1.3729#19107452014-02-26T19:45:21Zkevinmarks.com
One thing that Bitcoin does have that is interesting is a public register of all transactions. The problem with Basic Income and Social Credit theory previously was what Hayek called the synoptic delusion - the impossibility of knowing the totality of all transactions and thus growing the money supply at the correct rate to account for growth. What if we had a universal transaction register for the UK, and that the basic income was funded by the needed expansion of the money supply?
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Commented on Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire in Charlie's Diarytag:www.antipope.org,2013:/charlie/blog-static//1.3688#18362722013-12-18T20:21:43Zkevinmarks.com
One interesting angle is that the time required to confirm a Bitcoin transaction as part of the blockchain imposes a time limit on transactions of the kind envisaged by a Tobin tax - I wonder about the ratio of wasteful computation used in bitcoin mining compared to high speed trading in conventional stock and currency markets.
Looking at Coinbase, the VC-backed bitcoin to dollars exchange company, they make it about as easy to sign up as etrade - somewhat cumbersome, and requiring bank and credit card details, as well as a US SSN. They also have a $5 spiff for getting others to sign up, following the original Paypal idea. Thing is, both the spiff and the trading threshold for winning it ($100) are denominated in US dollars, so they aren't even using Bitcoin as a currency of account themselves.
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Commented on Trust Me (I'm a kettle) in Charlie's Diarytag:www.antipope.org,2013:/charlie/blog-static//1.3687#18271442013-12-12T14:35:37Zkevinmarks.com
Presumably these kettles will implement HTCPCP. Perhaps you can ping them and see if they respond with HTTP error 418. If it is surveilling you it SHOULD return error 451 instead.
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Commented on CMAP: "Why do you use Microsoft Word?" in Charlie's Diarytag:www.antipope.org,2013:/charlie/blog-static//1.3676#17931422013-11-20T19:45:48Zkevinmarks.com
If it's impossible to change, how did publishing go from paper MS to Word? Is there a history of that transition that could help with a new transition to an HTML5 workflow?
(I suggets that as it is the truly universal document format, and while in some ways as complex as Word docs, exists in multiple interoperating versions and has an explicit agenda to be usable for many decades).
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