Re: [cryptography] the Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge (and about Zcash in general)
On Tue, 04 Jul 2017, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote: > this is a good answer, in particular your declaration that you > "haven't bought or sold any ZEC". I believe you should give this > answer to those people considering themselves victims of a market > gambling operation you do not take part into. > >Victims to gambling? Do you hear yourself speak? I have *written* it reporting the interpretation of circumstances by these people who are calling themselves victims of ZCash in public and then satisfied by the answer given by ZCash representatives here. The reason why I'm debating this is that I find it very interesting what is happening around ICOs, both as a researcher and as a crypto investor. What is the need to bring this debate to an ad-personam attack, if not the increase in testosterone production due to the current heat wave in .nl? but then please, do us a favor... ciao ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
Re: [cryptography] the Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge (and about Zcash in general)
dear Zooko, On Tue, 15 Nov 2016, Zooko Wilcox-OHearn wrote: > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Jaromil wrote: > > > > ...but ZCash feels a bit scammy. Its pumped up entry on the market > > burnt a lot of people's money... is it just their fault being stupid? > … > > Sincerely, I'm not trolling. Seeing there is some space for a civil > > conversation, I'd be interested in reading answers from the Zcash ppl > > themselves here, what they are going to make out this market hype > > stun. I'm a big fan of all Z- things (ZFS, ZSh, Zorro) but > > ZCash still.. meh. how about helping us understand? > > I'm not quite sure what your question or objection is. Can you spell > it out? pardon the dispersion, my question / objection is about the way ZCash responds to people that have lost money in financial gambling due to the hyped ICO price at ZCash entrance. So far I understand your response has been to treat a lawsuit for people using your (tm'ed) logo for instance with the @ZCashVictims account on Twitter. > I and the Zcash dev team have no control over the market price. that's arguable on more levels, yet from what I understand you don't have further control: you have adopted what seems a rather smart mining incentive curve on the first 34 days. This certainly does not means you have control on the market price, but you have well planned mining incentives (and market price is a collateral of it) and this plan is public. > We don't operate an exchange, we haven't bought or sold any ZEC, we > have never given anyone investment advice, and we've always striven > in our public communications to be clear about the risks and > limitations of the Zcash project. this is a good answer, in particular your declaration that you "haven't bought or sold any ZEC". I believe you should give this answer to those people considering themselves victims of a market gambling operation you do not take part into. thanks for your clarifications, best wishes -- ~.,_ Denis Roio aka Jaromilhttp://Dyne.org think &do tank "+. CTO and co-founder free/open source developers @) ⚷ crypto κρυπτο крипто गुप्त् 加密 האנוסים المشفره @@) GnuPG: 6113D89C A825C5CE DD02C872 73B35DA5 4ACB7D10 (@@@) opmsg:73a8e097a038d82b 8afb4c05804bda0d 281b3880fbc19b88 ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
Re: [cryptography] the Zcash Open Source Miner Challenge (and about Zcash in general)
On Sat, 05 Nov 2016, David Mercer wrote: > But a proper mailing list for core engineering work is indeed > desirable. I'd offer place on lists.dyne.org... ...but ZCash feels a bit scammy. Its pumped up entry on the market burnt a lot of people's money... is it just their fault being stupid? is there any answer to this https://twitter.com/ZcashVictims besides a trademark lawsuit? can we just ignore dodgy crypto market dynamics and go on shining up our projects, even when the crypto market is at the core of the developer's business model? Sincerely, I'm not trolling. Seeing there is some space for a civil conversation, I'd be interested in reading answers from the Zcash ppl themselves here, what they are going to make out this market hype stun. I'm a big fan of all Z- things (ZFS, ZSh, Zorro) but ZCash still.. meh. how about helping us understand? ciao -- ~.,_ Denis Roio aka Jaromilhttp://Dyne.org think &do tank "+. CTO and co-founder free/open source developers @) ⚷ crypto κρυπτο крипто गुप्त् 加密 האנוסים المشفره @@) GnuPG: 6113D89C A825C5CE DD02C872 73B35DA5 4ACB7D10 (@@@) opmsg:73a8e097a038d82b 8afb4c05804bda0d 281b3880fbc19b88 signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
Re: [cryptography] [FORGED] Re: Kernel space vs userspace RNG
On Tue, 17 May 2016, Peter Gutmann wrote: > The Doctor writes: > > >It took me an afternoon to write some Python to measure the times in between > >particles hitting the tube, hash them, and cat them into /dev/urandom. > > A geiger counter is really a whiteboard-only source of entropy, it's a nice > textbook example but not really practical for real-world use. how about a lavalamp :^) in a remote slashdot thread from 15yrs ago https://slashdot.org/story/01/01/26/1617217/the-ascii-cam "actually, I read about a group who was doing just that (in some old issue of wired, I think). they used a bank of video cameras set up in front of lava lamps (good for random input) then hashed the video feeds into a string of nice random noise. " https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10189&cid=479517 back then I got a private email from someone at Sun confirming they were using hasciicam on lavalamps and sharing read-only text dumps via NFS. Not sure this was in Portland, but I'm quite sure this is the dream of the 90's :^D ciao -- Denis Roio aka Jaromil http://Dyne.org think &do tank CTO and co-founder free/open source developers 加密 6113 D89C A825 C5CE DD02 C872 73B3 5DA5 4ACB 7D10 ___ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
