[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] DLSLUG Monthly Meeting (TODAY)

2013-04-04 Thread Lloyd Kvam
April 4, 2013 Topic: Project Cauã (and the Project Cauã Media Center) Jon maddog Hall At: Dartmouth College Haldeman 041 http://dlslug.org/directions.html Admission is free All are welcome Presentations in the queue for future

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG: April 2nd 2013 - Bitcoin

2013-04-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Peter Petrakis peter.petra...@gmail.com wrote: If you can buy puts against this then it's easy money. Why don't they suspend trading during a DoS or an institute an uptick rule? I thought one of the big things about Bitcoin is that there is no they, it's all

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG: April 2nd 2013 - Bitcoin

2013-04-04 Thread Peter Petrakis
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Peter Petrakis peter.petra...@gmail.com wrote: If you can buy puts against this then it's easy money. Why don't they suspend trading during a DoS or an institute an uptick rule? I

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG: April 2nd 2013 - Bitcoin

2013-04-04 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Peter Petrakis peter.petra...@gmail.com wrote: If you can buy puts against this then it's easy money. Why don't they suspend trading during a DoS or an institute an uptick rule? I thought one of the big things about

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG: April 2nd 2013 - Bitcoin

2013-04-04 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Peter Petrakis peter.petra...@gmail.com wrote: I thought one of the big things about Bitcoin is that there is no they, it's all peer-to-peer. Yes/no? stock exchanges are also peer to peer in a sense ... No, they are not. They are centralized clearing

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG: April 2nd 2013 - Bitcoin

2013-04-04 Thread David Rysdam
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 15:46:53 -0400, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: Peer-to-peer is two guys meeting on a street corner and saying Hey, wanna buy some Bitcoins? :) What if 100 guys meet on a street corner? And what if that street corner is then blocked, DoS'd if you will, by a rival

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG: April 2nd 2013 - Bitcoin

2013-04-04 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes: On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 15:46:53 -0400, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: Peer-to-peer is two guys meeting on a street corner and saying Hey, wanna buy some Bitcoins? :) What if 100 guys meet on a street corner? And what if that street corner is

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG: April 2nd 2013 - Bitcoin

2013-04-04 Thread Peter M. Petrakis
On 04/03/2013 11:42 PM, chris gagnon wrote: Here are the attached slides from the bitcoin meeting, I suggest using gmail, google drive to view the file. It looks like the next Nashua/MerriLUG meeting will be about juju: https://juju.ubuntu.com If you have something you'd like someone to