Re: [PD] cryptocurrency and pd

2014-02-08 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
I would be a little cautious about this.  If you ended up implementing something that garnered wider interest, you'd raise the reward for attacks on normal Pd users and on Pd community infrastructure.  That'd be a major burden for Pd users-- keeping an eye out for me.grimm@blah vs me.grim@blah,

Re: [PD] cryptocurrency and pd

2014-02-08 Thread me.grimm
maybe our own "Pdcoin" w/ mining ability only through/with Pd externals/patches m On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:09 AM, i go bananas wrote: > Has anything been done to try to marry these together yet? > > ___ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and

Re: [PD] cryptocurrency and pd

2014-02-08 Thread Charles Goyard
Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > On 02/06/2014 02:08 PM, Charles Goyard wrote: > >Hi, > > > >i go bananas wrote: > >>>In what way? > >>that's what i want to know! > >If that's a general question, then the answer is yes, as you can get and > >send bytes over a network and do math with pd. It's also the answ

Re: [PD] cryptocurrency and pd

2014-02-06 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Pd or otherwise, I'd be very careful about sending any messages back and forth with the actual Bitcoin network.  By doing so you are essentially telling the internet that fungible, irreversible tokens might exist on your machine, the value of which could far exceed anything that you have ever or

Re: [PD] cryptocurrency and pd

2014-02-06 Thread Simon Wise
On 07/02/14 09:56, Thomas Mayer wrote: On 06.02.2014 10:09, i go bananas wrote: Has anything been done to try to marry these together yet? PuREST JSON includes a sonification for Bitcoin values going back to 2011, but I guess, that is not what you wanted to know. it sounds the more likely ki

Re: [PD] cryptocurrency and pd

2014-02-06 Thread Thomas Mayer
On 06.02.2014 10:09, i go bananas wrote: > Has anything been done to try to marry these together yet? PuREST JSON includes a sonification for Bitcoin values going back to 2011, but I guess, that is not what you wanted to know. Thanks, Thomas -- "We left all that stuff out. If there's an error,

Re: [PD] cryptocurrency and pd

2014-02-06 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 02/06/2014 02:08 PM, Charles Goyard wrote: Hi, i go bananas wrote: In what way? that's what i want to know! If that's a general question, then the answer is yes, as you can get and send bytes over a network and do math with pd. It's also the answer for all general questions like "can I do

Re: [PD] cryptocurrency and pd

2014-02-06 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 02/06/2014 11:03 AM, i go bananas wrote: >In what way? that's what i want to know! I don't know the specifics, but I think both cryptography and finance are areas where the feature of "everything is a float" actually gets in the way. In either case you cannot afford to lose precision.

Re: [PD] cryptocurrency and pd

2014-02-06 Thread Charles Goyard
Hi, i go bananas wrote: > >In what way? > > that's what i want to know! If that's a general question, then the answer is yes, as you can get and send bytes over a network and do math with pd. It's also the answer for all general questions like "can I do something a computer does with pd ?" It

Re: [PD] cryptocurrency and pd

2014-02-06 Thread i go bananas
>In what way? that's what i want to know! ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] cryptocurrency and pd

2014-02-06 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
In what way? You should theoretically be able to visualize a proof-of-work block-chain as a dataflow diagram, for example.  But generally speaking, Pd doesn't seem like it can offer much since it would be quite slow to do hashes or cryptographic functions. -Jonathan On Thursday, February 6

[PD] cryptocurrency and pd

2014-02-06 Thread i go bananas
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