Re: [silk] Bangalore Silkmeet tomorrow?

2011-05-16 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
Not a traditional top post. After a bit of haggling with Udhay over Gtalk, the two of us have decided that Silver Wok on Richmond Road is a good place to meet. How about we all (and by that I mean the Silklisters in Bangalore not otherwise engaged) meet there this evening? Say, 6 pm onwards? C On

Re: [silk] Bangalore Silkmeet tomorrow?

2011-05-16 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Indrajit Gupta wrote: > You should plan to leave by 4 for the airport. > I should also plan to cancel my bus ticket, book one for a flight to Madras before I leave to the airport by 4. C

Re: [silk] Bitcoin

2011-05-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Peer to peer currency generation is something that botnets will love to game - artificially generate cash by using other people's computing power And the protocol itself might lend itself to such attacks. For example http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=823 Easy way to debase a currency

Re: [silk] Bitcoin

2011-05-16 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
On 16 May 2011 15:36, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: > > What do you folks think about Bitcoin? It looks interesting, in that > it's a digital currency with no trusted third parties, and all the > "rules" (such as: you can't just print your own money) enforced by the > fact that only transactions which

Re: [silk] Bitcoin

2011-05-16 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On 16-May-11, at 9:34 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: You bet: http://bitmunchies.com/ Complete with fractional prices, I love it. The currency is undergoing a bit of a bubble right now, by the way - https://mtgox.com/ At USD 8.373 per bitcoin, the bitcoin economy is theoretically valued at U

Re: [silk] Bangalore Silkmeet tomorrow?

2011-05-16 Thread Indrajit Gupta
You should plan to leave by 4 for the airport. --- On Mon, 16/5/11, J. Alfred Prufrock wrote: From: J. Alfred Prufrock Subject: Re: [silk] Bangalore Silkmeet tomorrow? To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Monday, 16 May, 2011, 21:53 Serendipty! I'm in B'luru too, and have no appointments other

Re: [silk] anyone near Coimbatore?

2011-05-16 Thread Leslie Martin
Thank you for all the responses! I'm really looking forward to this trip. I have never been to India before, so I'm particularly excited. I'm leaving in two days and will be staying until late June. I don't yet have a trip planned to Chennai but I will see what I can do. hehe, Jeremy says I have

Re: [silk] Bangalore Silkmeet tomorrow?

2011-05-16 Thread J. Alfred Prufrock
Serendipty! I'm in B'luru too, and have no appointments other than a short trip to Indra Nagar. So where do we meet? (I have to catch a 7:30 flight - that needs to be factored in) J.A.P. On 16 May 2011 16:47, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > On 16-May-11 4:37 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote: >

Re: [silk] Bitcoin

2011-05-16 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 05/16/11 14:13, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: > > On 16-May-11, at 4:39 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > [snip] >> I don't know much about BitCoin, but my initial thoughts were that >> this is unenforceable as an alternative monetary standard without a >> global power behind it. > > As the hawala syst

Re: [silk] Bitcoin

2011-05-16 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On 16-May-11, at 4:39 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: [snip] I don't know much about BitCoin, but my initial thoughts were that this is unenforceable as an alternative monetary standard without a global power behind it. As the hawala system has proven, a currency has as much value as what anyo

Re: [silk] Bitcoin

2011-05-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 05/16/2011 04:39 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > I don't know much about BitCoin, but my initial thoughts were that > this is unenforceable as an alternative monetary standard without a > global power behind it. Nu-uh .. all they need to worry about is how many carders, botmasters etc like the

Re: [silk] Bangalore Silkmeet tomorrow?

2011-05-16 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On 16-May-11 4:37 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote: > Apologies for the short notice. I will be in Bangalore tomorrow for a > day. Kind of last minute trip. Anybody up for a quick meet? > I will be free for most of the morning, and from about 5 to 9 pm. We > could either do a late breakfast

Re: [silk] Bitcoin

2011-05-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 01:09:50PM +0200, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > I don't know much about BitCoin, but my initial thoughts were that > this is unenforceable as an alternative monetary standard without a > global power behind it. The US dollar effectively left the Gold That's exactly 100% back

Re: [silk] Bitcoin

2011-05-16 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: > > What do you folks think about Bitcoin? It looks interesting, in that > it's a digital currency with no trusted third parties, and all the > "rules" (such as: you can't just print your own money) enforced by the > fact that only transact

[silk] Bangalore Silkmeet tomorrow?

2011-05-16 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
Hello, Apologies for the short notice. I will be in Bangalore tomorrow for a day. Kind of last minute trip. Anybody up for a quick meet? I will be free for most of the morning, and from about 5 to 9 pm. We could either do a late breakfast/early lunch or evening coffee/beer, ideally the beer. The

Re: [silk] Bitcoin

2011-05-16 Thread Anish
Interesting I was reading the paper :) Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: Alaric Snell-Pym Sender: silklist-bounces+anish.mohammed=gmail@lists.hserus.net Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 11:06:59 To: Reply-To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] Bitcoin

[silk] Bitcoin

2011-05-16 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
What do you folks think about Bitcoin? It looks interesting, in that it's a digital currency with no trusted third parties, and all the "rules" (such as: you can't just print your own money) enforced by the fact that only transactions which the majority of computers in the system accept get consid