Although it was a MPAA-produced, silly movie, Accepted, it's got me thinking ( Read more... )

I don't think "ripplebandit_com" was actually going for what I interpreted it as, but this seems to be an original idea on its own --

A cryptocurrency backed by entropy.

CMB could do it now, if it were hooked up with random.org. The idea being that making purely random numbers, outside of hardware is hard ( Read more... )

Links that I might want to mention on the air as I think of them...

to go from what you have to what you want.

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A slightly-modified(and will be continually modified as I find more examples) useful little gem from AUTOMATED PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS: Concepts and Hardware, with some more additions

Electronic
Electrons
Source of EMF(Voltage)
Copper wires
Electrical Resistance
Electrical Capacitor
voltage
current

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"Jeff is a Ripple pioneer, probably the person with the most experience actually using these systems in the world."-Ryan Fugger, originator of ripple

I'd just like to share some of my observation concerning 'dead' users/'non-users' of the ripple network ( Read more... )

Some interesting stats about my ripple usage:

I have been at over 32 connections since this weekend -- It is starting to get to the point where people I know of have ripple accounts with eachother and money is being transferred in unpredictable ways as ripple finds optimal paths. I don't remember when I hit 16, but it wasn't that long ago, I don't ( Read more... )

My friend nPHYN1t3 has recently fallen under some hard times -- he's needed work for quite awhile and in general the economy has wrecked him, and his business lately. It's a shame that the world hasn't allocated him a space where he can sustain himself yet, and we're all missing out with his experience and skills going to waste right now.



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Apparently sometime in the past few years, ripple instituted an option(or maybe it's been there all along) where you can choose to allow your contacts to draw from ANY of your currencies at approximately the 'world market' rate, wherever they get that data from. This is exploitable (ie a mild security risk to you), and you can have arbitrage ( Read more... )