meretrix, n. Latin literally meaning “she who earns”. In both Latin and English, “meretrix” carries a slang meaning equal to that of the English term “working girl”.
Subject: Las Vegas Strippers Accept Bitcoin via QR Tattoos
https://news.bitcoin.com/las-vegas-strippers-accept-bitcoin-via-qr-tattoos/
A Las Vegas news show has featured a segment on an adult entertainment venue in the city which enables its dancers to get payments from clients directly via bitcoin transfers.
A Las Vegas news show has featured a segment on an adult entertainment venue in the city which enables its dancers to get payments from clients directly via bitcoin transfers.
[Insert cursewords here.] This is an inferior version of my idea—the same idea as for which I undertook actions inadvertently invoking one of the biggest scandals in Bitcoin Forum history.
Hello, Alia, you sly meretrix.
(Parenthetically, Jet Cash, why a bitcoin.com link? Seriously. Eww.)
Some months ago, before I even started actively posting here, I conceived an erotic theme involving Bitcoin QR codes printed on the bodies of attractive women. N.b. that the practical implementation of my idea called for temporary tattoos. I spent some time researching inkjet printer tattoo stock, including its availability and price. The business side of my idea was to recruit the types of girls who ply their trade in /r/GirlsGoneBitcoin and similar venues.
Love Bitcoin—I mean, really love Bitcoin? Have an inkjet printer? Ping me, and I will send you instructions for creating erotic Bitcoin art with me.
Though I am still disinclined to describe it in any but the vaguest terms, my idea is more than visual and practical: I have considered thereupon serializing an erotic Bitcoin novel—with appropriate photographic illustrations, but of course. The idea runs yet deeper... My ultimate goal is to promulgate a new Bitcoin fetish. I really love Bitcoin. More than that—I am enthralled: I am aroused [NSFW] by elliptic curves bound by Merkle chains!
A piece of software history:
How serious was I about this? The initial version of segvan back in December originally had two motivations: A scriptable (non-vanity) bulk address generator for other purposes, and my sexy QR codes idea. Here is when I first discussed segvan in public:
A day or two ago, I whipped up a quickie Segwit address generator with a simple regex search. It can produce both P2WPKH-nested-in-P2SH and Bech32 addresses....
Some sample outputs from short patterns:
3NULL3ZCUXr7RDLxXeLPDMZDZYxuaYkCnG (^3NULL[0-9])
bc1qcash96s5jqppzsp8hy8swkggf7f6agex98an7h (hahah; ^bc1qcash[0-9])
From earlier tests, WIF private key import was confirmed by me to work perfectly in Electrum:
Segwit addresses are sexy!
(Typo correction: Of course, that should be “imported from WIF”.
I pray that the god of prepositions not smite me.)
Some sample outputs from short patterns:
3NULL3ZCUXr7RDLxXeLPDMZDZYxuaYkCnG (^3NULL[0-9])
bc1qcash96s5jqppzsp8hy8swkggf7f6agex98an7h (hahah; ^bc1qcash[0-9])
From earlier tests, WIF private key import was confirmed by me to work perfectly in Electrum:
Segwit addresses are sexy!
(Typo correction: Of course, that should be “imported from WIF”.
I pray that the god of prepositions not smite me.)
Yes, the caption “Segwit addresses are sexy!” was a hint as to what was on my mind at the time. My intent was to integrate somewhere the visual of the Bitcoin addresses contained in the temporarily tattooed QR codes. Thus, I wanted sexy addresses, indeed. And per usual Bitcoin best practices, I at least intended for my girls to change their addresses as often as it proved feasible to change temporary tattoos.
As of now, I’ve left a single CPU core spinning for almost three months on relatively simple “sexy” patterns. Take a good guess as to what the output file looks like.
Although I did not disclose this idea in public, I have dropped hints to several persons in private correspondence; and I have alluded to something of this nature in my recent posts (and edits to posts):
The [CoinNullius] white paper will be release once translated to Kingon then transcribed to Voynishi complete with flowery and nude illustrations.
As not hereto disclosed by me in public: One of my motives which led to some recent unlucky events was my desire for someone to work with for an erotic Bitcoin art project.
For now, I will leave my intentions a mystery; but girls who have really gone Bitcoin may feel free to contact me if curious.
[Note: One of my motives which led to my unlucky assocation with Alia was my desire for someone to work with for an erotic Bitcoin art project. For now, I will leave my intentions a mystery; but girls who have really gone Bitcoin should feel free to contact me if curious. Moreover, I will revive and continue this thread if/when I have suitable other(s) with whom to make cryptolove. For I believe in the virtue of Ciphersex, q.v. — nullius, 2018-03-08]
Overall, I am ideologically motivated to educate people about strong cryptography—and most importantly, to make more people actually use it.
Point blank, sex sells....
...as someone who has spent two decades futilely urging people to use PGP (see my signature!), I well know that the main problems are laziness and lack of interest. By eroticizing a casual, beginner’s-level chat about “the distinctions between integrity, confidentiality, and authentication”, I think that could do much for raising user interest. Perhaps I may even excite someone into reading a book on the subject! Most importantly, my intent as the thread developed was to add sex appeal to actual usage of PGP, OTR, Tor, full disk encryption, and of course, Bitcoin. Thus could I be making the world a better place, whilst enjoying some innocent fun.
Point blank, sex sells....
...as someone who has spent two decades futilely urging people to use PGP (see my signature!), I well know that the main problems are laziness and lack of interest. By eroticizing a casual, beginner’s-level chat about “the distinctions between integrity, confidentiality, and authentication”, I think that could do much for raising user interest. Perhaps I may even excite someone into reading a book on the subject! Most importantly, my intent as the thread developed was to add sex appeal to actual usage of PGP, OTR, Tor, full disk encryption, and of course, Bitcoin. Thus could I be making the world a better place, whilst enjoying some innocent fun.
Now, in reply to others on the Serious Discussion thread:
Hope the QR will maintain it's shape 
QR codes have extraordinarily durable error correction, all the moreso if dialed up to its highest settings. It helps if the QR code itself is fetishized—as in my idea, whereby it can and should be much larger than this:
Hey, realsteve, here's a pic for you:
Enjoy,
Ben
Enjoy,
Ben
I just hope the tattoo is accurate. 
My comment when I saw this is that they should really have the QR code point to a redirectable URL. If their address was compromised for some reason, it'd be a pain in the ass (perhaps literally) to have it changed.
As security precaution, they will need to use different address for every transaction. That sounded painful. So they need to change tattoo every day after every night of a transaction. Painful.
I was wondering what will happen if they need to change the address for some reason?. I think they need to do the tattoo again. Even the greatest tattoo artist won't be able to edit QR code on skin.
qr codes could be printed on their clothing too as a temporay solution to this
Wherefore I thought of temporary tattoos. They wear off in a few days to a week of normal hygiene, or can be removed with alcohol. An inkjet printer sheet can produce a handy set of large tattoos all at once. Materials are readily available at many websites, including Amazon.com. Videos are available on Youtube to assist with proper application.
In the article it says that they are using temporary QR tattoos. Changing them is not a problem.
Oh. The article says. Who reads the RTFA? I certainly didn’t—not from Roger Ver’s mendacious “bitcoin.com” Btrash site.
This is actually a genius idea born in Vegas!
I will now disclose information negligibly reducing my anonymity set: I am not in Las Vegas.
But, this could actually be a pain for the guy/girl just waiting for a lap dance if the network is slow. Imagine just sitting there waiting on the block confirmations...there is never a better time to implement the lightning network fully
Just wait till I integrate Lightning Network with my sexy QR codes. The result will be an electrifying thrill.
Incredible idea. Simple yet revolutionary.
Now, you can see why I’m upset that somebody beat me to the part which will make an instant sensation. Also why I was reticent about mentioning this idea to anybody until I had at least one girl lined up. —Also, why I was so drawn to Alia. I did not discuss this with her, either; I didn’t yet trust her sufficiently to simply run an idea like this by her (or him—or them—whatever). I tried to lead with repeated hints that I had a business idea to discuss, with the intent of feeling her out (so to speak) and then establishing with her a signed preliminary agreement with nondisclosure terms for further discussion of the details.
I here commit a keyed hash (HMAC-SHA-256) of some further information about my little idea, including its original working name (which I may still use somehow). I should have done that before, perhaps with opentimestamps.org. Actually, I should make of that a habit.
Code:
6b9a75879c98701e443b81753ed2c8e6c71629165d4d881c9b6a8eb0124ac69e
The name “Meretrix” instantly sprung to mind when I saw the famous (now I suppose, infamous) sexy merit post. I considered registering the Meretrix forum account before now. But I tarried, for reason of a not unusual problem on the Internet: Unfortunately for me, the meretrix.com domain name has been registered since 1995, is in use, and seems to have some history of perhaps unseriously claiming to be an “ISO9001 certified” facility.
(Note: I did not see this thread (or any news whatsoever about the Las Vegas ecdysiasts’ QR code use) until Lovecove replied to my earlier post in Meta. I have developed a habit of checking post history when involved in merit discussions (among other scenarios). That led to the Serious Discussion of sexy QR codes.)