Topic: Gavin will visit the CIA - page 10. (Read 153108 times)

if gavin reminds the cia to tell congress to take back the power to coin currency, i support his trip. fuck the federal reserve being a private company. i want that shit run by congress members.

also, legalize drug dispensaries, brothels, and use the DEA airplanes to search for heat signatures of people locked in basements instead of plant growing equipment.

The technical aspects behind Bitcoin are well known for years already, and (although cleverly put together) nothing really fancy or revolutionary. Some crypto guy I talked to was rather like "Why the hell use such inefficient hashing algorithms, when they could use something that could much easier be done in hardware like AES?" (Yes, he's an FPGA guy ) I explained then that it was rather meant to make it more accessible + that creating transactions doesn't require much calculation power, only mining does - but it was not even necessary for me to explain ANYTHING behind the concept of hashed block chains etc.

I really would be more curious about what the CIA guys ask in the end. It heavily depends on the audience as well I guess though - there won't be any need to explain a lot about the technology behind BTC, as it is already well known to experts. If there are more general risk analysts and the like in the room however, they might be interested in technical aspects more (while the IT guys will most likely be bored/annoyed ). Hopefully Gavin is allowed to give a general overview over this (something along the lines of "They were worried about netsplits, asking about already known attacks, like the 51% attack, wanted to confirm that each Bitcoin can be traced after it's creation and what my view is about centralized aggregators (like MtGox + mybitcoin) where many people share one wallet").

Yes. Respect for sharing this. Although, it would be more like an interrogation than a conference. Certainly, they'd be interested in the history of the project rather than in technicalities. I don't expect anything good to come out of this meeting but anyway, wish you success, Gavin.

He's hunkered down at Crystal Peak

Just found this thread and wanted to drop a one-liner to thank Gavin for his open approach to this matter .

Ah, I kind of remembered having read that but hoped I was wrong. Thanks for quoting this as a reminder!

@Gavin: Do think you'll get your act together? It certainly would be cool to have that talk available even thought it would certainly be even more interesting to know the Q&A-part ;-) ... but I guess they'll probably have you sign some sort of NDA, won't they?

This would be interesting.

I haven't tried it yet, but people's descriptions of its texture and constitution seem relatively consistent, while their descriptions of its flavor seem to vary. These descriptions come from people on Internet forums as well as folks I know who have tried it in meatspace, pun half-intended.

http://caloriecount.about.com/seitan-tastes-like-ft122540
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071209123400AAkO00s
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070222193930AAjV82L

No. Nerds talking to nerds?

Yep, I'll correct you...
It's like saying a lead developer at Blizzard giving a speech about his work with MMORPGs is representing the wow player base oO.

Now, do you see the difference?

I'm sorry, I've just seen that. If they don't allow recording then you should not accept this invitation. Simple as that.

That would be awesome!!! It's probably unlikely they'll give that permission - but at least ask ;-)

Gavin, can you please ask for a permission to record your presentation and show this video to the bitcoin community? If it's open, let it stay open!

Gavin - Make sure you read your copy of 'The Art of War' before you go.

So you think CIA has something that is faster than the top 500 supercomputers on earth combined?

[citation needed]

If CIA hooks up their mainframe to mine bitcoins. We are all fucked, big time.

must be hookers and blow 

So... thanks for the flight?
How much cash can we pump into bitcoin exchangers before the community freaks out?
Huh? , uh not more than a $20 per coin exchange rate. probably.
That little? We were hoping for ...
I mean, probably two hundred to..
..yes?
Two thousand dollars a coin. That's a good number.
Thanks for your time! Have some and on us!

I'm amazed by the cuteness of those who said "Bitcoin could be great for agencies paying informants on terrorist-supporting countries".