From steve.b at osfda.org Wed Nov 30 15:53:49 2022 From: steve.b at osfda.org (steve.b at osfda.org) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 15:53:49 -0500 Subject: [talk] Another Tech Group: cryptoswapmeet.org Message-ID: <7933ca35-b53b-05da-9340-9a2427405268@osfda.org> Besides sys admin issues, I also have worked in digital currency development. I have always steered clear of Baller culture in crypto. I have dialoged with Gavin Andressen (on decentralized identity, among other topics...), and am working on a Zcash project at the moment. A group I'm setting up will be having a Dinner in Chinatown. Reservations will be made via crypto ($20 for those showing a history in a meetup OR group, or the full cost -$60 for this particular venue...) We used to do this after each meetup at the first bitcoin meetup in NYC. Some of us would like to do this on a repeated basis, once a month, using different venues and cuisines. The website for it is: https://cryptoswapmeet.org. For those not wanting to join meetup (we leveraged off that to get maximal outreach to digital currency enthusiasts...), if you are interested and want to be notified as to when we will meet, and to possibly make a later deposit, you can Email the protonmail address reserve at cryptoswapmeet.org. It's just an opportunity for digital currency aficionados to discuss usability issues with wallets, current legal issues, technical innovations, rumors, etc. over a good meal. Read the group's landing page for more about the philosophy we seek to advance in crypto, along with a reprint of a salient article from the ACLU on the issues at hand we now face. The deposit helps to insure that the attendees are serious about crypto. We will post the name of the venue and their phone number when the event is announced, so that one can call them and verify that the event is reserved and that it actually costs what it does before plunking down a deposit. Besides the issue of crypto (which I suspect _some_ of you have?), *it's also an opportunity to explain why BSD is a good alternative for a wallet's operating system*. Most crypto developers drop Ubuntu -which can be convenient for prototyping given its everything-but-the-kitchen-sink install style. But that's insanity for security in a production environment. You can discuss with others the topic of security homogeneity and BSD vs. linux -not only for wallets, but for elective cloud services some there might seek to provide. Thanks for this shout out... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From george at ceetonetechnology.com Wed Nov 30 16:30:23 2022 From: george at ceetonetechnology.com (George Rosamond) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:30:23 -0500 Subject: [talk] Another Tech Group: cryptoswapmeet.org In-Reply-To: <7933ca35-b53b-05da-9340-9a2427405268@osfda.org> References: <7933ca35-b53b-05da-9340-9a2427405268@osfda.org> Message-ID: <149641d6-bdd3-31f2-fe14-301d1231bbe1@ceetonetechnology.com> On 11/30/22 15:53, steve.b at osfda.org wrote: > Besides sys admin issues, I also have worked in digital currency > development. I have always steered clear of Baller culture in crypto. I Way against our protocol to allow posting for external things, esp non-BSD ones... g