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On the Practicalities of Counterfeit-Proof Physical Bitcoins

Posted by timothy on from the stacking-complications dept.

fsterman writes "What do you get when you cross physical one-way-functions, a distributed and secure datastore, with physical Bitcoins? A viable alternative currency for micro-nations and dictatorships with hyper-inflation." Whatever your thoughts on bitcoin, it's interesting to think about the infrastructure and production cost of the tokens we use as money more generally.

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  1. If only we could have counterfeit-proof by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Slashdot, so devs couldn't create fake Beta versions of it.

  2. Jeopardy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    category: clusterfucks for $200

    Metro, Unity, GNOME 3, Beta.

  3. Paste this to cut the BETA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please post this to new articles if it hasn't been posted yet. (Copy-paste the html from here so links don't get mangled!)

    On February 5, 2014, Slashdot announced through a javascript popup that they are starting to "move in to" the new Slashdot Beta design. Slashdot Beta is a trend-following attempt to give Slashdot a fresh look, an approach that has led to less space for text and an abandonment of the traditional Slashdot look. Much worse than that, Slashdot Beta fundamentally breaks the classic Slashdot discussion and moderation system.

    If you haven't seen Slashdot Beta already, open this in a new tab. After seeing that, click here to return to classic Slashdot.

    We should boycott stories and only discuss the abomination that is Slashdot Beta until Dice abandons the project.
    We should boycott slashdot entirely during the week of Feb 10 to Feb 17 as part of the wider slashcott

    Moderators - only spend mod points on comments that discuss Beta
    Commentors - only discuss Beta
    http://slashdot.org/recent - Vote up the Fuck Beta stories

    Keep this up for a few days and we may finally get the PHBs attention.

    -----=====##### LINKS #####=====-----

    Discussion of Beta: http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=56395415
    Discussion of where to go if Beta goes live: http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=submission&id=3321441
    Alternative Slashdot: http://altslashdot.org (thanks Okian Warrior (537106))

  4. Did Taco just throw us all under a bus? by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The Washington Post interviewed Taco about the Beta. Apparently he's not very sympathetic.

    I posted some more thoughts on this on reddit(I feel funny), but basically I'm getting the impression that neither Taco, the Slashdot editors, or especially Dice every care very much for the Slashdot commenters. It would explain quite a few things over the years I guess. I honestly feel like the (original) Internet is being put back in a box these days. Get off my lawn, etc, etc.

    P.S.
    Is Slashdot deleting posts about the Beta? Didn't this site used to not delete posts?

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    May the Maths Be with you!