Attendees

  • Kris
  • Meliena - Puerto Rico - Vancouver Film School
  • Alex - Electrical Engineer who does trading. #blocktalk hashtag
  • Chelsey: Just completed her Masters - power in the information age
  • Clayten - interested in security, coding, payments, smart contracts, working with investors on some ideas
  • Taylor -
  • Kiko -
  • Beth: Shoppers
  • Zach -

Discussion

  • Xposed Installer and Adware in f-droid store

  • video editing for linux: light works

  • making me redundant. beth hosting next one.

  • ideas for the night:
    • star mount for mac transformer like heat sinks
    • individually identified food items (QR codes)
    • bitcoin wallet with more features
    • micropayments
    • bitcoin 1.0 stuff - wallets & payment gateways. moved to distributed market
    • hardware wallet - redefine with protocol analyser
    • bitcoin can create trust between people who don’t know each other. Open bazaar. (complicated, doesn’t need to be decentralized where it doesn’t need to be). Simpler implementation.
    • bitcoin giftcards in a mutlisig wallet.
  • Social Enterprise: Sunday next part II.
  • Channel Bonding Project:
    • overlaps with Firechat
    • only do SSL
    • PFQ
    • dedicated hardware, or on your laptop.
    • Ask Bob Beck of OpenBSD fame
    • Kris to invite Kiko, setup a call with Bob.
    • a python script
    • 3 computers, 3 devices with 2 NICs
    • Clayten to focus on blockchain/payment part
  • Next hosts
    • Beth hosting next week
    • Kiko hosting 4th of August
    • Kris hosting Aug 11th
    • Clayten hosting 18th
  • Overheating of laptop transformers idea
    • silicon spiky for transformers
    • sugru
    • magnetic adapter for magsafe adapters to stop breakage
    • David Lowey headphone adapter
    • custom adapter for ends of wires
  • individually identified food items (QR codes)
    • It’s in databases on private computers. scan QR code could tell you journey. This is information that people want.
    • legal compliance.
    • saleable to companies producing things.
    • good for recalls
    • start with a food market
    • create the token. have the source verify, then it goes to the next source.
    • foodqr.com register your product there as a farmer. trucker logs in, and gets their info added
    • Canada and Japan only countries left with Dairy boards.
    • interesting opportunity for using blockchain tech
    • Pasture to Plate
    • We have no idea how much milk is being drunk - the data integrity is important
    • EddieStone developers.google.com/beacons
  • bitcoin giftcards
    • app that can scan business cards and read the details
    • get 3% back on - airmiles for bitcoin
    • airmiles solution using bitcoin,
    • offer businesses opportunity to offer airmiles/bitcoin
    • everyone in your plaza could use it. 7% savings locally.
    • % back if you prefer for share
    • open source giftcards
    • monetize - one key for franchises
    • Gyft
    • https://www.giftbit.com/ Giftbit]
    • Pepsi jet winner
    • it allows businesses to hold bitcoin
    • if bitcoin goes down, lose nothing. goes up, you get more.
  • micropayments:
    • for non-profits
    • changetip
    • dogecoin
    • tie tips to reviews
    • coinos.io app is open source, take it and app a tip feature
  • bitcoin 1.0 stuff - wallets & payment gateways. moved to distributed market:
    • My girlfriends customers, locals in bitcoin.
    • proof of commitment
    • proof of existence
    • prediction markets or silk road in the cloud
    • short a stock. we trust PwC and Ernst & Young, we’ll trust these people as our source of truth
    • Did IBM close on NASDAQ on this date at this amount
    • Who’s your source of truth, setup the contract ahead of time.
    • We’re all asking for the existing thing
    • An Oracle in smart contracts
    • Augur
    • orisi on github
    • TrustAtom
  • We also need anti and escrow contracts as well as an oracle
    • we pay for a request for oracle insurance
    • if one oracle rats out another oracle they get paid
    • this is to ensure we pay the best one
    • then we build a bookmaking app on top of that one
    • a smart contract that can perform a real computation, something that can handle a metacurrency
    • a bitcoin level 2.0?
    • You can replicate all bookies and gambling with a smart contract
    • Stellar (a fork of Ripple) consensus protocol
    • buying the trust
  • 10 minute trade test app
    • fiverr.com
    • or mechanical turk
    • rate the fashion
    • 5 anonymous fashion advice
    • 2 colour palettes
    • 20 suggestions
    • Any question with 1-5 questions
    • people like you also wore
    • if happy moves into a 1 hour pay to play
    • triangles would form
    • “I want to see the world wear suspenders" - Clayten
  • hardware wallet - redefine with protocol analyser
    • we mostly trust things like Redphone. We don’t trust the devices it runs on.
    • take 2 phones. take one phone from a list of pre-approved phones.
    • rip out cellular antenna or use wifi only antenna.
    • MITM devices that says you’re not sending anything but voice data
    • It can report your location
    • make trusted/secret phones using parts
    • do the trestle hardware thing like in bitcoin,
    • essentially create a bluetooth microphone that scrambles the audio
  • what would it take to scramble audio that are bonded

  • Upverter

  • bit9 does whitelist
  • sophos sold hardware to endpoint detect bad things
  • a router level ban hammer
  • adblock
  • trust the hardware
  • copay bitcoin wallet
  • FPGA that does this
  • measure customer trust
  • Ask an economist how to do it so they don’t know they’re being tested
  • enter your credit card number if you trust
  • the premium they’d be willing to pay is an embodiment of that trust
  • Amazon echo

  • Sphinx open source voice recognition

  • Privacy complaints - Kris to do it in a talk

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