Hack Northwest Meeting today, Friday 12/15/2017 6:30 PM

[Tril]

Hi folks, long time no chat.

I'm opening up a public meeting this evening at 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM at
Invent Coworking, 114 W Magnolia Suite 505. If you are late, the door
or elevator may be locked, so bring a cell phone, there will be a sign
on the front door with a number to call.

Purpose of meeting will be to discuss current events, Internet,
electronics, Linux, bitcoin, and everything else that combines to
create the technological singularity that through feedback loops, is
now exponentially skyrocketing the culture of hacking to a world
audience. Many are unaware or unready to accept the philosophy that
open systems that anyone can join, sharing information, enabling
freedom and interoperability, are infinitely stronger and will (and
should) succeed compared to closed systems that seek to limit access,
hide information, control others, and hide interfaces.

Bring projects you are working on or questions. Short notice for this
week, hoping to resume meeting weekly. If Fridays are not the best
day for you, send me an email (or show up and discuss).

Tril

[Josh Shupack]

Awesome, yeah Friday evenings aren't good for me.  Pretty much any other time would be better :)

Hope it goes well.

..Josh..

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[Josh Parrish]

Not going to make it, but on my mind is the growing carbon footprint of Bitcoin mining.

https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-mining-guzzles-energyand-its-carbon-footprint-just-keeps-growing/

[Steven Bochinski]

re: carbon footprint... I have a friend here in New Orleans who sets
up 10KW battery backed solar systems to farm bitcoins. I can possbily
provide more details on this, still learning about it myself.

[Josh Shupack]

I guess for me, that isn't really the point, it's still using a TON of energy.  There are other crytocurrencies that are actually productive w/ their computation, like folding proteins and things like that.

..Josh..

[Martin Passmore]

I plan to be there. (There are a couple of other evenings that also would usually work for me).

I finally (as a mere user) came to glimpse the potential significance of blockchain (The Economist describes it as “foundational”, beyond “disruptive” technologies). And there is a bunch of tech stuff I need to upgrade my skills on.

On the carbon-energy-blockchain topic. These sites and search entries were useful to me:

“blockchain”

- Wikipedia

- blockgeeks.com:

-Etherium, Neo

- “carbon price blockchain”

(Here, some skeptical pieces on the topic--Guardian--left out an absolutely critical part of the puzzle, which is the action of mycorrhizae. They have plenty of company, from the current Whatcom Watch to the New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert. Like Linux or genitalia, the infrastructure that makes everything possible is unmentionable, and honestly-earned expertise might not protect the best-intentioned prophet from pontificating like a pope). (I don’t know what the current wildfire disaster has done to the promising Marin County project)

(The questions skeptics avoid are: “What created soil in the first place?” and “What fed plants before we began recycling munitions factories so as to feed crops in our depleted soils?” The entire conventional focus for carbon sequestration is on vaporware tech solutions, like expensively extracting CO₂ from smoke in order to send it underground to squeeze a bit more oil from dying wells!)

It’s true that the “mining” for bitcoin is a surprising real issue, energywise. But this sort of glitch is the price of innovation, and others are addressing it. And “Satoshi Nakamoto” truly deserves his anonymous credit for the original concept, however it all develops.

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