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Christmas shopping with Winship and Parks

Dec. 22, 2003 (8 years, 5 months ago) | Tags: photoblog

Christmas shopping with Winship and Parks

Dec. 22, 2003 (8 years, 5 months ago) | Tags: photoblog

From the OpenMoney Manifesto:

Money is just information, a way we measure what we trade, nothing of value

in itself. And we can make it ourselves, to work as a complement to conventional money. Just a matter of design.

There is no good reason for a community to be without money. To be short of

money when there's work to get done is like not having enough inches to build a house. We have the materials, the tools, the space, the time, the skills and the intent to build ... but we have no inches today? Why be short of inches? Why be short of money?

I just keep eyeing the Chaum patent expiration in 2005, and hope I have time to write some good opensource software around it.

Dec. 3, 2003 (8 years, 5 months ago)

I've put out a python wrapper around the bitzi library. It's good at extracting some metadata out of files. It should be useful for other p2p hackers. You can download it on my python-bitzi project page.

An example of it's usage

>>> import bitzi, pprint
>>> bc = bitzi.Bitcollider()
>>> ret = bc.analyze('/home/myers/zim_propaganda_r5_c1.gif')
>>> pprint.pprint(ret)
{'bitprint': 'XIUF4RY3UTHYAYVP2SUVWPP45E4LPQWA.74QG2SYGG7SFVRSSR4BN6BNEAFBTOVRTR7LLFJA',
 'head.agent': 'Bitprinter/0.5.1 (Dec  1 2003 16:15:19)',
 'head.version': 'S0.4',
 'tag.ed2k.ed2khash': '19fd58da4d5b9236d8e0706d1b6b14e9',
 'tag.file.first20': '47494638396164020202D500000000008C0B0699',
 'tag.file.length': '8348',
 'tag.filename.filename': 'zim_propaganda_r5_c1.gif',
 'tag.image.bpp': '6',
 'tag.image.format': 'GIF',
 'tag.image.height': '514',
 'tag.image.width': '612',
 'tag.uuhash.uuhash': 'klaiKcvdxJb+gfmSlMz5ZWPf//8'}

Dec. 2, 2003 (8 years, 5 months ago) | Tags: python