Calling them potatoes

Oof lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNFAUgMrA8o

yeah i agree the guy that covered sargon was boring but he prob a liberalists

Anyone go to Mythcon? What are your thoughts?

fee like, if i had the money, there is a marketing opening up here for like non-political payment processing and the like

Honestly, I thought Tim Pool was one of the best speakers, he was critical of many political sides, and didn't bow down to any political agenda. He speaks in short, but very concise sentences.

easy ad: "We don't ban you for your political opinions"

@VibrantGoo how was mythcon overall for you ?

aside from the bomb scare

seems like that would take up a lot of the attention

somebody really ought to create some sort of system to take the wind out of bomb hoaxes

Overall, it was not that great. People were not really understanding the other side, while the audience was cheering when the speaker made a "good" point. It ended with a terrible Sargon debate over semantics.

maybe it should be impossible to contact the organizers on the day of the event without tickets.

then third parties would be unable to create scares

@Grenade123 that won't work because the payment processors are dependent on the credit card monopolies, who have no qualms about forcing them into compliance.

@VibrantGoo damn that sucks , seems like no one wants to find common ground

and there's no such thing as "just make your own credit card company bro"

I don't know how credible the bomb scare was, seems like it was more of a liability issue

sorry, i meant like the whole thing

hence "if i had the money"

"the money" in this case been billions of dollars to bootstrap a credit card firm that wouldn't have name recognition to compete with existing firms.

@Rabbi Shekels Agree, seems like people are so used to their political bubble that when they leave, people think their ideas are crazy and don't know how to respond.

of course, the alternative is to find some of those smaller, backwater credit card companies, and offer investment in them to boost their services to help reach a wider market, in exchange for a large enough cut of equity to control the decisions

the biggest danger is banks, but you could start with creating a credit union of sorts and add on credit card services follow by payment processing.

Other than Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover what other credit card companies are there?

Done case closed

https://twitter.com/neounrealist/status/1043529933967044608?s=21

as the dems would say

id say kavanaugh is off the hook since we should apply the same standard

@Atkins ones not in America. There are more that are mainly bank to bank, which is where starting a credit union takes effect

and those are networks, not just companies

its like who owns the backbone internet lines vs just an ISP

alternatively, in theory you could probably use a crypto or something to start your own, idk. need to learn what makes them a network and how you'd make one

of course defcon would have a document on this https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-11/dc-11-presentations/dc-11-Imhoff/Credit-Card-Networks-101.pdf

nice find ^

i think the biggest problem as to why there is not much in terms of alternatives popping up is as much as not knowing how to make the thing as it is cost of entry

I need to go to DEF CON again now that I'm of age to drink in the U.S.

i need to go

Last time I went, I was 17, so I had to lie to the hotel to even be allowed to stay. Contract relies on direct liability.

Cool vinyl record badge thing though, with coded message on it.

don't bring any tech to def con if you don't want someone to hack it the brag about it