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by the_stc 9y ago
1: I suppose it's possible that enough undercover cops are going to have sex with strangers to make a bust. I agree this does not work for clients (often male) - a cop won't mind having to touch someone for a bit. But a provider (
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by the_stc 9y ago
We are going to take a HARD anti-drug stance to keep the platform clean and reduce issues. Obviously we cannot stop users from consuming, but we will not allow it as a service (no "420 friendly" listing). But introducing drugs put
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by the_stc 9y ago
If you look at our offering, I think we have found a great spot between "lol bitcoin sex workers over Tor" and a full SV startup with a HQ on Market St. We accept cash payments, so that eliminates a huge barrier to entry. You can
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by the_stc 9y ago
The LE issues I meant that Uber had a blacklist for LE agents using Uber. They actively prevented LE from using the service. This is one of our core features.
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by the_stc 9y ago
I expect that the moment we operate in the US (next year), someone will want to press conspiracy charges against us, regardless of where we are or local laws. Plus living in a place where this is fully legal (very few places) is not a viabl
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by the_stc 9y ago
The anonymity is for our core team, so we can stay operational[1]. But that is very few people. Other contractors are trustless. On-ground people will be rotated often enough (and well paid to compensate for that). Obviously actual workers
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by the_stc 9y ago
We're probably going to mostly fill our Series A within a week (turning on the site in an hour or two). We have lots of expressed interest already. It's not hard for investors. Use Tor when trading our ERC20 token-shares, or pay w
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by the_stc 9y ago
We're completely serious and have already raised some money (doing a blockchain fundraiser right now to get the rest to open our first market). We're operating as an extrajurisdictional company. De-anonymization is a risk, though
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by the_stc 9y ago
We guarantee payments and provide legal insurance to both sides. But honestly, once you have worked with someone, your trust of them is probably enough for you to decide if you want to keep them on without the insurance. If you get a worker
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by the_stc 9y ago
Yep, exactly. We're dealing with personal services workers, and in the higher-range, these are not interchangeable. If a client finds a provider and they really mesh, then it's likely they'll directly contact. We'll deal
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by the_stc 9y ago
Nice timing. We are working on "Uber for Sex" or "Tinder + Buy It Now". On the lower end of the market, it can be a low skilled job in the sense that a lot of people know how to have sex well enough to satisfy a lot of c
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by the_stc 9y ago
Article is completely unsourced, just asserts that the NSA used writing style analysis. This is something to worry about. At Pink, we analyzed our previous writings and emails to pick up on some of our writing tics and eliminate them when w
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by the_stc 9y ago
CPU mining is not profitable even for free. Assume they get 5 minutes of computation per ad at 100H/s. They need billions of ads a day just to get 1GH/s, which is around 48 cents a year.
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by the_stc 9y ago
I highly doubt this. He cites 40MB of downloads plus high CPU usage. Mining bitcoin won't need 40MB of download. Plus it has an ROI of 0. Even with free adspace this would not be worthwhile. More likely is someone just fucked up their
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by the_stc 9y ago
There should be. Scams aside, so many of these ideas simply don't make any sense, especially for a token. What we will see, what we are doing, is to issue shares instead of tokens (token-shares). We'll payout dividends. But that&#
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by the_stc 9y ago
If they had a solid revenue model, they might be a good target for blockchain fundraising. I dislike the term ICO, because a token makes zero sense for this company. They could do what we're doing and sell shares (token-shares/blo
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by the_stc 9y ago
Because it's staged and directed? If it was just recording people having sex, you'd be right. But there's a lot of editing and other work going on. If you watched a football game where directors came on and had the players re
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by the_stc 9y ago
A pimp takes a 100% cut and has an ownership-like relationship. We're going to take a reasonable service fee. We're against sexual trafficking and coercion of any kind. So no, I don't think reasonable people would consider ou
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by the_stc 9y ago
We're doing a blockchain IPO because the subject we deal with has significant legal issues in most countries (details in profile). We're operating as an extrajurisdictional company to get around these issues, with an anonymous fou
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by the_stc 9y ago
Absolutely not sarcasm. Why would ICOs giving out tokens with no equity be superior to a tokens that have equity and receive dividends?
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by the_stc 9y ago
Really? I hope we will enter a post-ICO era of fundraising. Tokens simply do not make sense in most cases, nor do new chains. In my startup, we're issuing Token-Shares (Blockchain Bearer Shares) that pay dividends[1]. I think something
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by the_stc 9y ago
Have there been serious contracts without major flaws? Not just basic token contracts, which would be better served with something other than a Turing-complete half-broken language. We were considering implementing some of our blockchain IP
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by the_stc 9y ago
In 7 months?
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by the_stc 9y ago
Even with ringsize 10, it does not help if someone does BTC->XMR->BTC with the same exchange (or an exchange that shares records) without adding some XMR->XMR churn steps inbetween. My future freedom depends on me getting this righ
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by the_stc 9y ago
It is harder than that though. Monero has an issue in that everyone is only doing ringsize=3 transactions, providing little anonymity. If you buy from an exchange then turn around and sell it back, even with different amounts, you will be o
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by the_stc 9y ago
This is disingenuous. Bitcoin is very anti-anonymous. Tor is rather anonymous. Saying that perfect anonymity does not exist because there's always some bits leaking to an omniscient entity is not helpful. ProtonMail should support Mon
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by the_stc 9y ago
I am very impressed with their service, accessing it on their .onion site. I've been paying with Bitcoin, but it has been a manual process. Their support seems responsive. The UI is great. I was going to use fastmail, but ProtonMail&#x
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by the_stc 9y ago
Again, if TCP/IP captured money, how would that fund HTTP - they are not related (ETH doesn't fund random tokens on top of the Ethereum blockchain, so why would the TCP/IP people getting money give it to other protocols?). Th
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by the_stc 9y ago
1. You've always been able to crowdsource if you want to go through legal hoops. 2. I'm not sure how you can say Filecoin's token is tracking the non-existent network. Even Ethereum is a bad example. All the Enterprise Ether
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by the_stc 9y ago
Can you explain exactly what you mean by TCP/IP is underfunded, with examples? And how are tokens on the Ethereum network capturing value in other networks? How is Filecoin better off with its own money versus people bidding for storag

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