On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Someone in our FRIAM community (who can claim credit if they wish) once > suggested to me, based on HashCash <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash> > and GeoHash <http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Main_Page> and > GeoCache<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocache> that > there should emerge something called "HashCache". The idea in question > involved a method for being able to anonymously solicit and exchange "cash" > for "hash" using HashCash methods along with Geo/Hash/Caching. I suppose it > could also work to have at your disposal your favorite military-grade > weapons/ammunition anywhere you travel without needing to maintain a > personal network of unsavory types. I'm not saying it is a good idea, but > it does seem somewhat inevitable in the progression of the phonetic riff > (Hash, Cash, and Cache) as well as in the constant arms race between what > we consider savory and what we do not. > Apparently the name originally proposed for GeoCaching was GPS-Stashing until someone pointed out law enforcement might not like this. "Excuse me, citizen, but what are you doing wandering around in the woods?" "Well, officer, the Internet told me there was a stash somewhere around here..." - http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/gpsstash/conversations/topics/62 > This solves the problem of the small-time recreational drug user who is > past their prime and can no longer just crash into any local Dive Bar, > Starbucks, or Auto Parts store and score some pot "on the fly" while > traveling. TSA has made it harder to carry your stash with you, the USPS > has made it harder to "mail some ahead", and despite the medical marijuana > laws, it is probably not equally easy to "score" just anywhere you go at > the drop of a few big bills. > But there must be some way vendors on the Silk Road deliver their goods...I figured they contained it in things like ceramic gifts and so on packaged to foil chemical sensors. > - Anonymous ;^) > Or at least, pseudonymous...
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