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cyclonebill CC-BY-SA In The Selling Of AI I compared the market strategy behind the AI bubble to the drug-dealer's algorithm, "the first ...| blog.dshr.org
I'm David Rosenthal, and this is a place to discuss the work I'm doing in Digital Preservation.| blog.dshr.org
Seven years ago I posted Optical Media Durability and discovered:| DSHR's Blog
cyclonebill CC-BY-SA In The Selling Of AI I compared the market strategy behind the AI bubble to the drug-dealer's algorithm, "the first ...| blog.dshr.org
Source There will be fewer than usual posts to this blog for a while. I have to write another talk for an intimidating audience, similar to...| blog.dshr.org
Not AI, just a favorite| DSHR's Blog
Source The festschrift that includes the edited version of the draft we posted back in April entitled Lots Of Cliff Keeps Stuff Safe has b...| blog.dshr.org
The mythical CyberCab @ChrisO_wiki tweeted: How to tell if someone's bullshitting: watch for them to give a deadline that they repeatedl...| blog.dshr.org
The Register is running a series on The State Of Storage. Below the fold I flag some articles worth reading.| DSHR's Blog
Sauce The rise of the technology industry over the last few decades has been powered by its very strong economies of scale . Once you have ...| blog.dshr.org
Forty-two months ago I wrote The $65B Prize citing Divesh Aggarwal et al 's 2019 paper Quantum attacks on Bitcoin, and how to protect again...| blog.dshr.org
Because Nvidia became one of the most valuable companies in the world, there are now two books explaining its rise and extolling the geniu...| blog.dshr.org
Source On Sunday 4 th May Vicky & I saw Berkeley Rep's production of a thought-provoking new play by Moisés Kaufman, Amanda Gronich, and ...| blog.dshr.org
Lamborghini Urus| DSHR's Blog
BTC "price"| DSHR's Blog
In 1.5C Here We Come I criticized people like Eric Schmidt who said that:| DSHR's Blog
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Vicky and I were invited to contribute to a festschrift celebrating Cliff Lynch's retirement from the Coalition for Networked Information. We decided to focus on his role in the long-running controversy over how digital information was to be preserved for the long haul.| DSHR's Blog
At the Spring 2025 Membership Meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information, Vicky and I received the Paul Evan Peters Award.| DSHR's Blog
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Joel Wallenberg interviewed me on 14th February for his article in the 28th February edition of Grant's Interest Rate Observer entitled Memo to the bitcoiners. Alas, it is paywalled, but among the many quotes from me Wallenberg used was that blockchain-based systems "are very vulnerable to supply-chain attacks".| DSHR's Blog
I gave a talk at the Berkeley I-school's Information Access Seminar entitled Archival Storage. Below the fold is the text of the talk with links to the sources and the slides (with yellow background).| DSHR's Blog
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I've written several times, for example in Fixed Supply, Variable Demand , about the mechanism that causes the cost of transacting on a bloc...| blog.dshr.org
Source Rupak Ghose's The $100 billion Bloomberg for academics and lawyers? is essential reading for anyone interested in academic publishi...| blog.dshr.org
I have written before about the double-edged sword of software vendors' ability to disclaim liability for the performance of their products...| blog.dshr.org
The Gini coefficient expresses a system's degree of inequality or, in the blockchain context, centralization. It therefore factors into ar...| blog.dshr.org
In Web3/Crypto: Why Bother? Albert Wenger draws an analogy between the PC and "web3" as platforms for innovation: The late Clayton Christ...| blog.dshr.org
Source You have only to scan Molly White's Web3 is Going Just Great to realize that you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and v...| blog.dshr.org
SEC vs. Consensys On 30 th June Amy Castor and David Gerard reported that SEC sues Consensys over MetaMask Swaps and Staking : The SEC i...| blog.dshr.org
X11R1 on Sun Techfury90 CC0 I apologize that this post is a little late. On 19 th June the X Window System celebrated its 40th birthday. W...| blog.dshr.org
The fundamental idea behind Bitcoin is that, if you restrict the supply of something, its price will rise. That is why the system arranges t...| blog.dshr.org
Mining a Bitcoin block needs to be costly to ensure that the gains from an attack on the blockchain are less than the cost of mounting it. M...| blog.dshr.org
I apologize for the delay in posting but, as you will see, the post I was working on grew rather long. It seems obvious that doing crimes ...| blog.dshr.org
Source The SEC has a long history of refusing to approve spot Bitcoin ETFs, on the reasonable basis that the Bitcoin market was heavily man...| blog.dshr.org
From the " no-one could have predicted " department comes David Pan's Crypto Lenders’ Woes Worsen as Bitcoin Miners Struggle to Repay Debt ....| blog.dshr.org
Starting in August, Datafinnovation has posted two series of posts about ( meta )stablecoins, the first about Tether's reserves and the seco...| blog.dshr.org
