Link of the day: OpenMoney

02 Dec 2003

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.

python-bitzi 0.1 Released

01 Dec 2003

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'}

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