2018-09-17 meeting minutes

A member had the idea of emailing the meeting minutes to the mailing list at the end of every meeting, so we're giving that a try to

2018-09-17 Meeting Minutes - Met at the Long Island Welcome Center on the Long Island Expressway - Next meeting set for Monday, October 29th at the Long Island Welcome Center - Price of Bitcoin down to 6241 USD/BTC on Bitfinex - Discussed story: Cryptocurrency's 80 Percent Plunge Is Now Worse Than the Dot-Com Crash [1] - Discussed Bitcoin's market dominance [2] uprise due to altcoin prices dropping - Member had the idea of emailing meeting minutes to the mailing list. We all agreed. - Got word that Hipchat [3] was shut down after being bought by Slack [4] and quickly shut it down; Slack costs 3x as much. An open-source alternative is Mattermost. [5] - Member gave us word that Bitcoinplus [6] is shutting down on December 31st, 2018. After logging in the member was confused that due to Bitcoin forks there were 25 coins to withdraw. - After something with dating mentioned, looked up whether altcoins exist related to dating, found datecoin.io [7] and datingcoins.org. [8] - We had a laugh when a member noticed that saying "datingcoins dot o r g" sounds exactly like "datingcoins dot orgy". - In March 2018, ICANN has decided not to pursue legal action for lack of WHOIS information on TLDs that don't publish them for GDPR compliance. - Member gave us word that the new Steam client Beta installs Proton [9], which is a new multi-threaded Wine [10] compatibility layer to play Windows games on Linux.

[1] https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/09/12/2121213/cryptocurrencys-80-percent-plunge-is-now-worse-than-the-dot-com-crash [2] https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/#dominance-percentage [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipChat [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_(software) [5] https://mattermost.com/ [6] https://www.bitcoinplus.com/ [7] https://datecoin.io/ [8] http://datingcoins.org/ [9] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/ [10] https://www.winehq.org/