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Meeting Minutes
2018
2018-08-27
2018-07-30
2018-06-25
- Went to meet at Panera Bread in Huntington at the Walt Whitman Mall and found it closed
for a training for new products for Panera Bread employees only
- Relocated the meeting for the night to the Long Island Welcome Center on the
Long Island Expressway, just east of exit 51 (Deer Park Avenue)
- Next meeting July 30th at the Long Island Welcome Center
- Price of Bitcoin down to ~6200 USD/BTC
- Talked about various altcoins, use and infrastructure concerning spinning up a new altcoin
- Looked at Bitcoin Gold price, has had large drops and is now ~25 USD/BTG
- Discussed mining various altcoins and some bits about mining strategies and hardware
2018-05-21
- Met at Panera Bread in Huntington at Walt Whitman Mall
- Next meeting June 25th at Panera Bread in Huntington
- Price of Bitcoin down to 8400 USD/BTC
- Requirements for purchasing Bitcoin in Coinbase seems to have changed recently; by default it now takes a week to buy Bitcoin
- Examined buy/sell limits in Coinbase accounts (which seem to vary often)
- Helped member retrieve cryptocurrency from an old wallet installation
2018-04-30
- Met at Panera Bread in Huntington at Walt Whitman Mall
- Next meeting May 21st at Panera Bread in Huntington (May 28th is Memorial Day holiday)
- Price of Bitcoin up to ~9200 USD/BTC (dropped $200 to 9000 USD/BTC as we sat at the table)
- Had a look at Twister website (software for peer-to-peer microblogging)
- Mentioned Memo, a social network built on Bitcoin Cash
- Member mentioned Sandboxie for sandboxing Windows VMs
- Heard news that Microsoft disbanded the Windows Development Group, merged with Azure group
- Discussed server administration for starting/stopping our Bitcoin node for upgrades
- Discussed some issues of travel relating to Passports and Visas
- Back in 2003 there were 15 U.S. that issued drivers licenses without photos; today it appears all have photos
New York was the last U.S. state to switch to photos on drivers licenses, 1986 13 U.S. states still allow for no photo on a driver's license, only for reasons of religious beliefs (New York is not one of the states that allow this.)
- Discussed (vaguely) properties of ZCash and Monero cryptocurrencies in terms of anonymity
- Discussed (general) differences between SELinux and AppArmor security configuration
2018-03-26
2018-02-26
2018-01-29
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