- Counterparty “proof-of-burn” experiment: kanzure participated in the original burn and has since contributed code upstream; he also maintains an alternative re-implementation because the official packaging is considered poor.  
- Trashcoin concept: dbolser outlined a gamified “pictographic proof-of-work” where users earn tokens by photographing, collecting, or verifying trash cleanup; kanzure notes an identical idea had already been pitched by a friend and lists practical objections.  
- Werbos quote on innovation risk (“Pandora’s Box”) is dismissed by archels as misunderstanding the meaning of innovation.  
- Hardware teardown: chris_99 and ThomasEgi discuss a utility meter that logs data in Ferro-electric RAM (FRAM) and plan to sniff its I²C bus with a logic analyzer.  
- DIY repository issues: eudoxia reports “repo not exported” errors for “screw” and “threads”; jrayhawk_ fixes the git-daemon export flags and reloads the web server.  
- Web-GUI toolkit options: nmz787_i asks which Python-WebKit bridge to use (wxPython-WebKit, pywebkitgtk, pyjamas-desktop); kanzure offers prior experience with all three.  
- Paperbot fetches two Springer reference-work entries on request, demonstrating the channel’s automated literature mirroring.