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mircea_popescu: anywya, getting back to mats ' thing, i find it truly amazingthat the ustards actually have the unmitigated audacity to try and rhodesia turkey.
mircea_popescu: except of course there isn't a lot of usfilm agit-footage about how checksum deterred bad white guy.
mircea_popescu: anyway ; checkpoint does exactly nothing to solve the problem. it is more in the same vein of feel good cure, like "mace" spray.
mircea_popescu: there's no requirement to show ~you~ have a safe heaven in order for something to be law
mircea_popescu: just like woman who permits this deserves all the cum she gets.
mircea_popescu: there is no provision made to rescue the node that can be stuffed in dark alley
mircea_popescu: yes, once said martians appear you can make the forced mistake of a or the force mistake of b.
mircea_popescu: if your "choice" manifests itself only after they ask the question, it is improper to call it a choice.
mircea_popescu: this absolutely requires smarter guy on the usg side shot. and there will be some shooting. thing is there's not that many competent dudes on us side.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not that ; the guy was the architect of the dept of state's most recent and most embarassing failure.
mircea_popescu: mats us ambassador in manilla sleeping with a buttplug.
mircea_popescu: history-as is has some various peculiarities, such as this.
mircea_popescu: but the discussion wasn't that, it was "rewalk history" bla bla.
mircea_popescu: no, on the contrary, to retroactively orphan what were valid blocks at the time
mircea_popescu: there were at least a dozen blocks including breaking txns. at the time.
mircea_popescu: blocks ~prior to that date~ ; not the current blockchain.
mircea_popescu: if /me worked for the us secret service, /me would be getting permanently lost in $farcountry just about last week.
mircea_popescu: experts also don't have the winner's keen incentive to get rid of the praetorian guard, and permanently.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes managed to fish it out. so : incorrect txn validation leading to improper coin generation was found on august 6th 2010 ; the fixing version is 0.3.10 (15 aug). because block validation rules change there, i'd expect all blocks prior to that date to not work in any sane eatatron.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, you should see the early versions, with bitmaps and shit.
mircea_popescu: yes but you're also experimenting with "interesting objects these people" and it's gonna get you in hot water with 'em.
mircea_popescu: he's seen it in others and is fascinated by the process ; have you noticed he spent the past few weeks trying to commit people to things ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nobody did this publicly EVER afaik ; the non-donedness of which is a variable i keep track of in mah own models.
mircea_popescu: in typical style, poorly documented (satoshi made, too)
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes bear in mind that there was a non-compatible fork cca v2.0
mircea_popescu: because i'm supposed to have been born as stupid as they are or wtf.
mircea_popescu: somehow this bunch of idiots wants me to believe that a bovine constituency that doesn't give a shit about turned off subway somehow actually goes out and protests the government.
mircea_popescu: and not like there was an angry crowd at the entryways prepared to set them on fire, either.
mircea_popescu: this isn't after a fire. this is because... well... the subte employees are protesting.
mircea_popescu: in other unrelated lulz, buenos aires, one of the largest urban (well, "urban", whatever) agglomerations in the world ... closed down its subway system today. all of it. probem ???
mircea_popescu recalls publishing the correct value somewhere (it's not exactly 21mn "bitcoin", it's a satoshi count.)
mircea_popescu: more's the point, notwithstanding we got a reprieve from "get it done by summer", we still don't have actual alternative we're happy with, so... what's the rush.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's in "give them rope" phase of my give them rope to hang themselves with procedure.
mircea_popescu: it also doesn't work for any individual transaction, just for the whole windows abomination taken together.
mircea_popescu: by tallying up the segwit inputs and outputs. well, sure, but it can be verified is the point.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can deterministically verify that segwit doesn't create coins without accessing their proprietary binary blob.
mircea_popescu: "if your coinbases do not trace to a block subsidy, you did not pay." sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: tracing all payments to the coinbase will be useful if/when we decide to not accept "segwit" payments.
mircea_popescu: its not altogether a bad idea to do this ; on the contrary, it is the sort of thinking process that denotes a healthy, functioning intellect.
mircea_popescu: no he is right, you can mine it if you stay on a special subnet that's isolated.
mircea_popescu: and that looks like ... defensive buffer allocation ? lol.
mircea_popescu: pretty sure various people (myself included) did full trb blockchain download ; but mimi's very open and usefully so.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck you'd do that is beyond anyone's comprehension, but w/e.
mircea_popescu: oh i bet i know what it is, derps prolly use methyl glycol for antifreeze
mircea_popescu: the same species that can glossaly grade nafta dies from antifreeze ingestion. fucking diversity of mankind already.
mircea_popescu: how. how the fuck. how do you drink antifreeze it's like the most objectionable thing in nature.
mircea_popescu: shape looks kinda right and the static collection fits the tube patter