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mircea_popescu: so you're going to bake in
a magic number which is the largest number of groups that may ever exist in anyone's view
mircea_popescu: i dunno about your or anyone else's experience, but i personally have spent my entire life to date in the company of people whose takes were fundamentally irreconcilable. ever since
a wee tyke doing double time between the upper crups exclusive school and the criminal underworld.
mircea_popescu: because B mined on the basis of the chain that it saw ; and
A idem. there's no guarantee these would stay coherent, and so they didn';t.
mircea_popescu: not being
a superposition of eigenstates myself, but
a resolved one, i can't both credit and not credit the 5btc. would seem i have to choose one.
mircea_popescu: now - person X comes to me with
a 5 BTC which he wants to spend on milk. B sees the 5 as valid ;
A, as invalid. i know both
A and B. does this mean i have to choose ?
mircea_popescu: ok, take the nonsense practically : there's
A, as illustrated yesterday, the group of six nude ladies ; there's B, b-
a. i hope you folks aren't nude atm ?
mircea_popescu: so the option is "either create
a money that drives
a government, or else create
a money that drives
a crazy" ?
mircea_popescu: you're supposed to be
a stabilizing influence in my life, world! wtf is this!
mircea_popescu: the [fundamentally centralzising] question of "tell me the one and only god-given truth as to ownership" dissolves in
a cloud of acceptances.
mircea_popescu: ie, humans have
a very lengthy, selected ability to centralize against the possibility of
a nice world.
mircea_popescu: and i'm telling you, the solution to
a broken knee is not to break an elbow.
mircea_popescu: trust me, unlike you that doesn't play, i ~created~
a homeostatic game world.
thestringpuller:
a coin which requires nuclear power plants worth of energy to mine single blocks
mircea_popescu: this is not
a problem of scaling, even if it is
a problem made apparent by scaling
mircea_popescu: i'll put some boxes to it as
a seed, whosoever wants to do the same can do the same and it can take it from there.
mircea_popescu: and there is
a very good vp on the table. gossip + proper hashes and ciphers + correct pow + proper relay/mine design + + +
mircea_popescu: we needed
a 2nd for
a long time anyway, wtf is this ripple eth ltc doge bs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for your own peace of mind : i would ~definitely~ support
a beedog coin, irrespective of how cartel mining impasse is resolved or the eventual fate of current-bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: if you get them in one package, should prolly be "all of them", ie
a crate. esp if no hurry.
nubbins`: anyone else wants NSA tees for cost of shipping, send me
a line
mircea_popescu: so you want to have
a proper meld here, gossipd-bitcoin
mircea_popescu: you can break bitcoin w/o breaking the internet, which is
a problem.
nubbins`: do
a 180 and see the park where nubs plays frisbee and smokes dope
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: we have, but I think you overestimate the facilities required to execute such
a plan...
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2016 14:01:07; nubbins`: alf is simultaneously saying he can't afford to get
a box of shirts shipped to him, AND that he can't find anything to spend $10k bezzlars worth of btc on?
nubbins`:
a temporary situation, no longer required
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: it's better to be
a light skinned house-boy than to work the fields...
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: you should move to projects for
a year an live like the actual slave negros.
nubbins`: that's
a function of how much you spend, not how much you make.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: reminds me of affluent guy who ends up in witness protection washing rental cars for
a living
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2016 13:44:29; nubbins`: he can't just move out of DC, he has to do it on
a carrier fleet
thestringpuller has
a feeling he will be depressed when reading upcoming s.bbet statement
nubbins`: node warfare sort of is
a thing already
mircea_popescu: you could airdrop them from orbit on alf's house. seeing how he lives next door to obama's rural cousin #5460580, prolly give norad
a good wake-up.
nubbins`: alf is simultaneously saying he can't afford to get
a box of shirts shipped to him, AND that he can't find anything to spend $10k bezzlars worth of btc on?
☟︎ assbot: The necessary prerequisite for any change to the Bitcoin protocol on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1oZOJjK )
assbot: No Such lAbs (S.NSA), January - February 2016 Joint Statement on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1oZOwNp )
nubbins` can't imagine the sort of mindset required to believe that the only two viable options for one's future are stasis or
a $10mn windfall
nubbins`: he can't just move out of DC, he has to do it on
a carrier fleet
☟︎ thestringpuller: asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: BTC just failed, now what? << It seems business as usual tho...or is #b-
a closing shop?
nubbins`: in
a perfect world where the transfer of such goods or the provision of such services was able to take place in absolute secrect
nubbins` sent
a $17,000 package via fedex last year
thestringpuller: going to 0 as in game over? or going to 0 for
a minute then we'll be back to $X price.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: it's
a good place to store money when it's not in use...
nubbins`: "what can i buy" as
a process of elimination isn't something i'm interested in participating in
nubbins`: shit, sorry, "what odds" is
a newfy-ism
mircea_popescu: bitcoin, after night on
a decade of empty posturing, has exactly no sort of useful anything on offer.
nubbins` can't imagine alf in
a department store
nubbins`: she has
a piece in book linked above
nubbins`: danielpbarron PM with mailing addy and i'll get
a shipping quote
thestringpuller: it has
a cloud on one side and scissors in in the desert on another side
danielpbarron: nubbins`, how much to send me
a couple of those shirts :)