asciilifeform: and pretty much everyone who has attempted to fire a tx using trb prior to mod6's 'S' patch, now has a supply of such 'evil' coin with which to test this hypothesis, if he wants.
asciilifeform: and then the tx using these inputs get dropped by derps.
asciilifeform: as i understand, it works by making mircea_popescu 'taint' (yes) his coins with 'doublespendiness'
asciilifeform: there is nothing intrinsically illegitimate about a 'doublespend'.
asciilifeform: it's a nonsense. miners can induce pretty much anyone to 'doublespend' by failing, for long enough, to mine a tx
asciilifeform: the entire notion of 'marked as doublespend' is odd
asciilifeform: and on one other uninteresting occasion prior
asciilifeform: this happened to me, while using bbet to lose 5btc on go players.
asciilifeform: i still don't fully grasp ~why~ the malleatron fires ONLY when the maker of original tx tries to doublespend own coin by making new one
asciilifeform: spits out signed string, which you then drop in the hopper of an operating node.
asciilifeform: that goes without saying. but does it really need to also be a miniature node ? or can wallet simply do the one essential thing, sign payloads with privkeys
asciilifeform: it really depends on what you expect out of 'wallet'
asciilifeform: (possibly because they haven't own brains, are simply an anal wart on usa now.)
asciilifeform: why the british are involved, i have nfi.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: american, also, they traditionally do this in the last days leading up to election to help nail a designated loser with 'turnout encouragement'
asciilifeform had nfi he were still around. was a favourite of uncle al.
asciilifeform: and lol, apparently guest piece by... fred reed
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: recall 'the smurf senator' ?
asciilifeform: even more so than reading usg pravda.
asciilifeform: but the peculiarly insult to intelligence of the reader
asciilifeform: it was not the ~quantity~ of the spam that raised my eyebrow
asciilifeform: i'm gonna guess BingoBoingo was on 'the list' also.
asciilifeform: and yes, being on that list apparently nominates you for EVERY pyramid scheme, herbal viagra, !!!!!!URGENT!!!!! faux-irs envelope, etc. scam in usa.☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: (they had a deal whereby the shooting gallery was cheaper)
asciilifeform: who was, for some years, subscribed to all kinds of nonsensical snailmail spamola as result of once being in 'nra'☟︎
asciilifeform: this is actually a subject somewhat 'near and dear' to asciilifeform
asciilifeform: ~actual~ alternative affairs do not get airwave largesse from usg. they get banned, like isis-tentacle-not-pointed-ru-wards, and ddosed, like qntra.
asciilifeform: 'how to be less stupid so i don't have to use the ddt'
asciilifeform: epic, incidentally, failure, it is rather like lecturing to cockroaches
asciilifeform: qntra, from pov of author, lives in asteroid somewhere around alpha centauri.
asciilifeform: populace because you're doing your own independent research from an independent news source. Except you're not. You're an idiot who's going to lose all his teeth. These sites are using you for money...' << is not, however, false.
asciilifeform: 'Now I know what you're thinking, "but Maddox, I have all my teeth!" You won't for long. People who read alternate news sites will eventually lose their teeth. It's an Anankean inevitability; you're going to do something stupid like put a firecracker in your mouth because you are stupid. Want to know how I know? Because you read bullshit instead of news, and you not only think you're informed, but that you're smarter than the general
asciilifeform: 'Stop buying into this bullshit. You're getting played. If it's not a "main stream" news source, that means they don't have anyone to answer to and nobody will lose their job if they report inaccurate information. You're not "woke" for reading alternate news, you're a dipshit. Rather than poring over old news clips to prove that 9/11, Sandy Hook, or the Boston Marathon was an "inside job," you should go outside and get a job.' << gol
asciilifeform: which is in all cases 'registered in city hall' in jp
asciilifeform: i suppose 1 interesting example of exquisitely mircea_popescutronic arrangement might be yakuza
asciilifeform: well yes, can easily do whatever, but thread was re cost.
asciilifeform: but that 'now it will matter how many of us are on preet's list, whereas before there was no list, and it did not'
asciilifeform: note, implication wasn't 'we will be forced to fellate preet'
asciilifeform: whereas if we have icbm launchers and can demolish city hall, what's the point of registering with it to begin with.
asciilifeform: not if it gets forcibly deincorporated by preet
asciilifeform: well let's say new york city hall comes and 'we're closing the tmsr cathedral in manhattan b/c kako broke ranks and now you only have 599 people instead of the required 600.'
asciilifeform: keeping 'two sets of books' has cost.
asciilifeform: from the pov of the imperial papershuffle.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ianal but once you 'church' it begins to matter how many heads you got.
asciilifeform: part of the recipe involves folks voluntarily falling on a certain grenade for the good of the tribe, and it is a very brutal one, they go to work in usg
asciilifeform: i am not expert on satmar, but i did once research the mormons, who also carried on imperium in imperio vs usg for a good long time.
asciilifeform: and in re last thread also, i know of 0 examples of anybody pulling this kind of thing off using strictly volunteers having no blood relation.☟︎
asciilifeform: (according to him, they have a very effective, 'chechen', orcish style of organization, complete with omerta and folks sittin' in prison for one another, etc)
asciilifeform: lafonde had a few interesting pieces on subj.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: from commentz: 'Yeah, and people can be irrational and there are also shills and conspiracy theorists trying to find every reason to discredit the Core devs'
asciilifeform: waiwat, elaborate, who imagined.. what?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: lulzy, guess of what there is 0 mention.
asciilifeform: (incidentally anyone who wants to ask 'would you move there' can stuff the q up his arse. northkr is an ethnostate and quite un-universalizing, the proposition is without any useful meaning.)
asciilifeform: northkr may well be the last 'soviet coldwallet' remaining.
asciilifeform: whether it 'ought to give in', so the koreans can have levi jeans and wriggleys chewing gum, or continue to work 100 hr weeks semi-starved so that they can carry on the parallel civilization experiment and not turn into 59th shit state of usa, keeping company with puerto rico, is a ~value~ call
