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mircea_popescu: and a bunch of scammers running a faux foundation, also. vessenes & merck et al
mircea_popescu: mno, this is the main bitcoin network. but there are various other forks.
mircea_popescu: vc it's the original bitcoin yes. it's been modified hence.
mircea_popescu: but at any rate this conversation definitely lays bare just how badly we've missed the boat by not increasing blocksize when usgavin wanted to.
mircea_popescu: not terribly much ; i've never measured to average > 1mbps.
mircea_popescu: basically some usg assholes tried to hijack the bitcoin. trb aka the real bitcoin is the... well, the real bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: tell you what : i'll buy that, and pay it in advance for a year, provided you install and manage a trb node there.
mircea_popescu: i am asking you, if i intend to run a btc node, ie, a blockchain's worth of gb etc, what's the solution cock.li offers
mircea_popescu: ah, right, prolly should get a node. hey vc what do you recommend for bitcoin node ? vps carry it ?
mircea_popescu: so you're an adult, get some contacts in the trade an' ask around. odds being in your favour.
mircea_popescu: though credit where credit's due, the italian tv invented the method.
mircea_popescu: as they say in poker, the reason IS obvious, just maybe not to you.
mircea_popescu: well no, but any female in the age range with no obvious reason of being there.
mircea_popescu: you see that she is on tv, and know what that means, pretty much.
mircea_popescu: the system's been around for decades ; i fucked a bunch in my day. recently they tried to close the thing down, arrested gals by the pail, but... from what i hear it didn't take.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: listen, romanian tv exists ~ for a single reason : so a group of like minded twentysomething chicks can advertise they're available. goes ~500 bucks unless you're very weird.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: so how about you stop dicking around and just colocate some boxes and weld the cages shut ?
mircea_popescu: vc it sends you a link, it contains a pgp encrypted thing, you decrypt it and feed it back as $v blabla
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo whadda ya think ? acceptabru ? i'll clean it up an' send over.
mircea_popescu: alrighty, anything you want to tell teh readership in closing ?
mircea_popescu: sounds like a plan eh. so what's your favourite romanian dish ?
mircea_popescu: do you happen to know the republic has been looking for an actual republican isp ?
mircea_popescu: hehe. so what do you mean "get it up and running and stable" ?
mircea_popescu: do you plan to pivot from corporate life to independence with it ? or is it just a hobby on the side ? for the lulz ? for the whats ?
mircea_popescu: interesting how fragmented this supposed "bitcoin community" actually is. alright, so what's your plan with the hoster ? what was it, cock.li ?
mircea_popescu: how about sec sending supoenas to this romanian-based dude back in 2012, when they were posturing about satoshi dice ?
mircea_popescu: $v D4EF258C4C32362B7B34529EA60A5C6351CA4FB37E4BE11D7FA745314F6A0A3D
mircea_popescu: i see. alright, so what are your plans for the future ?
mircea_popescu: $rate vc 2 cock.li hoster ; published "secret" supoena back in 2015.
mircea_popescu: i lived there for a few years. 2nd bitcoin conference also held there (timisoara). meanwhile though, moved to argentina.
mircea_popescu: possibly shittiest city in the whole country. try brasov or cluj or something eh.
mircea_popescu: ever thought of trying something more alligned with the actual purpose of universities, ie, scoring ? dunno, humanities, bidniss, whatever ?
mircea_popescu: hey, mind doing an interview with me to be published on qntra ?
mircea_popescu: $v 1FB0734F97F51A4C2C707882432C58D89E5958B0554E840F65A8E7BBE05AB4C6
mircea_popescu: heh. so do $register <fingerprint> so you're part of teh wot.
mircea_popescu: the eggs are drenched in hollandaise ; if two guys fuck a gal it's hard to avoid getting cum on your ballsac.
mircea_popescu: really, the whole exercise is more of a "here\s just how fucking useless your civil registry is" than anything