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assbot: The news, in brief : "Hearn is
a shitstain, MP is right, fuck reddit. Love, Satoshi" on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1Eyf7mo )
mircea_popescu: they're currently at
a loss keeping all the ones they already have fed.
williamdunne: An exchange, as per previous mentions. Unfortunately though it will have KYC so mabbeh less interesting for people on #b-
a, ofc that's for ya'll to decide
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: hence it is fundamentally
a socialistatron
trinque: williamdunne: write it up, and rewrite for
a damned long time.. or if it's code prototype it so you aren't just selling handjobs and smiles
mircea_popescu: the whole pogo thing was
a few k's. this thing is k's of btc
mircea_popescu: williamdunne write something about puppies make
a post on social media with links to your "campaign" ? offer things on bitcointalk ? convince me to list on mpex ? i dunno dood, you're too vague to be helped yet.
mircea_popescu: looky,
a fixed cpu situation will always yield this problem
ascii_field: if it becomes possible to have blocks that selectively disable, e.g., pogo, enemy has
a useful new capability.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field looky : blocks would only stay full if needed full. so our pogo is
a piece of shit in that case, you can't expect them to accomodate us.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla in that sense iot's
a step above the "magic number" stuff. not much, admittedly.
kakobrekla: yes i understand this is
a play on diff algo.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the reason i consider ratcheting (and, ergo, growing at all) blocks to be
a situation of 'enemy can deal more damage than he has to pay for' is that even if people pay per kB, ~actual machines are pots of finite depth~
ascii_field: kakobrekla: see thread. it was
a monotonic-grow ratchet thing
ascii_field: not like you could maintain
a single blockchain over astronomical distances, either
mircea_popescu: this given, the design proposed is
a) expensive to abuse and b) self-limiting, in that the larger you make the blocks, the more you have to fill.
mircea_popescu: so
a ratchet is necessarily, and indisputably, and by unfixable design the only way to do that.
mircea_popescu: having
a freefloating system is in fact breaking
a fundamental design promise bitcoin made when it introduced mining,
mircea_popescu: but to get back to the ratchet thing : it is both impossible and
a very stupid idea to have freefixing for bitcoin block size. because the network is trivial to disrupt when it comes to mining difficulty (by design and deliberately), it will guaranteedly be moved down to 0 over time and the defense's necessarily too expensive.
ascii_field: 'Stalin had his eye on the Spanish gold because Spain had
a mother lode of it. This was owing to the fact that twenty years prior, Spain had been neutral in World War I. During that war, Spain exported so much to the belligerents, without being able to buy in return, that it stacked up foreign exchange and turned it in for gold. The same thing had happened across the neutral nations, from Argentina to Holland to the
mircea_popescu: irl, settlement's
a paperwoirk affair and actual delivery is much disconsidered. as
a token of the fact that everyone involved would muchly want reality to match their representation to the degree of absolute identity. so they desconsider the later.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i would guess there's to the tune of 1mn interbank PM physical transfers
a year worldwide. i don't think i'm qualified to answer either, but i will swear to your benefit the real figuree's closer to 1mn than 1k no prob.
mircea_popescu: because one hour i spent in the ro vault, which is
a tiny affair, saw three transfers underway.
ascii_field: all the world's bullion transfers, if written out as
a log, would they even fill 1MB in
a year?
ascii_field: but overall i just don't see this future where mega-blocks are
a necessary thing
ascii_field: aha but he only has to fill the blocks to the brim for
a finite timespan, to result in forever heavier max size
ascii_field: same problem as
a hypothetical monotonically growing mining difficulty.
mircea_popescu: if "enemy" holds
a significant portion of the last 1% of blocks mined, how is he the enemy.
mircea_popescu: my position being very much like ascii_field's : not clear this is needed and dubious it's
a good idea before the two get hanged. but op may disagree ? i dunno.
assbot: Logged on 17-08-2015 09:12:53; mircea_popescu:
a function that, after each retarget, allows blocks as large as say 1.01x the average actual size of the blocks in the 2k batch for instance.
nubbins`: [16:24:31] <nubbins`> bounce: the idea is you'd create
a 10mb transaction sending out xtc to your buyers, in return they push small tx sending you same amount in btc
nubbins`: "we need to make this new subreddit STAT. we literally do not have 3 minutes to make
a new header. take the old one and ph0t05h0p it"
nubbins`: it's
a PNG with
a non-transparent background.
punkman: "That the community communication channels, the repositories, and any other likewise bitcoin assets, are public property and owned by the community as
a whole, not any one single individual nor
a very small group of people. All steps must be taken to allow full access to every individual to these assets and to reduce fully or to the absolute minimum any and all barriers to any and all access of these assets. " heh
☟︎ nubbins`: it looks like they literally copied the /r/bitcoin header, magic-wand-selected the background, paint-bucketed it blue, tacked on "xt" and saved it as
a jpeg
☟︎ ascii_field: danielpbarron: what did you expect it to be?
a magical recipe for escaping the cattle corral ?
assbot: Logged on 17-08-2015 15:47:07; assbot: Using ambient sound as
a two-factor authentication system | Naked Security ... (
http://bit.ly/1gQKrqX )
chetty: * trinque wipes his ass// just like
a real one
trinque: "try and write
a sort of constitution"
chetty fondly recalls filing taxes on
a postcard
trinque: but as ascii_field observed
a while back, they do that so you have the opportunity to fuck up before them
shinohai: I got to stop being lazy and find me
a shitty old desktop so I can try eulora again.
shinohai: It *is*
a court for sure. I should like to see more trial by combat though.
thestringpuller: also there is some d00d offering
a 25 BTC bounty to the first miner to mine an XT block with the version header.
thestringpuller: ascii_field: i thought the whole reason
a "debate" even existed is because 90% of reddit's /r/bitcoin is full of socialist who likely own 0.1 btc each to their name and think they are gonna change the world.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 12-09-2014 16:47:19; asciilifeform: because suddenly, there is (or you think there is)
a debate. with 'sides.'
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2014 16:47:05; asciilifeform: once you've been 'taught the controversy' - that is, convincing that there -even is- reasonable debate among informed people, on
a particular subject - the lie becomes
a kind of half-truth, automagically
ascii_field: but imho, even having this conversation at all is
a kind of surrender to usg
punkman: there were
a couple threads discussing the increase in regards to fees
assbot: Logged on 17-08-2015 09:31:55; mircea_popescu: it'd have to look
a lot more like the above than like anything i've seen,
assbot: Logged on 17-08-2015 09:38:33; mircea_popescu: only sane way to have
a data struct is if it begins with "hello, this is
a struct, will take no more than x of your space kthx"
fluffypony: I know, it was
a little out of character, but I was extremely pissed off that the guy didn't have the balls to come talk to me himself
fluffypony: what do you teach in
a Bitcoin "developer" course anyway
fluffypony: it's like
a bunch of retards sat around
a table and said "we missed out on buying Bitcoin at $0.50, so how do we make money from it now?"
mircea_popescu: nah, riccardo is
a suspicious guy sending paypal donations in clear violation of maritime law.
fluffypony: "Riccardo is the founder and director of fluffypony inc.,
a company that specialises in *.* "
mircea_popescu: "specializes" seems to have lost
a meaning sometime in 2004.
mircea_popescu: "Sonya is also Founder and Director of two Hats
a design and development company that specializes in corporate branding, print design, web design, web development, mobile/responsive web development, e-commerce services, business analysis, search engine optimization, social media, Google Analytics, Google Ads and E-Marketing."
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: well I wanted to hear the speaker so I could mock him on Twitter as well, so I didn't have time for
a protracted conversation with the stupid cow
fluffypony: then they tweeted
a few hours later about how I wasn't welcome at future Bitcoin Africa conferences because I was disrespectful
fluffypony: so I go "who?", because I'd been tweeting out mean things about
a lot of idiots that were presenting
fluffypony: I ridiculed one of the presenters because he had
a slide on how Bitcoin solves the Byzantine generals problem
cazalla: punkman, i imagine they only discuss bitcoin as the embassy whereas here, it is
a little different.. gentleman's club as one article states