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mircea_popescu: and 100% of what sets the piony - quite temporarily - above the monekys in the zoo is of anglo design and manufacture
mircea_popescu: " where ru built everything that distinguishes it from zimbabwe?"
mircea_popescu: amusingly enough, does retard-argentina have more retards than retard-buttcoin ?
mircea_popescu: deedbot-> [Qntra] Correction Takes Bitcoin Network Difficulty Down 3.1% <<< curious if the drops till july will add up to 50% or not.
mircea_popescu: us dept of state can do ~ nothing, but direct the dod to lose some more items .
mircea_popescu: rajit imberdejit, a 2nd vice-governor of uttar pradesh
mircea_popescu: lol yeeeeah, that worked really well with the embargo and all lol. anyway.
mircea_popescu: kinda what i was going to say next, "don't worry too much, things have a way of sorting themselves out"
mircea_popescu: actually - much fewer idiots then, of the purely idiotarian type. of course all sorts of actual idiots seemed quite reasonable, pleasant folk, but what can you do.
mircea_popescu: anyway, what you're missing, perhaps on account of age, is that... well... i recall hanging out with kakobrekla back when bitcoin was 2 dollars.
mircea_popescu: no work done on satoshi codebase has yet been wasted, except that done for other people than us, or outside of b-a.
mircea_popescu: as much as we'd love to suck our own cocks, while we readily agree TODAY that "should be so and so", we'd have had no such agreement a decade ago.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to the more general point : all our understanding as to how bitcoin should work, see for instance yest discussion, comes from dissecting how prototype-bitcoin did in fact work.
mircea_popescu: outlasting is, as far as one can discern, the implicit goal of life on earth.
mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu> in what sense is it worth anyone's time to do anything ?
mircea_popescu: that was not yet called either prb or core or anything, because before we came and crackd the nut, inanities avbout how "only one bitcoin software" still had currency amongthe ruminant herd.
mircea_popescu: well, not like it HAS to close. it can also continue doing what it did for the ~first half year of its existence, which is to say critique whatever prb
mircea_popescu: i suppose IF the july many-fork time comes and trb has nothing to offer then it might as well close.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the intellectual value of the work trying to get it to work goes to that great place in the sky where everyone's work ever goes, gauss, newton, who have you.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: technically the value pumped into the old btc all comes from hitler anyway. what, ustard has money now ?
mircea_popescu: and honestly, what the everloving fuck do i care. bitcoin with mining cartel is literally, and i do mean LITERALLY just a very slow, unreliable and expensive visa run by idiots.
mircea_popescu: anyway, no fiddy cents. coupla hundy should be enough. miners can't actually support their shit even at current prices, if it halves.
mircea_popescu: i thought you didn't have any, didn't care to have any and didn't etc ?
mircea_popescu: in what sense is it worth anyone's time to do anything ?
mircea_popescu: strictly because the common man is an unrepentant imbecile proud of his imbecility, but that's a secondary consideration.
mircea_popescu: it is just about absolutely clear for me that bitcoin, just like any other technology to date, brings about absolutely no betterment for the common man.
mircea_popescu: i even got the timing almost right. half month precision over 3 years in bitcoin is pretty impressive.
mircea_popescu: 2nd one. not exactly news, this, is it ? was on the books for 3 years.
mircea_popescu: ideally trb will at that time be ready to propose one of its own.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform by the looks of it, roughly around july there will be an open competition of ~myriad forks on the market.
mircea_popescu: some idiot somewhere last year looked at whatever the fuck they look at and came to the conclusion that "we'll win this one apple - style, vc and software plox!"
mircea_popescu: mno, they don't watch anything, just keep humming this tune in their head. which is perfectly fine and utterly uninteresting.
mircea_popescu: well, if they had been following power they'd be sending their irs receipts to me rather than obama.
mircea_popescu: except i couldn't care less about the derps. what, you think they're people or something ?
mircea_popescu: oh herp derp we are miners and making conferences ? fucking death warrant you've signed there boys.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin as it currently stands is a very iffy proposition. it ~absolutely~ requires the bricking of current miners to have a chance, and major protocol rewrites.
mircea_popescu: totally ready for "running in production" by other idea guys.
mircea_popescu: eh they have nfi what they're doing. classic is essentially a social media campaign.
mircea_popescu: rather low hanging fruit, that sort of inept claim. classic is about as production ready as windows 7.
mircea_popescu: jurov feel free to fuzz, crashing it every which way will make a somewhat lulzy qntra piece
mircea_popescu: just like should we look for places to poison mice, we'll go by the holes ; but should we look for a hero mice to reward with a wheel of cheese - we won't notice the holes.
mircea_popescu: obama joining from obama@whitehouse.org is in no better position than random derp joining from anon@isis.ir
mircea_popescu: fuck them, fiat states, who cares. "legal process" or w/e.
mircea_popescu: i'm offering 14 btc for the arrest and conviction of this particular redditard by isis
mircea_popescu: then the same fucking idiots come by to "comment" on shit i do. as if we're all people now or something, in the same sense.
mircea_popescu: "i think i'm mp to offer bounties. what, i should have money ?"
mircea_popescu: "I am offering a 14 Bitcoin Bounty leading to the arrest, conviction, AND return of my 28 Bitcoins that were stolen from me." << fancy that idiocy.
mircea_popescu: shinohai plox to offer short intro for redditard/other tard links. i ended up looking at that only to see that, typical for the mob, it's not any sort of bounty, but a conditional offer predicated on the impossible.