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asciilifeform: been there, done that.
asciilifeform: but mircea_popescu nailed it, 'get on the boat with the shirt on yer back' is a kind of death-lite-version
asciilifeform: 'Colt Life&Health Co.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu this is a country where , i suspect, most folks' retirement plan is a .45 !
asciilifeform: but just as dead
asciilifeform: usually cheaply/boringly
asciilifeform: they suicide at drop of a hat!
asciilifeform: whatchatalkingabout usa inmates drop like flies
asciilifeform: and yet others - study to do
asciilifeform: which plenty of folks do
asciilifeform: then we're really speaking of eating one's nagant
asciilifeform: l0l point
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu knows that i'd be on the next flight if i were properly 13337 and knew how to pay the rentz there.
asciilifeform: i suppose.
asciilifeform: scorched earth device is usable by ~anyone.
asciilifeform: destroying the keys would be a start.
asciilifeform: and if he had a pin to pull, the nazis would have nothing.
asciilifeform: ulbricht was mighty loud.
asciilifeform: and has well-documented countermeasures.
asciilifeform: so - usg can build, if pressed, machines. ~whereas~ existing coinbases they can only reallocate, save a ecdsa break, by knocking people over the head. which is loud and somewhat costly.
asciilifeform: e.g., sandia labs, was likewise 'sold' iirc.
asciilifeform: standard way to handle budget overruns
asciilifeform: 'sold'
asciilifeform: aha.
asciilifeform: nope, the latter - fab.
asciilifeform: they actually fab in usa.
asciilifeform: and fuck, people like northrop
asciilifeform: intel
asciilifeform: and which - not.
asciilifeform: let's recall which side has si fabs.
asciilifeform: evil satoshi is likewise present in any fork, unless you're convinced - and i am not - that enemy cannot win arbitrary pow miner buildout race.
asciilifeform: and meanwhile let it 'go to moon' ?!
asciilifeform: 'from now on we sit on all we steal so we can dump in a decade' ?
asciilifeform: how would this look?
asciilifeform: waiwut
asciilifeform: then, as described in mircea_popescu's articles, they become just another player
asciilifeform: !s waterfall
asciilifeform: the available evidence suggests that, like a bike thief, they steal to ~sell~
asciilifeform: it depends on who the reader sees as musting die, no?
asciilifeform: but hash power distrib? lunacy
asciilifeform: i can see preserving old capital allocation re coinz
asciilifeform: for their crimes.
asciilifeform: i thought we were bugspraying the old gear people.
asciilifeform: ok now i'm thoroughly lost
asciilifeform: how?
asciilifeform: sure.
asciilifeform: enables pools.
asciilifeform: also the hashing-the-header thing is possibly evil
asciilifeform: linked comment
asciilifeform: yes but it doesn't need the idiot chaining
asciilifeform: Whole thing
asciilifeform: and properly stretches to fit the while thing
asciilifeform: keccak is an 'accordion'
asciilifeform: which?
asciilifeform: quite!
asciilifeform: aha.
asciilifeform: (last night for example i formally turned down the 'encouragement' to try out for 'top secret' and may very well be sacked eventually because of it)
asciilifeform: but i dun wanna.
asciilifeform: if i wanted to wear brown all i gotta do is, understand, cross the street
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my reaction now is same as then, i am willing to take part in 1,000,001 variants but not in capitulation to the motherfuckng nazis
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sleep of reason breeds monsters etc
asciilifeform: nowhere is it written that tmsr will field exactly one weapon.
asciilifeform: keccak-clean and keccak-trbchain.
asciilifeform: it could even make sense to fight on 2 fronts at once.
asciilifeform: the disadvantages - legion.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the advantage is that we become distinguishable from the usual idiot attempts at self-enrichment.
asciilifeform: adlai: this is ~exactly~ the old joke with the trucks
asciilifeform: softfecalmatter is how we got here.
asciilifeform: it dun get any harder than pow switchout
asciilifeform: again how the fuck can pow switch be 'soft' in any sense ?!
asciilifeform: adlai: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=20-10-2015#1303934 ☝︎
asciilifeform: wtf is a 'miner-only fork'
asciilifeform: adlai: i utterly fail to grasp how this is an idea
asciilifeform: adlai: http://trilema.com/2016/the-necessary-prerequisite-for-any-change-to-the-bitcoin-protocol
asciilifeform: wh?
asciilifeform: adlai: holy fuck, 2 pows?!
asciilifeform: no, wtf!
asciilifeform: adlai: you can't 'soften' powe
asciilifeform: the only thing i would change is to retain old capital distribution, then keccak has a chance at continuing old schellingpoint.
asciilifeform: i liked mircea_popescu's algo!
asciilifeform: on live vermin, to be effective.
asciilifeform: adlai: nuke must be tested.
asciilifeform: adlai: who said anything about porting some derp's turd
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: that was the implication? unless i'm thick
asciilifeform: adlai: do you not see the problem of having 'konsensoooos' in he mix at all ?
asciilifeform: mtgox?
asciilifeform: i can't wait to learn to whom ~i~ somehow betrayed the motherland
asciilifeform: holyfuk wat?!
asciilifeform: i dun flail, i sit on sharp telephone pole and keccak on lunchbreakz..
asciilifeform: adlai: read mircea_popescu's keccak article
asciilifeform: but we have, e.g., a spiffy mircea_popescutronic item from last month
asciilifeform: this was re the 'strategy' thread, no?
asciilifeform: did i misthtead or what
asciilifeform: or introduction of material from either into a future trb
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: any alignment with a usg-enriching or dimon-enabling phork
asciilifeform: and ~i~ will have no part of it.
asciilifeform: blew my mind that any such thing was on the table
asciilifeform: for anyone who missed the thread, it concerned capitulation to the enemy
asciilifeform: pope or no pope
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1433700 << this nonsense does not turn into fact merely by being uttered by mircea_popescu ☝︎☟︎