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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah but
i mean... so it's great, less shit to worry about, someone else;s doing it.
mircea_popescu: "Lets not forget the real paid shills on /r/bitcoin as well. The fuckwits who were paid to spread the usage of 'bit' as a unit.
I wonder how much BitPay spent on that one." << that's a kinda funny one. yet another place where derps diverge from mp, derps fail & get burned, derps dun learn.
mircea_popescu:
i thought it was that other derp that got put away for something pedo related
cazalla: mircea_popescu, he's allege to have run a glamourshots business but claimed he was only the cameraman,
i dunno the facts tbh
cazalla: actually,
i don't know the full story,
i think thestringpuller has that
mircea_popescu: any substance to this "Tony "
I Like Underage Girls" Gallippi" angle something awful's pushing ?
undata:
I am otherwise totally unoffended by the minimalism
undata:
I use an rss reader so it doesn't affect me either way
BingoBoingo: Coindesk for axample is an anus. It looks like it uses Bootstrap (mobile first design turd).
I dunno how visual difference between Qntra and an anus is not a net positive.
BingoBoingo:
I still doesn't look like one of the many crap spewing anuses pretending to news because of forgoing bootstrap is not a design virtue.
mircea_popescu:
i guess my very heavy "not a whore, not a woman" bias is showing.
hanbot: <mircea_popescu> hanbot
i wonder how many of these milktoothed experts of letters and matters even understands what the sockwashing reference is. << is it that bogart-bacall in the desert episode?
undata:
I should script auth better instead of doing it by hand like a derp each time.
hanbot: judging by the arguments,
i'd be surprised if the thing was read beyond the title's first nine words.
mircea_popescu: hanbot
i wonder how many of these milktoothed experts of letters and matters even understands what the sockwashing reference is.
hanbot:
i guess it's more fun to play unobservant psych undergrad than to think.
mircea_popescu: "
I think the bigger issue is that Bitpay doesn't have a long term business model. Even assuming that Bitcoin adoption grows, transfer of Bitcoin to fiat is a programmable function. People will immediately cut out the middle man if it becomes less expensive, and its a bit of a race to the bottom as people compete in the space for the best rates, quickest conversion and most apis."
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: So,
I'm a big Dave Chappelle fan. Anyhow when he got heckled and ragequitting off stage during one of his last stand up shows he came back out and said something to the audience: "You know why my show is good? Because the network officials say you're not smart enough to get what
I'm doing, and every day
I fight for you.
I tell them how smart you are. Turns out,
I was wrong. You people are stupid." This is how
I thestringpuller: used to not affect, me. Today,
I'm like "Sweet time to get beer".
artifexd: If
I can replace them for 1.35BTC each (or less),
I will.
artifexd: ;;later tell nubbins` Do you have an common casascius coins you want to sell?
I sold a dozen and would like to replace them.
BingoBoingo: Well, they are going to stop saying MP coin soon
I imagine, because... They still base their idea of MP wealth on that dorky tortilla chart from god knows how long ago.
BingoBoingo:
I'm surprised it took so long for the coin name for issue to resolve
cazalla:
i'm not sure if there is anything better than butter soaked bread topped with an inch of vegemite
davout: they look pretty different from what
i'm used to, pretty fat and appealing :D
cazalla: davout, well agreed there,
i won't buy and eat them from fish market in melbourne but while living near Sydney, happy to shove as many down my gullet as possible
davout: cazalla: never. been to sydney only a couple of days, lived in melbourne for a while tho, where
i witnessed the unspeakable horror of these oysters being sold already opened
mircea_popescu:
i doubt it was ever in history the case that idiots supporting something did so much damage to it by its attempts at supporting it.
mircea_popescu:
i think that may actually be required for people with no better source of b complex / colon flora
davout: mircea_popescu: that sort of rings a bell, was that in bsas?
i kind of remember you mentioning some sort of cheese too
davout: mircea_popescu: of course,
i'm speaking about stores, where the oysters are presented like that
mircea_popescu: "This is one of the shittiest pieces of fear mongering
I've ever read. Hard forking is and should be a natural and regular occurance and never has any hard fork ever threatened the block chain. It's called natural selection. Have a little faith in the educated masses"
mircea_popescu: ima ask the sec to give me 50k
i apparently paid them ?
mircea_popescu: "Dude that runs Mpex is a crazy narcissist that happened to get rich (if he cashed out) from being an early adopter.
I think the MPEX buy-in was 10k coins just for a seat at the table even after the price hit $30. He also just consented to a $50k fine from the SEC for selling unregistered securities."
mircea_popescu: "However,
I also expect Bitcoin to become a) more forgetful and think that b), there could be a systems that puts the burden of validating a transaction on the sender of the transaction instead of the network. So that maybe, maybe, in the more distant future, all that needs to be kept of the decentralized blockchain are the headers, which is less than a CD-ROM full of data for 100years."
mircea_popescu: Gavin educates, make his points and tries convince community without antagonizing anyone. Popescu is probably the biggest jerk in the community, and his flock are such a dickheads that
I'd be happy to see them using separate chain just so they can circlejerk and pretend they are the kings of the crypto-word in their own sandbox. Anything they write is so repugnant, that it's just impossible to argue with them. It's fun
artifexd: Have we already passed the point of separation? Is it possible that
I have bitcoins that are actually gavincoins?
mircea_popescu: <sgornick> First, gotta get some vocabulary simplified. When we had the unplanned hard-fork March 2013, we had the protocol "pre-v0.8' and "v0.8" . What do we call this protocol with the hard fork implemented vs. that without the hard fork (
i.e., unchanged? ) << bitcoin vs gavincoin.
sgornick: First, gotta get some vocabulary simplified. When we had the unplanned hard-fork March 2013, we had the protocol "pre-v0.8' and "v0.8" . What do we call this protocol with the hard fork implemented vs. that without the hard fork (
i.e., unchanged? )
sgornick: Oh, ...
I think
I see -- you are saying
I didn't go far enough? Not only are trxs with post-fork taint worthless, but there could be trxs with no taint that would confirm on one side but would be invalid as they were already spent on the other side?
davout:
i'm not sure
i follow what you're saying
[\\\]: adlai,
I'm not using a proxy.
I have no such need.
[\\\]:
I had to go back to the original and refresh
[\\\]: "All readers are entitled to five free articles each week." <-- How do
I go about getting my five free articles?
adlai:
i like how the idf doesn't put the number in the name (though they are planned for five), calling them just "multi-year plans", as though resigned in advance to the inevitable delays
hanbot: davout lol,
i don't know what the hubub's about. they're like two bux a box'a 16.
davout: my favourite pilot joke: "see this baby? that's a C-130.
I fly a C-150"
mircea_popescu: er, more serious, and more disastrous, as with the most recent one. Each attack is hugely successful, and after the cataclysm that the attack causes the attackers are hailed as saviors of the poor, the oppressed, and the nation generally, and the blame for the the bad consequences is dumped elsewhere, usually on Jews, greedy bankers, speculators, etc, because such attacks are difficult for ordinary people understand.
I adlai:
i'm not certain if they'd get disconnected right away, but a node sending invalid-to-you blocks won't last long in your node's connection list
benjamindees: davout, well, the thing is, by the time it even matters, mining may be irrelevant anyways.
I wouldn't bank on having a mining oligopoly twenty years from now. Mining is mostly a means of distribution.
davout: s/
i might not/
i might not agree with some/
davout: benjamindees:
i may be thick here, but
i fail to see how this relates, as a miner
i might not one someone forcing a scarce resource that
i sell, such as space in a block, to be inflated away
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> but on that
i think we are still way under limit. << and
i think women are overweight, by and large. what do we do ?
davout: adlai: what BigBitz was saying is that an optic fiber isn't a proper airgap, which
i concurred with saying that the idea of the airgap is definitely not to have some sort of permanent connection like ethernet over optical fiber should such a thing exist
kakobrekla: but on that
i think we are still way under limit.
adlai: then
i misunderstood you, sorry
adlai: davout, decimation,
i know you guys understand this,
i think
i understand it, the person who seemet to be confused is BigBitz
davout: mircea_popescu:
i agree, it's a difference in degree not in kind though
benjamindees: mircea_popescu, lol, okay, listen
I think you're over-reacting a bit. It'll work out.
mircea_popescu: adlai that bet doesn't measure "successful" was discussed before, and
i said "well, yeah, but it's better to err this way, give the bet a chance"
adlai: the point, if
i follow correctly, is to establish a channel for conveying specific data across the airgap, as opposed to ethernet-over-fiber, which would defeat the purpose of the airgap
davout:
i don't think sound is inherently flawed, as long as you are in a controlled environment
jurov: adlais so the issue is not about cockchain.info publishing or not?
i'm confused now
benjamindees:
I agree that perhaps some people might secretly like to continue block rewards forever
benjamindees: well,
I was under the impression it was quite a bit, but
I may have missed some things