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mircea_popescu: fluffypony got
a link to the actual github in question ?
fluffypony: the_scourge: he doesn't have
a newsletter
Rippleflip_: well,
a bit over 20000 unique players, over 1,5 million usd wagered (possibly over 2 million with bitcoin value being higher in the past)
fluffypony: 6.4 is the section where he rips PoS
a new one
fluffypony: the_scourge: PoS is not
a terrible idea, it just doesn't work
the_scourge: fluffypony: there was
a post about possible PoS vulnerabilities written by Vitalik. for what his opinion is worth
mircea_popescu: well there's
a difference between wanting and trying things out you know. i also want to find
a cure for cancer, but i'm not going around feeding people pills.
mircea_popescu: then artforz found it had
a hole, and then it changed to having 12 magic nodes with 10 mn "unspendable" coins each
fluffypony: there's
a shitload of liquidity in alts
fluffypony: hitbtc is most probably
a scam so I'd avoid that
thestringpuller: and not when you know I'm in
a meeting trying to kill time.
thestringpuller: so why is this channel only boppin' when
a nigga gotta put in work?
PeterL: do you have
a report on monthly income produced over the past year?
chetty: how does one person typing use 'we' unless of course its
a royal we
BigBitz: mircea_popescu opportunity of
a lifetime coming up.
mircea_popescu: place for
a bunch of derps to go and be all weird and pretend it's jesus' fault amirite.
PeterL: should be, I just restarted it
a minute ago
lobbes: woo, finally got my VPS up and running. Now I just have to teach myself the basics of linux (Debian 7). So far I know how to view my current directory. Next step: running
a node!
cazalla: from
a ransomware news piece.. "Once their files are returned, the Niedermayers plan to have their hard drive professionally wiped, and will change their IP address."
punkman: scammer pretended to be the CEO, told employee to plz send monies to china: "For the last months we have been working, in coordination and under the supervision of the SEC, on acquiring
a Chinese company. ... This is very sensitive, so please only communicate with me through this email, in order for us not to infringe SEC regulations."
Vexual: bioshokc pron is
a thing
ben_vulpes: mebbe
a tidy little dinosaur in the footer
trinque: add-deed noms
a gpg signed document and queues it for timestamping
assbot: Successfully added
a rating of 1 for ben_vulpes with note:
a *real* bitcoin dev
assbot: Successfully added
a rating of -1 for phillipsjk with note: get back to me in six months
ben_vulpes: the point that i'm making (for the clinically slow) is that the odds of
a key from...2013 just showing up and having anything pointful to say, especially when citing bitcointalk as proof or substantiation of anything are...low.
ben_vulpes: i singed my butthole with
a particularly firey fart the other night
phillipsjk: Currently Bitcoin is testing whether
a secure, networked application is even possible.
ben_vulpes: today, 3 mining consortiums might find
a block within just
a few minute of each other
ben_vulpes: once upon
a time, blocks were of unbounded size
trinque: you want to build your visa? build it on bitcoin, but don't systemd the thing and decide it must have
a visa built in
☟︎ ben_vulpes: <trinque> get your forklift << not
a bad analogy. preserving private keys is tough.
ben_vulpes: phillipsjk: proles will be lucky to buy
a fraction of
a bitcoin once per decade.
ben_vulpes: bitcoin is
a store of value and
a way to move money around without governmental interference.
trinque: and I'll do
a goddamn million tps
danielpbarron: it's not that banks are bad; it's that fiat is bad.
A bitcoin bank could work well.
A service that holds bitcoin for you and lets you spend it with
a debit card or something
phillipsjk: The problem is with 1MB blocks, Bitcoin will only be used for inter-bank settlements. Either that, or remain
a niche. We are talking less than 1 million users world-wide.
ben_vulpes: bitcoin is
a rare, scarce, unpollutable thing unlike everything else under the domain of the fiat tyrants.
ben_vulpes: why'd i think that
a thing you've dropped for 2.5 months would ever see any action?
ben_vulpes: no more than merely existing gives you
a say in how the world works.
phillipsjk: Not even my 2 year electronic program or running
a node for
a year?
phillipsjk: ;;later tell mircea_popescu I sincerely hope the 1MB line in the sand is not simply
a power-trip.
BingoBoingo: trinque: I mean bird disappears into his sack, not his sack disappeared into bird for
a bit.
trinque: let me get the thing to publish once and I'll see if you're still up for
a cig
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> [] trinque actually they'll fight you, too. more than one woman got scared shitless of flocks of geese << this one time i was eating
a burrito on the waterfront
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: What of lamps that monitor/diagnose issues with mains power, totally
a query.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> when you plug
a lamp into
a mains socket, is that also
a 'streaming query' ? << For some kinds of lamp sure.
trinque: there's this idea of streaming queries that's been kicked around
a bit
trinque: -or- when the hell do I get
a dataflowputer
trinque: asciilifeform: I once finished gentoo quest on
a two-generations-back macbook pro
ben_vulpes: punkman: using addnode= to add
a node from which to pull the blocks
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> []
a) what chicks and b) what pay. << i can speak to the chicks
punkman: ben_vulpes: what's
a known-good blocksource?
ben_vulpes: would you be
a dear and sync an unmolested 0.5.3?
punkman: I setup
a 0.5.3.1 node yesterday, stuck on 168000 today
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes have
a logwatcher trigger ? renice everyything ?
mircea_popescu: there should also be
a bdb based method but it probably would take longer to untangle
ben_vulpes: tips on running for precisely
a single block?
ben_vulpes: instead, instruct me on the arcane art of dumping specific blocks from
a bitcoind 0.5.3
ben_vulpes: while it must surprise everyone here, the fact that i am
a process man who's only barely grasped the basics of *nix operation bears trotting out on
a *regular* basis apparently
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the idea with the native cruftery is, he found
a reliable way to wedge the bitcoind at
a certain heright which just so happens to be the checkpoint
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i did burn in excess of two days attempting to get either
a firefox or chrome to connect to x under os x
mircea_popescu:
a damned sight more optimistic than you, this pessimist