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davout: yeah, if you can't wait 120 blocks to separate coins you'll have to convince
a pool to mine
a crosschain double spend
assbot: Logged on 19-01-2015 15:27:37; Rozal: I apologize, yes im
a big liar who got mad because cazalla messes up my perfect ratings
davout: since eligius pays directly from the coinbase you're guaranteed to receive
a payout that's spendable on one chain but not on the other
mircea_popescu: that sort of latency means you'll be
a late comer to the "sell it into the dirt" party.
davout: also, i think that if what you want to achieve is
a bitcoin separator, the easiest way is simply to acquire
a satoshi from eligius and use it on the input side of
a transaction
mircea_popescu: maybe this entire pool thing actually just needs to be
a website to generate raw tx for people to put in bitcoind
davout: mircea_popescu: for the first >1mb block you will necessarily have
a different merkle root, so you can't possibly have the same block hash at any point afterwards
mircea_popescu: i guess satoshi not only ran
a windows machine with c, but it was
a 32bit thing
STRML: Appreciated. voicing here is
a bit strange
mircea_popescu: if you really want that effect, fill
a hunting weapon with quailshot and have at it.
mircea_popescu: mats i heard that theory more about the .38 as
a better suicide weapon than the .45
mats: whereas with
a higher calibre it might just go straight through.
kakobrekla: well speaking of risk, why not
a hand grenade in mouth.
mircea_popescu: i mean, if you're going to do it, why risk you just lose an eye ? survivors even after
a 12 gauge shot exist.
mats:
a .22 can be quite deadly
mircea_popescu: The result will be
a decrease in mining incentive,
a decrease in mining, and ultimately all networks that allow merged mining will become insecure.
mircea_popescu: ve to mine will diminish. As long as
a currency’s mining is merged with the freeloading currency, it will be powerless to increase incentives by imposing mandatory transaction fees.
mircea_popescu: Except now competing currencies can market themselves as “as secure as Bitcoin but with lower transaction fees.” In other words there is
a race to the bottom among competing currencies to offer the lowest transaction fees, because lowering the transaction fee doesn’t hurt the security of the network in comparison to the other merged mining networks. Users, following their own self interest, will adopt the currenc
mircea_popescu: This means that ultimately, to the extent that currencies are interchangeable to end users, merged mining does not increase the overall security of the networks. The demand for currencies drives the price (and thus the value of the reward). Increased demand for any given currency results in decreased demand for others, lowering the incentive to mine for the other currencies. The total incentive is
a function of total d
mircea_popescu: At any given time there is
a certain amount of demand for
a Bitcoin like currency to make transactions. That need doesn’t increase with more competition. That means that the transactional demand for Bitcoin is really the same as the transactional demand for all substantially similar forms of payment. As more currencies are competing to fill the same demand they actually reduce the demand for the other currencies as t
mircea_popescu: check out dooglus (who isn't
a gavin-approved economist, in spite of being exactly as certified&educated in the topic as the random idiots
a la Oleg Andreev et all) explaining economics :
mircea_popescu: what happens is that
a hash of
a block of the lower chain is inserted in bitcoin blocks, and then the lower chain accepts this as "just as good" proof.
davout: bertani: because if you need one of the chains to be somehow aware of the merge mining you'd need
a second hardfork after the first block size related hardfork
BingoBoingo: <davout> mircea_popescu: there is this auxillary proof of work notion, "Not to be confused with the "previous block". This is
a block that is structured for the parent blockchain (i.e. the prev_block hash points to the prior block on the parent blockchain). The header of this block is part of the AuxPOW Block in the auxiliary blockchain. " << Basically this is my understanding. Both Bitcoin's would insist on being the "Parent" unl
davout: mircea_popescu: there is this auxillary proof of work notion, "Not to be confused with the "previous block". This is
a block that is structured for the parent blockchain (i.e. the prev_block hash points to the prior block on the parent blockchain). The header of this block is part of the AuxPOW Block in the auxiliary blockchain. "
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Best I can tell it's
a nobody. But they had
a bunch of perfect ratings from tiny trades.
davout: mircea_popescu: also i read
a bit more about merged mining yesteday and today, especially how merge-mining namecoin came to be
mircea_popescu: davout tryin' to work out
a sync paradigm with nanotube
mircea_popescu: Rozal: I apologize, yes im
a big liar who got mad because cazalla messes up my perfect ratings << wut the fuck going on there ?!
mircea_popescu: "He was alone in the apartment," prosecutor Viviana Fein told reporters. "There are no witnesses." << probably the best reason to keep
a harem ever.
mircea_popescu: i mean... the circumstances are such that he'd have been killed, and dunno yet if powder residue. literlaly nothing indicates
a suicide.
mircea_popescu: so... "nothing indicates it was
a suicide, but we'll lie about it."
mircea_popescu: "Everything indicates it was
a suicide," Secretary of National Security Sergio Berni told local television. "We have to see if gunpowder is found on his hands."
assbot: Searching pgp.mit.edu for key with fingerprint: 155934BDD16E8EAF4493CB9CB36AE9849D961AC9. This may take
a few moments.
mircea_popescu: i wonder why all these derps ranting on and on about "empathy" never manage to produce one. imagine
a victim like that.
mircea_popescu: prolly Conington's got the best version. "Then take, good sir, your pleasure while you may. With life so short 'twere wrong to lose
a day."
BingoBoingo: Basically coffee gift cards are
a sort of tide USD
rithm: i live under
a rock on the internet
xanthyos: starbucks is popular enough to have become
a perfect money laundering system with their gift codes
mircea_popescu: so giving someone
a coffee gift card is like... "go fuck yourself" ? ie, let's have
a cup of coffee but without me there ?
assbot: Logged on 19-01-2015 15:27:37; Rozal: I apologize, yes im
a big liar who got mad because cazalla messes up my perfect ratings
BingoBoingo: rithm: He got into
a neg rating war with cazalla and fabricated theft allegations.
rithm: can someone explain this rozal dram to me in
a tl:dr fashion it interests me
mats: use
a staff break room.
davout: Rozal: time to get
a new wot identity I guess :-)
Rozal: I apologize, yes im
a big liar who got mad because cazalla messes up my perfect ratings
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ BingoBoingo: Rozal: My rating of you isn't disappearing. You made serious allegations over what seems to be
a mutual dislike of each other.
danielpbarron: lol what alternate universe is this that assbot is enforcing
a "postive rating only" policy
gribble: Error: 'BingoBoingo' is not
a valid integer.
danielpbarron: ;;later tell Rozal New rating | Rozal > -10 > cazalla | SCAMMER - Stole 1 BTC from me, and is
a known scammer on other nicks
http://pastebin.com/ApyavW5T. DO NOT TRADE / DEAL. << pastebin is your signed OTP..
danielpbarron: Two blondes walk into
a bar; one says to the other, "I slept with two Brazilian men last night." The other replies, "Wow! I've never even met that many people!"
mats: "Sometimes... I look out the window and think... We're one cyberwar away from falling over. This can all be undone by
a few lines of code. And maybe it will. Maybe then we will repent. For the arrogance that we could live so tall, with so little thought to what supports beneath."
Vexual: feining
a kidnap is kinda harsh tho
Vexual: gran would have
a name etc
punkman: yeah but any bum can run
a WU "office"
mats: my grandmother got
a phone call from '
a police sergeant' saying i was in county prison and needed to be bailed out before being inevitably deflowered
mircea_popescu: that's what i'd like. for all retail establishments to get
a pillory per 1mn yearly custom. then do some customer support in the form of, if you piss anyone off while on the premises, 10 minutes' flogging.
Vexual: why bitcoin is better than
a bank cheque
mircea_popescu: " These online scammers extensively preyed on my trusting nature. I was mailed
a "secure, verified" check for $2750 that I deposited into my account and was promptly tricked into sending almost all of this money to "the toy shop owner" so that he could ship the toys. "
mats: " you belong on the internet of things because you're
a tool"
Vexual: he might be
a fan, they're everywhere
mircea_popescu: "It would be
a great convenience at present," said Mr. Harris; "nor would you need one atom of evidence beyond the report of the Commission to justify the hanging of whoever is responsible for the existence and continuance of such abominations."
mircea_popescu: "Unfortunately," I said, "at present the Hague Tribunal is not armed with the powers of an international assize court, nor is it qualified to place offenders, crowned or otherwise, in the dock. But don't you think that in the evolution of society the constitution of such
a criminal court is
a necessity?"
mircea_popescu: to buy anything otc you need to find
a party that'll sell.
Vexual: they're really all measures off the feel of
a city
Vexual: whereas 'back of beyond' means you wont see another soul for
a week, and 'dingo bumfuck' means theres people, but they give off
a wolf creek kinda vibe
mircea_popescu: once there's enough men in #b-
a, we probably COULD take over
a country.
mircea_popescu: "They took this country by force," he says, with more than
a touch of admiration. "If they came back, this time we'd give them the country for free." << there's
a lot to this.
mircea_popescu: "Even amid the morbid decay, it comes as
a shock to hear Le Blanc mourn colonialism. The venal, racist scramble by Europeans to possess Africa"
mats: taking
a page out of comrade Joseph's playbook
ben_vulpes: * asciilifeform recalls once reading that 'their' is 'obsolete,' and that the truly progressive (tm) types have made up new pronouns, 'ze', 've', fuck knows what els << i hold that "their" when used for
a single entity is
a crucifying offense
mats: it looks like
a turd
decimation: it's
a good thing the Congo is independent and thriving, now that it lacks the terrible yoke of Leopold
mircea_popescu: given point; if compacted together in
a body, they would occupy more ground than St. Louis covers, World's Fair and all; if they should all clap their bony hands at once, the grisly crash would be heard
a distance of --" Damnation, it makes me tired!"
mircea_popescu: s, whose purpose is to make sentimental people shudder, and prejudice them against me. They remark that "if the innocent blood shed in the Congo State by King Leopold were put in buckets and the buckets placed side by side, the line would stretch 2,000 miles; if the skeletons of his ten millions of starved and butchered dead could rise up and march in single file, it would take them seven months and four days to pass
a mircea_popescu: it's actually how bismarck beat england into
a pulp, and created the first germany.
mircea_popescu: the prohibition was not merely idiocy. it was
a particular sort of vindictive idiocy, where the pencildicks got upset that politics was set by men, around beer