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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo lol 2 votes, 100% upvoted, yet it's not in new not in rising etc.
mircea_popescu: recently, cuz it was luzly how i'm apparently the only one remembering.
mircea_popescu: hmm, anyone recall where the fuck i put that screenshot of gavin casually admitting that satoshi never spoke to him after he ran off and "presented" bitcoin @nsa hq ?
mircea_popescu: "Imagine that happened when they thought they had 75% but actually only 10%..." <<< no need to imagine anything. simply recall the event a few weeks ago when they who thought they had 90% actually had <40%.
mircea_popescu: iirc he made some start-up with max keiser, which failed.
mircea_popescu: mats upon research it turns out that teh guy isn't/wasn't actually doing anything. i'm obviously not the best avenue for that.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i dun have vlc on this machine and i don't usually care enough to check some vid on a dirty box
mircea_popescu: the b-a node could do this since forever, if anytone gave a shit to bother.
mircea_popescu: being an ass is the best thing to be - you get all teh pleasure.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.btcdrak.1:a647ff23eec9625b49ce18eb7a22cb190710fff646b72cf2b7ed06982735e980
mircea_popescu: let gavinhearn come out with a "hey it's notrly satoshi" first.
mircea_popescu: no point doing that before the idiots invest themselves in it.
mircea_popescu: "Can't see why SN would write about Gavin in this sort of terse/removed tone."
mircea_popescu: "Heh, whoever this guy is, he probably could have never anticipated that the Streisand effect will be the downfall of the small-blockers' side. "
mircea_popescu: anyway, the reddit thread is pretty lulzy. all teh butthurt awww.
mircea_popescu: obviously all i see in there is "Hearn is a shitstain, MP is right, fuck reddit. Love, Satoshi". but that'd be me.
mircea_popescu: sorry for taking the space, but you never know what else happens on teh internets.
mircea_popescu: If two developers can fork Bitcoin and succeed in redefining what "Bitcoin" is, in the face of widespread technical criticism and through the use of populist tactics, then I will have no choice but to declare Bitcoin a failed project. Bitcoin was meant to be both technically and socially robust. This present situation has been very disappointing to watch unfold.
mircea_popescu: l problem, and we should take more time to come up with a robust solution. I suspect we need a better incentive for users to run nodes instead of relying solely on altruism.
mircea_popescu: They use my old writings to make claims about what Bitcoin was supposed to be. However I acknowledge that a lot has changed since that time, and new knowledge has been gained that contradicts some of my early opinions. For example I didn't anticipate pooled mining and its effects on the security of the network. Making Bitcoin a competitive monetary system while also preserving its security properties is not a trivia
mircea_popescu: hi Nakamoto. Nearly everyone has to agree on a change, and they have to do it without being forced or pressured into it. By doing a fork in this way, these developers are violating the "original vision" they claim to honour.
mircea_popescu: The developers of this pretender-Bitcoin claim to be following my original vision, but nothing could be further from the truth. When I designed Bitcoin, I designed it in such a way as to make future modifications to the consensus rules difficult without near unanimous agreement. Bitcoin was designed to be protected from the influence of charismatic leaders, even if their name is Gavin Andresen, Barack Obama, or Satos
mircea_popescu: I have been following the recent block size debates through the mailing list. I had hoped the debate would resolve and that a fork proposal would achieve widespread consensus. However with the formal release of Bitcoin XT 0.11A, this looks unlikely to happen, and so I am forced to share my concerns about this very dangerous fork.
mircea_popescu: it makes money like "i'm going to be a star" makes money.
mircea_popescu: a week at least, with dedicated servers and ips, derp's been derping.
mircea_popescu: yes, well, you dont want meat and don't like veggies. it's getting hard to feed you :D
mircea_popescu: phf you ever found the weirdo one that was "painting themed" so they'd bring you the food on like, that silly wooden thing painters hold to mix paints etc ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i've not gone anywhere alone, including the bathroom, since i was about 15 or so.
mircea_popescu: now i don't know for sure what you do etc, but the restaurants of the city've been unfairly impeached. they've nothing starred, is true, but there plenty good ones.
mircea_popescu: originally was gonna stay for a coupla weeks, but we liked it that much.
mircea_popescu: lulz of all time, it was the size of the parking lot shed of the original one.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, site:trilema.com costa rica turns out a bunch of stuff
mircea_popescu: phf you can't miss it, there's a bunch of mcd kfc etc. only place in town they even exist.
mircea_popescu: btw, were the "los ninos merecen tang" ads still around ?
mircea_popescu: dun tell me you hung out with the expats in retard quarter.
mircea_popescu couldn't stand the coasts, way too hot and humid. the city itself is a very pleasant weather.
mircea_popescu: anyway. you found the nice indian restaurant with the peacocks roaming in the garden ?
mircea_popescu: i guess i gotta dig up my pictures from there or something.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski see, totally worth it to ignore the oxi. where else are tyhey gonna find 80bn for 30 years for free.
mircea_popescu: it's a fundamental flaw of the entire non-ba corporate model, and it's unfixable.
mircea_popescu: is it some new security model ? comma separated security or something ?