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mircea_popescu: in this sense the halo's about as stretched as gavin's mother.
mircea_popescu: you familiar with my observation re alf's "folk with brains are useless - they want to use the brains" that in terms of "optimal impact", you're always better off waiting ?
mircea_popescu: it is in point of fact better to have a static build that specifically ennumerates blocks prior to height X and then proceeds from there, than to have the present situation.
mircea_popescu: whose great-grand parents noticed, while taking the upper-middle class mandatory "tour of europe", that the italians similarly etc etc.
mircea_popescu: an exquisitely african thing this, as late as 2000 one could notice that all the egyptians seem willing to do is stand in front of the pyramids with their chests pushed out, or else gesturing importantly. meanwhile... the people who built those things don't look anything like the arab mongrels currently populating the place, if extant statues are to be believed.
mircea_popescu: pure spaghetti mess, wherein no soul can tell where the pasta ends and the cook's hairs begin
mircea_popescu: i mean, other than painting the picture of the vermin in unflattering tones, which it does. in the field it can do precisely jack.
mircea_popescu: but at any rate : setting the "nversion" to maxint has at least the important symbolic significance of saying "this is the last version".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: nevertheless, being critted for > 9k ironies over something like this is beyond comedic.
mircea_popescu: (an important point about co2 extinguishers is that they also cool when deployed. this effect is significant. heavier gases - not so much)
mircea_popescu: anyway, having been duly amused for the evening, i retire to my eulorean empire.
mircea_popescu: i don't think any sane nodes can be up to date atm, until this resolves.
mircea_popescu: but the "we'll make wallet a plaintext file" and the "we'll target windows" and the "you know what's better than boost ? qt!" were pretty epic turn points too
mircea_popescu: nah, the "we'll move to this new db system one schmuck that gofer'd coffee at google wrote with his chest hairs and nobody tested in any way" was the stupidest sahit
mircea_popescu: "Current status: F2Pool still broken; Antpool fixed (but no promise they won't intentionally re-break in the future)." is really all that one needs to lol
mircea_popescu: Uh oh all these block explorers just flipped over to the invalid chain:
☟︎ mircea_popescu: on the record having lied for profit and all that good stuff, but why should anything matter.
mircea_popescu: why ? he's a god fearing rotinculo from wisconsin or whatever.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is jit to lay kakobrekla's wonderments to rest.
mircea_popescu: i dun see it. the rule is "come to school dressed". if you all agree to wear skirts or all agree to wear cardigans, it's still school.
mircea_popescu: decimation provided their "mine support" actually materializes
mircea_popescu: the idea is they don't want to see some stuff that validates anymore
mircea_popescu: well, any people can at any time decide to narrow the rules. this makes some sense.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi how the power rangers imagine they'll manage a hardfork when they can't as much as get a "relevant support" softwork that's fairly uncontroversial.
mircea_popescu: anyway, todd is right. the only way this affects us is that we don't really give much of a shit.
mircea_popescu: Bitcoin Core (after 0.10.0) rejects these invalid blocks, but a lot of other stuff doesn't. SPV Bitcoinj wallets do no validation what-so-ever, blindly following the longest chain. blockchain.info doesn't appear to do validation as well; who knows what else? <<
mircea_popescu: BIP66 protocol rule changes have gone active in part thanks to Antpool and F2Pool's support of it - but their pool appears to not actually be enforcing the new rules, and is now mining invalid blocks << lulzy.
mircea_popescu: gotta explain to the masses 1) how irresponsible it is to empower scammers, whjether they call themselves "pirate", "Gavin" or anything else
mircea_popescu: anyway, foundation ppl : plox to make a statement on this matter
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes wait, the usg dept of stupid is now on the record that miners don't, after all, decide ?
mircea_popescu: anbd how teh fuck does it continue on an orphan block anyway
mircea_popescu: ( cat debug.log | grep -B3 "blocks=363738" if nothing else)