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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)
mircea_popescu: i dun see another peer other than the 148 above that claims to have 738
mircea_popescu: i guess they eventually settled on pretending it's an accident or what ?
mircea_popescu: none of my nodes verify the imaginary 737-738 blockchain.info claims to exist.
mircea_popescu: heh we actually are forked nao. i dun see any such 738
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> of the active users. << well, like a dozen or so people, spent a month in game last month. so like, 2 hrs / day or somesuch
mircea_popescu: i don't run one so nfi what its problem would be. ion all likeliness something stupid.
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Raising Darwin's Consciousness << all this "consciousness" bs reads to me like direct pastiche from "class consciousness" or however that nonsense was translated to english
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> ben_vulpes, mod6, mircea_popescu, et al: anybody interested in multiprocessorizing bitcoin sig check ? << i don't see the benefit.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> they'd just all happen to be employees of the house. << if you only divulge winning tickets you get the natural occurence of winners + extras.
mircea_popescu: this difference is a lot more marked than the subtle contortions the supreme court's been using these last years to rule in favour of unexamined hipsterism
mircea_popescu: nobody could distinguish its output from normal reddit functioning.
mircea_popescu: i dunno how or why it'd be worth anyone's time, outside of the perverse interests of entomologists etc.
mircea_popescu: this is why i have people doing summaries of the shit, which summaries i generally do not read.
mircea_popescu: now that usg finally arrayed enough ethereum shitfountains to imagine it can pull it off, the tune changed. and it changed mid sentence and full spin around.
mircea_popescu: this is rank nonsense if you think any about it. the only part of sex that's in short supply is the erect penis. everything else is overabundant. how exactly would the owners of the only rare part be paying anyone for anything whatsoever ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: what exactly about this chick or that dude is making them be "regular folks", which is to say chattel rather than persons ?