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mircea_popescu: no "20 years to life for wilfully breaking the law from a position of government".
mircea_popescu: chetty and i presume the people in question already received the green cards right ?
mircea_popescu: if ballas were around the one thing i'd ask him would be to write up this particular story. it's something else, "the failures of roger ver's pretense on the jagged shores of reality - 2010 - 2015"
mircea_popescu: which is why we don't believe for a second that this is a bona fide business dispute.
mircea_popescu: cazalla there's at least three parties if not like five with some sort of claim oiver it, all of which cost more to prosecute than the thing would cost to replace.
mircea_popescu: the domain no longer has an owner, it's a toxic asset now
mircea_popescu: fluffypony it means the fountain of shit these people create as a byproduct of their metabolism.
mircea_popescu: so no, okpay isn't gonna pay him "what the contract says". okpay doesn't belong to the space of delusion he belongs to.
mircea_popescu: and now he's stuck in a world where others may entertain his pretense (to "professionalism" or to "business-like" or whatever else), but a) only third worlders, and b) only for as far as they find it net positive.
mircea_popescu: the guy spent more than it was worth (in bitcoin treading for a pittance) to acquire a "valuable" domain, as if a domain name could ever be valuable.
mircea_popescu: paltry attempts to make it stay relevant about as effectual as spitting in the wind.
mircea_popescu: thousands of bitcoin donated to a shitty foundation ? gone, as is the foundation.
mircea_popescu: but then... horror of horrors! everything he touches turns to shit, and now here he is, stuck trying to hold on to the status long after the water's gone out.
mircea_popescu: here's the story of a simple country boy, one could say a cock-eyed optimist who got himself a number of pleabargained felonies after which the sun seemed to shine, and all his long held frustrations as to relevancy for business, intellectual prowess and whatnot seemed to realise! finally! oh, how this moment had been pined for.
mircea_popescu: cazalla poor roger ver really belongs in the gallery of famous tragic characters, with brave, brave, brave sir robert, the tragic clown and his faithful wife nedda etc.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony how does someone else using a 1 instead of a 5 degrade my privacy ?
mircea_popescu: dude if the soviets did something right... caviar's been dead since the 90s.
mircea_popescu: sure... and whether you do or don't, your clothes will be gray.
mircea_popescu: davout the problem of bloat is not something that can be individually addressed. in a sense/under a certain perspective this is like saying that 1800s london was incredibly smoky because of all the heating coal usage, but you could also burn clean coal, which was only slightly more expensive.
mircea_popescu: davout see kinda why i'm waiting for him to decide to present it.
mircea_popescu: much like any two bit bitcoin-wallet / what have you, their time to "be hacked" will come.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony in any case, comparisons with dead cows like zerocoin, coinjoin etc aren't interesting. i'd like to hear a comparison with bitbet mixing, which is to my eyes the golden standard in bitcoin anonimizing of chain-visible transactions.
mircea_popescu: zero coin seems to me exactly designed as a lizard hitler back-up, "alt-bitcoin" bs.
mircea_popescu: Other issues with ZKP include the RSA private key used to initiate the accumulator, which must be trusted to be destroyed by the generating party. << for the record, this isn't "other issues". this is enough to render the entire thing a joke.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: now, it's true that the first time around (ie, bitcoin), i spent my own money/time to get it researched. but expecting the same be done the 2nd time around is unreasonable.
mircea_popescu: still, from the other pov... fuckall knows what's in there.
mircea_popescu: for this reason, monero's choice is reasonable whatever anyone involved may personally believe - because bitcoin already exists
mircea_popescu: i happen to believe the later's the case, but i would certainly regret to see the alternative viewpoint bereft of an experimentally available venue, because i am by no means certain this is so.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-05-2015#1145932 << the problem with finance isn't "that there exist numbers" but "that there exists unknowns". fixed inflation is not fundamentally different from zero inflation just as long as the inflation is known. which of the two is more convenient (and it's purely a matter of clerical convenience) reduces to a discussion of whether humanity is an ever-expanding cancer or a c
☝︎ mircea_popescu: you'll never be able to go to the moon with just the two pairs you got!
mircea_popescu: or numerically, the confidence that none is prime is something like 97% or thereabouts.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic in retrospect, the discovery that out of the 89 so mirrored factors, any more than 0 are ~actually~ prime would contradict reasonable expectation significantly,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that's it. fuckall i give a shit about whatever any woman hummed in any circumstance and whatever tree or bird or wheeltrack through the mud.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the most that can be said of a number produced through taking a composite (moduli are composites - of two primes yes, but composite) and applying the 32bit mirroring process is that you'll obtain an odd number. that's it. the probability of a number that large being prime is roughly speaking n/ln(n)
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic the expectation would be that it'd be divisible by 32bit-shifted 1 + 1, ie 100000000000000000000000000000001 ie 4294967297
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic because if you take 84357349875 and make it 883377448877 then it necessarily will be divisible by 837487
mircea_popescu: the sun's the marketplace for some nucleons trading out energy.
mircea_popescu: first off, a market is not a "device". a market is a PLACE. second off, markets exist in unfungible goods - fungibility is not involved. third off, markets exist ONLY with currency, which IS NOT a good. on it goes.
mircea_popescu: "Of course, we can't understand prediction markets until we understand markets. A market in any two fungible goods, A and B, is any device for discovering the A/B ratio P which equalizes D, the number of people who want to trade P units of A for one unit of B, with S, the number of people who want to trade one unit of B for P units of A."
mircea_popescu: anyway : mirrored moduli will necessarily have a factor of the form 0x00000001000000000000000100000000000000010000000000000001000000000000000100000000000000010000000000000001000000000000000100000000
mircea_popescu: well, sure, there could be all sorts of classes, but there's no call to poke at crabs with a window wiper.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field and you don't see a case where such a modulo would not be detected owing to the happenstance that it shares no factors with other keys ?