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mircea_popescu: this thing cuts a lot more universally than one'd reasonably expect, and quite scarily in its degree.
mircea_popescu: trinque essentially, an application of "bitcoin is bitcoin" is what sunk gavin. they still mostly can't believe it happened, but it did. it will again. in practice, you either implement a broken, pared down version of bitcoin, in which case bitcoin defeats you, or else you implement a correct version, in which case... you've implemented bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: i think that argument holds water, to a large degree. recall the "bitcoin pervers the nsa" discussion with alf maybe a year ago ?
mircea_popescu: shooting psalms out of their assholes at the unbelievers.
mircea_popescu: st thomas comes riding a flaming horse made out of female virgin saint asses
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you gotta appreciate, the usg is not the only one mining, nor has it been. at this point, the deployment you contemplate might allow it to catch up, but won't do much more than that.
mircea_popescu: well alternatively you could just import the php from my server into your page
mircea_popescu: can you give me a ftp user in a subdir on your server and run it from there ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform 20mn users x 20 watts = doubling the current hash power. /me is unimpressed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform miner without a node ? miner without any security w/e ?
mircea_popescu: trinque you figure it actually blocks an image wrapped in an url ? that's almost all of em ?
mircea_popescu awaits the 500 verilog lines gpu and the 2200 lines cpu to be released by intel soon=ish, totally busting the market.
mircea_popescu: it seems like your browser supplies it somehow ? the source has no class spec.
mircea_popescu: yes, they'll have this in five years. the effort required to do it in a year ? you'd hear.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you understand the qty of engineering involved.
mircea_popescu: yeah well. it's supposed to go into a diff page, with its own declarations, and it uses no glyphs.
mircea_popescu: there's oregon, arizona new mexico, some secret and some offshoire locations
mircea_popescu: maybe they're doing it in supersecret, but so far, on the balance of intelligence, it's just gift of gab.
mircea_popescu: it's like you're expecting to find flesh under a stand-up cut-out of angelina jolie.
mircea_popescu: mebbe. tho i dun think so. not that i have any serious basis for it.
mircea_popescu: just as many poltrons then, but really, a lot more style.
mircea_popescu: you know, these schmucks have nothing of the quality of schmuckdom in the soviet times.
mircea_popescu: "Be wary of one-time pads and other crypto unicorns" vbwghahgahaha