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mircea_popescu: ;;rate mike_c We're partners in WoL. He also runs btcalpha.com, which is
a standard on Bitcoin media.
gribble: You rated user mike_c on Tue May 27 19:08:51 2014, with
a rating of 3, and supplied these additional notes: Model blogger, dev..
TheNewDeal: On
a slightly different topic. Was the Nanking massacre related to the Treaty of Versailles ? Was talking about the Nanking massacre just the other day at work with someone, he was talking about the Nazis being involved, and I didn't realize Germany had given Japan some land in China
a couple decades before
cazalla: i'm hoping
a win on the knc bet but expect to lose given criteria even though they've begun shipping
TheNewDeal: was quite sure that no larger bets would come on the same side. Made sure that the outcome was
a rare event, and felt very confident in betting
TheNewDeal: but I knew what the return would be. I also looked at the return for people who might have
a much larger BTC stake than myself
TheNewDeal: should have made
a bet that was "bitbet will allow another negative bet"
assbot: The anatomy of
a disaster pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal well, it's the mod's job. they normally do
a good job of it, but not always.
cazalla: betting mid game of 3rd match is still
a risk though if it's an hour until the block is confirmed, that's the other reason i avoid mid game bets
TheNewDeal: in bitcoinpetes blog it looked like you said you or kako had never adjudicated on
a bitbet
TheNewDeal: pretty disappointed that I wasn't the winner of the bitbet adjudicating record with my bitcon price above $525 in may bet. seems like there was
a little bit of leniency with this sports bets with the date adjustments
cazalla: you're climbing
a rock monyanna?
mircea_popescu: dun worry, this is just to give them
a false sense of security.
mike_c: seemed relevant. not
a dig.
mircea_popescu: yeah, quite
a while ago. enough to ship 3 generations of cardano :D
mike_c: plus, it's easy now! search.b-
a ftw
mike_c: knc, relatively speaking, is on the ball. last week they shipped (300 x 3) = 900 TH/s, and
a similar amount over the next week.
mircea_popescu: cedivad: Barber claimed that they were payments to suppliers, but he has still to prove that. << that'd be unlikely. depends
a lot of the jurisdiction and everything, but in general speaking the manager can just say "we have no more money" and that's that. he doesn't have to prove how he spent it. you may prove he misspent it and then it could escalate to fraud, but in general, in
a bankruptcy,
a manager is not going t
mircea_popescu: cedivad: so, hashfast got 20 millions in and they were able to destroy all of that value. << listing what,
a d. ?
jborkl: they said "accounting is
a wreck and can't find millions" <- probably is there
cedivad: lol, no. I'm
a poor guy that spent more than what should have lost pre-ordering from HashLabs
cedivad: nah, that was the tip of the iceberg. And ars is good, but not good enought. it's difficult for us to understand what is really going on,
a jurnalist cannot do miracles
Mats_cd03: whoa thats explicit this is
a PG channel
Mats_cd03: xmj and fluffypony sitting in
a tree
fluffypony: ;;rate xmj 1 not only have we broken bread, but we have broken wild boar. Also, took me on
a tour of Old Town, Tallinn, Estonia.
benkay: there is
a whole internet of examples...
benkay: doesn't
a whoreicane sound great?
benkay: i had to dig up
a demonstration of docking for that one to make sense to the lady
benkay: "dock me like
a faggot king"
benkay: so the girl and i've been perverting the refrain to "rock me like
a hurricane" all morning
mircea_popescu: <Mats_cd03> dude is too much of
a hippie fuck for that to be true << o.O
mike_c: hah, look at that. search.b-
a is so much better than google site:logs.b-
a.
pankkake: I didn't picture him as
a hippie (and certainly not incompetent)
Mats_cd03: dude is too much of
a hippie fuck for that to be true
benkay: i thought
a neighbor was leaving for the morning, and ran outside in my underoos to return
a key
assbot: Qu pasar con el valor del dlar si la Argentina le paga
a los fondos buitre?
moiety: BingoBoingo: you didn't visit china
a couple years back did you?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo> jurov: It's not just that there are FPGAs though, but
a certain kind... << it's actually likely to see
a proper war around this.
BingoBoingo: At some point the price of fabbing "state of the art" will go down, simply because "state of the art" hits
a wall.
BingoBoingo: jurov: It's not just that there are FPGAs though, but
a certain kind...
mircea_popescu: mike_c they're going to be on
a winning team by moving to one that can pay,
mike_c: well, salary isn't their total income. they can make more in aggregate by being on
a winning team (endorsements, etc.)
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well... in most of the US maintaining water delivery infrastructure is
a low priority... Lead pipes are
a menace not unlike aluminium mains wiring
mircea_popescu: "This could be LeBron positioning himself to re-sign with the Heat at
a discounted rate so they can build
a better team around him"
BingoBoingo: "At this point, we don't know anything about LeBron's plans other than the fact that he is opting out of his current contract. This doesn't necessarily mean that he is bolting Miami for another team. This could be LeBron positioning himself to re-sign with the Heat at
a discounted rate so they can build
a better team around him, and it could even be the first step in the elaborate bring-Melo-to-Miami scheme that was reportedly bei
assbot: Google Building
a Domain Registration Service - Slashdot
moiety: just
a creepy weirdo in the extended family i have never met Mats_cd03 rather just block it than cause problems
moiety: meh command not found
a million times
punkman: "We feel that Jersey is perfectly positioned to become
a cryptocurrency-friendly jurisdiction. We’ve got
a very highly-regarded finance industry with world class AML/KYC expertise."
moiety: kakobrekla: thank you. i got it but i have no idea how to install. i think i'm
a lost cause
BingoBoingo takes
a smoke break, tired of inhaling strange
pankkake: though my mobile operator also now has
a blocking service
moiety: i can get
a wee basic android no problem
kakobrekla: on android you can go step beyond that so the caller will get
a dropped line
BingoBoingo: Otherwiase you write off the implementor as
a snake BECAUSE they chose poorly
Apocalyptic: "the point I want to make is his use of the phrase "powerful encryption". There is no such thing. There's only two types of encryption, that which works and that which doesn't" //
a fact that still eludes some people
pankkake: I have
a hard time rembemering faces
Namworld: I think he mentioned at some point the provably fair system for PrimeDice would be modified for
a 4th version of the website, but eh
Namworld: It basically doesn't provide any verifiable results unless you change client seed manually before each bet. Which is incredibly poor practice. No user will want to manually change their secret before each bet and type
a new random string.
Namworld: I'll admit
a 100% flawless system is probably not possible... but the PrimeDice implementation is far from even being half-right.
Namworld: Because they'd be cheating before the rolls with proper seeds provided. Which means they wouldn't need to alter bet parameters after the fact or provide
a roll number that doesn't match the seeds.
Namworld: Yes, but then even if only
a small portion checks their bets, it would get caught. Even if
a site did it only 1% of the time, it would quickly be discovered.
BingoBoingo: Namworld: Well,
a casino operator could "take
a gamble" by offering
a player
a result to the player's detriment that is not provably fair
Mats_cd03: all cheating. what prevents
a server side tweak for 1.1% being switched on and off irregularly to evade persistent monitoring for cheating in your scenario?
BingoBoingo: "Provably fair" is
a tool to mitigate the risk.
Mats_cd03: doubtful this is
a solvable problem
Namworld: In that case it's possible to have
a system where any sort of cheating will be possible to catch.
Namworld: This is poor because the system needs to be so that
a minority checking bets will catch the cheating for everyone.
Namworld: With all parameters/seeds/rolls always matching and not changing, yet obtaining
a house edge that is not 1%
Namworld: "Only way to cheat would be altering bet parameters after the fact to keep matching seeds and rolls, which is completly noticable if even
a few users tracks their bets."
Namworld: Technically I think there's many smaller places that gives
a new server seed before each bet... but that's
a poor system.
BingoBoingo: Provably fair ought to be the bare minimum. It is
a shame people consider themselvesserious without it.
Namworld: Yeah, as I said,
a properly done provably fair system doesn't prevent cheating/stealing. It just makes it impossible to do without the possibility of getting caught.
Namworld: Only way to cheat would be altering bet parameters after the fact to keep matching seeds and rolls, which is completly noticable if even
a few users tracks their bets.
Namworld: or even better, like Coinroll, use predisclosed hash of daily secret for everyone. Not alterable. Then client seed is BTC deposit tx ID, so we don't provide
a default seed for the client.
Namworld: There are ways to do it that you can just keep betting and even if the site cheated even only 1 out of 100 bets, there needs only
a few people to track
a few hundred bets to start discovering unfairness.
Namworld: The thing is, they give
a new server seed for each bet. Guess what they can do if you don't change your client seed before each bet?
Namworld:
A true provably fair system doesn't need EVERYONE to check and doesn't allow any scenario where
a cheated bet is impossible to notice.