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mircea_popescu: only if we can make our nodes give out blocks in order.
mircea_popescu: now it's mostly people who don't have bitcoin, and desperately wish to be told "that's okay".
mircea_popescu: they either gotr scammed and sold out as the price went up, because they couldn't justifyably keep those hjoldings
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron this was back when reddit mostly consisted of people who had bitcoins.
mircea_popescu: what "enough people" want and five dollars in cointips buys them a cup of coffee.
mircea_popescu: one year you throw away k's of btc, the next year you need foundation salary for 10s of btc ?
mircea_popescu: we are still on the OLD chain, we didn't move to the new one that emerged then.
mircea_popescu: if you mean the unintentional power ranger fuckup of 2013, that fork was killed.
mircea_popescu: it was always there, and it'll hit you over the head until you die if you cross it.
mircea_popescu: that's the principal point here. it's not a "technology". it's not an invention. bitcoin is a discovery.
mircea_popescu: <beetcoin> but humans can't really change gravity << or bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron nobody ever read all of reddit. so it's okay : failure by design.
mircea_popescu: one million lines is it ? should be about a year, for someone that is professionally qualified to read.
mircea_popescu: now... if OUR node was better, to privilege it would make sense. and itd; be worth WAY more than the five bux or w/e on tap.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform problem is that if you penalize nodes for misbehaving thus, you'll just in practice randomly cut them off. as thery all do.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` slow peers nbot even it. out of order block peers much worse.
mircea_popescu: funny how botomless the capacity of these people to generate conflicting names.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i strictly meant the point discussed above, "bootstrap"
mircea_popescu: "oh, let's lay low for a coupla years everything will be fine".
mircea_popescu: ;;rate phantomcircuit -10 Aka Patrick Strateman. That he has the unmitigated audacity to pretend he is a Bitcoin dev is unsurprising for the history of this felon. His name is permanently besmirched by one of the most inept frauds in the history of Bitcoin (Bitcoinica). He is also famous for sending the entire userbase the email address of the entire userbase. This is the sort of moron early Bitcoin attracted.
mircea_popescu: ;;everify freenode:#bitcoin-otc:b4adb22156bc3560f7f16c899dd2896a9af5c26d90b4c8cf345a6562
mircea_popescu: ie, back when all the idiots thought they're bitcoin coders.
mircea_popescu: and that he is also one of the MOST inept "coders" involved in the early stages.
mircea_popescu: Naphex someone remind strateman that a) he is a fucking felon fraudster, whose name is forever besmirched by one of bitcoin's most idiotic heists (bitcoinica)
mircea_popescu: "this is the right thing and in your best interest, and we're so certain of this we'll pay you to do it."
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i hope they do this as you describe it, easily maximal lulz.
mircea_popescu: which fails to explain how come some people own millions worth of gear and reddit can barely afford a webcam, but hey.
mircea_popescu: this is so totally happening, everyone has reddit's memory.
mircea_popescu: yeah, because gavin really has a coupla k bitcoins laying around to "repay" the miners that bit a steel girder by trusting him.
mircea_popescu: if they manage to do it well, all the better, goes into actual fork.
mircea_popescu: if it could be done it'd have been in the fucking protocol.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it's a stupid idea anyway, how do you verify nodeness ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i already bought a bunch of the pogo guys
mircea_popescu: becayuse while someone may take 1 buck a day to noide, as nubbins` says, they won't fuck up a node for chump change.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's exactly my point. let them spend their resources paying nodes to node, it's useful. they are incentivized to maximize numbers, which means they will be paying nodes that are conformant to us.
mircea_popescu: and as far as i hear you can't really sell A series as a non profit.
mircea_popescu: yaya, fake foudation doesn't actually have what to pay gavin with for the rest of this year. had they stayed in the us they'd have been open to some pretty lulzy litigation.
mircea_popescu: so let them do something useful for once in their lifetime, it's not a bad thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform isn't the entire discussion about how someone (who ?) is going to (citation needed) pay some loose change to everyone that runs a node ?
mircea_popescu: let idiots FINALLY pay nodes to node, after five years wasted power rangering, because mp said so. win-win.
mircea_popescu: why exactly is this bad and why exactly should this be fixed ?
mircea_popescu: notice who is driving this boat : i want to improve incentive structure for nodes ? they execute.
mircea_popescu: oh lulzy, so they're going to skip safe nodes from whatever harebrained changetip scheme they came up with next ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the reason is that the nude woman is perfectly safe in the manly company of the impotent.
mircea_popescu: or i guess i'll ask danielpbarron to include instructions on how to arbitrarily set it.
mircea_popescu: but if it's a serious point of concern, either move the version string in the config file
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the latter always leaves YOU with stupid in your code.
mircea_popescu: the correct thing to do is to ignore stupid not to code up to stupid.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude, reacting to idiots is an inept policy. you will end up with egg on your face.
mircea_popescu: "we fixed your car and your wife, overal the parts count has conserved"
mircea_popescu: we should wait and see if it causes any more pain or if it will 'settle in'."
mircea_popescu: "Skipping a bunch of details, they left something in her and it was the cause of last week's night in the ER. The working theory is it is a part from the surgical robot that got dislodged or broken off as all their sponge, suture, and staple counts were on. Regardless, it wasn't there before and it is now and I have no idea what the fuck is going to happen next. According to my wife, the surgeon is of the opinion that
mircea_popescu: not that much to the clean shirt theory if one looks closely at the seams.
mircea_popescu: i am terribly curious how the us would look should the eu decide to sanction IT for half a year.
mircea_popescu: for that matter... russia has been "under sanctions" for half a year.
mircea_popescu: it's true that an online blog the boys read said clean shirt wins.