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mircea_popescu: a kind soul with git installed pls dpaste that shit sometime ty.
mircea_popescu: curl: (1) Protocol git not supported or disabled in libcurl
mircea_popescu: fluffypony srsly, got a link to the whitepaper's github ? guy's tree's gnarly.
mircea_popescu: the_scourge from experience, not even human translation by billingual hands do my prose justice.
mircea_popescu: it is more a function of people being removed from the means of production than anything. no living thing will ever accept its pointlessness. as such, cargo cults and mud pies everywhere.
mircea_popescu: in any case it indicates it's a fallacy older than feudalism.
mircea_popescu: after which, come back, do something useful with your time, that'll actually be worth money.
mircea_popescu: so now : take that website, give it away or whatever, go to read the logs for the next year or so.
mircea_popescu: Rippleflip tom swanson famously argued the same stuff, from perhaps a better position than you'll find yourself in.
mircea_popescu: Rippleflip_ to put it plainly : someone who does not see being in wot as esential can not possible have yet done anything whatsoever worth any amount at all, in crypto.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony got a link to the actual github in question ?
mircea_popescu: the_scourge i would imagine so, and if not i'll soon find out.
mircea_popescu: or w/e chance at that you might have built over the 1.5 years in question.
mircea_popescu: Rippleflip_ you know, the only moral here is that spending 1.5 years outside of the wot essentially cost you 1250 btc
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell kanzure saw your enumeration incentives thing. lolz were had.
mircea_popescu: srsly, "Textual enumeration of incentives related to Bitcoin software." ?!
mircea_popescu: pretty much born out of their poverty years, each academic spent some time going "well if i think of it really complicatedly, i won't be so hungry anymore and those won't really be cockroaches"
mircea_popescu: this is pretty much the "us academia" solution to everything. "make it more complicated, people won't notice"
mircea_popescu: well there's a difference between wanting and trying things out you know. i also want to find a cure for cancer, but i'm not going around feeding people pills.
mircea_popescu: then artforz found it had a hole, and then it changed to having 12 magic nodes with 10 mn "unspendable" coins each
mircea_popescu: if you look, throughout 2011/12 some mentally deficient dank clone spent his time producing prose (not so different from the gavincoin crapolade) professionally explaining how bitcoin is obsolete
mircea_popescu: and for other people to be all like "I MAKE MONEY WHILE YOIU SLEEP!!11"
mircea_popescu: if this liquidity is natural i'll eat my hat. for one thing, the people interested in alts are interested in alts specifically because they're bitcoin poor. to propose to me that they are 100x more likely to trade btc than usd seems beyond counterintuitive.
mircea_popescu: "24hr Volume: 646.141 BTC / 195.554 XMR / 2838.69 XUSD" nuts.
mircea_popescu: so according to poloniex, 10 cents worth of stellar (at 0.004) and 64 bitcoins' worth of same (at 0.00whatever) sold in the past what is this, day ?
mircea_popescu: oh inside network ?! nobody i know would touch it. inside of what ? got its own wot ?
mircea_popescu: can you even sell 10mn "stellar" without ruining the market permanently ?
mircea_popescu: you got 10k ripple seconds and bitbet got 31536000 bitcoin-seconds
mircea_popescu: if someone puts 1 btc for 1 year on bitbet, and someone puts 1000 ripples for 10 seconds on your site,
mircea_popescu: let me guess, it would roughly repay what you think the valuable value of your time spent on it so far
mircea_popescu: that's cool, but wh ydo you think the site's worth something in bitcoin ? neither ripple nor stellars are worth anything in bitcoin
mircea_popescu: and limited to ripple and "stellar", ie, two dead scamcoins ?
mircea_popescu: so what do these do, exactly ? some sort of coin flip thing ?
mircea_popescu: To see the cast list for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the attatchment.
mircea_popescu: place for a bunch of derps to go and be all weird and pretend it's jesus' fault amirite.
mircea_popescu: PeterL i hope for the sake of your soul that you're being kako-level sarcastic.
mircea_popescu: i dunno of any "profession" "industree" etc ever in history of mankind to be so fucking... i don't even know. inconsistent ? mixed ?