asciilifeform: jurov: normally i don't give a rat's arse if people want to use it as a hammer. but inevitably they will whine, 'it's a poor hammer, help us'
asciilifeform: jurov: if you mean my widget - as soon as it's done. but please remember that it does not serve the same purpose as 'trezor.'
asciilifeform: note that i have never touched, smelled, used, 'trezor.' all i know comes from the manufacturer's specs.
asciilifeform: (a satanic rng, as spoken of here, is any and all rng where the circuit is contained on a vlsi die and cannot be audited with commonly-available equipment)
asciilifeform: artifexd, jurov: 'trezor' uses arm's satanic rng for ecdsa signing nonce. if this bothers you (it bothers me) - don't use.
asciilifeform: re: monero et al: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CryptoNight - 'A megabyte of internal memory is almost unacceptable for the modern ASICs.' << got fpga with 1MB+ block sram right here in a crate.
asciilifeform: even a piano shop. 'liquidation, all must go!' for 5+ yrs now.
asciilifeform: people buy something with 'triz' in the title, and get... a turd
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: they are the most likely reason why his work remains obscure in the west.
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: unfortunate. the fellow's long-dead, and sales of the translations feed the idiot hucksters who claim to be altschuller's students (they peddle derivative crapola to american 'mba' types)
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: if you want heuristics you can actually use immediately, read 'suddenly the inventor.'
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: the english translation is a bit clunky but still eminently worth it.
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: 'And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared.' by Genrich Altshuller.☟︎
asciilifeform: and the number of people capable of writing a true from-scratch (vs. cribbed) alt is probably single-digit.
asciilifeform: i venture to guess that it is because the temptation to 'go retarded' (e.g. premine, insert 'egalitarian' crapola like demurrage, reward phriends, etc.) is overwhelming.
asciilifeform: i'm still waiting for a hypothetical altchain that is neither a joke, nor retarded
asciilifeform: (a year and a half ago, when i wrote about it, it may have been)
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: let's say they all get sold tonight. at this point, this may not be a 'death'
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: please try to think of a scenario where a weakness (in the usual sense) turns up, but does not kill classic btc and its alts simultaneously.
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: on account of them being codewise clones
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: afaik no way to kill btc without taking down all known (at least sha-based) alts with it.
asciilifeform: but what is the alternative? the race goes to the snails?
asciilifeform: pankkake: what people complain about is that 'the race is to the swift'
asciilifeform: 'if shit has antigravitic properties, kitchen chairs would look like toilets, and toilets would be chimneys.'
asciilifeform: classic case of 'partial differentiation'
asciilifeform: pankkake: this is nonsense. given as it assumes that the price of such rentals is entirely unaffected by this possibility.
