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mircea_popescu: "Dick Valis. Dick is an altcoin enthusiast and student of philosophy. He enjoys writing about cryptocurrencies and spending his time exploring reality and searching for truth."
mircea_popescu: "Does it have money or financial mental associations, or even slight links, for example, Luckycoin is for luck, that is necessary to become rich, Mooncoin means Moon, and the Moon drives ocean waters and financial flows (as assumed in financial astrology) plus ‘to the moon’ means also price growing process… And MEOW, or BBQ coins have no these associations at all)."
mircea_popescu: some esl kid on the fringe of culture nevertheless believes that "as a Category", X "shouldn't be fun".
mircea_popescu: so bizarre this. deconstructing it, pretty much the only takeaway is whoa, check out the puritans!
mircea_popescu: "So let’s try to build a rating of the cryptocurrency names of real coins, based on various criteria: Brightness. Seriousness of name (as a currency, the name shouldn’t be fun). Whether the name is conceptual (makes sense, dedicated to ideas), or not."
mircea_popescu: "Name Most Important. But it was quite unexpected that the name of the coin does play the most important role over the long term, since it’s the only one thing from the five features, mentioned above, that cannot be changed, or significantly improved."
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: the general discussion here also changed a lot over last years << i'd loive to hear your take on that ?
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: i feel this encourages an echo chamber as it continues << this is prolly true. on the other hand, most of the intelligent people that were ever going to hear about bitcoin have by now.
mircea_popescu: "And indeed, the output of the CPRNG is very biased. The output of each step of the CPRNG is a number from 0 to 25; you would expect successive outputs to be the same around one time in 26, but my experiments show that the frequency is closer to 1/22.5." <<< shcneier made a cypher. heh.
mircea_popescu: well yeah, about on par with random derp calling ourpages();
mircea_popescu: fwiw : qntra.net us alexa rank 165,888 ; altcoinpress.com us alexa rank 227,200. (larger is worse).
mircea_popescu: "tandacoin:we get 4k pageviews a day how muh do you get?" ahahah this was so great.
mircea_popescu: no but imagine, perez hilton comes here to get my take on shoes
mircea_popescu: im saving this one in a special compartment, it's too good.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: tandacoin, stick around, i need to finish current article and then head off to a pokemon meetup << bwahahaha
mircea_popescu: Yoco sounds like a future artist / sextape protagonist
mircea_popescu: tandacoin: i have read logs of bitcoin assets but i'm not sure how to get word of trust << o.O the cuteliest!
mircea_popescu: mike_c lemme value proposition you : if you're going to work now and again, it may work much better to be a qntra star analyst and get shares for that work, than sorta be stuck with a solo blog.
mircea_popescu: btw, it occurs to me, the one thing qntra would really need would be a resident business/finance analyst.
mircea_popescu: no, because something you can't verify isn't something, it's chtulhu.
mircea_popescu: actually... sure you can, but let's not get into the entire mitm
http story.
mircea_popescu: adlai what if i select every 6th letter and it spells out "i did your mom"
mircea_popescu: you basically have to ask someone to go there confirm your screenshot is correct.
mircea_popescu: pretty much the only way to do this is with sworn testimony.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason the wayback machine is run as charity.
mircea_popescu: there are incredibly many problems with this. kinda why html is so hated
mircea_popescu: yeah, it'll be rare that it verifies so impossible to put to practical use.
mircea_popescu: it'd be a great thing, page verification, but so many things can fuck it up. like, any page that includes the current time. a theme upgrade.
mircea_popescu: yeah, but abusing availability is how availability goes away eh ?
mircea_popescu: so either they're dumb or you've not told 'em and they're dumb.
mircea_popescu: why are you telling him about them ? tell them about him.
mircea_popescu: adlai what i don't get is : some group is trying to do something punkman already did, and we're using.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` can you appreciate how damned rare it is, a few occurences over tens of thousands of LINES ?
mircea_popescu: and in so doing provides the perfect pill against the hearn idiocy of "let's import heardbleed into btc
mircea_popescu: bitbet does the same thing, it reuses addresses liberally.
mircea_popescu: once this one use per address thing goes away, "associated" is a lolzword.
mircea_popescu: the key to escaping responsibility if being one of a group that did whatever. the way to implement this in bitcoin is through address reuse.