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mircea_popescu: as long as there's ppl holding bitcoins, there will be
a market to provide them with internet.
pankkake: I believe services could escrow
a part of their funds
mircea_popescu:
a polite way of saying it, as "he set her straight, sexually speaking" would be in english
ThickAsThieves: "There may, however, be good cause for regulation. There have been several high-profile thefts of bitcoins recently, including
a hacker attack last week on
a Czech exchange called Bitcash.cz that emptied four thousand digital wallets belonging to customers. Also this month, an eighteen-year-old man in Australia who was running
a Bitcoin “bank” announced that more than four thousand
pankkake: that's
a lazy one… and you made me pay
a few satoshi for it!
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i suppose i should put this up ion trilema too, even out the chances of teh populous
a little.
jamespeerless: doesn't this lend itself to
a couple big corps from releasing their own widely adopted forks.. similar to os x and the 5000 flavors of linux?
mircea_popescu: this will be
a major resource black hole in the coming years, but it does not threaten the system itself.
mircea_popescu: 5. the situation has evolved in the exact direction i was expecting : absent
a specification everyone is using their own in house concoctions.
mircea_popescu: this, obviously, is
a very hard task. they, aware of their intellectual limitations, eschewed this task.
mircea_popescu: basically
a collection of people with poor iq and worse skills, hanging on because they perceive this as sexy, and imagine hanging on makes them somehow important.
mircea_popescu: 1. bitcoin was released as
a prototype. that means something specific, and what it means doesn't include "to be used for any actual purpose". prototypes are there to test.
mircea_popescu: however, wallets made by those versions won't see
a significant chunk of actual bitcoins... likely ever.
mircea_popescu: it's possible that
a significant chunk of users (by headcount) are on .7/.8 or w/e
mircea_popescu: as best as i can determine everyone is on some trunk from .4 to .6 with
a bunch of in house patches
mircea_popescu: well 1. payouts are done with
a lot of human supervision anyway ;
jamespeerless: micea_popescu: continuing discussion from yesterday.. since you have
a new address per user per bet, don't you end up with
a ton of addresses with
a tiny amount of coin in them? what do you do with them once the bet is over?
pankkake: didn't save
a revocation stuff either?
gribble: (changekey <keyid>) -- Changes your GPG registered key to <keyid>. <keyid> is
a 16 digit key id, with or without the '0x' prefix. We look on servers listed in 'plugins.GPG.keyservers' config. You will be given
a random passphrase to clearsign with your key, and submit to the bot with the 'verify' command. You must be authenticated in order to use this command.
pankkake: I'm thinking of changing mine to
a stronger one
KRS|gotyawallet: i've got 20 btc on
a hard drive around here somewhere but i'm just too lazy to find it.. meh
KRS|gotyawallet: i lost my gpg key..should have known better than to create it on
a company computer =/
gribble: You rated user dub on Wed Dec 19 17:11:23 2012, with
a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: he's been around
a while..
mircea_popescu: is probably going to make someone
a few bitcoin down the road.
mircea_popescu: i misread
a blank line because your name is so long it bumps the table
kakobrekla: can you link to
a particular blank line
Vexual: you can't force nayone to use gpg, but you can sign your kids up for
a jungle war easily enough
BingoBoingo: If only there were
a "Nation of Bitcoin" tattoo
Vexual: it may be an oversight, but the real story is that this ASIS agent, and his lawyer, preparing to appear in
a hauge court where they have been summoned, have been relieved of all their documents by other agents on PNG soil.
Vexual: Australia really is
a US petri dish
BingoBoingo: It may have been prudent to write
a contract before starting these things limiting your responsibility so you aren't pursuing this Sisyphean task until death?
BingoBoingo: Namworld: Because your worth as
a person is only worth the reputation attached to your Public keys?
Namworld: Can anyone remind me why I have to run after people to pay them hundreds or thousands of dollars? or even 10000s for
a few people?
dub: still seems like
a rather larger collision space than some well known short domain names
BingoBoingo: Well, the Cardano uses
a battery for
a reason...
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Maybe you linked this, but I recall finding
a paper on how SPARC chips can leak RSA keys given an attacker feeding the system sertain kinds of voltage fluctuations.
gribble: Error: I am not seeing this user on IRC. If you want information about
a registered gpg user, try the 'gpg info' command instead.
gribble: Error: I am not seeing this user on IRC. If you want information about
a registered gpg user, try the 'gpg info' command instead.
gribble: Error: I am not seeing this user on IRC. If you want information about
a registered gpg user, try the 'gpg info' command instead.
mike_c: mpex bot must be
a little butthurt from last month :) lot size is 0.1 now but it still quotes for 1000 contracts
dub: dat snackman is
a weird one
mike_c: i sent him 0.002, so it will be worth litigating in
a year.
cazalla: i don't know if any of you played EQ but Curt Schilling was
a regular on fohguild forums
BingoBoingo: I may have plenty of beard, but I'll be damned if my tits are bigger than
a grown man named Oliver's.
BingoBoingo: For all we know the person bankrolling LTC ASICs could be Curt Schilling and the Engineer could be some kid he picked on in highschool who merely has to fulfill the objective of making any LTC capable scrypt ASIC at all. Not necessarily anything close to
a profitable scrypt asic.
mircea_popescu: things like "some chick is crazy enough to produce
a pic of
a large wooden object stuck in her snatch" is one thing
mircea_popescu: if such things were
a function of people's crazyness...
mircea_popescu: ironically because of scrypt, fpgas are actually
a much better choice for ltc than asics
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i dunno that anyone will ever deliver ltc asics. putting all that memory on
a chip is not trivial.
mircea_popescu: he goes on forum as
a week old and is shocked at how mean people are, telling him to do 6 motynhs + of reading before he opens his mouth again
BingoBoingo: Seems for Litecoin devotees this insanity is going to be magnified as CoinDesk has just reprinted so many people's "press releases" about impending litecoin ASICs and if
a single manufacterer delivers it will have meant Litecoin skipped that awkward FPGA adolescence while still staying
a fraction of
a fraction of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: there's
a lot of truth to it. let's lay it out : bozo comes in when bitcoin is 1 year old, can start
a reputation within
a week and be doing business within am onth.
mircea_popescu: it was stretched past its usability into insanity by
a desperate desire and need for stability. bitcoin doesn't offer much of that,
mircea_popescu: consequently, the first fpga's were pretty much
a potluck affair
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform originally this started as
a hobbyst project.
Kleeck_: Don't they have
a compensation program?
dexX7: hashfast is not shipping/delayed more than
a month now
Kleeck_: ThickAsThieves`, any data that lead you that direction? I have no skin in that game, but I've wondered. It's just
a hunch.
Kleeck_: I could walk into my datacenter and snap
a bunch of awesome pictures. It doesn't mean I'm mining
a damn thing.
BingoBoingo: The only problem with HAL is that the contractor's specs insisted he be programmed to run on
a Java Virtual Machine
ozbot: IceDrill.ASIC:
a DigiMex project
mod6: i used Io once as
a a scabble word and was rejected :(
kakobrekla: i liked the .io
a lot cause of the jupiters moon
ozbot: IceDrill.ASIC:
a DigiMex project
benkay: well gosh snackman read the log for the past 10 days then you might have
a clue as to the references
snackman: mircea_popescu: what
a jew indeed
mircea_popescu: not practical for
a web wallet to allocate addresses to users
mircea_popescu: also because if i sent the winnings to the address that sent the bet people would end up fucked if they sent from
a wallet.
jamespeerless: why can't they send from web wallets if you did
a single address per bet option
jamespeerless: mircea_popescu: why have separate addresses for each bet instead of just
a single address that holds bets for YES and NO?
BingoBoingo: snackman: Dude invented
a cryptocurrency and was paranoid as fuck? Satoshi is probably mooching off of pizza rolls someone else's mom bought