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mircea_popescu: actually i just looked and it's not nearly as bad as it used to be
mircea_popescu: maybe you have bad pings or some obscure port block from trhe isp ?
mircea_popescu: this has been long said here, the #1 problem with the bitcoin protocol is that it has no specific payment for relays, and it allows separation of mining and relay.
mircea_popescu: life was better before the intellectual revolution. in these postmuscular times we're stuck with meta-meta bs.
mircea_popescu: if only a mechanical apparatus could be devised to make every twennysomething derp hurt each time she posts something stupid on reddit
mircea_popescu: it'd fucking better, on high heels. the fucking point of them is for wrong girlwalk to hurt.
mircea_popescu: unless it's some sort of land whale, the reason she has heels in the first place is because she walks on the ball of her foot anyway.
mircea_popescu: punkman that is total bs. women don't walk on their heel. like, at all.
mircea_popescu: hm. actually, the fuck she wouldn't. of course she wouild, nobody cares *what* she claims.
mircea_popescu: i guess these known affectations are overpopulated and so don't hold as much perceived cachet,. huh. random tramp invited for her tits and drunken antics at some party wouldn't get away with claiming she's the real niece of napoleon's first wife quite as well.
mircea_popescu: why not claim you're the empress of jormania or something
mircea_popescu: im kinda surprised nobody's trying more productive paths of insanity. why claim to be whatever, the bitcoin chamber of commerce ?
mircea_popescu: you know, they don't make these diplomats of the same substance they used to.
mircea_popescu: punkman so ? the next step is for the girlfriend at work to claim she's fucking you irl while the wife is somehow virtual, because you interact with her mostly through postits and phone calls.
mircea_popescu: i wonder why people think there's some sort of dichotomy between irc and irl.
mircea_popescu: no but i mean, zero effort fuckwits. "do my job for me please, what is the difference between bitbet and "other brands" ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla "When did BitBet started?" rly ? anyway, he can come here and ask w/e. but otherwise no.
mircea_popescu: yup it started raining with nightfall, then it hailed for like an hour
mircea_popescu: software that's worth changing ain't worth running in the first place.
mircea_popescu: i have boxes still running the same shit a decade later.
mircea_popescu: i've been using the same wordpress for trilema for 6 years now.
mircea_popescu: mostly "hosted bitcoin mining", ie, buy a dumb bitcoin short.
mircea_popescu: all these schmucks have fiat to spend on outbidding each other on google ? and lemme guess, they're all first best largest ?
mircea_popescu: hashop.io bitcoinaffiliatenetwork.com megamine.com groupbitcoin.com usbminers.nl best-miner.com ehsminer.com mining-asics-technologies.com
mircea_popescu: dude look at a google page if you search bitcoin mining
mircea_popescu: why, because literally nobody runs the code anymore or what
mircea_popescu: <justusranvier> Maybe the reason they are unhappy about bitcoin-security being public is because it reveals there's an unfixed memory leak in bitcoind right now. << this needed like revealing and anything
mircea_popescu: watch the load on the server excitedly as it increase slightly over a week or two as a result.
mircea_popescu: have dev spend a week checking out and streamlining trilema code, obtain clear results, various bottlenecks resolved, lots of optimisation that should result in about 30-40% less load.
mircea_popescu: "we've got nothing but our desire to matter in spite of the void we stand for. and there's A LOT of us."
mircea_popescu: With so many interested persons checking in here, I believe this would be a good time to again share Chris Cook's brief, simple and correct summation of the problem with bitcoin, from
http://blablabla mircea_popescu: "Thank you for this clarification Mr. Nakamoto. It has been an honor to be labeled by my friends as "Satoshi's Drunk Uncle" and it's a moniker I'll wear proudly until the day I retire from Crypto. The Goldcoin (GLD) developers truly admire your work and strive to continue improving upon its design as a tribute to your unparallelled genius. Your admirer and relative in spirit, MicroGuy."
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: There was a young girl of Natchez who chanced to be born with two snatches.Now and again she'd say "Shit! I'd so give either tit for a man with equipment that matches."
mircea_popescu: ty. ever been expert witness in legal proceedings before ?
mircea_popescu: X-Rob and then, the "community" derps all about how bad it is that they're getting squeezed out by the large farms.
mircea_popescu: yup. so little kiosk downstairs has them, two dozen for 10 pesos.
mircea_popescu: so #eulora just succeeded in an infrastructure upgrade, taking crystal space from 38 something to 40 something. this is a major tech victory.
mircea_popescu: betting is an odds game. if you win 1% more than you lose, but you can rely on that 1%, you may cycle thousands of btc for a profit that well exceeds say coinbase's
mircea_popescu: unless the method we describe in theory is actually implementable cheaper than we estimate, of course.
mircea_popescu: X-Rob because you're not you. you're the pool op, who has to make a buck, and who is friends with the other pool ops.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> you were gonna teach them Enigmail? Fuck you. <<< word.
mircea_popescu: and spare me with the "miners will know", there have been three times in history, including today and recently, pools which split their rewards across to pretend like they don't have 50% of the hash rate
mircea_popescu: X-Rob well the advantage would be that they win a bet, get more btc.
mircea_popescu: given actual economic incentive to lie however, it's worthless.
mircea_popescu: it's prima facie evidence, and absent any actual economic incentive to lie it may stand as acceptable "proof"
mircea_popescu: but the fact that the pool ended up with the coins is no sort of prof the pool mined the block.
mircea_popescu: other than making people with a soft understanding of the protocol make wrong assumptions