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mircea_popescu: the contention is whether "Who found a block" has any substance to it past "we say so"
mircea_popescu: chetty lol is this the us dept solution to nigerian scammers ?
mircea_popescu: jurov if you can merge-mine for different chains, you can equally well merge-mine for alternative root addresses.
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between purely declaratory statements and actually measurable objective reality.
mircea_popescu: but then the difficulty would actually have to be that.
mircea_popescu: what is the advantage of a reimplementation of a dubious solution to a solved problem ?
mircea_popescu: but whether this attack is practical or not, or even theoretically feasible :
mircea_popescu: because the logical outcome is for all pool ops to contriburte some btc, all make the same bet on the same one guy
mircea_popescu: so here, i found a block, you publish it and we split the pot.
mircea_popescu: jurov you realise this is purely declaratory ? i can publish blocks on any ip i want.
mircea_popescu: course the verge is then taking it exactly the opposite way, but hey.
mircea_popescu: CEO Yishan Wong finally addressed the controversy on Saturday by releasing a remarkably clueless manifesto. Reddit, he wrote, is "not just a company running a website where one can post links and discuss them, but the government of a new type of community." So, then, what type of government is Reddit? It's the kind any reasonable person would want to overthrow
mircea_popescu: i mean what's the advantage to rolling this dice as opposed to roling a proper, provably fair dice ?
mircea_popescu: nanotube meanwhile it turns out someone was impostoring
mircea_popescu: there's probably some attack avenue against the incognito mode through this.
mircea_popescu: and of course anyone who likes to read, but the four are actually involved :D
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well, there are some advantages to fat over glucose.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is all for me. see you all on the other side.
mircea_popescu: Richard Stallman la Chișinău, în turul echipelor locale ale Fundației Ceata
mircea_popescu: Richard Stallman la Vâlcea, în turul echipelor locale ale Fundației Ceata
mircea_popescu: Richard Stallman la Cluj, în turul echipelor locale ale Fundației Ceata
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so how many peeps are running "linux because it's safe and gentoo because it's so and so" except they got it off drevil.repo
mircea_popescu: justusranvier and what else, a fixed point so you can overturn teh earth ?
mircea_popescu: take asciilifeform's "mirror". well, is it a mirror or a mitmor ? how do i know ?
mircea_popescu: justusranvier actually some of the better pakcages compile clean and fast now
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, the defectors weren't all that happy generally.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yeah but so far not so sure how to organise it.
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol you wanna talk to a bunch of kinda derpy ro kids with some linux sysadmin experience ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i just passed along your most recent naggum link to a group of ro kids to great benefit. you've contributed to the "propasirea culturala a neamului"