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mircea_popescu: so your bitcoin has changed, mine hasn't, there we go.
mircea_popescu: and until the day they're accepted by me, they don't exist.
mircea_popescu: this is what renders the subjective but unaccepted parts irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: it matters precisely because it is subjective, and accepted.
mircea_popescu: including pictures of twelve year olds taking horse cock.
mircea_popescu: reality is not what some derps somewhere feel is the case.
mircea_popescu: well so there you go. you wish o matter personally, but i don't give a shit. im your employer not your lover.
mircea_popescu: one day job was "lay bricks with hat", the next" lay bricks without hat" ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, here's the story : i hire you to lay bricks for me. that's your job.
mircea_popescu: notrly. it only changed it when old ones stopped working.
mircea_popescu: what's logically impossible is to imagine the bitcoin protocol is something that extends all the way to your soup.
mircea_popescu: if people decide to write 2+3 as 3+2 from now on, that's just a fashion
mircea_popescu: if math changes and 2 + 3 = 6 instead, then that's a change.
mircea_popescu: because some kids somewhere are blowing each other on the machines ?
mircea_popescu: suppose some kids decide they will have a cocksucking mining contest.
mircea_popescu: your "multisig" thing is only relevant inasmuch you can actually pay out of it.
mircea_popescu: the fact you can make proper payments out of your braindamaged 3whatever also doesnt matter
mircea_popescu: mjr_ the day you can withdraw mpex funds to a multisig address i might care.
mircea_popescu: luke is trying to pretend like it is. that matters in the sense luke trying to pretend obama is jesus matters.
mircea_popescu: a gun is available to be used somewhere. it may even be used by mike hearn.
mircea_popescu: same thing with bs "features" that meanwhile got thrown out, same thing with bs features the spyteam has been trying to insert.
mircea_popescu: you may understandably wish to misrepresent it as such. nevertheless... it is not.
mircea_popescu: if i let you live in my garage because i'm too lazy to kick you out today, that doesn't mean the garage is your home.
mircea_popescu: narrowing fundamentally means those features never actually existed.
mircea_popescu: understand, if some kid somehwere adds a condom to his parent's the tv set, this is exactly meaningless to television.
mircea_popescu: <mjr_> i am saying that the code that is running on some mining machines is not the same code that ran in 2011 <<< this.
mircea_popescu: there's an entire class of them, occasionally i bitchslap them into the abyss, but whatever.
mircea_popescu: you can translte the miner';s desire to "runn different code" in the flurry of idiotic "revolutionary" nonsense imbeciles like molecular are pushing on the forum.
mircea_popescu: mjr_ it's not meaningfully different or else it wouldn't be able to run.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the english language'd have benefited immensely had it been frozen solid when handed off to the nutty colonists cca 1700.
mircea_popescu: i can refer you to some random bathroom stall ? what of it ?
mircea_popescu: <mjr_> considering the bitcoin standard gets changed around once every 2 months << i have nfi what you're on about, it's noit changed since 2011.
mircea_popescu: enter about 50 years of sterile "social studies" on the topic of how a bureaucracy is much better.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> paging herr naggum! << change is not generally a good idea.
mircea_popescu: somehow ever since good old productive labour became something for niggers and mexicans, the ontological hope of all usians is inextricably tied to "ideas" and "Creativity" and "being famous" etc.
mircea_popescu: mjr_ there's very little ideas to be had and very many people who like to tell themselves htey have ideas.
mircea_popescu: godovo beats me. look through the logs, it's all there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah well that's not really what a good idea is now is it.
mircea_popescu: but inasmuch as the market for them is exactly 0... there's no way to short. nor do they have any \value
mircea_popescu: otherwise one could short them either as futures (like i am trying to shoirt eth/doge)
mircea_popescu: you can' tshort them because there is nobody buying them lol/
mircea_popescu: no you can't. im talking of the hyip crap. where do you think all these forum-ceos are coming from ?
mircea_popescu: mjr_ nah that's not it at all. it's much more like the online scam "industry", ie, 90% of volume is self-trading.
mircea_popescu: like, when sec got told what to do, it just... did it, none of that "we're too good to do what our betters tell us to do"
mircea_popescu: because nobody was too fucking smart to ditch something awful and suck our cock instead. like, ever.