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nubbins` invites
hearn to use money without numbers
mircea_popescu: lol @
hearn : "So: money is not a mathematical construct. Its a social construct. The fact that Bitcoin uses some fairly basic maths to coordinate social decisions over the internet doesnt change that."
mircea_popescu: THIS is the best angle for him being a conspiraci, a sort of mike
hearn of the cia.
mircea_popescu: that was the equivalent of the mike
hearn "let's test bitcoin". the result came out kinda clearly - 9 maybe 10 days. that's it.
BingoBoingo: <sjsqd> but works with bitcoin just the same as any other client (multibit etc) does? << Very different from multibit. Multibit is based on the
Hearn BitcoinJ turd.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: BitcoinXT is the
hearn foundation Bitcoin fork which has all kinds of features even Gavin rejected because they make nodes incredibly more DoS attackable
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2015 14:42:59; mats:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9104188 >> mike_hearn "In the world of crypto, where we've learned so much, yes old means bad. Almost always... How many crypto geeks STILL spout rubbish about how the PKI is totally busted and the web of trust is the future? Way too many... The future of encrypted messaging is not GPG."
mats:
hearn and moxie start from the same premise, where tech and crypto are somehow going to paper over deficiencies in human relations and bring useful encryption to everyone everywhere, and somehow gpg is inadequate because it doesn't solve all problems they've imagined but don't actually present as problems to technically capable people
mats:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9104188 >> mike_hearn "In the world of crypto, where we've learned so much, yes old means bad. Almost always... How many crypto geeks STILL spout rubbish about how the PKI is totally busted and the web of trust is the future? Way too many... The future of encrypted messaging is not GPG."
☟︎ pete_dushenski: fuckin eh this silbert guy thinks that he can avoid the fate of
hearn and gavin
assbot: LifeIsSoSweet comments on Using Mike
Hearn's Bitcoin XT instead of Bitcoin Core as full node took just a couple of minutes. ... (
http://bit.ly/1At6koP )
assbot: ButterNubber comments on Using Mike
Hearn's Bitcoin XT instead of Bitcoin Core as full node took just a couple of minutes. ... (
http://bit.ly/1Eba8Z6 )
assbot: Using Mike
Hearn's Bitcoin XT instead of Bitcoin Core as full node took just a couple of minutes. : Bitcoin ... (
http://bit.ly/1D8NZ0y )
thestringpuller:
hearn wanted to merge that in iirc, something about 2-factor?
mircea_popescu: that "assurance contracts" in particular is such insane dumb only
hearn could have sprouted it.
mircea_popescu: in case it's not clear, no anything authored by
hearn may ever be merged into anything. i don't care what it is. the dog learns to shine shoes or do carpentry or whatever, but he does not work wioth computers anymore.
mircea_popescu: "The BIP was authored by Mike
Hearn who also provided the implementation for Bitcoin Core."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i really never looked at anything they pushed out after the
hearn fork.
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: But means signal to noise. I assume Mike
Hearn forked Google Translate too.
davout: gavinandresen: "okey dokey, then we might not have much to talk about if you want to stick with OpenSSL bugs that were included in the protocol by mistake." <<< actually i distinctly remember mike
hearn telling me how that particular bug was part of the protocol and how it somehow justified not putting any effort towards actually specifying anything, in a spec, not in code
danielpbarron: "I think its perfectly usable for people who are comfortable with bitcoin, but aren't developers or are tech-savvy. You could crowdfund, you know, me and my friends go to a concert and we've got to 'group buy' concert tickets, or group buy a laser tag day or something."
Hearn on his decentralized kickstarter turd
mircea_popescu: some informative original research, fresh from marquardt : "According to Mike
Hearn, Satoshi even planned on creating a reputation system integrated with the Bitcoin client that would use the number of blocks you'd individually solved as part of a system to prevent scammers from creating infinitely many accounts."
mircea_popescu: yeah, a lot of ground has been lost since the
hearn attack.
mircea_popescu: guys like
hearn, gmaxwell etc , as well as guys like poettering etc, as well as guys like that derpy chick whatever her name is
fluffypony:
Hearn tried to debate the point with me on Reddit
mircea_popescu: and in so doing provides the perfect pill against the
hearn idiocy of "let's import heardbleed into btc
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: what is the origin of this 'power rangers' nick? << hours after the fork gavin &
hearn brought upon the network through their alleged ineptitude (which allegation i don't credit, it was deliberate)
BingoBoingo: dartv: Well, that wasn't intention for anyone other than Herr
Hearn's handlers
jurov: WTF "I love bitcoin for reasons that Amir Taaki, Adam Back, Peter Todd and Mike
Hearn love it."
Apocalyptic: "That's absurd. The whole Lavabit episode actually indicates how strong the CA infrastructure really is",
hearn ben_vulpes: do
hearn and andresen have wot profiles?
mircea_popescu: well, the death of the previous hard fork (the one gavin &
hearn created) happened through the cooperation of the meanwhile defunct 50btc guild.
ben_vulpes: is the goal (eg political) to find some poor usian schmuck to take on
hearn et al and risk full audit of all things, stopping and frisking by every passing police officer?
mircea_popescu: leveldb in and of itself is whatever, maybe not the first choice for a db. leveldb as implemented by
hearn was an attack on bitcoin.
BingoBoingo: Superstitious in itself is not ideal, but...
Hearn did trigger a hardfork...
BingoBoingo: jurov: I think the evil is simply the distance + proximity to
Hearn mircea_popescu: i mean, not like either him or
hearn quit after the previous failed fork debacle.
BingoBoingo: patches to the bdb conf because...
Hearn sucks
mircea_popescu: to make it perfectly clear : no team that in any way includes any of the currently proscribed usg agents (gavin, maxwell,
hearn etc) can ever make a fork. never.
BingoBoingo: The truly scary thing is that as periperal as Andreas is... I think he has more fans than compromised Gavin and
Hearn together.
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Well you have to consider the idiots who write us off for suggesting
Hearn or Gavin could be coopted and have interest agaisnt Bitcoin.
thickasthieves: there's this interview with him and
hearn where he's just gushing
los_pantalones: anyone in here ever met / dealth with zooko wilcox-o'
hearn ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo:
Hearn being all butthurt << yeah it'd prolly be good if whoever links to derpchans (-otc, -dev, reddit, tardstalk, what have you) also provides a good executive summary. i dunno who has the energy to go on fishing expeditions in the sewage.
BingoBoingo: Just how much it sounds like
Hearn's recent discussions on Bitcoin Fragility
assbot: Mike
Hearn on the fragility of bitcoin - YouTube
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic plenty of people have custom clients that don't get crushed by the
hearn introduced nsa bug.
mircea_popescu: once we've hung dutta,
hearn and so forth and the bitcoin republic is well established, if you're still alive, you can come back and teach at the university or w/e you can do.
fluffypony: and all because of Mike having a
Hearn-ia
mircea_popescu: o, the notion that
hearn survives the transfer of power is just ludicrous anyway.
assbot: mike_hearn comments on getutxos: a convenient way to crash bitcoind
assbot: Mike
Hearn August 27, 2014 at 10:49 am I wont argue that btcd has bette - Pastebin.com
pete_dushenski: The Bitcoin Core team recently committed BIP0064, which adds two new commands to the protocol, getutxos and utxos. The getutxos command is used to request unspent transaction information based on the given outpoints, while the utxos command is the response. The BIP was authored by Mike
Hearn who also provided the implementation for Bitcoin Core.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this whole charade'd have worked a damned sight better if the various y-combinator bezzlers, the foundation
hearn, gmaxwell and co would have actually had what they thought they had and everyone thought they should have, ie, actual respectability and bitcoin cred.
mircea_popescu: a gun is available to be used somewhere. it may even be used by mike
hearn.
mircea_popescu: the old wiki is too fouled by the likes of mike
hearn, luke jr and the rest of the tools to be much use anymore
assbot: Mike
Hearn proposes to build vulnerable censorship mechanism into Tor, opposes a fix for hidden service deanonymization, on Tor mailing list : Bitcoin
fluffypony: have we spoken about
Hearn's recent fuckery?
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> What was
Hearn's nick? << i don't recall he ever managing to figure out the gpg arcana. i imagine he'll first have to implement a google code version, that doesn't work.
ThickAsThieves: lol
Hearn wins $100k bounty from reddit for software to replace BTCFundnation
benkay: i thought
hearn was handing out potions in this example.
mircea_popescu: the notion that derps imagining themselves involved and part of and etc still treat
hearn as anything but vomit behind a bar is perhaps the best argument against democracy.