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mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves this is the benefit of aging. you start to realise your time is worth more than money.
mircea_popescu: but yes, a deterministic web game for btc is a non starter.
mircea_popescu: field is new, so we don't know a whole lot about what fundamentally doesn't work just yet.
mircea_popescu: i have some hard in-principle things that can disqualify a proposition, but they're pretty sparse.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight ok, let me put it this way : so far you're making it impossible to be helped. now, lots of people circle this chan in the hopes of getting some support, you're way ahead of them through a combination of good luck and good luck.
mircea_popescu: mkay. well, can you turn all this into a business plan ?
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight i lived for a while in timisoara, cluj before that.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight im thinking more in the sense of the larger entity you get backstopped against.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight you're thinking publisher in the sense of the world of atari, making hardware cartridges.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just an alternate spelling of sweaty balls, that also happens to be an edible product.
mircea_popescu: the two are amusingly related : work -> schweddyballs -> tide.
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard: kakobrekla: so everyone should pay off their mortgage / student loans / credit cards / car loans before buying bitcoins? Seems a little extreme and just poor balance sheet management imho <<< i can see it. bitcoin is still not for the poor.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes. this is the point of flesh, to make thoughts painful.
mircea_popescu: so like a pm basically, mostly covering for game design
mircea_popescu: so what's your role in all this ? you draw the artwork ? you code the game ?
mircea_popescu: you're not being accused. you've just been convicted. that's all.
mircea_popescu: it won't work if i have to kill you all, and i won't have to kil you all.
mircea_popescu: eh spare me the derpage. you and the rest of the usg plants are trying to push forward a certain political aggenda.
mircea_popescu: can i calculate the bitcoin address that'd correspond to any arbitrary private address i choose ?
mircea_popescu: private keys have nothing to do with the public keys they're paired with ?
mircea_popescu: so now, you'll have to sell risk whether you want to or not. learn to live with it.
mircea_popescu: this is why wow was a gold mine and rift spent 10mn for ~3mn in returns
mircea_popescu: to make money selling content you need huge economies of scale, because content is so expensive to make.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight looky here : in business, one's always selling something. games are business. as such, they can either sell content or risk.
mircea_popescu: the sad irony of all this being that we've been actually looking for a competent sysadmin to run stuff for years.
mircea_popescu: this log is fucking epic. guy that's got himself blacklisted by derping at me can't spell funding and is looking for $500.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason poker championships give out multi milion prizes
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight if there's no randomness involved people won't be likely to play for btc.
mircea_popescu: it leaves nothing up to chance and randomnes << this is a problem.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight next is, well, tell me a little about what you're planning with this game, how's it going etc.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck do you send bitcoin, pray tell, if not by signing with the private key associated with a public key that's an address that has a balance ?
mircea_popescu: Misconceptions (on the bitcoin.it wiki) : Addresses are not wallets nor accounts, and do not carry balances. They only receive funds, and you do not send "from" an address at any time.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i'm probably the only idiot in here, but in case there is one other: "3 indicates a "pay-to-script-hash" address that contains a hash (one way fingerprint) of a script that can be used for multiple things including address obfuscation and multi-signature requirements." << tl;dr : 3addresses are an unnecessary and crufty thing some idiots pretend they've added to bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: fuckwits on the internet tho, just use words like their mommy made them
mircea_popescu: it's stupid-easy to protect from : a) ban facebook. b) don't allow ambiguous reference to expensive resources.
mircea_popescu: "The attack vector is using Facebook notes to flood our site using a known exploit on Facebook and we’ve reached out to friends at Facebook’s Cyber Security team who have determined the IP address of the original person hitting the attack vector and are working with law enforcement actively to track this user down."
mircea_popescu: wait, this wouldn't be the same guy i was lulzing at last month ?
mircea_popescu: "A few nights ago an attacker sent a message via our contact form demanding we send .5 BTC to protect ourselves from a DDOS attack."
mircea_popescu: pigeons: wow really they are already trying to damage control the 1% of the press they get that isn't positive? and from a bitcoinpete (no offense lol) blog post? << the 1% happens to be what matters in this field.
mircea_popescu: pigeons: vitalik sells lots of snake oil besides etherum: emulated quantum computer that runs faster than its von neuman host; proof of stake; "trustless" distributed fiat (schellingcoin); << he's like andreas v2.0 then ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake: why would all scammers be dumb? << it's a self-selecting activity. smart people find better things to do.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: natalie portman is a jew? I always knew something was off with her << only on the mother's side.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo but then again you drink, so how'd you know.
mircea_popescu: BigBitz: Bitcoin markets don't revolve around news. <<< bitcoin is here to make the news, not to follow the news.