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mircea_popescu: In addition, the following individuals have been added to OFAC's SDN List: BESEDA, Sergey
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there was some design to make them stable-er than cesium and get rid of the cs standard entirely.
mircea_popescu: btw, did they ever make that rubidium superclock thing ?
mircea_popescu: it's equalizing over time. hey asciilifeform ! i just got some entropy!
mircea_popescu: same exact model netcards. same firmware on the netcards.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consider how eminently used e coli are in the intestines of every mammal.
mircea_popescu: "the point about women not wanting to be used can only be appreciated by rapists". DOING IT WRONG
mircea_popescu: can anyone explain to me why would latency be ever so slightly more going one way through a wire than coming the oher way ? same identical endpoints.
mircea_popescu: anyway. someone "like us" as the author fills that symbol does not belong above ground anyway.
mircea_popescu: i dunno asciilifeform, i hear a lot of "please use me hard master" from some of the higher order "nature's computers".
mircea_popescu: for all of 2011-2013 i've been strictly ignoring alts, and look at all the time it's saved me!
mircea_popescu: how about the entire fucking ocean floor is a mesh network of bacteria guys
mircea_popescu: who said we want or actually need mesh networks implemented over radio ?
mircea_popescu: decimation the better application seems self-building, self repairing connectivity.
mircea_popescu: "For instance, hundreds of thousands of bacteria can form daisy-chained "wires" an inch or so long, and tap seawater oxygen for energy. Such filaments can hold soil together and conduct electricity about as well as standard copper wire." << wow.
mircea_popescu: actually this may be a good thing to do for a blogger : make the altcoin history chart.
mircea_popescu: o yeah, darkcoin had a "tenebrix" early run. anyway, aborted all.
mircea_popescu: pankkake we're not going to go into solidcoin and all that ?
mircea_popescu: dub no, just because people are a) poor and b) cluieless, in that order
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform litecoin is scrypt, and yea iirc was 1st
mircea_popescu: all the various altcoins of any description are scrypt.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the argument against merge mining atc has more to do with the value of having an actual sha competitor for bitcoin, which may well be very instructive
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i appreciate consensus scoring under fiat.
mircea_popescu: and it has this major make/destroy inequality baked in, to cherry on top.
mircea_popescu: dub more's to it. as i explained to asciilifeform a while ago, it actually makes it impossible to be evil in raport to it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform time has compressed since then. their ability to hold out had a lot to do with the difficulty of seafaring then, and lack of satellites.
mircea_popescu: whatever you may think of the matter, bitcoin was never in the hands of THOSE 3 people.
mircea_popescu: modern science has not yet found a way to shove it back into the womb.
mircea_popescu: compared to this, user derpage and luser derpage on -dev is about as relevant as fairies in the spring rain.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin has been enacted by the fiat of a few important people, a few years ago, exactly in the same manner. they weren't THAT important as a % of the world, but that doesn't matter : bitcoin can't be un-enacted by the fiat of much larger entities. it has a cost of x to make and 1mn x aren't enough to undo it.
mircea_popescu: this is the situation o nthe field : one has NO FUCKING CHOICE. this is how bitcoin works, and why it wins out.
mircea_popescu: or keep them, in which case it's actually making the coin more valuable.
mircea_popescu: that entity can either sell the coins it mines, in which case they end up with me, which is what i want anyway
mircea_popescu: so : atc is not driven by "user adoption". it's driven by the fact that i'm buying it. in this context, if "evil" entity decides to just mine all the blocks, nobody gives a shit. so txn aren't included ? whatever.
mircea_popescu: this situation actually allows a window be thrown into bitcoin, to understand how it works. jesus atc is useful, props tat.
mircea_popescu: anyway, news at eight : luke still irrelevant. big whoop.
mircea_popescu: 03-07-2014 01:50:42 <atcbot> [CoinMiner Hashrate]: 0.02 TH/s [PityThePool Hashrate]: 14243.64 GH/s << this is the peak this month.
mircea_popescu: so if you add 8th from elegius that's what, 60% for luke, provided nobody else joins.
mircea_popescu: dub but there's ALREADY 5 th on board, and these are atc dedicated, they're not merge mining.
mircea_popescu: i don't get how this is supposed to work. so he mines and doesn't include txn
mircea_popescu: mthreat possibly, depending on how smoth mpex starts-up
mircea_popescu: FabianB he said he's travelling and the bot croaked, can't touch till he's back
mircea_popescu: Fairlay you know, it may be a good idea to get in the wot.