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kakobrekla: Luke-Jr: so the pool can still feed you template from a forked chain?
mircea_popescu: a ok bitminter.
kakobrekla: so the pool can still feed you template from a forked chain
Doffx: Oh so little over a year
Doffx: GBT has been around a long time, even when I started 2 years ago
Luke-Jr: kakobrekla: BTCGuild *did* lose a bit when they upgraded to 0.8 because the admin wasn't paying attention to what he was doing
mircea_popescu: anyhway. getwork was a pos.
Doffx: I haven’t seen anything about this new protocol, is there a post about it someplace?
kakobrekla: by pluging asics in a pool?
Doffx: p2pool seemed to be disliked by a lot of the developer types for some reason
Doffx: err slightly more, my reason was well.. I am greedy to a point?
kakobrekla: cause a ton of people wouldnt mine under solo conditions
Doffx: hehe , are you making a pool?
kakobrekla: nah, all you need is a nice site and a nice name like kakobrekla
mod6: oh i guess this graph in thumbnail form looked like a lot closer to 50%: http://blockchain.info/pools?timespan=24hrs
gribble: Error: "bc,estimate" is not a valid command.
mod6: i'm looking at a near ~35% jump in difficulty in around the 23rd of March (if im looking at it correctly): http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-lin-10k.png
mod6: haha jeeze. it makes my eyes bleed some of the stuff i read on there on a daily basis.
pgp: 24h volume on gox is a only 68k
joecool: truffles: nah it's more like a box truck backing up repeatedly into you
joecool: but this is the US, black people in canada are pretty rare and i've never seen a giant one there
joecool: yeah never did that, its bad enough being at a bar and having a giant black ass jackhammer you in the crotch
mircea_popescu: i imagine they get a pretty sweet self confidence boost by visiting lol
mircea_popescu: in general actually black people are rare enough that banging a black chick is a sort of personal trophy for any male
mircea_popescu: joecool there's a bunch of peeps from africa come to study, there's also a strong gypsy minority.
MJR_: i think they play basketball for the local team...that is not a joke
joecool: you think that's a fresh smell? that's the toner permeating your lung tissue
mircea_popescu: scumbag kakobrekla : prints you a new lung. you had pancreatic cancer.
kakobrekla: just print a new lung whats the big deal
mircea_popescu: suppose he makes a mistake in a future version
jcpham: if he were providing a forecast or something i think it's a lot more questionable that paying for a data report
jcpham: he's designed a report
jcpham: like a lobbyist
jcpham: so we form a non-profit for dooglas
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/i-have-a-problem-which-i-dont-know-how-to-resolve-so-do-you/
kakobrekla: im thinking now, publishing best practices like that would only make scamzors a bit harder to detect
kakobrekla: >If you want to be a defacto regulatory, at least come up with sensible regulations.
mircea_popescu: and how the 500th iteration of a failed idea is going to yield results simply because he doesn't know of the other 499
kakobrekla: nah, all you need is a ltd really
mod6: I figured it was worth a try to see how it goes. So far, I'm satisfied with the service. Will let you guys know how it ends up.
mod6: i guess i have scammer ptsd from all of this bitcoin stuff. There have been some ugly public fights about stuff in the past with them. But I've been talkin to coingenuity for a long time on irc and looking at the coinabul site a lot but never made a purchse.
mod6: I placed 2 orders on the 9th, one for silver one for gold. I received my silver order by the 15th. My gold order is still in processing. Orders were < 2 BTC each. I was pretty happy with receving my silver order so I gave them a rating of 2.
kakobrekla: >and we're glad it happened to us instead of a normal user
kakobrekla: >. This is the kind of one-in-a-million occurance that happens when using cutting edge systems like Bitcoin,
jborkl_: Well, they can not fufill orders when price crashes- shorting a order $30 - you made good on 21000 BTC
jborkl_: and that was a real amount of money
jurov: but last i heard is out of stock and need wait a month
zebedee_: Not sure what that is. Just thought it was a cool way to introduce btc to people. Only gave them to people who have added value to my life in some way or other.
zebedee_: Trying to think of devious ways to swap a version 2 for a version 1 with the people I gave them away to :)
zebedee_: OK, thanks. I used to use offline electrum but have moved to paper wallets a-la casascius.
mircea_popescu: this is pretty much what i do in general, my blog is a heavily modified wp etc
mircea_popescu: i have a heavily modified bitcoind
mircea_popescu: not risk per se, just, bitbet is a valuable business publicly owned, its internals may be discussed up to a certain - arbitrary - point.
zebedee_: Sure. Just was curious about the tech of the offline wallet, as I've been dealing with such issues in a personal capacity myself. If you don't want to say anything fair enough, though I don't really see what risk that might expose you to.
zebedee_: Thanks. I'm curious - how do you handle your wallet?Do you pregenerate thousands of addresses in and store them in a DB somewhere?
mircea_popescu: furthermore, trying to game it this way exposes you to the following risk : if your bet doesn't make it into a block before bet is closed
mircea_popescu: there's two loose cases here. if the stated resolution is far off (ie, more than a week), and the bet is clearly satisfied then the bet is paid off now.
zebedee_: One more: what is your policy for bets which are determined before they expire? e.g. suppose it's a bet about BTC going above X USD by end 2013 and it happens tomorrow. Do you pay out tomorrow, or what?
zebedee_: I'm a mathemetician, I like precision :)
mircea_popescu: not per 1 btc specifically, just, as a factor.
mircea_popescu: zebedee_ i'm not sure how you mean ? the weight is just a factor.
zebedee_: mircea_popescu: For bitbet.us, the weight is for a 1 BTC bet I assume (i.e. proportional to size)? I might have missed something but this doesn't seem to be explained in the FAQ.
bowjob: no btcs, consider it a warmup
bowjob: oh wow. they have a surgeon simulator videogame
daybyter: I've actually coded a chess engine once...
bowjob: I;m thinking 1:1 on team fortress as well, but its not fit for a 1v1 game.
bowjob: I added a second game to play
orkaa: a nice wall of ameritards
bowjob: play SF2. its a game older than me
bowjob: rock paper scissors system. its a game where you beat your opponents using those moves,
troc: rock, paper ... scissors ? How can you be an A ranker in that over the net ?
bowjob: if someone out there in an A ranker, I'd get destroyed
bowjob: There is a risk for me..
bowjob: Thinking of offering a free game if... they deposit at least 1 btc to john
MJR_: and a 8000 coin buy at 125
MJR_: there is a 6000 coin sell at ~123
deadweasel: nobody wants to buy the game for a chance to lose to you.
damientrog: yup a very good advocate for Bitcoin
damientrog: I have a respectable amount of shares in SD
bowjob: unless you are a shareholder
bowjob: SD is a guaranteed loss overtime
bowjob: I feel confident in this game, that I;m willing to do a 1:10 odds
gribble: MtGox lag is 0 seconds. During this time, light travels 0.0 AU. You could have sent a bitcoin ... nowhere, really (0 AU).
mircea_popescu: jurov is becoming a philosopher :D
pizzaman1337: Mikko? he's just a researcher
Namworld: You've probably read a few news as we approached the peak. They were getting... crazy/unlikely. Quite the craze.
asciilifeform: and no one but you should know of more than a few of them.
mircea_popescu: ya, fire is a serious problem for paper wallets.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: from the standpoint of an owner or other person with unhindered physical access, a bank is exactly the same as a video store.
mircea_popescu: dub one of the many dumbass things where that guy from pulp fiction tries to parlay his momentary fame into a career ?
dub: whats that movie where some limeys steal royal noodz from a deposit box?
asciilifeform: my point wasn't that this kind of scenario will become routine, but that it is unwise to tell people without a need-to-know exactly where your coldwallet physically lives.
mircea_popescu: a a
mircea_popescu: ie you still need a court order and identified boxes tio have tghem opened.
asciilifeform: but the deposit box room is found to smell a little of marijuana
asciilifeform: one day, a bomb threat is called into the bank
asciilifeform: I will describe a process for extracting paper wallets from a bank box, just so it doesn't surprise anyone when it actually happens:
asciilifeform: one could debate whether allocated paper-gold is any less of a ripoff than the usual imaginary kind, but the fact remains.
Namworld: Of course it's a good thing
Namworld: BTC price is still decent. Seems a bit high tho