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mircea_popescu: traders talk. if they didn't, they couldn't trade. it's a complex beast.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete the "we're selling bitcoin" news manipulation went in days before the "i'm going to kill your "investment" news manipulation" announcement.
mircea_popescu: just the usual mommentum traders getting raped yet again.
mircea_popescu: (it's really the same thing, trying to use the propaganda machine to control btc via "news" of "sales")
mircea_popescu: but i do suspect someone leaked teh d. series plans, because they've been moving before i said that.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony it's not bnased on th price at all. the fuck does the usg need 50mn
mircea_popescu: nubbins` so make a bitbet. "the announced price of the usms sale will be under market rate at that time"
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete they're not limited to being accessible to us citizens. they're limited to being accessible to that one corp that makes the most convincing case it'll be useful.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the announced price will be under market rate. the "winner" will not actually have to pay anything, but will have to support usg policy.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: "It will always be cheaper to run a small amount of hashing power than a large amount" wat << in good tech tradition, he understands nothing of business, including the fact that he understands nothing of it.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: who is this petertodd? << one of the saner of the power ranger bunch.
mircea_popescu: last time that happened we ended up with a hard fork. so far ghash is 0-1 on the score.
mircea_popescu: "Even if it was unintentional you fucked up at everyone elses expense. Other people paid for your mistake in coding. You should return ALL the BTC you've mined." << someone was going on about how the confiscation "restored their faith in HUMANITY". this is then humanity, at its core. dunno why anyone'd want any part of it.
mircea_popescu: some real king solomons out there, we're so fortunate to have everything the cat dragged in "involved" in bitcoin. thank you accessibility, thank you ever so.
mircea_popescu: and the forumtards respond : ""If I didn't do it I would say that I didn't do it. You wrote a very long post and not one time did you say that you did not do it. To me, that says a lot! Don't bother now, it's too late.
mircea_popescu: makes it too damned easy for anyone to arbitrarily reject signs, which goes entirelky against the fucking point of a signature in the first place.
mircea_popescu: this is why i say the thing sucks and shouldn't be used.
mircea_popescu: In 5.23, you found my signature is wrong. after investigate, I found that I add a extra space on somewhere, then I re-sign the text. Then, a week passed. "
mircea_popescu: In 5.21, you replied to request signature for my address, I replied.
mircea_popescu: they get 20k euro per corp or so, if they make one per employee that's a 400k deduction
mircea_popescu: congrats on wizkid for making things sound retarded i guess.
mircea_popescu: this has been known for fucking months, except apparently not by the elegius admin crew.
mircea_popescu: and so doesn't submit the winning block half the time it finds it, and doesn't care to fix his hardware.
mircea_popescu: the even more logical conclusion : there's some miner going around with 32 bit hardware, that's unable to correctly handle 64 bit nonces
mircea_popescu: and we'll all be happy and everything plentiful and good.
mircea_popescu: these people should vote, seriously. then we'd finally have real democracy, when nothing and nobody prevents these people from giving their "opinion" on how public affairs should be run
mircea_popescu: ns oh well...Great job on running the pool WK!! couldn't ask for a better pool op"
mircea_popescu: forum responds : "WOOT WTG WK!!! you teach them that messing with our pool isn't an option Great job on catching them and stopping them from getting their reward for doing nothing Finally some scammers didn't get to scam...oh how good that makes me feel...lost 21 coins to some lying cheating bastards already one was the btcrow or some website email scam..thought i was using escrow but was really sending them the coi
mircea_popescu: well the more persuasive explanation is, elegius fucked up a server upgrade (on its sole server, if you don't count an old backup box which is never live anyway), lost some user's accounts
mircea_popescu: "P.S. - This is unrelated to any of the stats issues that have occurred. (Server migration for the new web server is still under way…)"
mircea_popescu: o look, it's also closing ? isn't this one of the oldest pools still (sort-of) standing ?
mircea_popescu: "It has unofficially been decided that if it came down to it, Eligius would shut down before being forced to pay any attacker of any kind any amount whatsoever."
mircea_popescu: herpy derp. so basically don't mine with elegius and that's that.
mircea_popescu: "When they noticed, weeks later, they contacted us complaining. We asked them to sign messages to verify they were in fact in control of the addresses in question including asking them to include a real name and location in the signed message, refusing to discuss it until they had done so"
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would someone keep a 200 btc balance, and esp with elegius, is beyong me.
mircea_popescu: so elegius is stealing from some miner they had an argument with.
mircea_popescu: "My guess is that they never expected to get caught and suffer income loss as a result of their attack. But, once they were caught, I put a filter in place to block them from the payout queue (similar to the block on known MtGox addresses). Eligius’s offline wallet now has roughly 200 BTC work credits held from the payout queue under the attacker's addresses, that we have stopped them from stealing."
mircea_popescu: (if they actually were detectable they'd logically be prevetnable too)
mircea_popescu: davout the guy is a legit miner, but perhaps not too acquainted with logic. they're not detectable, they're susceptionable.
mircea_popescu: seems more a function ofyou for the first time reading miner stuff than anything else.
mircea_popescu: they're oppressed for a reason you know. nobody in the entire history of oppression was oppressed for anything but a reason.
mircea_popescu: what are you, like new to this risk! game of international intrigue ?
mircea_popescu: who the hell knew "anatomical" is condom codeword for "i have a very small icepick"
mircea_popescu: that thing is so narrow i couldn't fit any part of it in there.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, so i go buy one of each type, and as chance would have it i first try the tyhing called "anatomical"
mircea_popescu: imagine, i could scribble "numbers" under it and be a real geek fucking.
mircea_popescu: so in the end i order research on condoms. answer comes out that the only half decent brand is "prime"
mircea_popescu: cue me in pharmacy with womenz in tow looking askew at the two mds there, with a stupid novelty ladden package onthe counter. "what are trhese!?!?"
mircea_popescu: speaking of negative cock thickness, so the good folk here don't fucking import condoms.
mircea_popescu: <Mats_cd03> militants advancing towards baghdad << myeah.
mircea_popescu: (and i do believe he's typical, there's nothing more conformally uniform in the world than tech people.)
mircea_popescu: the total estimated holdings of the bitcoin power rangers < 1k btc.
mircea_popescu: "BTW If you owe me fiat and normally pay me via Bitcoin, for the next 2.5 weeks you can pay me based on the price I sold at, $650 CAD." << so inadvertently, the guy's holdings are 5 weeks of his income.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin will succeed in the long term because i say so. not because todd says or doesn't say so. wtf is this, programmer planet, where programmers matter now ?!