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nubbins`: i think she had a quote somewhere about 0-fee tx expectations too
nubbins`: hanbot to the rescue again
assbot: So you think you're going to start a Bitcoin business, right? ... ( http://bit.ly/1q2Ftfv )
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assbot: Logged on 23-03-2016 19:21:24; kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-03-2016#1439145 < this is an interesting q. the second 17 btc was mistakenly sent in bbet name, a mistake for which mp should be liable for.
kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-03-2016#1439239 - see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=124441.0 and https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=124441.msg1337447#msg1337447 to quote: In order to be able to offer BTC business you must at a minimum be able to correctly and safely handle payments. ☝︎
nubbins`: kakobrekla asciilifeform seems to be arguing mostly alternate-universe theories
nubbins`: <+asciilifeform>how does creditor know he was paid by debtor? how does debtor know he paid creditor ? <<< obvious answer is when the input funds are used for payout
asciilifeform: regardless of how davout settles this, you gotta have a consistent algebra of debt.
kakobrekla: im not sure we are talking about the same thing here
asciilifeform: i would blame him if the next day he still says that i owe 100.
kakobrekla: the question is wrong. you owe him 100, you send 200 and blame the inanimate fucking object.
asciilifeform: because if tx-a had never happened, they would-have-been-paid-by-bbet
asciilifeform: the counter-argument seems to be that they were somehow 'not really paid by bbet'
assbot: Logged on 23-03-2016 15:43:19; asciilifeform: tomorrow i trip over a cable, fall on a button, accidentally fire pistol, the bullet hits another button, sends him 90 btc.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: then http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-03-2016#1438770 ☝︎
kakobrekla: the thing is, i was in charge of x, he was in charge of y. a part of y was 'delivery of bitcoin to winning addresses' which, by mp claims, was done wrongfully (hence the charge)
asciilifeform: whereas if spec had been 'winners will receive C coins on addr A from addr B at time T if condition Q' then there would be no puzzle.
asciilifeform: or merely 'graciously donated to.'
asciilifeform: it means that it is not obvious whether the bettors were in fact partially paid
kakobrekla: im aware of that one i just dont see it here
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: king solomon's tale
asciilifeform: called in, to saw the baby in half.
asciilifeform: ill-specified agreements lead to one thing,
kakobrekla: if one was interested on which tx that was - would need to look for that tx in the winners addresses history and establish it from there
asciilifeform: so then.
kakobrekla: asciilifeform there was 1 tx per 1 resolved bet that included all the winners with respective sums - i guess this was deemed sufficient proof
PeterL: what do you mean 1% fee spammy, that is what they take as commision
PeterL: is it really that much bigger than the current version? don't they already do all payout in one txn?
jurov: PeterL: these tx would be BIG ☟︎
PeterL: jurov, wouldn't it be easier, rather than doing two transactions (sweep, then distribute) to just do a single? (bets are used to pay winnings, the 1%fee to a bbet company address)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has said that he intends to play the 'all coin is fungible and unidentifiable ' etc. game. which is fine. but what i don't grasp is how it is possible to craft hard record of debt and repayment without some hook on which to hang them.
asciilifeform: but my understanding is that mircea_popescu and kakobrekla deliberately did not build it this way
asciilifeform: and it would have cured this particular buluceala - it would be obvious who is paying whom for what at all times.
asciilifeform: jurov: imho that would be an improvement
jurov: alternative mechanic brainstorm with current btc: all bets would be scooped to one address per proposition and winners would pe paid from there exclusively ☟︎
asciilifeform: the whole ~point~, i thought, of bitcoin, is to nuke the buluceala
asciilifeform: the answer - would be obvious to anyone with half a neuron.
asciilifeform: i was arguing a more modest point, that if bbet had ~specified~ what it promised to bettors, we would have no thread here.
asciilifeform: (where it does no one any good to prove that a tx was encoded at a certain time, the sender can still doublespend the funds)
asciilifeform: jurov: yeah it wouldn't work with the time curve
kakobrekla: in other words: say if i accidental rm -rf the code and db, who is on the line here?
jurov: such as, bitbet to generate "yes" "no" and "refund" transactions in advance and merely publishes one when time comes?
assbot: Logged on 23-03-2016 18:59:09; davout: asciilifeform: do you agree that, if the 17 btc mp sent a second time aren't billed to bbet, it follows that this second transaction can't come in deduction of bbet liabilities to bettors/addresses?
kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-03-2016#1439145 < this is an interesting q. the second 17 btc was mistakenly sent in bbet name, a mistake for which mp should be liable for. ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: when asked to.
asciilifeform: so that a bitcoin node can calculate whether it in fact happened.
asciilifeform: i.e. does it mean 'pays from this here addr to that there at time t'
asciilifeform: jurov: but merely to ~specify~ what it means for 'bbet owes' and 'bbet pays its debt'
asciilifeform: jurov: i did not propose to ~automate~ bbet
nubbins`: sorry, that's not a proverb
nubbins`: "if i knew everyone'd be so mad about these payouts, i would have kept company funds in a separate address"
assbot: Logged on 23-03-2016 19:12:27; nubbins`: doesn't put enough forethought / planning into things
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-03-2016#1439201 << it is very easy to 'plan' in hindsight. ☝︎
davout: jurov: aren't gas and ether two different things?
jurov: asciilifeform: this souds like "should reimplement bitbet with ether, referees just click a button, gas gets released algoritmically, no possibility of human error"
nubbins`: sending 20yearplan all those posters to give away to tenants too poor to own computers, in the hope of luring them here (????)
nubbins`: rota mega-loophole comes to mind
trinque: it was a contract between two parties.
nubbins`: doesn't put enough forethought / planning into things ☟︎
nubbins`: imo that's one of mp's biggest problems
trinque: part of the lesson here is just how explicitly the parts of the agreement involving moving coin *must* be
asciilifeform: because he picked up the knife.
davout: trinque: see previous comment, approval was usually expressed after the fact, until it didn't
asciilifeform: thing is, regardless of how this is settled, there was a catastrophic failure in 'protocol vs promise' land where bbet never nailed down what ~exactly~ bet winners are promised.
nubbins`: davout asciilifeform is mixing metaphors like a vitamix today
davout: asciilifeform: if claims are against addresses you can't assign intentions to them!
trinque: davout: yes that does seem to cover it clearly, though it could be argued that this fell under existing agreed division of responsibility
assbot: Logged on 23-03-2016 19:06:41; nubbins`: that any weird bullshit has to get approved by both
davout: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-03-2016#1439164 <<< the way i understand the listing is that everything had to be approved by both, it usually happened retroactively with kakobrekla signing statements, until he didn't ☝︎
nubbins`: if you send BTC to an address i own, i'm not a thieving swine regardless of whether you meant to send it.
nubbins`: it is described in the manual of common sense what will happen if a fool pays a debt twice
nubbins`: you clearly failed to grasp my statement
asciilifeform: nubbins`: it is described in the manual, what will happen if you send to a closed bet.
nubbins`: asciilifeform this is taking this piss even for you.
nubbins`: just as well to call bbet a thieving swine for keeping that poor asshole's 10 btc that showed up late.
davout: "(d) All decisions with regards to any aspect of BitBet, measures taken in regards to any aspect of BitBet operation, any actions, activities or agreements involving BitBet will require unanimous agreement of all the representatives of BitBet. Any such decision, measure, action, activity or agreement which fails to obtain unanimous agreement of all BitBet representatives is void and unenforceable. "
nubbins`: and this is some weird bullshit
asciilifeform: davout: so the thieving swine who pocketed the windfall, KNEW whose coin it was, and what will happen to bbet, a 0-asset corp, when it is missing, and did nothing - have no greater share of responsibility than other bettors ?
nubbins`: that any weird bullshit has to get approved by both ☟︎
nubbins`: because it's in the listing agreement
davout: let's not go down this road :D
trinque: if mp declared he had loaned that coin to his business, who can say otherwise, and why?
davout: asciilifeform: i'd argue communism would actually be the opposite
davout: PeterL: yeah, that's pertty much the conclusion i came to so far
asciilifeform: davout: my argument in the beginning of this mega-thread was that to give ~all bettors the same fraction of the haircut~ is 'communism' because they are in fact ~unequal~ in crafting their misfortune.
PeterL: when does Davout make this big decision?
PeterL: either mp sent his own coin, and recipients get to keep it, or mp sent bbet coin, and davout would be justified in withholding futher payment from those addresses
nubbins`: i'm just pointing a finger and calling a thing by name.
nubbins`: there's no body to appeal to for justice
davout: asciilifeform: do you agree that, if the 17 btc mp sent a second time aren't billed to bbet, it follows that this second transaction can't come in deduction of bbet liabilities to bettors/addresses? ☟︎
trinque: death to that.
trinque: this idea that there will be some social aggregate before which one can cry for justice...
nubbins`: why am i engaging in this ridiculous broken analogy
davout: jurov: there's also precedent of dividends being paid twice for a month, and then retained from further divs payments
nubbins`: sure, and if it's only used by the owner to go ATVing up at his cottage
trinque: there's some ridiculous hotdog chain here in TX that owns one iirc with their absurd logo painted on
trinque: you own the company!
trinque: in point of fact you can buy a race car with company funds, wtf is that
trinque: you are thinking as someone in the fiat world