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mircea_popescu: it's the fucking scriptures you understand, if we all manage to lose the chain at the same time we're fucked.
mircea_popescu: diametric> mircea_popescu: thats probably a good idea to start doing. perhaps keep it on a usb stick on my keys or something, gets updated when i plug it in. << or on a 4 redundant raid array, under concrete.
mircea_popescu: benkay: you don't need a blockchain to accept/send btc. << not to mention the coinbr thing. he really doesn't need the blockchain at all.
mircea_popescu: Namworld says " Assuming we reach saturation of usage", I read " Assuming we reach saturation of usagi" and i'm all like "wtf is he on about, i'm all saturated"
mircea_popescu: hdbuck well what makes you think you have any sort of a vantage point ?
mircea_popescu: as the world and everything else was meant to work in the first place.
mircea_popescu: instead, bitcoin favours centralism in the hands of unelected and unaccountable, unrepresentative lords.
mircea_popescu: oppose the ~wrong~ sort of centralism, ie, centralism in the hands of the more or less representative, more or less elected representatives of "people" as in, reddit derps.
mircea_popescu: hdbuck: benkay : well, some argue that the more the blochain size increase, the less people would actually download it to use bitcoins. other also argue that it would give more power to supernodes, centralising bitcoin, which was something that bitcoin was suppose to oppose. >> bitcoin was never intended for "people" in the sense of reddit derps, and bitcoin was never intended to oppose centralism. it was intended to
mircea_popescu: diametric: I have to admit, its annoying getting a fresh copy of the blockchain in a new client, even though I have the space, and I have 75Mbit internet, it still takes over 2 days. << i keep a master copy like the holy fucking scriptures. which is what it is anyway
mircea_popescu: Namworld anyway, ask them if they use saphire or not. the answer will be informative.
mircea_popescu: at any rate, silicon on insulator, and especially on 28nm, is ANYTHING but low cost.
mircea_popescu: as large as your batch can conceivably be, you'll sell it, either full or quarter.
mircea_popescu: the advantage of making both "in the same batch" is quite unclear, not like you'd be stuck with batches of like, 3 full and 7 1/4s
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, it's unclear to me what exact benefit would this be. if you can make 1 th asics, you can sell 1 th asics.
mircea_popescu: course so far that's correlated moreover negatively over the history of bitcoin miner manufacturers
mircea_popescu: and anyone can trivially be charged a fee for finding out when x bet resolves : he sends a bet to a virgin address
mircea_popescu: that's ok, question that aren';t worth betting on aren't worth answering.
mircea_popescu: punkman oracle service cost is unbound is the problem.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: y'know, i think bitcoin has actually soured my opinion of the concept of an "idea" << actual business experience in the company of actual business people has soured you on infantile bullcrap. neither bitcoin nor ideas particularly involved.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: idk, i'm not in the 'everything should be free' camp. << but the camp is "nothing should be amazon"
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: l.o.l. << don't do something merely stupid. do something spectacularly stupid instead!!! and don't even mention the actually sane alternative, that's gonna hurt your feelings so it doesn't exist.
mircea_popescu: a decade back they introduced .ro, ie, for romania. i laughed at them then, i'm still laughi8ng at them
mircea_popescu: pankkake: as well as litecoin.foundation. fuckers << dude who the fuck cares.
mircea_popescu: "Second set of drafts coming through tomorrow. Seen a little preview, already looking very sharp. After that, we refine and then program. Looking good for the one month ETA"
mircea_popescu: anyway, the dunne thing, what about it dignork ? guy was briefly here about that time
mircea_popescu: jurov: he typed "viki" << i typed viki and nothing happened
mircea_popescu: <daybyter> any java coder here interested in trading code? << whoa just like the old days!
mircea_popescu: check this shit out, otherthan luke and peter todd, nobody in my bitcoin wot is in the pgp strong set
mircea_popescu: basically the wot here enforces strong setness by default
mircea_popescu: "The strong set is the largest set of keys such that for any two keys in the set, there is a path from one to the other."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "We are asking for information that proves unlawful or corrupt conduct by the US government, the New Zealand government, spy agencies, law enforcement and Hollywood"
mircea_popescu: punkman: it only ever outputs "lol" though << must be only simulating the left brain
mircea_popescu: lol ok i'll stfu with namworld's 1800s ideas about the brain, jurov handed him his ass pretty admirably :D
mircea_popescu: jurov: punkman can post-traumatic depression be cured by demagogy? << yes if full specter. probably not if randomly limited.