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mircea_popescu: (and
to cap
that story - yea
the adults expressed outrage ["how could you do
that!"] but no, he wasn't punished, because no
there was no offense, and
the father(s) wouldn't have it, or generally let
the women run amok with
their nonsense. so hurray for patriarchy or whatever, boo
the psychopaths of
this world!)
shinohai: ;;later
tell BingoBoingo ping me when you have
time
to look at possible qntra submission. Grazie.
mircea_popescu: school hadn't yet started, so we were prolly 6 or so. but
this was a rare concept even at
that age.
mircea_popescu: so he
turned
the chicks neck and
threw
the corpse at
the whiner.
mircea_popescu: some younger kid
that didn't have one wanted
to play with his,
this guy would have none of it, eventually some adult intervened
to make him share
mircea_popescu: my earliest memory of him is, we were in some rural setting, dun recall whose grandparents, and we had chicks (kids get young hatchlings
to play with in
the
time and place, it's a
time-honored
tradition like getting your
toddler one of
those dingly noise
things
to put above
the crib or w/e)
mircea_popescu: i did build and burn a number of fortunes, but in my younger years. nevertheless : you know, peter ALSO didn't HAVE
TO
take
the imperial guard with.
mircea_popescu: it protects an entire fucking population from
the above being an absolute.
mircea_popescu: suddenly we understand
the importance of national heroes like joe stack
mircea_popescu: yes, plenty of folk do.
that don't work, live, were educated or born in
the us.
mircea_popescu: if
they were properly leet and called
their secret legions
to battle with da polis.
mircea_popescu: hahahaha. and similarly i know
that
they WOULDNT NEED
TO pull
the pin
mircea_popescu: this utter fear of finality
they bake into all
their runts.
mircea_popescu: so it is usable by anyone who doesn't work, live, was educated or born in
the us.
mircea_popescu: i would propose
to you
that "destroying
the keys" feels exactly like "moving
to argentina" does
to you.
mircea_popescu: so i can't compute
this like you would. it's silent and cheap, not loud, not costly.
mircea_popescu: if btc people were
the sort where it'd cost about 1.25 heads of usg agent per bitcoin stolen,
this is one
thing.
mircea_popescu: these are all
the moving parts we'll have
to count and balance.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform usg currently steals
to sell. perhaps.
this does not reduce
their capacity
to steal in
the future. if in
the future
they steal
to hoard, or if
the stuff
they "sold" was just facade,
through preserving coinbases we are baking in not just
the original satoshi, but also an evil satoshi.
assbot: Logged on 16-03-2016 12:09:47;
thestringpuller:
this kills SPV mining
tho, which is good
thing.
mircea_popescu: im sorry, "detract from
their capacity of stealing" is what i meant.
mircea_popescu: but
this does not detract from
their capacity of selling.
mircea_popescu: after all, do you know how much usg stole so far ? do
they have more
than satoshi yet ? if not yet, when ?
mircea_popescu: in
the pow1 = sha(header+nonce) and pow2 = sha(digest+nonce),
the first sha can even stay what it is now.
mircea_popescu: see,
the beauty of
this is
that it is a
TRUE soft fork.
mircea_popescu: the valuable idea
there is, imo,
that you have
to keep
the same nonce
to calculate both sha values. which ACTUALLY does work, or seems
to me
to work,
to do what
the article proposes
mircea_popescu: ah ah.
that's just assumption imported from current codebase, not intentional.
mircea_popescu: that's not
the problem,
the merkle
tree jiggling is
the problem.
mircea_popescu: what i read
there was, have
TWO hashes : sha(header+nonce) and sha(digest+nonce)
mircea_popescu: basically, have
TWO hashes : sha(header+nonce) and sha(digest), and BOTH must be < difficulty.
assbot: The necessary prerequisite for any change
to
the Bitcoin protocol on
Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1UyRBjA )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lol hey, life of your parents! funny how
this works!
mircea_popescu: so your idea is,
that we of course continue
to maintain
trb as is, but also develop a keccak pow variant, for use in case of forks ? or vice-versa, in case of forks develop it ?
mircea_popescu: (and generally i dunno why
this shortcircuit between facts and judgement became fashionable here, seems much
too close
to
the habits of
the "independent" demographic for comfort.
trust me, if i want
to say x i will say it in
those exact words, as i have without exception
to date. saying i don't know x means i do not know. and similarly, here, and so on. i
totally can speak for myself, say what i mean etc.)
mircea_popescu: i'm not pushing it either
this way or
that, just want
to get all
the
things on
table if possibru.
mircea_popescu: yes, schelling point
to continue, yes with
the same idiots/geniuses as before, and
thus at a lower adoption interest.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform keeping old coinbases has
the advantage and
the disadvantage of keeping old coinbases.