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mircea_popescu: is it addiction when you do it a lot or when yo ucan't stop ?
mircea_popescu: did they succeed making pole dancing an olympic sport yet ?
mircea_popescu: Me : Then pretty much nobody cares. You wanna play a sport, might as well go pro or else forget about it.
mircea_popescu: Random twitter self-absorbed priss : This website wants to feature me as a "Hot Babe”. Should I do it?
mircea_popescu: moving on to more interesting stuff. fluffypony you got a dc in your basement ?
mircea_popescu: which is also entirely an artefact of your own mind, as yo ucan make a webpage in fucking lisp ?
mircea_popescu: if quantum computing, then your teeth are probably not safe. because why would they be ?
mircea_popescu: i mean that sort of shit probably flies in -otc, but this chan is grown ups.
mircea_popescu: GAit do you understand the part where making statements about defenses against nonspecified attacks is hacky at best ?
mircea_popescu: are you here looking for feedback or are you here to persuade ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform chetty what was the gpg competitor nsa was pushing back i nthe day ?
mircea_popescu: or "pls to use whatever the gpg competitor was, i forgot" 20 years prior.
mircea_popescu: i am saying that the entire "don't reuse addresses" campaign is exactly the equiovalent of "pls to use openssh" or "pls to use tor before that"
mircea_popescu: now whether you're participating naively or not is up for grabs, but still.
mircea_popescu: that a campaign against reusing addresses is more a covert usg op than anything else.
mircea_popescu: GAit the problem is this : i'm pretty well convinced, and i suspect a lot of people here are similarly convinced,
mircea_popescu: oh. GAit well people sometimes overstate points on the internet. it's called cracked.com
mircea_popescu: buncha poor romanian kids in some small romanian town got the check-only btc address app installed on their phones and went all over town claiming to be owning 1000s of btc.
mircea_popescu: well for instance, Naphex told me a funny story when we met yest. it went like this :
mircea_popescu: aha, well you heard the lady folks : pls to vote ms boring for the blockchain award.
mircea_popescu: if you care about freedom, make sure you reuse at least some addresses.
mircea_popescu: and it makes it possible for the entire "taint" nonsense to even tenuously exist.
mircea_popescu: not reusing addresses has major privacy implications :
mircea_popescu: wlel... reusing addresses equally may prevent you from exposure to undiscovered holes.
mircea_popescu: "Not reusing addresses may prevent you to be exposed from undiscovered holes in ECDSA theory"
mircea_popescu: does mormon underwear protect you from quantum computing ?
mircea_popescu: obviously your own political stands are your own, but the thing that isn't going to lead anywhere is trying to support the walking dead.
mircea_popescu: i'll crush these schmucks too, not a question of whether, a question of when i feel like pushing hard enough.
mircea_popescu: you know the average lifetime of bitcoin things i've opposed historically is somewhere south of one year ?
mircea_popescu: you will find pretty much all of bitcoin is anti the alleged foundation.
mircea_popescu: are you merely skimming titles or also read soem stuff ?