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mircea_popescu: i figure someone somewhere is definitely rubbing one off to the sound of white chattel going "ma nigga!"
mircea_popescu: Even beyond these political and economic incentives, there is a process of cultural dekulakization: look no further than the young poor Whites who now call each other “nigga”.
mircea_popescu: if people want do discuss "simple forks of bitcoin" they're well advised to make their title read "simple forks of bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: <pankkake> what's obviously discussed here is altcoins that are simple bitcoin forks << no, i was discussing in general.
mircea_popescu: anyway, basically that entire article is a poor rewrite of trilema material, by people who aren't quite smart enough or informed enough to be doing it.
mircea_popescu: the more govts derp, the more relevant they become. the less govts derp, the more they seem to fade.
mircea_popescu: their relevancy will wax and wane with government activity.
mircea_popescu: it's not unlike to german heer derping about how tanks will make infantry obsolete.
mircea_popescu: pankkake the notion that altcoins "will die", for instance.
mircea_popescu: The Mises Circle was founded in January 2012 by Michael Goldstein, George McHugh, and Jose Niño, to provide a forum for scholarship in the Austrian economic tradition at the University of Texas at Austin.
mircea_popescu: roughly the equivalent of the vc circuit making "bitcoin finance" cons and "bitcoin foundations" and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony nah, some academia derps who'd like to you know, matter.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside for a second their complete inability TO FUCKING QUOTE.
mircea_popescu: basically everything the mises circle releases paints them more like pretentious ignoramuses.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: did he at least entertain you periodically with stories ?
mircea_popescu: lol @ these idiots. mandatory eh ? no i mean MANDATORY
mircea_popescu: a there it is. Vexual Difficulty 129,782.79 next 354,280.61
mircea_popescu: fluffypony apparently you weren't the only one looking at this, and apparently we don't think very much of it.
mircea_popescu: new block (64 bytes in length) depends on all the previous blocks. As a result a hypothetical “memory-saver” should increase his calculation speed exponentially."
mircea_popescu: "We propose a new memory-bound algorithm for the proof-of-work pricing function. It relies on random access to a slow memory and emphasizes latency dependence. As opposed to scrypt every
mircea_popescu: A: "An open-source technology and concepts for the cryptocurrencies of the future" as stated on the website. Also, CN developers state it clearly that they are not a coin itself, but rather a technological concept that allows creation of new cryptocurrencies.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller> curious. how do you know so much about American culture mircea_popescu ? << i lived there, remember ? i live with us born chicks, too.
mircea_popescu: probably beats prostitution, especially if your two gfs are ugly.
mircea_popescu: perfect fambly business, your gf could keep a network of friendly garage owners to rent from, your other gf could spend all her time doing one garage a day for five days a week, you can handle the buying and logistics.
mircea_popescu: a pepper mill that retails for $25 at Bed Bath & Beyond could be yours for 35 cents and moved on to a 28yo fuckwit that just bought a diamond ring and a mortgage for the low low price of $5.
mircea_popescu: heh, just had a business idea. rent garages in first home neighbourhoods, buy crap for the people doing pond shops, abandoned storage container auctions, police confiscation auctions etc
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves << that's a huge thing, documenting all the memes. milk, and first, best and greatest and whoa nelly, tons of them
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic:
http://www.bitfin.com/ << all the people who aren't in Bitcoin finance but would like to be, so rather than join #bitcoin-assets prefer to pretend like they matter instead.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell decimation so what, fags were kulaks at some point. they ceased to be exactly because they started pushing that sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: you can verify sigs with the pubkey, you don;'t need the private
mircea_popescu: HeySteve cheaper than two guys with shotguns to back you up and a new pair of spatz every time some twennysomething spaz tries to be smart.
mircea_popescu: if it were up to the users, they wouldn't have the patience for the hambuger order either
mircea_popescu: make it a social media site centered around contract making
mircea_popescu: HeySteve actually a site like that, WebContract or w/e, where you simply put up html forms for people to ul their contracts and you verify them
mircea_popescu: fluffypony it could. verify that the contracts are signed.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron oh i see. yep, you got a solid point there.