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nubbins`: "You are free to be
as offensive, annoying, disparaging, crass, crude or indecorous you feel the need or inclination to be. This includes any and all comments that in other, non-professional venues may be regarded
as racist, sexist, chauvinist, fascist or whatever else. Pros don't give a shit, it's the clueless twits and assorted pretenders that do"
mircea_popescu: something which may be related if not outright this is known here
as blackholing
mircea_popescu: adlai there's some historical charge in there : bitcoin's first and largest ponzi ran a "mining" whatever, for the obvious and transparent purpose of acquiring freshly minted coins to pay out the idiot "investors". this was a major contributor to the early crystalisation of what came to be known later
as "mining pools" which is what eventually in due time coallesced into today's problem. whether it was avoidable at all
nubbins`: idgaf about some 17btc transaction, only to point out that if someone touts targeted collusion
as the most likely answer, they're probably selling something
nubbins` has never, ever, ever had a stuck tx and is baffled
as to why anyone w/ money ever would
gribble: sounds like you thought this whole ignore thing through about
as much
as you thought through your cartel conspiracy
nubbins`: ;;echo sounds like you thought this whole ignore thing through about
as much
as you thought through your cartel conspiracy
danielpbarron:
as far
as i know, the only pool taking advantage of the ability to create
as many outputs
as you want in a coin base is Luke-Jr's Eligius
danielpbarron: if what i'm a part of isn't
as big
as my estimation, I don't care for bitcoin anyway. So whatever.
danielpbarron: nubbins`> again, i could create 10k tx's right now with older inputs than A1 << isn't this a "glass canon"
as in, can only be fired once? How many nubbins` are out there with cannons? It costs money to assemble this weapon in short order. You have it from years of doing business.
nubbins`: hmm i wonder if mp putting me on ignore means he's gotta filter me from his logs
as well
davout: asciilifeform: any bitbet recipient had a strong incentive to rebroadcast,
as soon
as the second transaction actually paid them
nubbins`: obviously ant/f2 have node farms
as well
as mining farms
nubbins`: i could,
as i've got an enormous amount of coins that haven't moved in a very long time
nubbins`: <+asciilifeform>punkman: he has, iirc, a thing that tries to connect to 'anyone who's anyone'
as determined by his intel << seems his intel connected him to a shit set of nodes
kakobrekla: actually this somewhat fixes "bitcoin is too accessible"
as the requirements to include tx in a block are having your own block producing setup
nubbins` is a bit surprised that more lords aren't concerned about mp's shame leading him to proposing an altcoin
as the way forward
nubbins`: and "shouldn't work that way" does not mean the same thing
as "did not happen"
mircea_popescu:
as opposed to "here is what i opine - i know all about huffing glue because, practically speaking, it's what i do all day".
mircea_popescu: nubbins`> all will be discarded because A1 is waiting for the cheap seats << except the part where these nodes would also advertise it, which they didn't do. and except for the part where nodes that keep txn forever are am yth. and except for anything actually to do with reality,
as opposed to some cartoon someone saw last year on tedspeak or w/e.
danielpbarron: not people who want euros, so much
as they ~don't want~ bitcoin, and don't want to touch actual fiat
nubbins`: and since it's in the queue, you can make
as many
As as you like
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2016 18:41:13; mod6:
As shitty
as all of this is, I think we're in a unique position now to actually resolve all of these issues that have been plaguing us from the beginning.
mod6 mind-
as-well round out the library
mod6: and
as far
as 'compilers', you suggest 'red dragon'
as opposed to second edition 'purple dragon'?
BingoBoingo: So what if it takes 5-10 years to gain mass traction
as opposed to the couple hours a hardfork crisis would resolve in
mod6:
As shitty
as all of this is, I think we're in a unique position now to actually resolve all of these issues that have been plaguing us from the beginning.
☟︎ BingoBoingo after much gnashing and wailing beginning to see remaining utility in BTC almost exclusively
as bridge to what comes next
assbot: Logged on 07-01-2015 02:35:36; asciilifeform: the notion of 'trustworthiness'
as a scalar is fundamental to scamatrons of all stripes.
assbot: Logged on 24-01-2014 04:36:33; asciilifeform: eventually people's brains will grow and they will stop thinking of market value
as a scalar.
mircea_popescu: now - person X comes to me with a 5 BTC which he wants to spend on milk. B sees the 5
as valid ; A,
as invalid. i know both A and B. does this mean i have to choose ?
mircea_popescu: ok, take the nonsense practically : there's A,
as illustrated yesterday, the group of six nude ladies ; there's B, b-a. i hope you folks aren't nude atm ?
mircea_popescu: the [fundamentally centralzising] question of "tell me the one and only god-given truth
as to ownership" dissolves in a cloud of acceptances.
mircea_popescu: specifically what i mean - how about quantum money ? (yes sum X settled
as Y in subgrapg S1, but
as Z in subgraph S2. problem ?)
mircea_popescu: bitcoin was fine, and would continue to be fine,
as is, for any maxint.
mircea_popescu: i'll put some boxes to it
as a seed, whosoever wants to do the same can do the same and it can take it from there.
mircea_popescu: if mining works correctly (ie,
as he naively intended it would) the initial allocation
as designed is fine.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: why do you not launder money
as to avoid taxation?
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2016 10:43:36; asciilifeform:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-03-2016#1423477 << the way to kill pools is to hash he WHOLE BLOCK, rather than header. but
as mircea_popescu pointed out, it is not merely ~pools~ that are colluding, but actual ~miners~, so it solves nothing.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: BTC just failed, now what? << It seems business
as usual tho...or is #b-a closing shop?
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: then why business
as usual if bitcoin is dead?
thestringpuller: going to 0
as in game over? or going to 0 for a minute then we'll be back to $X price.
nubbins`: "what can i buy"
as a process of elimination isn't something i'm interested in participating in
thestringpuller: i eneded up framing that print you gave me
as bonus when I ordered shirts
ben_vulpes: i think that the above change would necessitate a new genesis block,
as i suspect that difficulty is far too high for the hardware capable of hashing
as described to generate a single block in any sort of reasonable time
CrazyTruthYakDDS: hell, factom is better,
as it is at least taking advantage of the BTC blockchain/security if i am not mistaken
CrazyTruthYakDDS: which is meaningless, i am sure microsoft also has api tools to work with BTC
as well
CrazyTruthYakDDS: and the only real "value" people have pushed is that microsoft azure is using it
as an api
mircea_popescu: so there's really no call for dramatics, in my own mind. gotta do all the work one can
as well
as one can and see what tomorrow brings.
mircea_popescu: which, inasmuch
as it's philosophical, doesn't really get touched by phenomena.
mircea_popescu: and the degree of brokedness bitcoin experiences now, post-cartelization (an event which we'd more or less date
as occuring either in degrees or at some point between the high-s fork and march trhe 3rd)
mircea_popescu: "these idiots were given an opportunity, and they figured running the rigs
as efficiently
as possible is everything that may ever matter."
mircea_popescu: anyway. in my personal scoreboard, this is chalked down
as one of those grand disasters of stupidity. exactly in line with an older article of yours,
mircea_popescu: not that the philipinos won't be coming out of the underbrush to push the unexpected "just
as good" verbiage, or w/e.
BingoBoingo thinks MPEx can have important role
as market between BlightCoin and Coin during the transition.
mircea_popescu: to random microshit investor, bitcoin is the same
as flooz.
BingoBoingo will nevar be able to get an address in another currency
as beautiful
as 1LvCuntsJyFFQsLuJhBXBPokbQa7SAyMr4 again
mircea_popescu: in fact, the lot of them getting burned off is at least
as valuable
as bricking the idiot chinese miner rigs.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: This is why /me leans towards well designed altcoin
as solution. Something capable being ada-ified, but perhaps implementable in rougher form.
mircea_popescu: however, if it is going to be an altcoin,
as in, no continuity, then it doesn't matter so much if tomorrow or yest or whenever.
mircea_popescu: anyway, ftr, re ben_vulpes link (not that i've read it or intend to read random derpage from nobodies on topics) - years ago protecting miner investment made sense
as a topic.
mircea_popescu:
as long
as "i did nothing wrong" at each successive point, you'll be a happy dead man.
fluffypony: but
as to whether they can tell if a transaction is yours, yes, that's something we solve
BingoBoingo: I'm honestly pleased that the spanish used it so simple
as to be easily and painlessly read without translating thinking
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2016 16:19:23; BingoBoingo: In other news looks like OpenBSD Vax is ending at 5.9
as Vax hardware reaches end of operating afterlife.
BingoBoingo: In other news looks like OpenBSD Vax is ending at 5.9
as Vax hardware reaches end of operating afterlife.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
as much
as we'd love to suck our own cocks, while we readily agree TODAY that "should be so and so", we'd have had no such agreement a decade ago.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to the more general point : all our understanding
as to how bitcoin should work, see for instance yest discussion, comes from dissecting how prototype-bitcoin did in fact work.
mircea_popescu: outlasting is,
as far
as one can discern, the implicit goal of life on earth.