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mircea_popescu: SatoshiJack there is really no diff between bitcoin and altcoin addy gen. same algo.
mircea_popescu: it matters not that ther world is full of mastodons as long as two mice are fucking somewhere.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's the thing : bitcoin finally creates the possibility for natural selection.
mircea_popescu: we are moving away from ssl and generally pki, and generally usg-crap. forever.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony my wicked heart smiled when the thing was announced and schneier had to write an article about how he is affected. i on the other side, did not.
mircea_popescu: no, conservative as in "where did you go to school ?" and other anathema mp-esque questions the child actors of this world abhor.
mircea_popescu: bounce you need to either pay upfront more than the judge evaluates the assets could conceivably fetch, or else execute a credible plan to deliver. and since this is examined by jurists rather than business people (and let alone forum fucktards) the estimates tend to be quite conservative.
mircea_popescu: dignork you familiar with court supervised acquisitions ?
mircea_popescu: jurov that's ok, that's the last anyone'll ever heard of that.
mircea_popescu: they never actually had a lump of money they didn't owe someone.
mircea_popescu: and so this brings us to the spring of 2013, ever increasing pressures and eventually their collapse.
mircea_popescu: this is something you can maybe carry on for a while, but if you're trying to it's a damned good idea not to annoy me as a side dish.
mircea_popescu: all through this they were trying to daytrade, and doing it as well as bitcoinica
mircea_popescu: then just as 2013 brought increased prices and revenues, they lost 5mn dollars to the us fed, because karpeles is retarded and doesn't understand when to say no.
mircea_popescu: then they ran at a loss for all of 2012, piling more and more angel round money into a hole.
mircea_popescu: and then 3. got raped by jeb mccaleb (the "auditor") taking btc to 1 cent.
mircea_popescu: he proceeded to buy some failed polish exchange, which was over its history a loss,
mircea_popescu: it went nowhere so 2. karpeles took it over, with aid from some angel investors.
mircea_popescu: 1. it was created by jeb mccaleb, the douche that recently fucked up kraken, and some other derps, on a shoestring.
mircea_popescu: people don't quite grasp how bad a business mtgox was on a cashflow basis.
mircea_popescu: well no, what i mean is "that's complicated" in the sense of i'm not about to spill it.
mircea_popescu: it's anonimized to some degree, mostly by replacing keys, but that shouldn't be relied on.
mircea_popescu: i haven't since the days i was looking through files to spot stoned.b
mircea_popescu: wtf is it going to do with it, give you asm error messages ?
mircea_popescu: actually it was a while until they had the first optimizing compiler working
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller it was [pretty obvious even at the time. they looked alike.
mircea_popescu: i kept editing the code to do weird shit. was loads of fun
mircea_popescu: jurov if you stole msdos to the degree you thought it was free
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's not pulling a bitcoinica, that's pulling a washingtonica.
mircea_popescu: we do not want "more adoption", especially if that "more adoption" is sandmans brought in by aspirin bitcoin "jesuses"
mircea_popescu: "This brings me to the core of what I dislike about Wolfram's book. It is going to set the field back by years. On the one hand, scientists in other fields are going to think we're all crackpots like him. On the other hand, we're going to be deluged, again, with people who fall for this kind of nonsense. I expect to have to waste a lot of time in the next few years de-programming students who'll have read A New Kind of
mircea_popescu: mike_c next time you want to ask me why the cardano isn't done by xmas...
mircea_popescu: the guy does declare he's trained as a phys, so i guess rank cluelessness about math may be excused
mircea_popescu: "Martin-Löf showed, again roughly speaking, that complex objects will pass many high-reliability tests for randomness, and conversely objects which pass randomness tests must have high algorithmic complexity."
mircea_popescu: kids that have no experience with beatings have no conceivable incentive to abandon the notion they invented jordan normal form.
mircea_popescu: i want this entered into the record of proof for the importance of beating schoolchildren.
mircea_popescu: "My teacher, more patient than I would be with adolescent arrogance, gently informed me that it was a standard technique, in any book on linear algebra, called "reduction to Jordan normal form", after the man who discovered it in the 1800s. "
mircea_popescu: must be cool to run a search engine that consists of promoting your friends.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, they return all the wikipedia pages possible.