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ascii_butugychag: so
turns out mircea_popescu has a mempool garbagecollector, l0l
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu:
trb mempool is 25MB perhaps... up
to five minutes after warmup ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag im sure it was consensus comunity and all
that.
ascii_butugychag: 'Quoting directly from its manpage,
the keyrings facility is primarily a way for drivers
to retain or cache security data, authentication keys, encryption keys and other data in
the kernel.' << i don't recall asking for
this
to be a
thing.
ascii_butugychag: like buying a briquet of pressed cockroaches at
the butcher's.
ascii_butugychag: gotta love
this homogeneous mass of 'foss',
that 'came from nowhere', written by 'no one'
BingoBoingo: I sometimes wonder if F2Pool's English language PR strategy is simply a method
to get people
to leave
them
the fuck alone.
mircea_popescu: gotta say it's pretty impressive how f2pool manages
to make 976.5x blocks.
mircea_popescu lives in a land where he has
to run ac anyway. you should hear
that
thing.
gribble: Estimated percent change in difficulty
this period | None % based on data since last change | 6.31718 % based on data for last
three days
mircea_popescu: so something
that should happen
twice a day on average happened four
times past
three hours.
gribble: The expected
time between blocks
taking 40 minutes and 0 seconds
to generate is 11 hours and 54 seconds
gribble: The expected
time between blocks
taking 20 minutes and 0 seconds
to generate is 1 hour, 18 minutes, and 50 seconds
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: even if no fire suppression systems,
they ~do~ cool with water
ascii_butugychag: most of
the damage in such a case is from sprinkler system, even
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: you won't see smoke,
this is not
the oil fields of kuwait
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag in
this particular case very much so.
BingoBoingo: An ounce of
thermite can castrate substantial captial
BingoBoingo: Just
the F2Pool enigma made for some interesting Astroturf for about 36 hours
mircea_popescu: they certainly don't mind
the bitfury idiots having been idiots.
BingoBoingo: And F2Pool/Discus Fish for all practical purpose appears
to be completely impenetrable in
their actual intent
to
the Anglophone
BingoBoingo: Buttfurry appears
to be rolling over and showing its belly.
BingoBoingo: Yet even
the
threat of
that becoming mining news is already having a significant effect of
the social media shit burbling noises
mircea_popescu: The human incentive
to adopt
this chain would be incredibly low
though as everyone has GregCoins now and any exchange
that decides
to allow arbitrage between
the
two chains is going
to see huge dumps onto
the GregCoin chain which will quickly obliterate
the price. Why? Because
the very large majority
that own Bitcoins want
the blocksize
to increase. I will also happily flush my GregCoins
the instant some stupid schmuck
mircea_popescu: "Probably yes. It's
the equivalent of a little boy
taking his ball and going home because everyone is not playing according
to his rules. It's a useless gesture unless
there is a factory of fresh asic chips rolling off
the production line in anticipation of
the new POW and/or
there is a large chunk of
the Bitcoin economy
that is willing
to completely abandon
the larger block chain.
mircea_popescu: in other news,
teh reddit astroturf brigade has done some studying, and is now quoting [without attribution, of course] what i said last
time, but with
the persons switched. because yeah,
totally,
that's how
things work o.O
copypaste: "The best bitcoin exchange is needed for serious and professional bitcoin
traders. Bitcoin security must be impeccable. Banking relationships must be sound and reliable.
The
trading engine must be fast. Order
types must be advanced. And profits must be able
to be multiplied with Bitcoin margin
trading so you can leverage long bitcoin positions or short bitcoin positions." from kraken.com
copypaste: it
trades "litecoins" as well as bitcoins
gribble: Error: You haven't asked me a command; perhaps you want
to see someone else's more.
To do so, call
this command with
that person's nick.
BingoBoingo: <copypaste> What is
the difference between a "Bitcoin Exchange" and a "Premier Bitcoin Exchange" ? << Rectal dialation necessary for delivery
copypaste: What is
the difference between a "Bitcoin Exchange" and a "Premier Bitcoin Exchange" ?
mircea_popescu: taking it from 6
to 5 not only gives you a cheap 20% boost of
thoroughput, but also significantly reduces
the "probability
to wait 1 hr for
txn inclusion". by about 60% or so.
BingoBoingo: Gavine
taked about
taking it down
to under 2minutes
mircea_popescu: somehow
that's
the one hardfork nobody
thought
to mention.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, anyone find it odd
that
the best way
to "increase
thoroughput", which is clean, safe and above all ecological (in
that it brings
the halvings closer) would actually be
to re-set
the
time between blocks
to something like 4-5 minutes ?
BingoBoingo: BuBuBuBut, yesterday
the derps swore
there was a whole exahash!
mircea_popescu: so basically
the comedy goldmine is really a comedy well.
copypaste: as far as i'm concerned at
this point any bitcoin hardfork is an altcoin and every softfork is a way
to give free coins
to miners at some later date
mircea_popescu: the situation here is EXACTLY opposite, but
they obviously lack anything other
than
the zombie drive.
mircea_popescu: it's kinda funny
to me, because
the vermin
they regard as
their progenitors, various "social rights activists" and whatnot benefitted from a context where each defeat made eventual victory more likely.
mircea_popescu: copypaste no, "these people" who aren't in any sort of sense people are merely laying
the ground work for "the next battle", as
they perceive
the string of endless humiliations and buttrapes
they receive.
copypaste: mircea_popescu: i've heard some saying
that miners won't "allow"
the halving
to occur because
they would never "vote for" something so against
their "best interest"...these people don't understand
the social contract behind bitcoin of course, or even
that miners don't vote on anything but who gets 25BTC
mircea_popescu: your "push button, i matter" mental model is only applicable here inasmuch as you're hypocritical enough
to go "i planted
tree, and got an apple,
therefore am in control" sorta
thing.
mircea_popescu: easy money
too seductive, and S. 190 goes down in flames before a horde of political activists chanting
that easy money is sound, and opposing it is racist, nazi, ignorant, and generally hateful,
the recent S. 190 debate on limiting portfolios (bond issue supporting dud mortgages) by government sponsored enterprises being a perfect reprise of
the debates on limiting
the issue of new assignats in
the 1790s."
mircea_popescu: "Then knowledgeable people complain
that
the evil financial network is heading for disaster,
that
the government sponsored enterprises are about
to cause a "collapse of
the
total financial system", as Wallison and Alan Greenspan complained in 2005,
the government debates shrinking
the evil government sponsored enterprises, as with "S. 190 [109th]: Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005" but
they find
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: 'life on earth' is not an instrument, i don't push buttons on it and expect a
timely response
mircea_popescu: i imagine we'll be hearing a lot about how, and
to quote,
mircea_popescu: so in other news, seeing how
the next halving happens
to more or less coincide with
the expected next usg attempt
to "save" bitcoin,
assbot: Logged on 17-01-2016 16:44:07; ascii_shmoocon: i can
think of exactly one: an 'mp-hawala', where mo
transacts with
the other 17 or so olympians, indeed requires no minerz...
PeterL: would
they be oppourtunistic vermin if
there was not a block subsidy (fees only)?
mircea_popescu: just outraged
that
txn has been waiting for inclusion for an hour now.
PeterL: ascii_butugychag, is
there a way
to do bitcoin without
the miners?
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag in no way related
to peers discussion.
mircea_popescu: this is
the first
time i changed it since introducing
the fucking concept back in 2012 ish.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i've moved my
tx fee from 0.0001 (~4 cents)
to 0.00022 (bout a dime, give or
take).
ascii_butugychag: and a machine
that relies on cockroaches in whatever capacity, is what kind of machine.
ascii_butugychag: the
thing
that always bothered me about bitcoin is
that miners are basically opportunistic vermin
thestringpuller: the hearnia is removed,
the ecological contamination remains
ascii_butugychag: but yeah,
there is a
thick layer of
them between us and mines.
mircea_popescu: much like irl it's pretty much
the "home nat router"
that is
the problem.
mircea_popescu: it's pretty much
the "spv" nodes
that are
the problem.
ascii_butugychag: the solution
to overloaded and shitflooded
trb nodes is...
to have 1000x more of'em
ascii_butugychag: (have
the
thing auto-restart if oomkilled, but beyond
this, no point unless you built a new one)
pete_dushenski: shutdown and reboot fixed last one, may need
to go
that route again ?
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski:
Those names seem common enough
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: are
there other "elin" and "gisele"
that you know of ?
that are also for hire ? (nannies or models ?)
ascii_butugychag: but
the standalone building without zombies on
the grounds
thing
ascii_butugychag: pete_dushenski: you aren't entirely wrong about
the ferrari, but you guessed
the ~wrong ferrari~