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mircea_popescu: and no, you should not rely on bitcoin. this has been explicitly stated since day one. bitcoin is not here for you to rely on.
mircea_popescu: when you say sha was breached you're not describing some nitnoy thing nobody cares about.
mircea_popescu: (your q was as to coordinate moving, not as to patching, mind)
mircea_popescu: "hi guise, here is problem, here is patch, pls install so and so"
mircea_popescu: if it IS known however the code will just be patched to take it out, and people will move on the new system for cause
mircea_popescu: if your crack is not known, then maybe for a while you can benefit from it.
mircea_popescu: even if you somehow bash one hash function in, you still don't really have enough yet
mircea_popescu: this incidentally is why bitcoin addresses are encoded so layeredly.
mircea_popescu: bullocks would be ok, but the "six digits or less" is equal to saying in that other context "60 kgs or over"
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is like, you know, reactionary, conservative, evil, sane. you're either rich or smart or invisible.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and perhaps we'll be fucking rid of all the forum investors.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin's adoption among people worth six digits or less is irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan "adoption" means something strictly different from pageviews
mircea_popescu: speculation of the sort and type that the exchanges enable and reddit/forum/.etc support is about as fundamental to bitcoin as druggies were.
mircea_popescu: people imagine exchanges are fundamental to bitcoin price. they'll close, no ill effects to be recorded.
mircea_popescu: people thought silk road is fundamental to bitcoin value. it closed, no ill effects recorded.
mircea_popescu: sorta mess) is jumping on board the "o no malleability is preventing us
mircea_popescu: i've been back to say hey next time listen to me before you get into this
mircea_popescu: list securities, and which has been fucking up massively since, and which
mircea_popescu: which i beat the shit out of when they decided to start letting people
mircea_popescu: crypto-trade (neotrix's deal that used to be an altcoin marketplace, and
mircea_popescu: i can't help but think you're pretty close to biofilm 3d printing.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder did you obtain the painting by smear selected bacteria or by smearing uniform bacteria with particular mutagen ?
mircea_popescu: drama chick after performance : "how come people on stage never throw tomatoes @ the audience"
mircea_popescu: "hey guise! check out this neat thing i did" "x" "o fuck me".
mircea_popescu: aka the "We must spy because you're sueing us about our spying" defense.
mircea_popescu: "A number of government lawyers involved in lawsuits over the NSA phone-records program believe federal-court rules on preserving evidence related to lawsuits require the agency to stop routinely destroying older phone records"
mircea_popescu: the argument isn't "o wow look btc is broken", the argument merely is "o hey, remember when gavin was a total asshat in 2012 ?"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ono. it pulls up something from the stack.
mircea_popescu: just establishing your credentials to bitch at them >D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform look into bip-12 too while you're at it.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves this is a sore spot power rangers would rather not go into.
mircea_popescu: in his defense they "updated" the site like 5x in the interval, because you defo need moar logos and shit
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform some braindamaged extension of innate scripting capabilities
mircea_popescu: this got him exactly squat, showing about how important control of the new releases was
mircea_popescu: gavin put in code that made everyone downloading the latest versiion vote "yes" cause he wanted to see a yesz.