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mircea_popescu: my magical future predictive ai (whose name is joan) fails to predict any possible alternative to this thing taking over altspace.
mircea_popescu: does that actually require any chances on the coin side ?
mircea_popescu: actually... perversely enough that bet depends on there not being a lot of power thrown in early.
mircea_popescu: it's best showing on the battlefiled for a long... long time.
mircea_popescu: pizzaman1337 you know! nobody goes "mercedes srsly sold 50 cars in 2014 ?! ?!?!"
mircea_popescu: perhaps a very tall, slender student perfectly capable to suck a golfball through a garden hose.
mircea_popescu: hm... that's possible. the alternate crackpottery, of course, being that his actual work is still classified
mircea_popescu: actually, if there's any merit in the theory of history repeating itself, we could guess that the largest bubble for the next ~3 centuries will be the result of a RoB corporation being granted the priviledge to trade one ships' worth of drugs in the us as a result of a defeatr of the us in battle.
mircea_popescu: spain at the time was roughly the us of today : immense empire run by idiots, access to all the gold in the world that did them no service etc etc.
mircea_popescu: it wouldn't even have to go that far. just, you know... england beat spain into the dirt by using privateers.
mircea_popescu: it strictly won by exploiting badly written rules, neh ?
mircea_popescu: (kind of the reason nobody seriously believes the us has any real chance in any serious military confrontation)
mircea_popescu: tho to be honest... it's success had more to do with bureaucratic idiocy
mircea_popescu: is this the expert system that blew the usnavy staff outof water ?
mircea_popescu: well it just goes to show i don't realy master that space :)
mircea_popescu: "You really are a fucking idiot and have no idea what you are talking about. The project I am working on will be more successful than twitter within a year. When I sell the project for 40 million dollars I will ignore any emails from you begging to be a part of it and will send you a postcard from my yaght."
mircea_popescu: typical "we will fix this" government approach resulting in shooting own foot
mircea_popescu: but which in fact simply make solo mining even less feasible.
mircea_popescu: which he intended to make simple more-power equations unreliable
mircea_popescu: anyway, cga stands for anomaly w/e the fuck. the guy's idea is that the block reward for solved blocks is 0 unless some extended-modulo conditions of difficulty are met.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that was afaik the best thing ai experts ever came up with.
mircea_popescu: thermos is now taking goat's coin ? how much difference does a year make when you're 25, i swear.
mircea_popescu: btw, get bluematt to take off w/e links/watermarks/anything nao.
mircea_popescu: pumper answer ? "o we had an [unannounced] open beta" but srsly, we don't mean to do any harm"
mircea_popescu: lmao "galtcoin", libertyblabla, scrypt, only 1k coins (20 blocks) premined for "testing"
mircea_popescu: "Everyone that is saying that I have some kind of gambling addiction is a douche and they can go and die in hell. I have never had and I will never had a fucking gambling problem."
mircea_popescu: clearly satoshi had done that wrong, and clearly they be fixin' it.
mircea_popescu: who knew all it took was not premining. certainly all the 5464598769485 derps in the subforum there hadn't figured it out, their premine is like their holy grail
mircea_popescu: s.mpoe statement rectified (~5.4 extra btc expenses on mpex sheet)
mircea_popescu: ima give him a bitcent, cause you gotta encourage kids. give him some altcoin too neh ?
mircea_popescu: he's the one photochopping the altcoin into whatever altcoin site screencap
mircea_popescu: pankkake it's a step up from designerhell's commonplace "i can't pay you but you should do it for fun anyway".
mircea_popescu: pagefuls of retarded quotes and shit. so much win this.
mircea_popescu: i love how he's taking the entire absurdist angle up to 11
mircea_popescu: "With zero premine... I'm not criticising, just wondering how you can pay bounties?" see, you're doing it right already.
mircea_popescu: well point out to the guy it might not be the worst of ideas to store that at creation just as a convenience.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform : "Two GCHQ technical experts – "Ian" and "Chris" – recorded the process on their iPhones. " <<< law enforceement never fails to unintentionally entertain part 5487649587695
mircea_popescu: anyway, yeah, you can have altcoind dump any arbitrary block
mircea_popescu: fact is, they failed to publish. who needs a sob story ?
mircea_popescu: tbh sounds morel ike guardian vying to retain relevance than anything
mircea_popescu: "A lot of people in government think you should be closed down."
mircea_popescu: yeah. soft catholic, not the anti-abortion rabble-rabble types
mircea_popescu: there's an entire subculture dedicated to this stuff (and embroidery) in romania