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ascii_field: wake me up when i can buy a
ticket
to
the impalements.
mircea_popescu: here's
the
thing :
the delusional notion
that
their lives aren't on
the line is what makes people do most of
the fucktarded shit
they do. it certainly is
the case with
the power rangers.
HeySteve: step 1 is not being a psychopath.
try it sometime.
mircea_popescu: do you basically grep for strings or is
there more
to it
than
that ?
mircea_popescu: guy knows
the way
to go about
things he ain't doing, and wishes
to inform
the people actually doing it.
BingoBoingo: Just guessing by
the range of hashrates reported. Also did
the p2pool
thing with ATC.
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> actually p2p is, for
the most part,
the botnetz << Not feasible anymore really. p2P diff is
too high. Most seems
to be 1-5 dedicated recent mining rigs, so home users.
HeySteve: I mean really, putting out a hit? what if some desperate or crazy person
takes you up on it, are you ready for
the criminal charges?
HeySteve: I hope you continue
to oppose scammers and act for
the conservation of "classic" bitcoin. but
this is not
the way
to go about it.
mircea_popescu: so... you know.
this is where you learn from what works.
mircea_popescu: tell you what :
the oposition
to xt was... me.
that you or any other "sane persons" jumped on later on or not is relatively irrelevant. and, for
that matter,
the opposition
to pirate was also me. and everything in between - me. meanwhile "sane persons" were busy with derping at me about how "mpoe-pr is unprofessional calling out
the scam".
HeySteve: I wish you would reconsider,
this is madness
HeySteve: I might not be
the best person
to judge
the
technical issues. but
to judge murder for hire? yes, why not
HeySteve: this will only undermine opposition
to SW
mircea_popescu: then any sane person will do something else with
their
time, i guess.
HeySteve: any sane person will make
this judgement
HeySteve: you've made your point but
that's going
too far
mircea_popescu: ascii_field
http://nodes.p2pool.co/ < minefast.coincadence.com 78
TH/s ; elizium.name 22
TH/s ; xt.warp2pool.eu 18
TH/s ; galactica.geekgalaxy.com 15
TH/s ; cammello.agaland.it 9
TH/s ; 108.31.56.9 6
TH/s ; p2pool.science 4
TH/s ; 75.101.102.41 2
TH/s ; p2pool.servebeer.com1
TH/s
ascii_field: was it really so impossible
to find a halfway-convincing actor ?
mircea_popescu: "oh, we discovered
the real-real-real one, it's
this derp, and as vox said,
this now makes him
the most important rite ?"
mircea_popescu: im guessing if
the "swj" update
to bitcoin goes
the same way
the xt update goes, usg is going
to discover
that really, gavin has no objection
to wearing a going
to wear a satoshi costume permanently ?
mircea_popescu: and of course, so
that
tim lee/vox can say "If Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto, he will instantly become
the most prominent person in
the Bitcoin world."
assbot: Logged on 09-12-2015 11:13:57; mircea_popescu: anyway, so
the point of
the "is random derp X ?" (no) article was so
that reuters could run a piece saying "Australian police raided
the Sydney home and office on Wednesday of a man named by Wired magazine as
the probable creator of bitcoin and holder of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of
the cryptocurrency, Reuters witnesses said."
mircea_popescu: "So
there are
two possibilities here. One is
that Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto.
The other is
that Wright has been conducting an elaborate, year-long con
to convince
the world
that he is Satoshi Nakamoto." mno...
timmy boy.
the
third which is really
the only one
that matters, is
that
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-12-2015#1339534 ☝︎ ascii_field: actually p2p is, for
the most part,
the botnetz
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2015 08:17:07; BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: You gotta realize P2P isn't
the big miners
ascii_field sees
the '7.91....' and immediately
thinks 'pretty good!111' but
then remember he isn't looking at 'ent'
mircea_popescu: funny
tho, so
their
target is "bitcoin community" < 6months old ?
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2015 15:17:55; mircea_popescu: why would you need
to purge anything, i
thought usgavin had consensused with a bunch of experts as
to how
there's plenty of room for everything.
mircea_popescu: "Taleb has been kicking up
the dust lately on Facebook and
Twitter, encouraging his readers
to not even listen
to people who disagree with his beliefs about GMOs." << apparently encouraging readers
to not erven listen
to people who know better
than
to buy in
the "rape" narrative, or
the "global warming" narrative is a-ok.
the problems only start when power exists unalligned
to
the usg,
then
the means are VERY BAD!!11
ascii_field: herr
taleb, iirc, is self-funded, says whatever
the fuck he pleases
assbot: Good science communication means never calling
them “retard” – even if you’re Nassim
Taleb – Violent metaphors ... (
http://bit.ly/1IWyPKC )
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2015 08:07:31; pete_dushenski: "Taleb’s
tantrum is reprehensible, but at
the end of
the day it’s his own business whether he is willing
to listen
to actual experts. He does more harm by setting a bad example. He’s not just refusing
to engage opposing opinions himself, he’s encouraging his readers and followers
to do it
too"
ascii_field: the reason
that nobody ever ~did it right~ - and not gdb, either - is
the ridiculous qty of not only bandwidth, but FAST storage, required.
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2015 08:04:03; fluffypony: no more hard forks ever, and you have
thousands of useless zombie nodes
mircea_popescu: the best part is
that
this works out
to a 50% discount for
the first year. basically,
they;re out
there selling adjustable APR mortgages
to suckers.
mircea_popescu: VCs barely invest in
their own funds.
The “market standard” is for VCs
to personally invest 1% of
the fund size, and for investors
to contribute
the remaining 99%. <<
mircea_popescu: i fully expect
the 2016 sv vc verbiage
to be all about special pleading of
the "employee contracts" sort seen
this year. "we lose a lot of money but want you
to somehow believe everything
that exists is due us!"
mircea_popescu: "But
the bigger problem – and
the real problem for investors – is how little of a problem
this persistent underperformance is for VCs
themselves. LPs have created and perpetuate an industry of such structural economic misalignment
that VCs can underperform and not only survive, but
thrive."
mircea_popescu: Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows
that venture capital continues
to underperform
the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000."
mircea_popescu: "2013 had all
the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds.
The industry realized its highest returns since
the Internet boom.
mircea_popescu: why would you need
to purge anything, i
thought usgavin had consensused with a bunch of experts as
to how
there's plenty of room for everything.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this year
they're all "oh noes, scarce resources, must replace blockchain with a napkin"
mircea_popescu: it's hysterical
tho, last year
they were all "oh noes, moore's law, infinity resources, must make blocks infinitesize"
mircea_popescu: and yeah re
the src point : /me would enjoy a show conssiting of alf crossexamining pretenders.
mircea_popescu: things aren't what
they are,
they're what
the packaging says
they are.
assbot: There's a one Bitcoin reward for
the death of Pieter Wuille. Details below. on
Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1lxiG9S )
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2015 07:06:13; punkman: I certainly can't
think of any question or piece of data
that'd prove
the satoshi.
assbot: I fear gwern has gone off
the deep end on
this one, situation is getting ridicul... | Hacker News ... (
http://bit.ly/1lxi2sW )
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> mod6 perhaps an announcement
that
the bitcoin foundation maintains and will continue
to maintain a real bitcoin client, notwithstanding continued attacks from well known usg agents on
the core values of sound money ? << sounds good, will write something up by EOD.
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2015 13:25:53; mircea_popescu: anyway,
the
truth of
the matter is
that
the usg-dole livers don't belong in bitcoin. not in any other sense
than
they CAN NOT be in bitcoin. simply impossible.
mircea_popescu: i nten million bars all over
the world a hundred million derps spend hours discussing what shit
they'd stick
to
the sides of kardashian, also
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2015 07:40:28; pete_dushenski: "Nowadays I ask computer-science faculty candidates
to explain
their view on
the ethical responsibilities of computer scientists. Some respond like a deer in headlights, unsure what such a question could even mean." << via
http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-fn.pdf assbot: Logged on 10-12-2015 14:04:02; mircea_popescu: scammers & usg agents decide
the actual wot is kinda unfriendly
to
their ilk, "reboot" it. because yeah,
totally,
that's how it works.
mircea_popescu: well, i guess it's
time for an article, what can i say.
mircea_popescu: is
there no honest man
that ever worked for a university ?
mircea_popescu: "You would mark
the signature data as special. You are indicated by green color on
this slide. Everything but
the green part goes into
the hash of a
transaction.
The signature doesn't. It's just a piece of data
that's still
there, but we don't consider it part of
the
transaction.
mircea_popescu: u're designing an altcoin,
there's really no reason why you would want
to do
this in Bitcoin.
This is actually something we did in sidechain alpha."