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mircea_popescu: take... i dunno, take clarke's thing with the rotating space straw.
mircea_popescu: moreover, i understand a lot more science than whatever rules fantasy.
mircea_popescu: and with it, you know. most of strabo, shakespeare, everyone writing before the industrial revolution is writing stuff indistinguishable from fantasy.
mircea_popescu: nah, fantasy has the advantage it's much, much older. stuff like gargantua y pantagruel counts in my eyes.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 notrly. they don't do nearly enough sex to make the cut as a rule.
mircea_popescu: as in your ripples could as well be shares as anything else
mircea_popescu: fantasy is pulp that knows it's pulp. sci-fi is pulp with a pretense. i never like that much.
mircea_popescu: there's no big deal signing in when needed. that's how i do it at any rate, nickserv is good enough for just casual chat
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 kinda it. there still is the bitcoin eve guild, but fuck me if i can be bothered with eve, i'd rather supervise excel monkeys
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 the main town is pretty much a constant spam of "send us monez we send back monez"
mircea_popescu: ". The world in general and bitcoin in particular are all stocked up on vague allusions to anticipated greatness."
mircea_popescu: apparently my mistake was thinking the mobsters can spell.
mircea_popescu: given the nature of hashing these can only be extrapolated into a hash estimate, which may vary arbitrarily much from the real value
mircea_popescu: Neil afaik that site/article is 1-2 years out of date throughout
mircea_popescu: decimation the argument could be brought that all loss of a bitcoin wallet is intentional.
mircea_popescu: prolly the sort of thing i deserve for my hybric nature.
mircea_popescu: maybe some dork manages to send a donation bet for whatever, 5k btc
mircea_popescu: srsly, if there's a sudden gulp and it looks like no have the upper hand...
mircea_popescu: decimation yes, but not against "i accidentally flushed it down the toilet" scenarios
mircea_popescu: yes well just because we found a black swan is no reason to go looking for black lions.
mircea_popescu: or a dumbass and his website, or a website and its dumbass or however this works.
mircea_popescu: KRS1 "yet another tranny thinking he's a woman / guy with dreamweaver thinking he's a coder / guy with a student loan thinking he's a financier making some dumbass social platform tht won't go anywhere and he won't stop talking about"
mircea_popescu: so we got 2bn end of jan, 5.6 bn end of march, 14bn july 14th
mircea_popescu: pankkake all miners eventually explode. even the radeon ones,
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves in a functioning economy he gets it just in time to mine 10.98x btc off it
mircea_popescu: i'm looking forward to the "bitbet should close all the bets and send all the bitcoins to me plzkthx"
mircea_popescu: double spending selectively some confused dork's unheard of casino site
mircea_popescu: and all the public has to go on is the very dubious blockchaininfo ip identification
mircea_popescu: they can trivially separate broadcasting, what's to keep them
mircea_popescu: no but they just broadcast the block off a new ip each time
mircea_popescu: another way of saying "concern trolling on a planetary scale"
mircea_popescu: no but see, that's the electoral system. people with no skin in the game vote on how the game should be run
mircea_popescu: because i think their opinion is not worth the shit it's carved in.
mircea_popescu: basically bitcoin rewards exactly the opposite behaviour that us elections reward.
mircea_popescu: Neil take bitbet. part of its success has to do with me pissing all over the reddit crowd and its sensibilities.
mircea_popescu: Neil that gaming theory has the barb that it workls in reality, not in people's imagination. there's a huge premium on pissing off the right crowd of people.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the #1 reason noobs are still being scammed blind is the fact that idiots run arround making false scammer claims all teh time
mircea_popescu: i find it fitting that the first comment on the largest prop bet in the history of bitcoin is "beware of this scammy website"
mircea_popescu: if there's a 2 day fork say the no people will make out like bandits.
mircea_popescu: so basically you can either risk 1 btc for 7 cents on one side, or risk 1 btc for 4 btc on the other side
mircea_popescu: and let me point out to you that originally nobody thought there's a chance in hell it reaches 2bn by feb.
mircea_popescu: Neil i think our 50:1 bs is misstating the point. a guy betting no only gets 4x his btc
mircea_popescu: but hash rate is "how many times per second did we fail to solve a specified problem"