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mircea_popescu: (dunno if that cognate works in somalian. to enstinken)
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla ya but then they went and inputsio'd all over it
mircea_popescu: receiving yes. but they pay from wherever is convenient.
mircea_popescu: not practical for a web wallet to allocate addresses to users
mircea_popescu: (as most wallets don't have any way to associate their payment system to their users)
mircea_popescu: also because if i sent the winnings to the address that sent the bet people would end up fucked if they sent from a wallet.
mircea_popescu: cause if 5 peopel sent from the same wallet to the same bet your identifiocation scheme would fail
mircea_popescu: you can but you don't want to, because this way people can send from webwallets or w/e
mircea_popescu: it's incredible how many people that got in early showed up late.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 it probably has something to do with post communism.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves` and you wanteds me to implement splines.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves` what's wrong with just setting the weight end point to 80k or w.e ?
mircea_popescu: and having it graphical turned out to be insanely difficult.
mircea_popescu: we cut it out, because curve notation is more than the average person can grok mentally
☟︎ mircea_popescu: jamespeerless i'm trying to build bitcoin into an actual thing.
mircea_popescu: snackman except if the bet closes early, cause that means the weight was out of whack.
mircea_popescu: yesrly. kako and i have ~35% + w/e didn't sell of the 30% put on sale.
mircea_popescu: no cause he insultged my megalomania by claiming my troll counter is megalomaniac
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo sure. the worst they can do is lose you some money.
mircea_popescu: i'm just saying, talking to random peeps on irc isn't stressing me, it's mildly enjoyable.
mircea_popescu: use your noggin for thinking : if my return from hanging out here were actually negative, i wouldn't or else i'd have you sent off.
mircea_popescu: snackman well you're poor and so can't afford the context.
mircea_popescu: mike_c yes, if you don't need to read more than 20 a month.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the guy on the right there with the dorky hairdue is actually the lawyer you'll probably end up having to argue with
mircea_popescu: your inputs are often the problem, because 1 btc could be made out of 100 mn inputs, aka 10gb
mircea_popescu: jamespeerless the recipients aren't the problem. it's about 60 bytes per
mircea_popescu: in 2020 mike_c will be all like "well sonny, i remember back in the old days, mp was there, and i sent this kid a whole bitcent on a lark"
mircea_popescu: the space in which bitcoin busienss will happen is primarily shapen by what sort of precedent we create for it.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well, i'm doing what i think is right, and in so doing i'm preventing others from having the same sort of problem all the time.
mircea_popescu: otherwise the reasonable man can start sending to random addresses.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves a reasonable man would not send bitcoin on the basis of his assumptions.
mircea_popescu: mike_c when i say move coins around i mean, not have very old coinbases.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the problem with this approach is that 1. it empowers nonsense and 2. it bloats pages.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla well because of the particular design, seems implicit in it.
mircea_popescu: in principle it's good for the network to keep moving coins around, i suspect.
mircea_popescu: so if you have 1k btc that weren't moved for 3 years, you get about 1mn times the priority of a 1btc that was moved yest.
mircea_popescu: that's the product of a coinbase's volume with its age.
mircea_popescu: the prioritization of txs takes into account the concept of "bitcoin days destroyed"
mircea_popescu: jamespeerless the reason is that we're oldfags, which means rich, which means with a lot of old coinbases, which means tx are free. or something.
mircea_popescu: i think i should be insulted by being related to the hottest chicks on planet earth or something
mircea_popescu: i was thinking... this guy's theory is that i simultaneously invented the thing and also don't know what it is ?!