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mircea_popescu: Rulother we used to have it two years ago. then google went apeshiot and banned api access.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves bitfury ? didn't they say it's 4ph or some scandalous shit like that ?
mircea_popescu: avalon isn't doing too well apparently, which leaves pretty much vbitfury with actual chips
mircea_popescu: kleeck we're discussing things you can buy tho, not things people want to sell you.
mircea_popescu: the move from ~4 to 3.5 was a good 15% sliced offa there.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if the am victorious muppets realise that undercutting bfl means am just undercut its own stock.
mircea_popescu: so basicalyl we'll be at ~.2btc / gh within about two weeks ?
mircea_popescu: interesting, so am is selling 10gh at 3.5, bitfury 10gh at 3.9 ?
mircea_popescu: of course, unlike south africa the apartheid is voluntary, and reflects merit rather than birth
mircea_popescu: here's an open secret : bitcoin is much like south africa back when it worked, an apartheid system. forumers, redditors and co are 2nd class citizens. we don't give a shit about them.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck is appointed in a chat log in the first place. am i missing something ?
mircea_popescu: que burnside explaining how he had a lot of respect for mpoe-pr
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves my guess is it muddies the waters FOR LTC. much bnetter for it to have its own
mircea_popescu: ystarnaud certainly a good back-up to have just in case.
mircea_popescu: fucking paranoid people. i have spent all my morning so far entering passwords.
mircea_popescu: the avenue through which this will be realised will vbe exactly mining diff/price relationship
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is one of those markets, like television, where being #1 pays. being #2 maybe can be made stable if you cut corners. the rest however is a money black hole.
mircea_popescu: the total value of mining gear currently deployed = 214k
mircea_popescu: San1ty-Work a company once imploded over this exact problem.
mircea_popescu: well, this is an age old problem in the semiconductor business
mircea_popescu: and unless you're bfl, you're not making 28nm mockery runs. if you're spending 10mn on the run tyou're also spending 10mn on engineering for the run
mircea_popescu: but a serious, multi-million mask made for 28nm is better than a rushed 65nm whatever.
mircea_popescu: so it wouldn't be a 28nm that's 100x better than 65nm per se
mircea_popescu: jborkl on the other hand, i suspect the designs are yet very crude and as more bright lads look upon the matter we might see significant efficiency gains
mircea_popescu: possibly the best fit of any linear expression to an observable phenomena
mircea_popescu: "at any point, the sum total of all projects promising to add hashpower will equal ~15 times the current hash power"
mircea_popescu: anyway, has anyone even done a sum of all promised hashing this year ? just for lulz if nothing else.
mircea_popescu: the bitfury ppl are actually delivering, even bfl is delivering, these are actual chips.
mircea_popescu: it's not as much a list of what the govt perceives as threaths, as a list of pats on the back for a bunch of old people that indeed someone still gives a shit
mircea_popescu: i think most notable is the very prominent self-centerdness of the entire thing
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mircea_popescu: lol theswede catching on that it looks really lolzy to have his scamset trade flat while am burns to the ground ?
mircea_popescu: am i missing some context or is this nonsequitur day ?
mircea_popescu: pretty much everyone in florence despised everyone else, to the degree they had to bring outside mayors all the time