mircea_popescu: etc.

mircea_popescu: for that matter, they don't trust themselves enough to believe their eyes. if respected people don't say there's a problem, there's no problem.

mircea_popescu: zero impact, for that matter. the lemmings aren't in this channel. they will never know today happened

mircea_popescu: ;;ticker

mircea_popescu: much like cornering markets appears possible to do in static representations of reality.

mircea_popescu: it apperars possible to do, but only in static representations of reality

mircea_popescu: it's not possible to do.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the reasoning is that basically bitcoin is a sort of morphism on the fiat world, and i am pretty convinced by now that the 51% attack is the local equivalent of the market cornering problem.

mircea_popescu: i think actual 51% past this point is an impossibility

mircea_popescu: i don't think so.

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the world is made of probabilities not certainties.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves pretty much everyone is having trouble with the 8.2 duality.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform probably.

mircea_popescu: funk. it occurs.

mircea_popescu: i mean it looked fucking weird as all hell for a coupla hours there, but...

mircea_popescu: the sigrule kinda had to be tightened.

mircea_popescu: im not sure they did anything wrong.

mircea_popescu: on top of some internal stuff

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves nah there was a 1hr+ pause just as the new bitcoind changed signature rules making it look like a multifork

mircea_popescu: ;;tslb

mircea_popescu: hm ?

mircea_popescu: anyway, i'm putting it off to string of extremely unlikely coincidences.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves read up the history, we've had some excitement.

mircea_popescu: http://www.greendiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/gribble_Otoeh_11446.jpg

mircea_popescu: lolk

mircea_popescu: benkay which one is that ?

mircea_popescu: how do you figure ?

mircea_popescu: and it came in within 30 seconds of 236073 ?

mircea_popescu: so slush just mined an empty block ?

mircea_popescu: ;;blocks

mircea_popescu: ;;blockas

mircea_popescu: ok there's some connectivity weirdness

mircea_popescu: the other no wait

mircea_popescu: one's on 236071 16 mins ago

mircea_popescu: i see two chains.

mircea_popescu: ;;blocks

mircea_popescu: ;;tslb

mircea_popescu: in other words cheap.

mircea_popescu: right.

mircea_popescu: tjhat just shows how dysfunctional the entire p2p model is.

mircea_popescu: for a pool.

mircea_popescu: 1hr is not short.

mircea_popescu: not heard anything.

mircea_popescu: any pool actually say they're ddosed yet ?

mircea_popescu: hm

mircea_popescu: i'm confused.

mircea_popescu: no cauyse there were orphaned block in between

mircea_popescu: hm

mircea_popescu: i guess no fork just some funky reorg then ?

mircea_popescu: 0000000000000133f6f3a4750a atop 0000000000000045aeb20b5d64 ?

mircea_popescu: ya but which

mircea_popescu: which block is gribble on

mircea_popescu: um

mircea_popescu: ;;tslb

mircea_popescu: ;;estimate

mircea_popescu: ;;diffchange

mircea_popescu: ;;difchange

mircea_popescu: my dept of technology & paranoia is not happy with the sig explanation.

mircea_popescu: did you send it from armory actually ?

mircea_popescu: ezdiy was your tx ber'd ?

mircea_popescu: maybe i misunderstood something

mircea_popescu: i thought that was fixed months ago

mircea_popescu: hum

mircea_popescu: wtf we imploded what happened here

mircea_popescu: it would seem over about a dozen nodes there's something like... 8 diff chains/orphans ?

mircea_popescu: this is pretty insane

mircea_popescu: i don't have ssh for that machine right now

mircea_popescu: dude i have no idea.

mircea_popescu: 8 btc

mircea_popescu: ezdiy i have it on exactly one node

mircea_popescu: jborkl originally i thought i'm fucking it up tbh

mircea_popescu: has anyone notified the power rangers yet ?

mircea_popescu: ok everyone do not make any further txns until we figure out what the fuck is going on

mircea_popescu: it's screwed wtf. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: jurov stat :D

mircea_popescu: new bug ?!

mircea_popescu: i think we're forking

mircea_popescu: i have no idea wtf yet.

mircea_popescu: jurov there's an issue.

mircea_popescu: jborkl there's something afoot on the blockchain.

mircea_popescu: im not as pretty.

mircea_popescu: not quite.

mircea_popescu: will be processing asap tho.

mircea_popescu: sorry about the delay ThickAsThieves. i've recently beefed up the security and i think i might have gone too far ;/

mircea_popescu: totally.

mircea_popescu: i think ezdiy mostly trolls

mircea_popescu: cooking ?

mircea_popescu: honestly i was expecting to see that bet like 5:1 not 1:10

mircea_popescu: dub well somebody got 100 btc.

mircea_popescu: historically accurate too

mircea_popescu: would be funnay if the russians blow out the chinese.

mircea_popescu: seems so.

mircea_popescu: yteah

mircea_popescu: lolk

mircea_popescu: what's mircop

mircea_popescu: jborkl just demonstrate hashing

mircea_popescu: lol why do i need to lure you, i can just make one

mircea_popescu: tho tbh kicking out bitcoin would be pretty damaging to them.

mircea_popescu: i guess we find out, ezdiy.