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mircea_popescu: podizzle if you use the stock client there's a menu to fix tx fee.
mircea_popescu: now, i understand this is not necessarily expected bejhaviour / can gotcha. i'm sorry for it but there's no practical way out.
mircea_popescu: a small fee to the tune of a few cents ensures next-block inclusion for pretty much all txs
mircea_popescu: in the case of bitbet it is outright dangerous, so not worth it.
mircea_popescu: and re the late bets : it is in general not nice to include txs with no fees. it is callous, miners work at this, buitcoin needs the fees to survive.
mircea_popescu: anyway, one measure we're taking is having a special mod tag on the comments so that mod can clarify how they'll judge statements if need be.
mircea_popescu: therusytrombone if a statement doesn't please you, why bet ?!
mircea_popescu: and this seems the perfect time to announce the shocker of march results of bitbet. here goes :
mircea_popescu: this is your refutation. now, whether you take it in or ingore it is up to you, but it stands.
mircea_popescu: therusytrombone one of the batches you count was not supposed to start delivery until after the bet closes.
mircea_popescu: something's not a scam because it works otherwise than you think it should.
mircea_popescu: if the bet doesn't make it before bet is closed then it's a donation.
mircea_popescu: listen. if you pick some facts you can support any pov/claim any other is insane/vague/we
mircea_popescu: therusytrombone im sure avalon said something on the forum about a future batch to be delivered in 2014
mircea_popescu: a few cents is a nice gesture to support the entire network.
mircea_popescu: 0.0005 works for most people. mpex includes 0.001 on al txs
mircea_popescu: therusytrombone if you bet on the losing side i imagine it'd have been a lot more beneficial to argue this afore betting.
mircea_popescu: well ok, perfectly valid phylosophically but how the fuck will you run a site with it,.
mircea_popescu: therusytrombone if you take a strong nominalist view NOTHING is ever definitively provable
mircea_popescu: well, i read it the following way : the bet can't be about some corp delivering before april 1st items it promised to deliver starting april 5th
mircea_popescu: well, apparently your reading of the text doesn't match the admin's and the majority of bettor's/commenter's etc reading thereof.
mircea_popescu: a reading including batch two is nonsensical as batch two wasn't even slated for delivery till apr 5
mircea_popescu: any written text has the problem of reading. this is why there exist courts irl.
mircea_popescu: yeah. it's been widely discussed here / in the comments there too
mircea_popescu: any of you folks running multiple nodes willing to do a node mapping project ?
mircea_popescu: yes but as we get into the hundreds we're markedly less decentralised than visa.
mircea_popescu: it seems this is rapidly becoming bitcoin's chief point of failure.
mircea_popescu: at the rate nodes have been decreasing (60k two years ago, 30k a year ago, 10k recently, <1k by now)
mircea_popescu: TomServo they should hire a dozen strippers in the main towns at 100 an hour or whatever
mircea_popescu: benkay not really. if you're on otc it's pretty much max trust insta speed best price.
mircea_popescu: it has a number of advantages but takes a little work.
mircea_popescu: microhxo yes, otc stands for over the counter. there's this system of trading btc with other parties, based on the wot