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menahem: that was recent
though, I remember reading it about 2-ish weeks ago.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'm checking
the job board
mircea_popescu: recently, cuz it was luzly how i'm apparently
the only one remembering.
BingoBoingo: I
think you may have
trilema'd it
this year
mircea_popescu: hmm, anyone recall where
the fuck i put
that screenshot of gavin casually admitting
that satoshi never spoke
to him after he ran off and "presented" bitcoin @nsa hq ?
mircea_popescu: "Imagine
that happened when
they
thought
they had 75% but actually only 10%..." <<< no need
to imagine anything. simply recall
the event a few weeks ago when
they who
thought
they had 90% actually had <40%.
mircea_popescu: mats upon research it
turns out
that
teh guy isn't/wasn't actually doing anything. i'm obviously not
the best avenue for
that.
mats: that sounds even more difficult
to sell
than a n-day exploit
punkman: what like
the pr release hacks?
mats: not sure what
that means
BingoBoingo: mats: Not exploit zero days, "information" 0 days or something like
that.
mats: i still don't get why he
took off after
that brief conversation with mp if he actually has access
to 0days
mats: lol it appears based on
those Cohen
tweets
that weev has a sensible position on
the fork
ben_vulpes: the communists came
through
the apartments recently as well, installing low-flow faucet hobbles
punkman: any higher and
the heating becomes global instead of local
ben_vulpes: unsurprisingly, 'twas set
to its lowest possible setting
ben_vulpes: i just cracked my water heater
thermostat open
punkman: cohen is a king among
the autists
BingoBoingo: Because MP, MPEx,
Trilema, and qntra don't exist
assbot: cryptonaut420 comments on [Bram Cohen] Bitcoin-XT: Because
the best way of making engineering decisions is by popularity on reddit. ... (
http://bit.ly/1TL8DNh )
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i dun have vlc on
this machine and i don't usually care enough
to check some vid on a dirty box
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: fyi vlc will happily play youtube videos from
the url alone. "open network".
kakobrekla: wheres
that ddoser now, could be put
to good use
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the b-a node could do
this since forever, if anytone gave a shit
to bother.
btcdrak: looks like someone wants
to mess with Mike's statistics
mircea_popescu: being an ass is
the best
thing
to be - you get all
teh pleasure.
btcdrak: I'm officially registered as an ass now. reddit will be pleased. next stop
t/buttcoin. Jealous of petertodd who got mod status
assbot: Logged on 08-09-2014 22:35:52; mircea_popescu: "Thank you for
this clarification Mr. Nakamoto. It has been an honor
to be labeled by my friends as "Satoshi's Drunk Uncle" and it's a moniker I'll wear proudly until
the day I retire from Crypto.
The Goldcoin (GLD) developers
truly admire your work and strive
to continue improving upon its design as a
tribute
to your unparallelled genius. Your admirer and relative in spirit, MicroGuy."
mircea_popescu: no point doing
that before
the idiots invest
themselves in it.
btcdrak: It would be so funny if Satoshi does something
to remove doubt of his identity. I'd love
to see
the cognitive dissonance play out on r/bitcoin.
assbot: And Gavin moves on
to
the dark side.
The Bitcoin project is officially hijacked on
Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1MvB8Kx )
mircea_popescu: "Can't see why SN would write about Gavin in
this sort of
terse/removed
tone."
mircea_popescu: "Heh, whoever
this guy is, he probably could have never anticipated
that
the Streisand effect will be
the downfall of
the small-blockers' side. "
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the reddit
thread is pretty lulzy. all
teh butthurt awww.
mircea_popescu: obviously all i see in
there is "Hearn is a shitstain, MP is right, fuck reddit. Love, Satoshi". but
that'd be me.
mircea_popescu: sorry for
taking
the space, but you never know what else happens on
teh internets.
mircea_popescu: If
two developers can fork Bitcoin and succeed in redefining what "Bitcoin" is, in
the face of widespread
technical criticism and
through
the use of populist
tactics,
then I will have no choice but
to declare Bitcoin a failed project. Bitcoin was meant
to be both
technically and socially robust.
This present situation has been very disappointing
to watch unfold.
mircea_popescu: l problem, and we should
take more
time
to come up with a robust solution. I suspect we need a better incentive for users
to run nodes instead of relying solely on altruism.
mircea_popescu: They use my old writings
to make claims about what Bitcoin was supposed
to be. However I acknowledge
that a lot has changed since
that
time, and new knowledge has been gained
that contradicts some of my early opinions. For example I didn't anticipate pooled mining and its effects on
the security of
the network. Making Bitcoin a competitive monetary system while also preserving its security properties is not a
trivia
mircea_popescu: hi Nakamoto. Nearly everyone has
to agree on a change, and
they have
to do it without being forced or pressured into it. By doing a fork in
this way,
these developers are violating
the "original vision"
they claim
to honour.
mircea_popescu: The developers of
this pretender-Bitcoin claim
to be following my original vision, but nothing could be further from
the
truth. When I designed Bitcoin, I designed it in such a way as
to make future modifications
to
the consensus rules difficult without near unanimous agreement. Bitcoin was designed
to be protected from
the influence of charismatic leaders, even if
their name is Gavin Andresen, Barack Obama, or Satos
mircea_popescu: I have been following
the recent block size debates
through
the mailing list. I had hoped
the debate would resolve and
that a fork proposal would achieve widespread consensus. However with
the formal release of Bitcoin XT 0.11A,
this looks unlikely
to happen, and so I am forced
to share my concerns about
this very dangerous fork.
pete_dushenski: "I didn't anticipate pooled mining and its effects on
the security of
the network. Making Bitcoin a competitive monetary system while also preserving its security properties is not a
trivial problem, and we should
take more
time
to come up with a robust solution. I suspect we need a better incentive for users
to run nodes instead of relying solely on altruism."
pete_dushenski: "Up for an adventure but can’t decide where
to go?
This app randomly picks a
top bar on Yelp, picks you up in an Uber and
takes you
there — without you knowing
the destination."
pete_dushenski: "Bar Roulette uses
the Yelp and Uber APIs
to find a place
to go and doesn’t
tell you until you arrive. It’s one of
the first cool integrations I’ve seen using
the Uber API
that I’d want
to
try out."
pete_dushenski: "Bar Roulette uses
the Yelp and Uber APIs
to find a place
to go and doesn’t
tell you until you arrive. It’s one of
the first cool integrations I’ve seen using
the Uber API
that I’d want
to
try out."
gribble: menahem was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 5 weeks, 4 days, 14 hours, 30 minutes, and 34 seconds ago: <menahem> ahh shit
thats cray. :D
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu:
the satisfaction of seeing one's spam comment on
the pages of
trilema is worth so much more
than money
mircea_popescu: it makes money like "i'm going
to be a star" makes money.
pete_dushenski: these
two hands are remarkably similar in
terms of
the half-retarded chickies
they're holding
pete_dushenski: "Hilarious and inspirational, You're Never Weird on
the Internet (Almost) is proof
that everyone should embrace what makes
them different and be brave enough
to share it with
the world, because anything is possible now - even for a digital misfit. "
pete_dushenski: "a funny, quirky, and inspiring memoir from online entertainment mogul, actress, and "queen of
the geeks" Felicia Day about her unusual upbringing, her rise
to Internet stardom, and embracing her individuality
to find success in Hollywood. "
jurov: anyone knows what is
that bbranch good for?
jurov: Hearn has in
the past been a consistent advocate for having more Bitcoin users pushed onto less reliable SPV wallets instead of fully validating Bitcoin nodes, a move
that // something missing here? // in an environment with substantially larger blocks and a higher orphaned block rate.
fluffypony: then
they're
two steps away from being a Monero clone, goddamn altcoins
fluffypony: asciilifeform: well at least
they stopped listing
the nodes
that don't accept incoming connections
assbot: Logged on 16-08-2015 15:20:30;
thestringpuller: ;;calc 365 / (6262 + 365)
fluffypony: punkman: and my larger gripe is not "should we increase
the blocksize or not", but rather
the way Hearn-ia and Chief-Scientist-Gavin have sold
this solution via Reddit and blog posts
fluffypony: punkman: I don't have a problem with a very conservative dynamic increase over
time, bearing in mind
that my baseline is "can I run a node on an entry-level South African DSL line"
fluffypony: so nfi if
they
think
they're magically going
to redo huge chunks of networking code somewhere inbetween
things
fluffypony: asciilifeform:
the stupidest
thing is
that
the max message size is 32mb anyway
BingoBoingo: It really depends on how you count
total nodes
punkman: thestringpuller: even
that is doubtful