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mircea_popescu: heh.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla pretty cool.
mircea_popescu: and if you don't like hearing it from me, ask gavin.
mircea_popescu: his overall impact on bitcoin is net negative.
mircea_popescu: most people need about six months.
mircea_popescu: that's ok, it comes in time.
mircea_popescu: lukejr would love to be a developer, but he's mostly a useless contributor.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic listen up : you folks don't get to change things just by power of friendship which is magic.
mircea_popescu: dub yes.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic may i direct you to bitcoin.orgh
mircea_popescu: for as long as you keep the btc there
mircea_popescu: you have to keep the privkeys of all adresses you receive btc in
mircea_popescu: wnrog smiglez
mircea_popescu: i don't think it's fundamentally evil or anything.
mircea_popescu: benkay but anyway, that's how bitbet does it.
mircea_popescu: i on the other hand haven't mastered the mysteries of spelling berkeley
mircea_popescu: as we know, devteam hasn't mastered the mysteries of configuring berkley
mircea_popescu: i could just ask you generate addresses, bloat your wallet to 5gb
mircea_popescu: you are vulnerable to a particularly nasty dos attack
mircea_popescu: stop worring and just explain the idea
mircea_popescu: a okay
mircea_popescu: how's something moderately unique ?
mircea_popescu: eh
mircea_popescu: testing for inbound is a few degrees of magnitude easier with fixed address
mircea_popescu: this is just an edge example, there's tons of others just as good really.
mircea_popescu: taint analysis idiots prosecute person y because clearly taint analysis proves he's x.
mircea_popescu: mpex later pays out to innocent person y.
mircea_popescu: suppose evil person X makes a payment to mpex.
mircea_popescu: benkay what would be the benefit iyo ?
mircea_popescu: smickles sounds like something godaddy would do.
mircea_popescu: heh. yw.
mircea_popescu: okpay is out 12k
mircea_popescu: the other chain inexplicably prevails
mircea_popescu: it is then doubplespent on the other chain
mircea_popescu: okpay gets a deposit in
mircea_popescu: but think, benkay. version .8 comes out. the chain is split
mircea_popescu: (sometimes)
mircea_popescu: ...
mircea_popescu: you should understand deposits by the example i just gave.
mircea_popescu: hint : no, it wasn't those that trust them, like btc-guild.
mircea_popescu: guess which.
mircea_popescu: benkay there was exactly one bitcoin business unaffected by bitcoindev idiocy
mircea_popescu: ta-daa
mircea_popescu: that means a queue builds
mircea_popescu: a. mpex deposits and withdrawals are processed manually.
mircea_popescu: benkay that.
mircea_popescu: wannabe mpoe-pr, w/o the tits, w/o the spit&grit ?
mircea_popescu: this guy lmao
mircea_popescu: ajhaha
mircea_popescu: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152498.0
mircea_popescu: deposits flushed btw
mircea_popescu: i feel better nao
mircea_popescu: :D
mircea_popescu: smickles count the dashes baby
mircea_popescu: no 30% swings in a day ? waht sort of bitcoin is this!
mircea_popescu: the calm. this is impossible
mircea_popescu: you resolved it by proxy ?
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: can has ipv6
mircea_popescu: i suspect past the original shock a good chunk of them ppl are actually reasonable in the head.
mircea_popescu: smickles not quite so cut and dried yet,
mircea_popescu: but if those who get things done don't educate, who will ? those who don't ? we;ve seen the results of that one heh.
mircea_popescu: well, i hope i do and that's the best you can possibly get.
mircea_popescu: could this be extended to read "you ought to decide whether you want to run mpex, educate or get things done"?
mircea_popescu: jurov the objective is to illuminate the very rotten structure of their arguments.
mircea_popescu: and will probably constitute the scamdrama of this summer.
mircea_popescu: the foundation collected about half a million dollars which that conman from ycombinator controls
mircea_popescu: they aren't paid, except for gavin, who is probably not paid anything much at all.
mircea_popescu: the dev team is about six people (it does not include Luke-Jr, tho he keeps trying to pretend he's a dev)
mircea_popescu: ah, i read an implication there.
mircea_popescu: you take a girl out, right ?
mircea_popescu: does this make me think she was actually any better than i originally thought ?
mircea_popescu: and i tell her that and her response is that question
mircea_popescu: if i fuck a girl and she sucks at it
mircea_popescu: let me know when yo ufind a bug.
mircea_popescu: deadweasel <? echo "Hi this is 100% bug free"; ?>
mircea_popescu: let's just say the forum is not the github
mircea_popescu: it may be tangential technically. there are significant political concerns involved here.
mircea_popescu: it might be all the fanboism
mircea_popescu: and they need to understand that they are kinda dumb. i dunno why they've not got it this far, but...
mircea_popescu: they try to maintain the client above the spec. this shall not stand.
mircea_popescu: in this cause because wuille's lie needs to be excised.
mircea_popescu: "o, we just shit in the code because really, who cares"
mircea_popescu: this windows worldview is intolerable by now.
mircea_popescu: do you want to see some ?
mircea_popescu: yes, i have.
mircea_popescu: 1. Not produced one single brilliant solution to any actual problem.
mircea_popescu: I'm not sure this is getting through the fog of their own farts, but the group of power rangers has so far:
mircea_popescu: incidentally, anyone has quick proof against point 1 there ?
mircea_popescu: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152027.msg1621729#msg1621729
mircea_popescu: lolwut ?!
mircea_popescu: sorry j but i won't fiddle with routes and shit
mircea_popescu: it seems apparent we have some sort of ipv4 bridge or proxy or something in between
mircea_popescu: bah
mircea_popescu: yeah i tihnk you're really on ipv4
mircea_popescu: i dont see it
mircea_popescu: im like... doods, forget it, move to romania already.
mircea_popescu: "The US datacenters we have dont support IPv6 or if they do it is very limited. The London DC does support IPv6 but cPanel and a lot of the other stuff on the server doesn't so those IPs they are able to give, are actually useless at this time."
mircea_popescu: jurov i talked with my provider, and allow me to quote :
mircea_popescu: sigh.