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mircea_popescu: as in, do not upgrade. the people pushing this broken code are irresponsible and you will lose out.
mircea_popescu: i will certainly have the girl ad psas to any future bullshiot "upgrades" they come up with
mircea_popescu: currently if all bitcoin devs were hit by a bus bitcoin would benefit immensely.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla actually, if the current devs continue as bitcoin devs, i can envisage ltc becoming the standard coin.
mircea_popescu: "TD that's why i don't understand people who say implementation diversity is a good thing. it's clearly not."
mircea_popescu: i thought people were always able to delete their own crap on bitcointalk
mircea_popescu: Ukto as you might notice, mpex.coinbr.com is doing fine
mircea_popescu: i have a never ending flood of actuall ddos since like the beginning of the month
mircea_popescu: benkay well no but it doesn't take wagers where one person can singlehandedly decide the outcome
mircea_popescu: wait. jhow are you going to implement ipless websockets ?!
mircea_popescu: there will be a trade freeze, should be no more than ~10 minutes, will be announced in advance
mircea_popescu: Ukto no, atm we'd be better of if everyone in devteam were under a bus.
mircea_popescu: atm bitcoin is forked, in the sense that some kids are in jerkoff lalaland
mircea_popescu: we need an actual trustworthy bitcoin implementation asap.
mircea_popescu: anyone "upgrading" to any further crap they release is irresponsible from a business perspective.
mircea_popescu: i don't think there's much hope for the current dev team, seriously.
mircea_popescu: atm im goingthrough the summary of the bitcoin-dev session for the 12th
mircea_popescu: P T Barnum's Magical Trading Cards & Bitcoin Esoteric Foundation ?
mircea_popescu: you can have trade without contracts but it's a recipe for disaster.
mircea_popescu: spec stands to code in the same relationship contract stands to trade.
mircea_popescu: if you only start them, work for some, then start new one... lot of wasted work man.
mircea_popescu: idiot parade is lucky that evoorhees is a sweetheard, even if they treat him like dirt.
mircea_popescu: Lyspooner not detachedly from the general "trusting devteam" risk
mircea_popescu: and speaking of that 120... YET MORE MAGIC NUMBERS FUCKING HELL
mircea_popescu: as miners submitted current work, they were paid for their share of contribution to that low difficulty
mircea_popescu: as the blockchain was being downloaded, the difficulty was corresponding to very old blocks, ie, very low.