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mircea_popescu: yes, the op was quite clear about having lost the 1.2k
mircea_popescu: they lost a further however much cause of discarded blocks
mircea_popescu: Lyspooner they lost ~1.2k because the new .8 redownloaded the chain and they autopaid miners submitting as if low diff
mircea_popescu: this keeps up, soon enough idiots will not have the dough to keep going
mircea_popescu: the btcguild people got fucked for ~2k btc because of it.
mircea_popescu: jurov i bet you i can tell you have just by reading his output
mircea_popescu: + "it's not enough" drama + trying to get the pruize with as little work as possible etc
mircea_popescu: b. i set up a prize which anyone may claim. well... this opens the idiocy problem of "oh, I don'tneed his money, what does me take for, a starving artist????"
mircea_popescu: a. i hire someone. well... this opens the political problem of "oh, he's mp's puppet".
mircea_popescu: why it's called open source after all, sits there and waits for when / who has time for it
mircea_popescu: of course it has to first get the cat into the washing machine.
mircea_popescu: hiowever, once it's complete there's a few day's worth of facepalming and going "wait, we are doing W?HAT ?!"
mircea_popescu: in my experience any devteam resists such an effort like cats resist washing, because coders love to write but hate having to read code.
mircea_popescu: this wouldn't take much longer than a few weeks for a first draft, which can then be argued and refined
mircea_popescu: but i think if we can get one (or ideally multiple) people to summarize the code
mircea_popescu: jurov anyway, the problem isn't as much the drama, but moreover that a single-source codebase is both non-bitcoiny and suspect.
mircea_popescu: then once we have spec they can fix their fucked codebase and release a proper client
mircea_popescu: and ideally remove the current devteam's license to release new clients.
mircea_popescu: sipa jgarzik: have we seen a block which affected 5000 transaction index entries?
mircea_popescu: this sort of shit belongs in onboard code for vibrating dildoes at the most.
mircea_popescu: and more importantly bitcoind doesnt die with "failed to create transaction"
mircea_popescu: i am still steaming over the fact that i can't create abitrary size txs
mircea_popescu: mod6 actually once you're done with the iphone app, a very good use of someone's time is to go through the codebase and summarize it
mircea_popescu: pigeons on superficial analysis ripple seems just the place where the curerent bitcoindev rats will sucrry to
mircea_popescu: look what happened in ny when the clearing corp got flooded
mircea_popescu: mod6 of course, the blockszie issue wasn't hitting the transport layer
mircea_popescu: versus the keep the specification equal to the unreadable codebase.
mircea_popescu: keep the specification open and the implementation proprietary
mircea_popescu: in a sense mpex is constructed exactly opposite of how bitcoin is constructed.
mircea_popescu: people would just mindlessly replicate it (see bitfinex) then we'll be well fucked
mircea_popescu: mod6 one of the key reasons why i keep the code closed.
mircea_popescu: usure ? cause i wrote about this and iirc shrem was saying btc
mircea_popescu: pigeons wait. didn't bitinstant lose the BTC on vircurex ?
mircea_popescu: pgp the reason is they're mixing bizdev with the fee schedule.