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mircea_popescu: look, like it or not, for this reason or for some other reason, bitcoin is at a point where you can't reasonably pour more moneuy into it
mircea_popescu: if it's good it will prevail. if it sucks it will just crack and something else will come out of it
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic wrong step on satoshi's part. let it be broken, rebuild. why protect it ?
mircea_popescu: if you recall, this all started with people knowing which transactions are good.
mircea_popescu: i guess they don't read english any better than they read their own code.
mircea_popescu: i said the moment devs try to act like priests and leverage the obscurity of their bad code into political theosophy... they're screwed.
mircea_popescu: not really. but i am saying that the current stuff has to go.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic im not leading anything, but i'm not standing for nonsensical crap either.
mircea_popescu: WHY ARENT the bitcoin police doing anything about these DDOS attacks?
mircea_popescu: i guess the lesson here is that programmers have no business arguing with financiers.
mircea_popescu: will be the extinction of their c++ only "refernece" implementation and in general the end of their centralist chokehold on bitcoin
mircea_popescu: ironic that the end result of the Luke-Jr & co group of idiots starting their little jihad on s.dice
mircea_popescu: well whatever he wants, if you don't see it in a day it's prolly been rejected
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves and it's not trivial to get the fuck off .8
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves they are the largest losers mining on dead chain
mircea_popescu: bitcoin devs to stop all development of new versions, work on bitcoin specification exclusively, then release one cleanned up bitcoin version.
mircea_popescu: so what's best case scenario here, something like 16 blocks chain orphaned ?
mircea_popescu: tomorrow it'll be like... what, nothing happened. so what if it's 50. doesn't prove anything
mircea_popescu: bitcoin goes 45 to 40 for 15 minutes... omg MUST MAKE ALL THE POSTS
mircea_popescu: Chaang-Noi the something bawwwfull crowd... btc goes 15 to 45, they're like whelp
mircea_popescu: and it will ever be the case that whenever code contains a number based on an assumption
mircea_popescu: this could have easily been avoided by simply not relying on magic numbers.
mircea_popescu: until that moment when a perfect storm composed out of a db upgrade and the limit removal
mircea_popescu: prevented the underlying problem of the db from being discovered
mircea_popescu: if it gets to the point where i am raising objections and they make sense
mircea_popescu: the-bucket-shop basically it will happen indefinitely for as long as we have a devteam that mostly works at trying to play government.
mircea_popescu: when you know... 1 single block would have caused it, it'd have been immediately noticed but no forking
mircea_popescu: maximian if the idiots hadn't put in the 250k limit it would have jhappened and been resolved in 2011