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mircea_popescu: well holly molly, if 1 satoshi is unspendable then what are we doing here
mircea_popescu: im not sure what their point is anyway. "unspendable" ?!
mircea_popescu: Namworld i dunno, did erik even say at any point why they're sending it that way ?
mircea_popescu: Ukto if you think about it the only practical effect it has is it prevents accounting becoming a mess a la asicminer.
mircea_popescu: what is this, the dictature of the proletariat or someshit ?! who even asked them.
mircea_popescu: and wtf is going on in these people's heads, they're simultaneously arguing which exchanges should list and delist s.dice
mircea_popescu: i used tghe ddos to make a lot of upgrades, not everything's ready to come up online
mircea_popescu: Up to 17.5 million RBS banking group customers were left without their money last night as the bank’s systems crashed.
mircea_popescu: "and we bitch like a virgin in hell if anyone explores alternate uses"
mircea_popescu: "The properties and procedures of bitcoin can solve real world problems like voting and tokenization, but for now, we use it as money."
mircea_popescu: it seems to me most sales are either deep calls takingprofits
mircea_popescu: access may be spotty over the next coupla days as everything's being assembled, but hey.
mircea_popescu: maximian there's a lot of hardware being set up. i wanted to get people a lifeline as soon as possible
mircea_popescu: i was just saying, poor guy. you went off like 5 minutes before
mircea_popescu: mpex is closed for a day, when it reopens everyone wants to deposit.
mircea_popescu: ill be around to process withdrawals/deposits for anyone needing.
mircea_popescu: yet in bitcoin there's no media, and yet in bitcoin people focus on marginal nonissues instead of facing the hard stuff. like fixing the damned client.
mircea_popescu: it's funny tho, because in real world politics people consider the media's focusing on margianl nonissues as signs of some sort of conspiracy.
mircea_popescu: the problem is tghat there's no problem, and random selection of idiots are trying to manufacture one for poluitical reasons.
mircea_popescu: if it actually was solvable that way therer wouldn't be all the whining.
mircea_popescu: unless you get your subject to agree with you, there's no basis.
mircea_popescu: or in other words, the president don't have that authority.
mircea_popescu: selecting what is garbage is an overstretch of the licenses granted.
mircea_popescu: apparently all political history is contained within people themselves.
mircea_popescu: it's kind of interesting how this all worked out btw. the -otc and forum, home of the unwashed masses, all revolutionary and shit. the -assets, where the landed gentry naturally gathers, all conservative.
mircea_popescu: now imagine how bitcoin would work if it were you know... like fiat
mircea_popescu: that such nonsense would require throwing away the edges doesn't worry them : they don't know what those are anyway
mircea_popescu: smickles the stupid want everything remade in their image