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mircea_popescu: (meanwhile @the red house, bob woodward is "being punished")
mircea_popescu: if anything;'s a ghetto i dunno what else it would be.
mircea_popescu: pigeons the sad news in all of this is mtgox basically saying "the us market is not worth serving"
mircea_popescu: i wonder if it ever will be the case that total blocks mined by asicminer > total posts made in asicminer thread.
mircea_popescu: all they need now is the rabbit out of a hat and they'll survive.
mircea_popescu: which all boils down to jcpham being basically right :
mircea_popescu: course, fixing it in their usual dodderingway, but at least the attempt is there.
mircea_popescu: well, i appreciate at tleast the part where they read up on what they fucked up and try to fix it
mircea_popescu: pigeons yes but then again they never don't and usually don't even know what anything means.
mircea_popescu: "Liquidity requires symmetric information, which is easiest to achieve when everyone is ignorant. This determines the design of many securities, including the design of debt and securitization"
mircea_popescu: nOgAnOo now now, don't get excited. how was your vacation ?
mircea_popescu: lol as a result of the discussions here, mtgox came out with a forum post in support of coinbase.
mircea_popescu: i remember teenybopers were crazy about it not so long ago.
mircea_popescu: what do you know, retardopedia has a 5000 word entry on the topic.
mircea_popescu: ungulates only produce milk if they're pregnant you know.
mircea_popescu: Chips almost bumped, shipping on week of 4 - or 11 at the latest
mircea_popescu: but srsly, i envisage this being used as a replacement for satoshi dice random number generator
mircea_popescu: (one after begin message tag, one after begin signature tag) and non-base64 chars you should be ok.
mircea_popescu: if you sign the same thing multiple times the sig will be different yes
mircea_popescu: 5. you look for an = and wipe everything from that point forward (including it)
mircea_popescu: 4. you wipe the first line after it no matter what it contains, and as many empty lines only after that
mircea_popescu: 3. you look for the -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- tag.
mircea_popescu: 2. you wipe the first line after it no matter what it contains, and as many empty lines only after that
mircea_popescu: 1. you look for -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----. if not found, kill the task. if found :
mircea_popescu: (the = char may not be part of the signature cause it's not in the base64 list)
mircea_popescu: within the signature block, a =j61e type string is the end (cause it's the checksum)
mircea_popescu: put it on the same line with -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
mircea_popescu: the gpg parser mostly ignores spaces/newlines/etc EXCEPT it wants a newline after the begin sig tag
mircea_popescu: the structure of a gpg signed message is, there's a header (begin blabla, comment whatever), then a message, then a signature ehader, then the signature
mircea_popescu: if more shit is added at the end that doesn't actually matter.
mircea_popescu: if the checksum is broken it doesn't actually validate
mircea_popescu: the last line is always a =xyzk 4 characters checksum of the foregoing