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mircea_popescu: Ukyo not rly. the exchange rate is high atm, everyone's mining anyway
mircea_popescu: Ukyo it's possibly hurting, but it's so tiny as to not really matter.
mircea_popescu: all the blathering online a very vehehehehery distant third.
mircea_popescu: no, actually... bitcoin adoption is being driven by satoshi dice and mpex, in that order.
mircea_popescu: i bet you nickles to dollars that increasing the fee would simply increase the % of tx belonging to sd.
mircea_popescu: do what cablepair did, focus on delivering rental party equipment or something
mircea_popescu: you can't cope, there's no rule every idiot under the sun has to be involved.
mircea_popescu: this is for smart people. why do you keep torturing yourself ?
mircea_popescu: what eats him, basically, is that pretty much no miner cares about what he thinks on the matter.
mircea_popescu: raising fees will just mean other miners get it, end of story.
mircea_popescu: dude, srsly. stop with all the rationalization bullshit. just come out clean, say it. they make money , you'd like some, you think it's unfair etc.
mircea_popescu: <jcpham> bitcoin is ruining freenode <<< it is a testament to bitcoin's state that this statement is true when everyone knows how fucking ruined freenode was to begin with.
mircea_popescu: kakobreklaa ya, i seem to recall this incident in octomber last year...
mircea_popescu: because rational miners haven't been including its transactions
mircea_popescu: it's shocking to see how little understood bitcoin is.
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr stop arguing like a stupid cunt. you say something, stand by it. where is the motherfucking unanymous community!
mircea_popescu: higher level services always take the cream, commodified supports suck it.
mircea_popescu: Namworld simply put, the problem with sd transactions is that sd made 20k last month, in btc. that's 400k usd at going rates.
mircea_popescu: davout when you're poor your only practical avenue is to speak "for the community"
mircea_popescu: we'll never agree, and your choices are either submit or i'll kill you.
mircea_popescu: there's only transactions. not good, not bad, not holy or purple.
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr that's possibly the most braindamaged, broken analogy you came up with so far
mircea_popescu: and when did this chan become an unholy cross between -otc, -mining and -nonsense!
mircea_popescu: s.dice did about half of all transactions to date, and paid about half of all fees paid to date.
mircea_popescu: calling them irrational is exactly the sort of popmassery that you got in trouble for earlier.
mircea_popescu: dude, fact of the matter is, the 99.8% miners that aren't you do mine it.
mircea_popescu: <Luke-Jr> davout: exactly, that's part of why rational miners block it << this is "no true scotsman"
mircea_popescu: davout he thinks this will have any other result than him being pushed out of mining.
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr no, i know what useful means. that's why i'm on the money side.
mircea_popescu: but so far, the fact that people can s.dice is the only utility btc has.
mircea_popescu: maybe one day it'll do something else, or something more.
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr its business model is THE ONLY USEFUL THING BITCOIN DOES AT THE MOMENT.
mircea_popescu: ya well, if i finally buy an asic and start mining 1tb blocks just to be an ass
mircea_popescu: dude check it out! not one within the past hour! sdice is going to die omg!
mircea_popescu: so anyone actually know how much hash elgius is doing these days ? they don't seem to have it on the main page anywhere.
mircea_popescu: i couldn't care less, honestly, but the pompous miner ass is getting on my nerves.
mircea_popescu: o, wait. his logic reminds me of this chick i fired on the 2nd date.
mircea_popescu: "there is one actual aplication making btc useful. we should act like we matter tho we don't and pretend like we can kill it tho we can't"
mircea_popescu: it's been my go-to for internet cock competitions for years now