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mircea_popescu: course it didn't come out too clearly what he's about.
mircea_popescu: i don't recall that guy's name on reddit but we did have a nice chat on my blog
mircea_popescu: am i like the only person on reddit with more link karma than comment karma ?
mircea_popescu: aha. funny thing, the girl was saying this exact thing to some investment club dood
mircea_popescu: i don't care what antyone says, btc is solid as a rock.
mircea_popescu: shows great promise of much enjoyments. just tell her ppl on irc said you should give her tiem
mircea_popescu: i was shocked to find most us couples still don't do it
mircea_popescu: it's like saying fucking your wife in the ass is not breaking ground and doesn't require any resources
mircea_popescu: dub they are breaking ground, for one, and it takes 10 to 100x more money than they have.
mircea_popescu: dub well in practical terms it'll be a miracle if they have anything to ship anyway,.
mircea_popescu: a well. fyi, what the romanian revolution was is this : ohio state students taking over the troops, then executing nixon.
mircea_popescu: but romania never had a civil war ? or you mean the revolution ?
mircea_popescu: everyone thinks ny is blue, they're so pissed at democrats right now it'll happen.
mircea_popescu: you watch new york return a full complement of teapartiers for the senate.
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 here, power crews from out of state are trying to come work in ny. they're turned away BECAUSE THEYRE NOT UNION
mircea_popescu: sure, eligius has all the promise of becoming a fortified compound in utah
mircea_popescu: anyway, i don't think the devs have either the balls or the peabrains to actually go ahead with algo change
mircea_popescu: and so the devthreat to change algo only has the merit of the interest of gpu miners, who are doomed anyway
mircea_popescu: if miner group A uses hashing algo a and miner group B uses hashing algo b
mircea_popescu: in the context we;'re discussing 51% simply means the majority decides by what rules the chains are built.
mircea_popescu: BTC-Mining that's a different 51% attack you're thinking of.
mircea_popescu: this is the old anti-dictator argument. i'm just rehashing roman republicanism here.
mircea_popescu: not because they're bad people, but bcause we don't want any respected people.
mircea_popescu: the only value of btc rests on the fact that nobody can actually matter.
mircea_popescu: nobody cares about the toothless threats of some pasty-chested "devs".
mircea_popescu: the EXACT system that's the problem with politics in the us, and the EXACT reason we can't use fucken fiat anymore.
mircea_popescu: patrickharnett is in default, i have to say it. if i don't say it nobody does. buddy-buddy
mircea_popescu: clearly displayed in the "let's stick together" around pirate.
mircea_popescu: in my eyes the only thing that will ever devalue btc is agreement.
mircea_popescu: in a sense the current dev + gpu miner pools are creating that problem as it is