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mircea_popescu: no dude, on nasdaq. you know... you don't HAVE to make sense.
mircea_popescu: so you put some vaporware above a proven company that's only 10x the size ?
mircea_popescu: "There are ways to change the way hashes are made to break an ASIC. ASIC is hard wired. It can't change at all. FPGA can be reprogrammed with a new bitstream. GPUs are the same. A very minor change could make a lot of expensive paperweights and would be a great way to keep bitcoin operating the way it was meant, openly accessible to virtually anyone with everyday hardware, not a bunch of elites with fancy expensive hardware. It's s
mircea_popescu: there's two companies at all in btc land, and neither count. nor do options. or bonds. woe unto us that all that exists is miner bonds.
mircea_popescu: asics can go one , maybe even two degrees of magnitude in $/Hg
mircea_popescu: thing is, "asic" doesn't name ONE thing like gpu does.
mircea_popescu: ppl doing big things ? it's gonna ruin my crummy two bit interest! BAD FOR BITCOIN!
mircea_popescu: I don't even want them to ship, they're gonna ruin Bitcoins. I spent ~2000$ on quad 7970's, only the cards, and they're planning to release a "coffee warmer" 3ghs+ ASIC that does more than my cards for 150$? Eff that, difficulty will skyrocket and put a strain on video card miners.
mircea_popescu: Hi guys, I basically had a prophetic dream vision last night, that the BFL Labs ASIC won't be shipped until February 2013 at best.
mircea_popescu: Title: BFL Labs ASIC release date - no earlier than February 2013
mircea_popescu: lmao that asshat is on a forum campaign to fud sdice ?
mircea_popescu: EmanuelDeOrtego you enjoy watching the suffering of others ?
mircea_popescu: weren't you trying to get some fund going PsychoticBoy ?
mircea_popescu: i don't see why it still would run, no more coins to launder.
mircea_popescu: buy the entire guy's issuance out of poker night money.
mircea_popescu: jcpham well at 1 cent to the dollar it might not do any harm anyay
mircea_popescu: dude, you need to pay that wright guy for guitar lessons
mircea_popescu: omg don't go around imposing your sterility on others!! pinko
mircea_popescu: the entire thing seems really a discussion of sterile semantics at best.
mircea_popescu: the entire thing seems really a discussion of semantics at best.
mircea_popescu: i mean infinite precision reals are still nothing but asymptotically precise.
mircea_popescu: im sorry, i don't see the problem. let there be zeroes.
mircea_popescu: so then you can say i use fractionary shares in a fixed-point system with the point fixed at 0