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pete_dushenski: "The bitcoin infrastructure is excellent, secure, and powerful in the abstract. In practice it is useless… but not for long."
<< try death warrants with paypal.
pete_dushenski: "In short, right now the bitcoin infrastructure is insufficient to support the unbanked. This must and will change. Before we begin, a bit of disclosure: I’ve been researching this for my on project, Freemit, and I’ve been talking talking to startups in this space."
<< so much talking
pete_dushenski: " and all have to agree to release information about users to any government inquiring for data."
<< 9/9 multi-sig !
funkenstein_:
<mircea_popescu> apple is a monopoly in the sense qq.com is a monopoly. you... never heard of it.
<-- i was surprised to learn recently tencent was a major player in handling the exchange to fiat-bank segment for e.g. btcchina
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> this is one of the things severely limiting the appeal, from my pov, of 'cheap middle-of-nowhere' locales there
<< Yeah, gotta be near a cable path and all of a sudden house no longer 1/5 but 1/4 or even 1/3
BingoBoingo:
<trinque> mircea_popescu: on the hosting side bezos has eaten a lot of it, and as far as what the average derp is staring at when she thinks she's on the internet, facebook
<< For on this try to find the web presence of any 'Murican Militia organization
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> and add a ((Mark to be pronounced "Carl" not "four")) on that IV
<< fixed
thestringpuller: "An interesting consequence of this design is that, since all mapped blocks are empty, old clients will never see transactions confirming."
<< there are proposed soft forks which will essentially fork other nodes off the network.
mircea_popescu: "Apologists for this kind of SJW fascism will contend that the $250,000 fine is not mandatory and is a maximum, as if it somehow eliminates the farce of the laws’ new interpretation."
<< you know, consensus will enforce the lower limit.
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 04:42:13; danielpbarron: mircea_popescu> here's a fun fact : you can buy raw milk in romania
<< same here in Connecticut, the one state in all of the ussa that permits sale outside of a farm
BingoBoingo:
<bitstein> it's an interesting idea
<< It's how I'm interpreting Pierre's twitter trolling. Anyways it is hard to hold people to what they say on the social media playground of propagandaneering
pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-01-2016#1364239 << "The odds of winning are 1 in 292.2 million. So the expected value of a ticket is $800*1/292.2=$2.73. A ticket only costs $2 so that’s a positive expected value purchase! We do have to make a few adjustments, however. The $800 million is paid out over 30 years while the $2 is paid out today."
☝︎ gribble: diablod3 was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 year, 16 weeks, 4 days, 4 hours, 7 minutes, and 59 seconds ago:
<DiabloD3> its a work in progress
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu> here's a fun fact : you can buy raw milk in romania
<< same here in Connecticut, the one state in all of the ussa that permits sale outside of a farm
☟︎ ben_vulpes: fix
<< meaning address the failed targets?
trinque: ben_vulpes │ neat stuff, dood.
<< ty
trinque: ben_vulpes │ i already ripped the -s flag off the boost download, 'cuz i'm impatient and curious.
<< ben_vulpes: trinque: build/Makefile:16 `tar xvf' -> `tar xvzf`
<< any reason i shouldn't do this?
mircea_popescu: "Being a race traitor, yet still tolerated by my pale fellows, I thought it was the least I could do."
<< how'd he get that ? fucked a black chick ? or what's racely treasonable activity ?
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> you'll end up with a coveted Kakobrekla Trophy for Dry Wit at this rate.
<< Well I'm still learning this whole "living as a dry person" business
mircea_popescu:
<BingoBoingo> Or does gentoo not have drivers for your horse
<<< bwahahaha epic.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> guy can't spell ;/
<< transcriptionist couldn't spell.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> incidentall, 'oathkeepers' is a social club for usg soldiers
<< this is not unlike saying that incidentally, the guy that shot sadat was from the egyptian military.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> incidentall, 'oathkeepers' is a social club for usg soldiers
<< Seems to be common knowledge in the actual patriot circles
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> why not heal the representativity issue ?
<< needs ben_vulpes for that
mircea_popescu: "For the Republic, Stewart Rhodes Founder and President of Oath Keepers"
<<< lol check out that guy
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> they, just as isis, would dismiss it as intellectual-claptrap
<<< you don;t know what the girl says UNTIL YOU ASK HER OUT.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> they, just as isis, would dismiss it as intellectual-claptrap
<< Could probably be sold on "keeping Obama out" angle
mircea_popescu:
<BingoBoingo> It talks and proposes soft forks and apparently eats a bunch of USD VC money from god knows where
<< yeah. none of this counts for anything. and i have nfi why they'd get any amount of vote in any discussion re bitcoin.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> yeah, until karpeles lied about an imaginary cause of stealing people's bitcoin, the other dudes working on wrecking bitcoin didn't have a good excuse. hurr durr.
<< Blockstream people nao complain too, because their off chain doo dad apparently won't work if any malleability on their transactions is possibru
punkman: mircea_popescu: i've been broadcasting it all night to the trb nodes, you can ask any of them, they should still have it in the memory.
<< they seem to be rejecting it, so maybe pastebin the raw transaction
massiro: "there's a transaction that has 100 confirms"
<< what is the txid? this? : 09e82c06cc5fbe3c0f2c2b6a1f575e8ecbb2a92bb493ca3a318525b1eeabe2bd
trinque: gabriel_laddel │ I've tried, a few times now to get a handle on linux and...
<< leave gentoo for dead; I couldn't be more pleased with OpenBSD.
punkman: asciilifeform: ERROR: ConnectInputs() : 20421a3f19 mapTransactions prev not found e6b8aa9ded
<< I only have half a clue what's going on when I look at the code, but perhaps e6b8aa9ded is not actually chained off 83e2b80e96? I can't find 20421a3f19 on any block explorer, maybe it's another transaction only existing in mp's wallet.
massiro:
<danielpbarron>, hahaha...
massiro:
<danielpbarron>, i know it a little... that may create high-S.
massiro:
<danielpbarron> Bitcoin Core 0.11.2 .
massiro: low-S is in the signature
<R,S>
massiro: i'm suspecting
<mircea_popescu> is using an old client and the old client makes txes with high-S values.