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Adlai suspects;
take everything he says with
the usual shaker of salt
mircea_popescu: unrelated datapoints. half energy available \being used
to mine bitcoin makes bitcoin safe for humans (safe in
the sense of, won't be overrun by
the altcoin problem)
☟︎ Adlai: the economics change once unutilized energy is insufficient
to attack
the network
Adlai: mircea_popescu: _all_ energy, or
the delta between current mining energy use, and half
the planet's
total energy expenditure?
mircea_popescu: i suppose
the next step is, "participate in derpland has
talent with your
tv set!" and hopefully
that'll relieve us of most of
the current imbeciles online.
mircea_popescu: "energy efficiency" is not a bitcoin consideration. all energy used for non-bitcoin stuff is wasted by definition, in
the bitcoin paradigm.
mircea_popescu: there's no way
to express bitcoin in fiat
terms. it's not "a clock", because
the meaning of "a clock" does not carry in bitcoin. yes it divides
time, but differently in fundamental ways.
Adlai: and it's quite imprecise,
too
Adlai: bitcoin inflation subsidizes
the operation of
the world's most energy inefficient clock
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Really, just dropping a plaintext email address in IRC for spamzors
to pick up?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: "Thanks, but unfortunately it is already late in my part of
the world. Perhaps send any questions via email and I'll
try
to respond in ~10hours (after sleep). Email: basil@reqrypt.org"
danielpbarron: i hope you guys aren't relying solely on me
to achieve
those ends; a lot of
this is
totally new
territory for me
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Dunno him,
thestringpuller wrote
that up and sourced it
assbot: Last
trade for S.QNTR on MPEX was at 0.00025459 BTC [+]
BingoBoingo: The point of
this project is
to provide a full node
that has an explicit goal of supporting
the needs of SPV app developers, as well as a place
to
try out more experimental changes in general.
Through
the course of 2013 I feel
that
the upstream Bitcoin Core project has become a relatively unpredictable place and I no longer feel sure
that we can improve SPV mode or even
that
they will continue
to support it at all. Bitcoin XT will
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http://www.canadianbusiness.com << all
these biogas precursors are in for a rude awakening. at some point
they'll discover
that while I have
the power
to make something a problem by calling it a problem,
they do not (any more).
mircea_popescu: it seems
there's some worms more eager
than some others in
the government biscuit.
mircea_popescu: "It seems
to be a way
to extend and patch
thee Bitcoin network without waiting on slow Bitcoin Core improvements."
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mircea_popescu: im gonna have
to make another div payment set without a deed registrar aren't i.
gribble: trinque was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 18 hours, 58 minutes, and 25 seconds ago: <trinque> mod6: lots of chatter about "can't find -lgcc_s" on
teh googles
danielpbarron: and if it sees such a drive, it won't
try
to boot from
the attached sata drive; so you can
then fdisk as needed
danielpbarron: you can just put a blank flash drive in
the
top usb port with an empty directory 'revert' and
the
thing boots up factory default
danielpbarron: also, i have sucessully re-installed
the OS on one of
them multiple
times; it is possible
to screw up
the install and recover from it without any major disassembly required
danielpbarron: i suspected harddrive read/write was
the bottleneck back when i was building my first full node
danielpbarron: so uh.. it comes as little suprise
to me
that my pogo using a solid state drive is significantly faster
than
the one using a regular laptop hard drive
mircea_popescu: this shit's seriously a lot mopre
trouble
than it's worth.
danielpbarron: i like amex because
they gave me a card without me giving
them my slave id number, although i suspect
they just looked it up from some database
Adlai: which is why i'm sticking
to government-mined altcoins
BingoBoingo: Netted a small profit on
the RON, and a loss on ATC when
the alternative revealed it self
to be potentially unbounded costs
to keep
the
thing alive
through mining
Adlai: "The latter is structured so
that no withdrawals are possible at
the manager’s initiative" << oh hello,
this sounds familiar!
Adlai: although i guess
that's more due
to s/ume/atility/
Adlai: my long-term (years/decades) plan for scalpl, assuming i don't lose interest by
then, is commodities, since i'm hoping by
that point "forex" becomes a quaint anachronism
Adlai: oh lol, you were market making Altcoin, so no wonder it lost
tradeability :P
Adlai: of course,
this behavior is controllable
Adlai already bookkeeps in btc, but he lets
the bot mostly do as it sees fit, which means it
travels across
the entire range of all-in-btc
to all-in-fiat, should
the market
take it
there
Adlai: right,
that's why it's showing up as an unrealized loss, rather
than a realized gain
BingoBoingo: Well bookeeping is almost certainly going
to be BTC denominated
Adlai: one issue i'm
thinking about right now is whether
this is really
the kind of investment mpif is after:
the last
two days have generated an (unrealized) loss, despite
the overall portfolio valuation jumping by ~$50 per bot
BingoBoingo: Adlai: When I was enlisted it was 10% of profit from
the first year and negotiable beyond
that after having lived a year. Market I
traded lost its
trade worthiness sooner
than
the one year
though.
assbot: Logged on 07-02-2015 17:57:05; mircea_popescu: nah, first
timers get a few % of
the profit, and at
the end of a whole year.
cazalla:
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to
the Veterans Affairs Department, while overall it is estimated
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to
the Veterans Health Administration.
cazalla: mation could be revealed
to law-enforcement agencies only when a request for access is legally approved.
cazalla: This, however, is very much
the result of choices in
the design of
the system: anyone may create a bitcoin address at a whim, as long as it is unique. But
the Bitcoin Foundation—the organization
that has authority over
the bitcoin protocol—could change
that. Before creating a new address, users could be forced
to authenticate with a
trusted organization.
This organization would securely store information about identities, and
this infor
mircea_popescu: the principal job of
the nsa since about
the 2010s is
to be publicly and outrageously humiliated.
mircea_popescu: (in romanian it means, literally,
the dough part of a pizza or a cake)
mircea_popescu: well
this is
the problem, you know ? once you decide
to
try nuclear detonations in your livingroom you can no longer have "fresh milk"
mircea_popescu: by now a "we hold 100mn chumps, who pay us 0, give us usd" is a better revenue source
than "we have 1mn people paying us 1k a year each"
mircea_popescu: it quickly becomes perverse,
the game of "let's have government in
the market"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile jpm was NOT
tbtf, because it held a lot of money from people who had money, so it could you knoiw, just steal
that,
mircea_popescu: ie, boa was "too big
to fail" because it held a lot of mortgages of people WHO COULDNT PAY FOR
THEM.
mircea_popescu: decimation
the ones who "don't" are more valuable as bezzle access.
the ones who "do" really don't.
decimation: kinda like how 'hp' now brands chumper printer cartridges, instead of quality reliable
test equipment
decimation: wtf, when did it ever make sense as a creditor
to make enemies with
those who had money in order
to court
those who don't?
decimation: "Chief Executive Officer Ken Chenault, 63, has introduced new products aimed at younger and less-affluent customers as AmEx seeks
to broaden its appeal.
The lender is working with companies including Uber
Technologies Inc. and Apple Inc.
to expand mobile payments, and courted Americans who lack access
to
traditional banks with products like its Bluebird prepaid card, offered at Wal-Mart Stores Inc."