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mircea_popescu: that's
the principal point here. it's not a "technology". it's not an invention. bitcoin is a discovery.
ben_vulpes: what could be more awesome
than
the knowledge
that
the system will have 21M coins...FOREVER?
beetcoin: what role should bitcoin play
then?
mircea_popescu: one million lines is it ? should be about a year, for someone
that is professionally qualified
to read.
ben_vulpes: nubbins`: more like "collected works of mark
twain"
danielpbarron: ben_vulpes, heh yeah at least log.b-a is finite; can't
that /that/ long
to read
nubbins`: ben_vulpes
that's like saying one can either read a brief history of
time or
their cereal box
mircea_popescu: now... if OUR node was better,
to privilege it would make sense. and itd; be worth WAY more
than
the five bux or w/e on
tap.
ben_vulpes: reddit, in
this case, counts as a forum.
ben_vulpes: beetcoin: one can either read
the forums, or
the log. not both.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform problem is
that if you penalize nodes for misbehaving
thus, you'll just in practice randomly cut
them off. as
thery all do.
beetcoin: I have read some of
the logs, but it is rather a lot
to read
beetcoin: maybe
those aren't
the best words
beetcoin: not
that I necessarily disagree,
beetcoin: I'm curious about
the general sentiment around here
that says bitcoin should not scale.
That it is not for "the common man".
nubbins`: set max number of connections,
threshold for abandoning slow peers
mircea_popescu: funny how botomless
the capacity of
these people
to generate conflicting names.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i strictly meant
the point discussed above, "bootstrap"
BingoBoingo: jurov: well,
there is a
torrent published for bootstrap.dat. atm only > 0.9 supports it << I
thought 0.7.2 and later all support it, 0.7.2 being
the only version
to unpack it as BDB blockchain
Naphex: >>> He is also famous for sending
the entire userbase
the email address of
the entire userbase.
This is
the sort of moron early Bitcoin attracted. | lmao!
mircea_popescu: ;;rate phantomcircuit -10 Aka Patrick Strateman.
That he has
the unmitigated audacity
to pretend he is a Bitcoin dev is unsurprising for
the history of
this felon. His name is permanently besmirched by one of
the most inept frauds in
the history of Bitcoin (Bitcoinica). He is also famous for sending
the entire userbase
the email address of
the entire userbase.
This is
the sort of moron early Bitcoin attracted.
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mircea_popescu: ie, back when all
the idiots
thought
they're bitcoin coders.
mircea_popescu: and
that he is also one of
the MOST inept "coders" involved in
the early stages.
mircea_popescu: Naphex someone remind strateman
that a) he is a fucking felon fraudster, whose name is forever besmirched by one of bitcoin's most idiotic heists (bitcoinica)
mircea_popescu: "this is
the right
thing and in your best interest, and we're so certain of
this we'll pay you
to do it."
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i hope
they do
this as you describe it, easily maximal lulz.
mircea_popescu: which fails
to explain how come some people own millions worth of gear and reddit can barely afford a webcam, but hey.
mircea_popescu: this is so
totally happening, everyone has reddit's memory.
nubbins`: they're doing it
to push
the first block of a fork
mircea_popescu: yeah, because gavin really has a coupla k bitcoins laying around
to "repay"
the miners
that bit a steel girder by
trusting him.
nubbins`: if
they're shelling out cash,
they're not doing it for a user-settable agent string
nubbins`: make a >1MB block and pay nodes
that relay it
nubbins`: web dev equivalent: "don't
target
the browser,
target
the features"
mircea_popescu: if
they manage
to do it well, all
the better, goes into actual fork.
mircea_popescu: if it could be done it'd have been in
the fucking protocol.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i already bought a bunch of
the pogo guys
nubbins`: would be pretty lelly
to publicly fire up a few k's of .foundation nodes on EC2 and start claiming dat money
mircea_popescu: becayuse while someone may
take 1 buck a day
to noide, as nubbins` says,
they won't fuck up a node for chump change.
nubbins`: seems easy enough
to write a patch
that changes version string
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that's exactly my point. let
them spend
their resources paying nodes
to node, it's useful.
they are incentivized
to maximize numbers, which means
they will be paying nodes
that are conformant
to us.
mircea_popescu: yaya, fake foudation doesn't actually have what
to pay gavin with for
the rest of
this year. had
they stayed in
the us
they'd have been open
to some pretty lulzy litigation.
mircea_popescu: so let
them do something useful for once in
their lifetime, it's not a bad
thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform isn't
the entire discussion about how someone (who ?) is going
to (citation needed) pay some loose change
to everyone
that runs a node ?
mircea_popescu: let idiots FINALLY pay nodes
to node, after five years wasted power rangering, because mp said so. win-win.
mircea_popescu: why exactly is
this bad and why exactly should
this be fixed ?
mircea_popescu: notice who is driving
this boat : i want
to improve incentive structure for nodes ?
they execute.
mircea_popescu: oh lulzy, so
they're going
to skip safe nodes from whatever harebrained changetip scheme
they came up with next ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the reason is
that
the nude woman is perfectly safe in
the manly company of
the impotent.
mircea_popescu: or i guess i'll ask danielpbarron
to include instructions on how
to arbitrarily set it.
mircea_popescu: but if it's a serious point of concern, either move
the version string in
the config file
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the correct
thing
to do is
to ignore stupid not
to code up
to stupid.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude, reacting
to idiots is an inept policy. you will end up with egg on your face.
mircea_popescu: "we fixed your car and your wife, overal
the parts count has conserved"
mircea_popescu: "Skipping a bunch of details,
they left something in her and it was
the cause of last week's night in
the ER.
The working
theory is it is a part from
the surgical robot
that got dislodged or broken off as all
their sponge, suture, and staple counts were on. Regardless, it wasn't
there before and it is now and I have no idea what
the fuck is going
to happen next. According
to my wife,
the surgeon is of
the opinion
that
mircea_popescu: not
that much
to
the clean shirt
theory if one looks closely at
the seams.
mircea_popescu: i am
terribly curious how
the us would look should
the eu decide
to sanction IT for half a year.
mircea_popescu: for
that matter... russia has been "under sanctions" for half a year.
mircea_popescu: it's
true
that an online blog
the boys read said clean shirt wins.
mircea_popescu: in
the woods cabin
that is
this world,
the us shirt sits on
the chest of a 16 yo, and his brother
the 15yo yurp wears a dirtier one. Nevertheless,
the absolute dirtiest one is worn by
the 32 yo chinese man, whose shirt is dirty because he's
the ony one who gets
to fuck
the only local woman
mircea_popescu: anyway, it doesn't matter
that
the us is
the cleanest shirt in
the room.
that's not really
the criteria.
ben_vulpes: these are "NPR" reporters -
they've no idea
that MPEx even exists.
mircea_popescu: "cleanest shirts of
the shirts we're willing
to see" doesn't have quite
the same... flavour
ben_vulpes: "cleanest shirt in
the room" is
the phrase i hear our financial "pundits" bandy about.
mircea_popescu: except china has more and much dudlier assets
than you could ever imagine.
ben_vulpes: how do
these "chinese liquidity injections" actually work?
mircea_popescu: there are people who would
take a fucking picture of a fucking poster for fifty bucks
nubbins`: there are people who would do
this for a buck a month