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pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: we've met
twice, once for drinks, once for coffee
nubbins`: he actually posted
the video hey
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: mitch runs a little coding shop,
they do some web design as well
mircea_popescu: i
think he has been delaborately confusing us
to gain
time
ben_vulpes: i
thought he was going under
the knife
to get rid of
the spear
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski nothing in particular, just
the general.
mircea_popescu: i
thought nubbins was contemplating a genderbendin' surgical intervention.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: anything in particular you'd like
to know about your interested participant for
the conference?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes only if you're willing
to cut noobs entirely loose
mircea_popescu: BFL
the "Exchange" , pirate
the asic manufacturer, woodcutter
the ponzi scheme...
mircea_popescu: what do we do once
they simply start repeating names ?
mircea_popescu: these guys "delisted" at a 25% buyback
that
they didn't really honor
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: i've met mitch callahan a couple
times irl
mircea_popescu: CAVirtex, Canada’s largest and oldest Bitcoin online exchange, is facing a potential class action lawsuit
to
the
tune of $884,880 CAD.
The alleged losses were incurred by
the lawsuit-bringers after
the company offered 10% of its shares for sale on
the cryptocurrency-based asset exchange, Havelock Investments
then stopped listing
the stock by
the end of 2013.
ben_vulpes: mod6: my contacts are gumming up
too :)
nubbins`: then he fucks with it with his dremel w/
the sandpaper attachment (??)
nubbins`: big reveal at
the start: lasered art in wood
nubbins`: fluffypony i lel'd heartily at
the video
ben_vulpes: i discovered recently
that "baby" carrots aren't so much "lathed" as
they are knocked around in a conical abrasive vessel
mircea_popescu: a codebase
that's written by a monkey is more liable
to attact "do-ocracy" monkeys
than one written by a sane person.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, just
the power ranger lot.
they'd have (i optimistically assume) been excluded / self out-selected if
the satoshi actually understood programming.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it does, unfortunately, mean
that
they who did forget / never had what
to forget can pass for "geniuses"
mircea_popescu: you can, if you wish, implement a function
that returns "equibranches" on a
tree.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes no asciilifeform put it in proper
terms. it's a
tree.
ben_vulpes: if you'll forgive
the glib response, figure out what can be riven from
the satoshi codebase
ben_vulpes: then
this implies a requirement
that a bitcoind-node know about and be able
to return data about
the various chains of which it knows.
mircea_popescu: think of it as "chain of pointers" and now
tell me who
the fuck doesn't flunk
the idiot
that actually keeps an enumeration array for
the chain
mircea_popescu: like sending you
to hunt for snipes so yo ucan't be a huner)
mircea_popescu: this is nonsense of
the first order, an utter antipattern, and iof
they weren't stupid as frogs i'd suspect its deliberate
mircea_popescu: (another bit of braindamage
th epower rangers forced upon
the world, other
than "historical
transaction validity" as a
thing, is "block as aheight"
mircea_popescu: the notion of N must be subordinate ot
the blocks only identifier, its hash
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: if i know
that
the most recent block was of height N, I can ask bitcoind-node for
the hash of
the block at height N
ben_vulpes: idiomatic cpp aside,
thoughts on
the list?
ben_vulpes: f'r instance,
the
thing should cough up on
the command line, a block if given a hash
mircea_popescu: best have ppl
that spoeak
the language
tlel you what
the paper says.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the reason, incidentally, i didn';t read it myself is i dun
trust my rudimentary c understanding.
ben_vulpes: but
there are subspaces, if you'll allow
the floppiness of wording.
ben_vulpes: - return a block corresponding
to a given hash
ben_vulpes: - return
the height of
the current best-known chain
ben_vulpes: -
translate block height
to block hash
ben_vulpes: mthreat
this is almost worse
than useless
ben_vulpes: re dogillionaires,
that was fluffypony
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i refer of course
to
the quoted price of attendance.
ben_vulpes: for
the record, attendance declarations are only binding on
those who wish
to attend, not his unimpeachable lordship mircea_popescu
ben_vulpes: too bad i'm
too bad of a scammer
to pull it off
mircea_popescu: nah, ben_vulpes only scammed participant. neglected
to send 2.x ended up sending 8.x
mircea_popescu: nah, just, i know what qs
to ask of people. "go read it and i'll ask you
things"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you're in
teh list arentcha ? he asked me specifically
to confirm. you're also confirmed!