mircea_popescu: but anyway, it's quite evident and not a matter open to much dispute that a whole lot of not-really-into-bitcoin barnacles have been steadily accumulating, at least in their own esitmation, since 2012 or so.

mircea_popescu: by this understanding of forking, everyone running a bitcoin node on a box that's lost internet connection "forked"

mircea_popescu: that's a plan.

mircea_popescu: the notion that bitcoin can somehow by stolen by name is so ridoinculous as to betray its ustardian origins. bitcoin is not a name. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: your question is ill posed. if tomorrow a large enough collection of idiots decides to call making hooky "bitcoin", this will be great and good and entirely uninteresting for bitcoin.

mircea_popescu: and in other "a proper weight has its advantages", http://68.media.tumblr.com/7c1877d605646a19a6befb96c5cfbadc/tumblr_ogygp6HaoA1r2sy0fo1_540.gif

mircea_popescu: in truth avbout half engineering careers of any brightness started with a 15yo in a junkshop going " i wonder if worth "

mircea_popescu: you know, if it seems a good next step then it likely is. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: a sec

mircea_popescu: a perfect.

mircea_popescu: what's the format like ? will hafta write a converter

mircea_popescu: yes, the ample towers and bridges of the most serene republic's capitol may take a while to mentally unwrap.

mircea_popescu: lettuce create a bitmap image 1024px wide, 32 bit color depth, so that each factorial is followed by a white line, and each pixel from left to right contains 3 bytes of data.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have a plan.

mircea_popescu: http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2016/02/07_v-tronics-101-a-gentle-introduction-to-the-most-serene-republic-of-bitcoins-cryptographically-backed-version-control-system.html

mircea_popescu: no, it's a versioning system

mircea_popescu: incidentally alf dilutola would make a great postapocalyptic fizz

mircea_popescu: so let them. if it works we needed a new bitcoin anyway.

mircea_popescu: bitmain can either make bitcoin miners or not make bitcoin miners. this isn't evben a choice -- for as long as they can they'll make, and once they become irrelevant they won't make. whether they also whine with it or not... who cares.

mircea_popescu: mahahahaybe a few of them will actually manage to find a job instead of dicking around online, but it seems unlikely. who wants to employ an idle ustard and what useful could they do ?

mircea_popescu: in preference of saying "i was a fucktard and i shall not be a fucktard any longer".

mircea_popescu: far as i can tell, people who can't retain employment will whine about it for the next two weeks as if it were a thing, then the date will come, nothing whatsoewver will happebn, and they'll just move on to whining about some other pie in the sky

mircea_popescu: so, ample opportunity for the entrepreneurial -- start a pool that's not a scam, if all others are, or you perceive they might be.

mircea_popescu: if you use a pool.

mircea_popescu: a block will still pay what it pays now.

mircea_popescu: i'm not sure what you're asking. if i send a bitcoin to someone, no third party can do anything to it.

mircea_popescu: user705 you would mine then as you mine now. if you're pool mining, select a pool that isn't scamming you then , just as you would now.

mircea_popescu: not a half bad idea at that.

mircea_popescu: inexplicably, as the dorks made a lot of noise about it then and have studiously pretended to have forgotten all about it ever since, as if that's how this works now.

mircea_popescu: ironically -- me :) but that's a different story.

mircea_popescu: sure, culture is not intended to be either a prison or an answer (these haven't yet been unglued). nevertheless, the young man who does not understand why have cameras in the bedroom when mirrors suffice is the fundamental anticultural agent.

mircea_popescu: so like a sex tape

mircea_popescu: a nice.

mircea_popescu: btw, someone make a txt of the list of all factorials up to say 65536 and publish it on yer blog. it dun seem to exist online.

mircea_popescu: contemporary anthropology, as a day-to-day endeavour, suddenly ended one day in the 90s when they finally saw pulp fiction. the heard s l jackson go "if my answers scare you, stop asking scary questions" and there was a collective sigh from the entire fucking profession.

mircea_popescu: "we have to prepare for having a child!" "you prepare, bitch, i'm already as erect as im gonna get."

mircea_popescu: no but i shall insist for the rest ofg the day, because not only do i have a whole silo of these things, but, importantly, it is THE PILE not the item that makes the point.

mircea_popescu: who even gives a shit, at all, about the things ?

mircea_popescu: no, it is a term of art that DOES refer to actual old woman.

mircea_popescu: and contrary to old woman pretense, a mode actually preferred by no-one.

mircea_popescu: a miserable mode.

mircea_popescu: now -- when old women do the burning, you get a lot of choking smoke and very little fire.

mircea_popescu: the only point that makes a difference is who burns the sofas, and how they do it.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nobody has yet made a new sofa, nor will they.

mircea_popescu: wherever you turn, a sofa burns.

mircea_popescu: and that -- was a horrible thing to miss.

mircea_popescu: converges to one hell of a party among the smart.

mircea_popescu: i'm writing an article about it, but at the gist -- allowing one who is neither productive on their own (ie, as a black box) nor competend to examination any degree of autonomy whatsoever.

mircea_popescu: this was legal in 1800, and that happenstance combined withtheir batshit insane attitude towards the women clearly paints the picture of a rotten expire.

mircea_popescu: yes we call it "hariette wilson's memoirs", but it has no author just like a collection of peasant ballads have no author. the point of interest is that fred lamb or argyle didn't pay to not be named, whereas the early pantsuit ally http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-15#1684405 did. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform see, this is the important point here : there may or may not have been a stupid cunt / sack of flesh with the label "harriette wilson" at one point or another. this is ireelevant to anything. a collection of stupidities of people in a meanwhile defunct wot has received, FOR NO REASON, and through coincidental cause, the "same" label. it is not same in any meaningful sense. this is the fate of the various harriet

mircea_popescu: this flourished in a time when high born men were shockingly stupid, and she is not remembered. a litany of their names arranged by unclean hands is still, (and only by the most antiquarianly minded) reviewed.

mircea_popescu: the man who, walking into a room, overpowers all present, is entitled, by right of force, to whatever he may extract. ☟︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: the greatest boy born every year is entitled by the fact of his greatness to eager service of a good majority of the girls similarily born. this is an earned rent -- by right of birth.

mircea_popescu: harriette fucking wilson, the apodictical modern girl of the 1800s. just like deep throat she traded all she could for attention as a young ugly woman, and then grown old and growing upset at having derived altogether too little in unearned rents from the entire affair, moved on to trying to attention whore out of the perceived injustice of it all.

mircea_popescu: it is the opposite behaviour of what they call a slut.

mircea_popescu: erlehmann a pantsuit denotes a certain sort of female mind -- that puts the esteem of the female herd above the esteem of randomly chosen male.