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Adlai: i guess a better question is "what does 'not Gavin-sized' mean"
williamdunne: Not quite, I still think at some point it will need to be bigger. Just not Gavin-sized
mircea_popescu: jeez how the world changes in a coupla hours based on what's said in b-a log, you'd think we're talking to gavin-the-handpuppet & co.
mircea_popescu: i'm looking forward to all the gavin lectures about the perils of larger blocksizes. also at stanford.
Naphex: Pierre_Rochard: nice kick on that bucket with gavin :))
mircea_popescu: trinque essentially, an application of "bitcoin is bitcoin" is what sunk gavin. they still mostly can't believe it happened, but it did. it will again. in practice, you either implement a broken, pared down version of bitcoin, in which case bitcoin defeats you, or else you implement a correct version, in which case... you've implemented bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: here, i see your gavin andresen impersonator and raise you, http://41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m421aoiZzX1qjm83bo1_1280.jpg
assbot: Satoshi dress-up impersonator Gavin Andresen, has given up promoting larger block sizes. : Buttcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1H9s6h6 )
cazalla: http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/35fftw/satoshi_dressup_impersonator_gavin_andresen_has/
assbot: Some say Gavin can kill 1000 trolls in a single swing : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1zVys4b )
mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/34zini/some_say_gavin_can_kill_1000_trolls_in_a_single/ << check out the post-structuralist world. idiots on either side of an imaginary divide discover that well... they're really just idiots, the divide was imaginary, stuff like that.
davout: mircea_popescu: ah, i misread, thought the 1mn thing was about gavin
assbot: Logged on 11-05-2015 02:21:20; williamdunne: Gavin is now also advocating for 1 minute blocks
mircea_popescu: there's a very simple way to decrease interval between blocks : gavin can just go buy some miners and stfu.
assbot: Logged on 11-05-2015 02:21:20; williamdunne: Gavin is now also advocating for 1 minute blocks
williamdunne: Gavin is now also advocating for 1 minute blocks ☟︎☟︎
pete_dushenski: bitstein: the gavin one ?
asciilifeform: and why is gavin wearing camera lens caps for glasses
mircea_popescu: http://www.contravex.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Gavin-Andresen-Satoshi-costume.jpg << camho in that pic always good for a chuckle.
scoopbot_revived: Gavin Backs Off Blocksize: Scapegoats Memory, UTXO Set http://qntra.net/2015/05/gavin-backs-off-blocksize-scapegoats-memory-utxo-set/
BingoBoingo: decimation: Ah Janssens. MIT ended up beating him for Gavin's affection
decimation: who is the guy who decided to pay gavin's salary?
assbot: Logged on 05-05-2015 01:19:24; danielpbarron: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/34uu02/why_increasing_the_max_block_size_is_urgent_gavin/cqycy4h "Rather, the only push you see against larger blocks come from strong advocates of personal autonomy and decenteralization, like Peter Todd; or the MPOE crowd (regardless of what you might think about them, they wouldn't be any to bend to commercial or government interests)."
mike_c: ;;later tell pete_dushenski would surely do the gavin retreat justice on qntra.
mike_c: That gavin thing has to be written up. I mean.. this is what he chooses to backpedal on?
mike_c: qntra's slipping today. Gavin beats a hasty retreat and new Bitcoin ISP.
assbot: Gavin Andresen ... ( http://bit.ly/1GTTBc1 )
mircea_popescu: Recently there has been a flurry of posts by Gavin at http://gavinandresen.svbtle.com/ which advocate << lol just how many blogs is this guy keeping
thestringpuller: I'm starting to think everytime you kill a Gavin-esque zombie, it's already infected 10 innocents which then become zombies.
mircea_popescu: or in other words : bitcoin idiots / the sort of "entrepreneurs" gavin talks to weren't invented by bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to round off the capital thing : without ownership you can not force anyone to care about you. whether you can or can not force me to care about you, i will force you to care about me. the illustration of this narrative are the sufferances of young gavin. he drank the "piketty" aka libertard coolaid, and now here he is, wondering what the fuck happened.
trinque: "Neither me nor Gavin believe a fee market will work as a substitute for the inflation subsidy."
mircea_popescu: because poettering is like gavin, the godfather of other people's computers.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony what "entrepreneurs" is gavin talking to anyway ?
fluffypony: funkenstein_: no idea, Gavin said this -
fluffypony: but I thought BlueMatt summed it up nicely in a reply to Gavin:
thestringpuller: "Again, why don't all devs that against this blocksize change come together, and ELI5 to the rest of us what are the cons. ELI5 is important if you want the public to understand your points. So for now Gavin has me convinced the change is necessary. Please Please Please...." to which someone replies "Heaven help us if we ever encounter an issue that requires more than a five-year-old's intelligence."
mircea_popescu: and if people have to test things in negative three days, fuck people. handler said, gavin & mike do, that's how "standards committees" work in the us.
mircea_popescu: "I observed to Wladimir and Gavin in
mircea_popescu: this is a non-issue. there's no homesteading in software. some derps using X language don't acquire some sort of "rights", just like gavin, that "bitcoin chamber of commerce" pageant chick or max keiser did not acquire any sort of property over bitcoin by derping on the margins of it with abandon.
btcdrak: I would be super surprised if gavin's proposal gets through. seems like there is a lot of opposition from coredevs thankfully.
mircea_popescu: the only economists qualified to discuss bitcoin are here, and afaik the consensus is "gavin is too dumb to understand how ridiculous he is"
assbot: Logged on 19-01-2015 17:00:31; mircea_popescu: davout http://trilema.com/2015/rfc-the-gavin-assassinsen-memorial-mining-pool-implementation/ there you go, degraded to rfc.
jurov: and gavin's bitcoin ninja
thestringpuller: ^- http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/34uu02/why_increasing_the_max_block_size_is_urgent_gavin/ << redditards are too lazy to comment on stuff other than reddit
mircea_popescu: gotta love gavin's move from his blog to this thing where there's no comments. clearly, the man has a lot of support o.O
pete_dushenski: gavin: "The ten-minute settlement time of blocks on the network is not fast enough for those problems," << so... go diddle litecoin.
assbot: nullc comments on Why increasing the max block size is urgent | Gavin Andresen ... ( http://bit.ly/1zuFigz )
danielpbarron: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/34uu02/why_increasing_the_max_block_size_is_urgent_gavin/cqycy4h "Rather, the only push you see against larger blocks come from strong advocates of personal autonomy and decenteralization, like Peter Todd; or the MPOE crowd (regardless of what you might think about them, they wouldn't be any to bend to commercial or government interests)." ☟︎
williamdunne: bitcoin doesn't take over through convincing random fuckwit of "more benefits". bitcoin takes over by raping the state. permanently. <<< See, I totally agree with this. But this is why I think that there should be bigger blocks (not Gavin's proposal, but statically bigger). Easier to rape the state surely if its less inconvenient and more people can do so
mircea_popescu: nobody can take it seriously with derps a la gavin, luke, hearn & co involved.
mircea_popescu: biggest impediment to adoption, gavin, vessenes, "professional" derps and so on.
williamdunne: funkenstein_: Pretty much. I disagree with Gavin because it essentially makes the blocks infinitely large, but I disagree with some people here because 7tx/s doesn't even cover SWIFT payments
williamdunne: I'm not promoting Gavin's proposal, as it is definitely stupid
davout: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-04-2015#1109641 <<< incidentally that's the same argument gavin is making with his "miners cartel" ☝︎
Adlai is increasingly skeptical regarding the relevance of gavin's blocksize plans
williamdunne: pete_dushenski: From what I can tell the objection you all have is that Gavin's suggestion is constant inflation, as opposed to the block-size being anything other than 1mb
ascii_lander: l0l as if it wasn't clear that gavin will not starve or be reduced to honest work
mats: "MIT is no longer the hallowed Library of Alexandria that shared the Lisp Machine and SICP with the world. Today, its made up of showmen and fools like Gavin, who endeavor to destroy software they don't understand, on behalf of a handler. Your relevance fades, and in a decade your cohorts will disavow any knowledge of you. Enjoy your faux relevancy as long
funkenstein_: "that's great you found somebody to tell you what to do".. i think MP's comments are more respectful of gavin
mircea_popescu: fluffypony if miners actually don't care, how do you explain 50btc/btcguild's demise after their collusion with gavin last year ?
pete_dushenski: mebbe when john oliver wears holes in his knee pads, gavin can fill in
ascii_field: to continue with the line of thought, as soon as we so much as frag less than gavin's turd, someone - anyone - could send us off on a fork of less-retardation.
ascii_field: gavin's?
mircea_popescu: that gavin [pretends like he] doesn't know such is exactly why the verbiage as to the retarded boy in one of my articles debunking the nonsense.
pete_dushenski: hey gavin, thirsty yet ?
mircea_popescu: it is kind-of fascinating for me that they were actually this unprepared for gavin getting headshot.
punkman: yeah but if you still want to fund gavin, I'm thinking you're a spook
punkman: "A special trust fund is being created and I will donate several 100k to pre-pay Gavin’s, Wladimirs and some other core devs wage for the next year" << who's this Olivier dude that's gonna pay for Gavin out of his pocket
BingoBoingo: But Derp still wants to hurp about continuing to feed Gavin
danielpbarron: gavin has the attention poor people who think that talking about bitcoin makes them a part of it somehow
BingoBoingo: Cogburn> gavin has the keys. he's "that guy" << Thermos also has a copy of the "Keys"
Cogburn: gavin has the keys. he's "that guy"
danielpbarron: gavin is the one threatening a fork
Cogburn: many people. i fully support his threat to fork bitcoin if gavin's block expansion goes through. he's 100% correct that it is an economic alteration to the network and not simple technical
mircea_popescu: that guardian is an intel asset, and greenwald in particular just gavin in a different color scheme is again uncontroversial.
ascii_field: gavin or whoever - isn't he a full-time dev for turdation ?
thestringpuller: just bad feeling seeing summer 2015 as their schedule and this aligns with gavin wanting to have enough dick's sucked to push his shit into github around then as well
mircea_popescu: except no worthy goals were willing to work with them, and so moved to "default worthy goal" = pay gavin a salary.
mircea_popescu: anyway, gavin showed up pretty quick o nthe original lists. to no one's suprirse, nsa does read the stuff, as amply documented.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i formed this impression because i do not know the actual truth of the extent of collaboration between gavin et al and satoshi pre-phoundation
mircea_popescu: nubbins` noteven for ronald mc donald / gavin mcsatoshi / etc ?
cazalla: the trajectory of the sun combined with the police lights and lazer mounted drone caused me to run down mr gavin by accident
mircea_popescu: the bitcoin rules are defined by what important people use, and as it happens gavin & co are unimportant.
mircea_popescu: i can see why the gavin troop would like the defense of "we have already moved the protocol once" to rely on, but it's simply not true.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2015#1058668 << gotta admire the insistence on branding. here's a thought : gavin's neck was broken in public. you don't come out of that by inventing a new word to try and rally support around. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: well... you gotta put something up, you know ? gavin can't run to all of them in his satoshi costume
assbot: 546 results for 'gavin' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=gavin
BingoBoingo: !s gavin
mircea_popescu: or in other words, they make 250 gsc for no risk, if they believe this theory whereby "people" will "update" to gavincoin on gavin's say so.
assbot: Logged on 21-01-2015 02:32:01; mircea_popescu: ;;sell 1000 "Gavin Scamcoins" @ 750 BTC Future delivery. Larger amounts will get you an even better deal. Smaller amounts may be considered.
gribble: Gavin Andresen Proposes Scalability Roadmap and Hardfork ...: <http://qntra.net/2014/10/gavin-andressen-proposes-scalability-roadmap-and-hardfork/>; Gavin Andresen: "Expect Chaos & Drama" | Qntra.net: <http://qntra.net/2014/11/gavin-andresen-expect-chaos-drama/>; Flashback: Gavin Andresen | Qntra.net: <http://qntra.net/2014/11/flashback-gavin-andresen/>
BingoBoingo: ;;google site:qntra.net gavin
DanTheBitcoinMan: So what are everyone's thoughts here about Gavin running around and trying to promote his idea of raising the block size limit? Can anyone point me to a very good argument detailing the reasons this should be avoided?
asciilifeform: point isn't that gavin&co are 'winning', but that the absence of said winning is not driven home to them
assbot: keynote-gavin-andresen ... ( http://bit.ly/1AdIMPc )
adlai: thestringpuller: you're missing the best part of the talk: "A tenth of a Bitcoin for anyone who takes the livestream and puts a pope hat on me during the stream. That would be awesome." http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/mit-bitcoin-expo-2015/keynote-gavin-andresen/
thestringpuller: http://insidebitcoins.com/news/gavin-andresen-optimistic-about-scaling-bitcoin/30652 << Gavin is throwin out dates for axe and sword time
cazalla: danielpbarron, lol ethereum blocked you? buterin is yet to block me even though i cuss him out 100 worse than i did gavin
asciilifeform: PeterL: small nuance here, also. the 'jungle shells' don't have to actually be made to work, in a sense. think about how the 'gavin fork' thing, which died - or at least went into hibernation - merely from knowing that response is ready