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TheNewDeal: "Bitcoin may be able
to do
that one day, but maybe not at
the current $40 per
transaction cost structure. " What
troll-drugs is
this guy smoking
mircea_popescu: is
this
the first
time i got called a religious leader btw ?
mircea_popescu: ah, him. well, if he manages
to get over himself he might actually do something useful at some point.
TheNewDeal: oh gotcha.
Thought you meant
that dude's writings
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: he literally spoke about
the
thing
that mtgox did
that made
them vulnerable
to malleability attacks <<
this is a major part of why mtgox debacle was so funny
to
the old
timers.
TheNewDeal: I can only presume
there's some
thick sarcasm I'm missing
mircea_popescu: somehow i'd much rather spend my
time reading
that
than listen
to songs someone wrote based on poems
they wrote (the world needs more singers-songwriters and fewer doctors and engineers!)
mircea_popescu: anyone bored enough
to extract
the footnote in question from chapter 17, lemmeknow. i got a log
to read.
mircea_popescu: and it's funny what actually plays
the role of fiat-denominated investment in most cases.
mircea_popescu: this being
the main reason. people get so emotionally invested in
their fiat-denominated holdings
they simply can't adapt.
TimSwanson: Feel free
to email me if you have any other questions
TimSwanson: Was nice chatting with
the community here
TimSwanson: Pretty sure
the cypherpunks in California would disagree with you, Phil Zimmerman may have coded it, but
they dreamt it up, etc.
mircea_popescu: i doubt
thinking of
those people in collective
terms is very sensible, but anyway.
TimSwanson: They built really cool
tech like PGP or even Digicash and ZKS but couldn't find a
target market in a profitable manner
TimSwanson: This si
the same problem cypherpunks had back in
the '90s
mircea_popescu: this'd be a fine example of
the strawman in question. you imagine
this is a meaningful question, but it isn't.
TimSwanson: Show me
the line of code
that has "culture" in it?
mircea_popescu: what i am saying is
that you can never have something meanginful
to say about a culture from outside of it.
TimSwanson: Look, you sound a lot like any other religious leader who says "you cannot understand
the movement unless you're part of it"
TimSwanson: Please,
tell me
the way,
the
truth and
the light
mircea_popescu: no, but should you wish
to actually learn about bitcoin,
this channel is here.
TimSwanson: Do you actually have some data about mining you want
to chat about?
mircea_popescu: you're not about
to
tell me what my argument is, now is it ?
mircea_popescu: my actual argument is
that you're captive in a mostly meanginless structure, and
that it's a shame, basically.
mircea_popescu: well now look. so do you understand
the wot or don't you.
TimSwanson: I have a big network in
the real world outside caves
mircea_popescu: you aren't yet enough of a something
to be insultable im affraid.
mircea_popescu: well, i suppose
the way
to reference it in your system would be "the wot games".
TimSwanson: I don't have
to be a Bitcoin
Taliban
to understand how it works
mircea_popescu: now, whether
this session helped or didn't is unclear, but at least i
tried.
TimSwanson: What is
the problem I do not comprehend?
mircea_popescu: and i left it because it was apparent
to me
that you don't, on your own, possess
the intellectual means
to comprehend
the problem.
TimSwanson: That defeats
the whole purpose of permissionless
mircea_popescu: i left a comment on an article
that pingbacked my article,
TimSwanson: You do not get
to decide who is or is not interested
mircea_popescu: this is pretty much
the gist of
the problem. get interested in bitcoin or get used
to not being
taken seriously, i guess.
TimSwanson: You are
the one leaving comments on my blog
TimSwanson: My WoT in
the real world is pretty good
TimSwanson: Then on
the right side
there is a "scroll bar", go down
to
the bottom
mircea_popescu: this is readily reducible
to
the problem of "i have a very high wot score". it's not
the number. it's
the identity.
TimSwanson: Yes, you should press
the blue underlined hyperlink button
to open
the book
mircea_popescu: i don't
think you understand how
this works.
things need a source
to exist.
mircea_popescu: if
the book had no author i definitely wouildn't read it.
TimSwanson: Instead, you have wasted about 10 minutes
trying
to attack me
TimSwanson: Imagine if
the book had no author,
then it would just be about
the actual content of
the book
TimSwanson: Look, all you have
to do, is read either book and
then you can say what you disagree with
TimSwanson: Yes, I linked
to it in my recent book saying it won't work
☟︎ assbot: GPG contracts pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: Great Chain of Numbers: A Guide
to Smart Contracts, Smart Property and
Trustless Asset Management
TimSwanson: Honestly, I didn't come here
to be personally insulted, I
thought you actually had data
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol arguably i make a living blogging
these days, so who's
to know anymore.
mircea_popescu: and as
to
the earlier point :
there is no such
thing as "legal ones" re bitcoin companies.
there's bitcoin companies, and
then
there's fiat companies
that
try
to make a buck off bitcoin
mircea_popescu: okay, i'll have
to fix
that article, no scholar environmental or otherwise.
TimSwanson: If you actually clicked on my LinkedIn, you would see
that is
the case
TimSwanson: I used
to actually build mining machines
mircea_popescu: Timothy Swanson
Timothy Swanson is an American economics scholar specializing in environmental governance, ... << is
this you ?
TimSwanson: I have never done anything with
the "environment"
mircea_popescu: you
think
this is somehow more respectable
than "evironment scholar" ?
TimSwanson: I get paid
to interview people, find out what
they do and
then write it up
mircea_popescu: looky : i've been fran kto you. now, can i get a frank answer
to what exactly it is you do, for a living ?
TimSwanson: Any other personal insults you'd like
to make?
TimSwanson: If you clicked "About
the author" you might know
TimSwanson: I hope you enjoy your journey on
the High Horse
mircea_popescu: i scored you.
the difference here is
that in order
to attack you we'd have
to share something. we do not.
TheNewDeal: I have a bone
to pick with
this statement "This is a mistake
that we see in full force
today in which
the quantity of money available has shrunk due
to
theft, scams, purposeful burning, accidental destruction, etc."
mircea_popescu: which is why
the stuff yo usay is lulzy
to people here, but not
to you.