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mircea_popescu: WAY better than that fuckwit eleutheria having 51%
davout: that resonates with asciilifeform's comment wrt taleb piercing the bozo field
davout: mircea_popescu: i just realized the "WOOT WTG WK!" quote was actually what someone said
Vexual: ;;later tell decimation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhOqrvCwOsU
mircea_popescu: "Even if it was unintentional you fucked up at everyone elses expense. Other people paid for your mistake in coding. You should return ALL the BTC you've mined." << someone was going on about how the confiscation "restored their faith in HUMANITY". this is then humanity, at its core. dunno why anyone'd want any part of it.
mircea_popescu: some real king solomons out there, we're so fortunate to have everything the cat dragged in "involved" in bitcoin. thank you accessibility, thank you ever so.
mircea_popescu: and the forumtards respond : ""If I didn't do it I would say that I didn't do it. You wrote a very long post and not one time did you say that you did not do it. To me, that says a lot! Don't bother now, it's too late.
mircea_popescu: makes it too damned easy for anyone to arbitrarily reject signs, which goes entirelky against the fucking point of a signature in the first place.
mircea_popescu: this is why i say the thing sucks and shouldn't be used.
mircea_popescu: In 5.23, you found my signature is wrong. after investigate, I found that I add a extra space on somewhere, then I re-sign the text. Then, a week passed. "
mircea_popescu: In 5.21, you replied to request signature for my address, I replied.
mircea_popescu: "In 5.16, I post my ticket.
mircea_popescu: Naphex check this out :
Vexual: all the styles!
Vexual: i thought it might be, "we'll set you up as a co coz youll be making 1 million withing 6 months"
Vexual: when does co tax become beneficial in slov??
mircea_popescu: they get 20k euro per corp or so, if they make one per employee that's a 400k deduction
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla because they want the low tax
mircea_popescu: congrats on wizkid for making things sound retarded i guess.
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mircea_popescu: this has been known for fucking months, except apparently not by the elegius admin crew.
mircea_popescu: and so doesn't submit the winning block half the time it finds it, and doesn't care to fix his hardware.
mircea_popescu: the even more logical conclusion : there's some miner going around with 32 bit hardware, that's unable to correctly handle 64 bit nonces
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mircea_popescu: these people should vote, seriously. then we'd finally have real democracy, when nothing and nobody prevents these people from giving their "opinion" on how public affairs should be run
mircea_popescu: ns oh well...Great job on running the pool WK!! couldn't ask for a better pool op"
mircea_popescu: forum responds : "WOOT WTG WK!!! you teach them that messing with our pool isn't an option Great job on catching them and stopping them from getting their reward for doing nothing Finally some scammers didn't get to scam...oh how good that makes me feel...lost 21 coins to some lying cheating bastards already one was the btcrow or some website email scam..thought i was using escrow but was really sending them the coi
mircea_popescu: and is now going into uberderpage mode to cover it up
mircea_popescu: well the more persuasive explanation is, elegius fucked up a server upgrade (on its sole server, if you don't count an old backup box which is never live anyway), lost some user's accounts
mircea_popescu: "P.S. - This is unrelated to any of the stats issues that have occurred. (Server migration for the new web server is still under way…)"
kakobrekla: elegius deceiving users? wouldn't be the first time.
mircea_popescu: o look, it's also closing ? isn't this one of the oldest pools still (sort-of) standing ?
mircea_popescu: "It has unofficially been decided that if it came down to it, Eligius would shut down before being forced to pay any attacker of any kind any amount whatsoever."
davout: Luke-Jr: what's with that?
mircea_popescu: herpy derp. so basically don't mine with elegius and that's that.
mircea_popescu: "When they noticed, weeks later, they contacted us complaining. We asked them to sign messages to verify they were in fact in control of the addresses in question including asking them to include a real name and location in the signed message, refusing to discuss it until they had done so"
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would someone keep a 200 btc balance, and esp with elegius, is beyong me.
mircea_popescu: so elegius is stealing from some miner they had an argument with.
Vexual: well the other 50% prevents it, and as you tend to 100%, it becomes unprofitable
mircea_popescu: "My guess is that they never expected to get caught and suffer income loss as a result of their attack. But, once they were caught, I put a filter in place to block them from the payout queue (similar to the block on known MtGox addresses). Eligius’s offline wallet now has roughly 200 BTC work credits held from the payout queue under the attacker's addresses, that we have stopped them from stealing."
davout: to me it sounds retarded to confiscate such an amount on a suspicion, especially when the suspected attacker has no economic incentive to be attacking in the first place
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 me either tbh
mircea_popescu: (if they actually were detectable they'd logically be prevetnable too)
Mats_cd03: mircea_popescu: i like that...i wouldn't know what to select for a proposition, though
mircea_popescu: davout the guy is a legit miner, but perhaps not too acquainted with logic. they're not detectable, they're susceptionable.
nubbins`: not the case at all
nubbins`: i thought they were saving up valid hashes to blow their wad all at once
davout: mircea_popescu: "seems more a function ofyou for the first time reading miner stuff than anything else." <<< nah, just wtfing at this, wondering if i was right to be wtfing or simply stupid
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mircea_popescu: seems more a function ofyou for the first time reading miner stuff than anything else.
nubbins`: wait, i thought the withholding hashes thing didn't work because of nonces or some sort of math shit
davout: lemme fish the post
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 care to make it intereskin ?
mircea_popescu: davout well do they offer any proof ?
davout: mircea_popescu: "which kind ?" <<< apparently some eligius guy claims they've caught one of their miners doing the withold-correct-block-hashes thing
mircea_popescu: they're oppressed for a reason you know. nobody in the entire history of oppression was oppressed for anything but a reason.
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mircea_popescu: or maybe they'll becomne dinner
Mats_cd03: maybe they'll become a nation state, the dream of all oppressed little guys
mircea_popescu: what are you, like new to this risk! game of international intrigue ?
Mats_cd03: they've been shit on for a long time, now they have oil guns and territory
Mats_cd03: interesting turn for the kurds though
nubbins`: anyway, to quote sublime
Vexual: prolly got the condom bachine on aliexpress
mircea_popescu: who the hell knew "anatomical" is condom codeword for "i have a very small icepick"
mircea_popescu: that thing is so narrow i couldn't fit any part of it in there.
mircea_popescu: that thing...
mircea_popescu: but anyway, so i go buy one of each type, and as chance would have it i first try the tyhing called "anatomical"
nubbins`: imagine if you were to skip the women and fuck a pie
mircea_popescu: so in the end i order research on condoms. answer comes out that the only half decent brand is "prime"
mircea_popescu: cue me in pharmacy with womenz in tow looking askew at the two mds there, with a stupid novelty ladden package onthe counter. "what are trhese!?!?"
mircea_popescu: speaking of negative cock thickness, so the good folk here don't fucking import condoms.
mircea_popescu: negative thickness ?!
kakobrekla: you can tell it sucks if it cant go into negative.
mircea_popescu: <Mats_cd03> militants advancing towards baghdad << myeah.
nubbins`: 1 gauge, pull it thru first hole
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mircea_popescu: (and i do believe he's typical, there's nothing more conformally uniform in the world than tech people.)
nubbins`: kakobrekla: apparently it's an indicator of how many pulls through a drawing die
mircea_popescu: admitting todd's typical.
mircea_popescu: the total estimated holdings of the bitcoin power rangers < 1k btc.
Vexual: i like how the fbi made a neat little bounce
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Mats_cd03: bet its done in two months
mircea_popescu: "BTW If you owe me fiat and normally pay me via Bitcoin, for the next 2.5 weeks you can pay me based on the price I sold at, $650 CAD." << so inadvertently, the guy's holdings are 5 weeks of his income.
kakobrekla: who came up with that shit
Mats_cd03: militants advancing towards baghdad
kakobrekla: the gauge is the thing that goes in reverse right
nubbins`: how thick is the wire?
mircea_popescu: lol lampelina'll love thart
kakobrekla: maybe a wire and two girls.
nubbins`: wait, no, that's backwards
nubbins`: i thought it was two cups and a girl
mircea_popescu: i thought it was two cups and a wire
kakobrekla: true, i made bitbet from tshirts.
nubbins`: chew on that
nubbins`: funny thing is, the work i do now actually does matter more
mircea_popescu: better posters than posers amirite
kakobrekla: now he prits t shirts.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin will succeed in the long term because i say so. not because todd says or doesn't say so. wtf is this, programmer planet, where programmers matter now ?!