asciilifeform: ( one difference, readily visible to naked eye, is that britney was made back when the sofas ~actually contained~ some pennies )
asciilifeform: gotta wonder how it was pictured to work -- 'if all the pennies in the sofas added up and made britney and coke, why not to make our shitcoin worth sumthing' ?
asciilifeform: instead of colluding miners, mendacious nodes, and 'gimmme ERRYTHINGFORPHREEEE!' entitled users -- can in principle have 1.
asciilifeform: iirc was in ben_vulpes's l2 ? or trinque's ?
asciilifeform: ( incidentally recall 1980s game copyprotection lameness with elementary 'proof of storage' ?? 'answer, player, what is 51th word on 11th page paragraph 3 !1111' )
asciilifeform: trinque, mircea_popescu : this is actually a variation on an ancient and imho interesting theme, the 'aeternity service' or what was it called, early attempt at 'bitcoinism' and p2p warez combo, 'proof of storage'
asciilifeform: or at any rate this is the condition for success
asciilifeform: in the end you will have 'written ffa' nearly same as asciilifeform had.
asciilifeform: and understand it the way a man packing a parachute understands.
asciilifeform: i intend for the whole lot of l1, to eventually read it
asciilifeform: mod6: even if you only read it, and did not write, it is still not wasted time
asciilifeform: mod6: current ffa has no problem building and running with 32bit word; but it will not do useful work in 8/16bit msdos, and this needs fix ( i described simple fix above. my priority atm tho is barrettron and practical rsa demo )
asciilifeform: 1 d00d and his box is really quite same as ' asciilifeform's hdd '
asciilifeform: archives are a necessary thing, but really oughta be auto-mirrored
asciilifeform: i tend to distrust archives, save things manually
asciilifeform: but will make the code 1) more readable 2) buildable for 8bit, in theory, cpu
asciilifeform: note that this will result in exactly the same binary as builds now, on pc
asciilifeform: and FZ array gotta be indexed ~by~ it
asciilifeform: so there has to be a synthetic (i.e. Unsigned_32 ) type , that on archs that have narrower bitness than that, ends up a doubleword
asciilifeform: because 8 bits is not enough to index a useful number of 8-bit words☟︎
asciilifeform: the current item is problematic on (hypothetical, i don't have one for which gnat builds) 8-bit archs
asciilifeform: mod6: there are serious ughs that need fixing, also. for instance to get rid of 'Natural' and 'Positive' and throw out the mess of conversions to and from Word
asciilifeform: mod6: you could just as readily use, e.g., gnu 'bc'
asciilifeform: mod6: my current ( unpublished, quite yet, because it relies on details of 'p' ) item, uses python's
asciilifeform: mod6: the key imho re a ffa tester, is that it gotta exist ~outside~ of ffa, and use a traditional, known-to-produce-correct-numberz ( and ideally, more than one ) arithm stack
