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HeySteve: positive rating implies you
trust someone
to represent you
HeySteve: it is quite easy
to apply a
tweaked reputation system
to foundation app
fluffypony: to which he replies: " unlike Vert and every other coin, however, it has a stabilization fund
to keep wild swings at bay- more attractive
to merchants"
assbot: /d_seaman can you do a video explaining
the differences betweetn Naut and Vert coin? kinda hard
to understand from
the pod
assbot: Nautiluscoin is either
the greatest
troll, or a significant advancement in crypto. Im going w/ significant.
jurov: how's
that different from "replace
them with bots"?
fluffypony: I
think he's
trying
to provide a software platform
that will make
the foundation obselete
jurov: yea :)
the wording sound weird
to me anyway.. why having some standards body requires *software* platform?
fluffypony: nah jurov, credit where credit is due, I don't
think
that's what he's aiming for
jurov: plus
throw in some markov chain generated VC-speak...
fluffypony: wow and he put 250 BTC in an address and signed a message
to verify
that it's a legitimate offer
jurov: i undertood
that as "replace karpeles and pierce with bots"
fluffypony: I actually really hope
this happens, it will make
the foundation obselete
fluffypony: "I am
thinking of a system where prominent people can voice
their opinion, where people can propose projects, and where
the core devs can actively show
their roadmap with detailed features + costs, and where we can vote on
the features being implemented by sending bitcoins
towards
the feature of our choice."
assbot: $100,000 bounty for software platform
that can replace
the Bitcoin Foundation : Bitcoin
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [KCIM] [PAID] 2.17250000 BTC
to 86`900 shares, 2500 satoshi per share
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 2.45611848 BTC
to 8`648 shares, 28401 satoshi per share
moiety: havent ever had a kitchen
that big before either
moiety: i just need
to sort out references and apply :D
moiety: yep and I loved it! /really/ would like it, it was so nice :D even has motion sensing lights in
the stairwell so i dont break myself in
the dark
moiety has been
to see
The Flat
today
assbot: the hardest problem in computer science is figuring out why anyone has paid
the least bit of attention
to hacker news in half a decade
fluffypony: I imagine pankkake as Mr.
T being all like "I pity
tha fool
that uses altcoins"
fluffypony: pankkake: don't forget
that some of
the experimentation requires real-world use cases
mircea_popescu: because human beings being
the shits
they are, unless you get
their balls in a vice
they just won't perform.
pankkake: they should be much closer
to
testnet
pankkake: "Peter
Todd notes
to Etherium fans
to be careful because Bitcoin can always just copy whatever
they do" I don't know who
this is, but it's pretty much my point about alcoins:
they're experiments, and most of what
they do could be pushed into Bitcoin if it was actually useful
mircea_popescu: quite decentralised. i bet
the overstuck guy, w/e his name is, has no fucking idea what exactly "issuing shares on
top of blockchain" really means.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile over at reality ranch, "11bet.org as
the football quizzes website of
the item, it is
the key development direction
to expand Website
traffic, it will support many kind of virtual currencies
to bet."
mircea_popescu: like, social media, naive email, what have you. it wouldn't surprise me if it
turns out real gdp is in
the low single digit %s of what it should be.
mircea_popescu: i wonder what
the aggreegated loss
to
the world's gdp due
to people using anything other
than wot based systems
to communicate comes
to.
fluffypony: I guess she gets
tons of pm's on Reddit and disregards
them
punkman: embrace
the excitement, something like
that
fluffypony: but hug excitation is definitely my new
thing
punkman: maybe we should ask
that Byrne dude
punkman: I wonder what hug excitation was before
the
translation
mircea_popescu: i
thought you were actually setting up fonts and whatnot
danielpbarron: and
to answer
the question: I'm not sure.. maybe a dozen?
danielpbarron: <+mircea_popescu> lol danielpbarron how many of
these
trilema pics have you made so far ?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bn0dwhwCYAACIRI.jpg <<
these don't
take very long
to make; i'm just doing a screen-capture of my iPhone while reading
the article in Instapaper(which formats
the
text like
that)
assbot: Hug excitation belongs
to
the world! Football!Bet!11bet.org IPO
mircea_popescu: im
the only one
that says "you don't know shit from ass" and actually means it,
then ?
assbot: The
Trouble With
the '64 Civil Rights Act by Rep. Ron Paul
mircea_popescu: "Dr. Alice Weaver Flaherty is a neurologist known for her award-winning book about
the neural basis of creativity
titled
the Midnight Disease."
mircea_popescu: i swear it's how
the
translator in my head goes, which is why i almost never discuss bitcoin with noobs.
mircea_popescu: "i don't want
to know about umbrellas because i don't like rain. also, baths are better"
fluffypony: ironically he actually holds a little stack of Bitcoin, so I ended
the conversation by calling him out on
that :-P
fluffypony: oh it was in
the context of "which altcoin is best"
fluffypony: Bitcoin just shifts it from "I was born into a wealthy/connected family"
to "I understood Bitcoin before most others"
fluffypony: and I said
that class distinction has and will always be around
mircea_popescu: in what sort of sf universe does
this hold
true ? how would it ?
mircea_popescu: there's
this incomprehensible (to me)
tendency
to approach non-bitcoin people as if
they were somehow... i dunno, almost human.
fluffypony: (because
that worked out so well for Frei Coin)
punkman: although
the new crop of "bloggers" seem barely able
to write anything (see
Tumblr)
fluffypony: so I had
this discussion with someone
the other day,
they said
the main reason
they don't like Bitcoin is because
there's no demurrage
mircea_popescu: Waxman and Geschwind were
the first
to describe hypergraphia.
The patients
they observed displayed extensively compulsive detailed writing, sometimes with literary creativity.
The patients kept diaries, which some used
to meticulously document minute details of
their everyday activities, write poetry, or create lists. Case 1 of
their study wrote lists of her relatives, her likes and dislikes, and
the furniture in her a
punkman: "An era can be said
to end when its basic illusions are exhausted."
mircea_popescu: well sure
they will.
this is unsurprising. so what of it.
fluffypony: and by
the
time
they realise where
the power lies it'll be
too late
mircea_popescu: so if people with millions and actual lawyers do
this... why shouldn't some famished internet expert / seo master / etc
fluffypony: mircea_popescu I have
this suspicion
that
they'll keep pushing, driving "adoption" and "community" and "bitcoin 2.0"
mircea_popescu: and
they're quite happy
to hate anyone who will show
that difference, or
they merely perceive as capable
to
mircea_popescu: but
that notwithstanding, inasmuch as
they can't
tell
the difference between "it" and it
they're quite happy
mircea_popescu: now
they're part of "it". course
the "it"
they're part of is just
the same
thing
they were part of before : a bunch of famished geeks dressing up for old lemons' pleasure
fluffypony: there's a really low barrier
to entry with
this
mircea_popescu: the vc circus is
trying
to
turn bitcoin into "bitcoin", for
their peace of mind