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mircea_popescu: people
trying
to cope by bringing
their "skills" into
the new world.
fluffypony: you know what's fascinating is how
this sub-culture has developed around altcoins
BingoBoingo: What about most ridiculous hardware running a full node. I imagine someone submitting an orphanage could win
that.
fluffypony: jurov: feature request - please can
the order
total when creating a new order include fees so I don't have
to guess / calculate
them myself
punkman: (since first and second place will be
taken)
fluffypony: "Yeah, Global Bitcoin Alliance is great stuff. Elections behind closed doors into which you need
to buy in by paying 1 BTC, resulting in 5 people declaring a guy 'general secretary' who bullshitted everybody by claiming a facebook group he had just clicked
together was an incorporated national organisation. He is even using a fake name (which he did before and which resulted in
the German Pirate Party having real legal problems after he was
fluffypony: apparently
there's an alternative
to
the Foundation
mircea_popescu: even less argument can be had as
to whether you're seeing any payment.
mircea_popescu: little argument can
there be had as
to whether his intention is genuine : it is.
mircea_popescu: like when average holesinpants
tells you
they'll "definitely pay up" by "the end of
the week"
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i
think you have
to bear in mind
that definite statements made by poor people reflect
their hopes, and no facts whatsoever.
assbot: Soft pre-announcement of awards at stealth
third Bitcoin conference of any import pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
fluffypony: well
there you go,
that's how
they're doing it
fluffypony: ;;8ball will
the market move up in response
to a large buy?
fluffypony: that's what I
thought, but I see a lot of conversations with statements of fact about it - "the whale is buying XX worth,
the market's going
to move up in response!" etc. etc.
fluffypony: is
there a recommended resource for learning how currency markets react
to large moves? I have little knowledge in
this, but I'm interested in figuring out how corrections happen when large bids or asks are placed and bought/sold into
fluffypony: we could do "Best Blockchain.info" and give it
to assbot
mircea_popescu: also, should
there be a "best mime" ? or do we just invite a bunch of us vcs and call it good ?
mircea_popescu: maybe a woman with generous DD
teats dons a moustache or something
mircea_popescu: best mining rig constructed out of
the largest number of distinct parts.
mircea_popescu: also, next conference i'm going
to have
the mpex awards. working list :
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla we need
to put a
TW: stuff in
the chan
topic.
bounce: I'll drop a
tree on you, for hugging
mircea_popescu: benkay: how does anyone who's been a cto or a senior engineer of any quality not have
the
ten grand
to
throw at a good idea
themselves? << shut up you don't understand
the redditard. he COULD HAVE BEEN a cto. which is just
the same OKAY ?
bounce: this result is "for fields with small characteristic", which is a while away from
those with large prime characteristic, as
typically used with crypto.
mircea_popescu: i
thot he's
the authority on all matters cryptonomical.
bounce: the fount of all wisdom named slashdot has it
that it's not much of a problem for dsa and such... yet. quite a while off for
trouble
to start, in fact.
mircea_popescu: what's
the score here, i didn't like ec stuff, never gave a reason, scheneier loved it, gave a lot of mumbo jumbo reasons ?
BingoBoingo: If anyone is using El Gamal still, yesterday would have been a great
time
to stop
BingoBoingo: Yeah, looks like some of
the elliptic curve stuff is going
to be endangered
mircea_popescu: "Researchers at
the Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherches en Informatique et ses Applications (CNRS/Université de Lorraine/Inria) and
the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (CNRS/UPMC) have solved one aspect of
the discrete logarithm problem." << dude gtfo, french crypto ?!
mircea_popescu: Vexual: I just read a deliciously accessible blog post by mp << i apologize humbly, humbly, deeply, and sincerely about
the fork.
fluffypony: I suspect
that it might be quite distasteful
to
the individual(s) concerned
mircea_popescu: they must be putting something in
their water over
there.
fluffypony: Gavin Andresen dressing up as a mad scientist
to accept an award on Satoshi Nakamoto's behalf is such an odd decision
fluffypony: I
think it's how I'm going
to do all log catch-up sessions from now on
fluffypony: 465 million monthly active users and 330 million daily users, and I know a lot of
the South African youth have already paid
their subscription fee from
their prepaid airtime
fluffypony: at least WhatsApp have a monetisation model: first year free, $1/year
thereafter
fluffypony: I wonder what keyboard
the US military purchase, maybe I can buy one of
those and say say
that our architecture is designed on "military grade hardware"
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: Depending on
the old
Thinkpad, aerospace grade hardware is a possibility
fluffypony: ;;later
tell bitcoinpete I have an old
Thinkpad at home...I'm
thinking of putting a Bitcoin wallet on it and
telling people
that my cold storage "leverages military-grade hardware"
jurov: yes, i know... but looks it needs
to be moved
to mpex
mircea_popescu: remarkable how little exposure
to
the stock market europe has.
assbot: Back before
the "civil rights" movement, airplanes flew with
the door
to
the pilots' space open.
There are advantages
to #racism
fluffypony: pros: well, you know, dat wireless charging. Also, we now have charging pucks scattered
throughout
the house and in
the car (non-slip ring on
the back helps it stay in place on
the dashboard) so it's quite handy
fluffypony: cons:
thicker
than expected, it's definitely creating
tension on my wooden case and will probably snap it. Ribbon cable is not sturdy. Qi charging puck is small, so it's a little fiddly wrt where you put
the phone on
the charging puck (has
to be quite centered).
fluffypony: it's
this little charging pad
that has a ribbon cable
that you plug in, and
the charging pad sits on
the back of
the phone between
the case and phone
fluffypony: mining can be profitable from
that perspectiv
fluffypony: BingoBoingo:
the problem is
that he's measuring profitability in fiat
terms
fluffypony: "No genius is needed
to predict whether
these rigs (or any other in
this list for
that matter) will ever give a return on investment –
the bitcoin price would have
to significantly increase or difficulty would have
to stabilise for
that
to happen."
assbot: Mt. Gox Allegedly Loses $350m in Bitcoin (744,400 BTC), Rumoured
to be Insolvent
bitcoinpete: how much brain leaking is possible before
the
tank runs dry
bitcoinpete: "[selkis'] source literally messaged with Karpeles while we were going
through
the document, who confirmed
the numbers and said
that
the document was "probably authentic.""
assbot: Bitcoin blogger explains Mt. Gox leak -
The
Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blogTerm Sheet
bitcoinpete: there's absolutely no way on earth
that gox/karpeles wrote
this nonsense. selkis (or perhaps is "galt") has never demonstrated anything
bitcoinpete: "The reality is
that MtGox can go bankrupt at any moment, and certainly deserves
to as a company. However, with Bitcoin/crypto just recently gaining acceptance in
the public eye,
the likely damage in public perception
to
this class of
technology could put it back 5~10 years, and cause governments
to react swiftly and harshly. At
the risk of appearing hyperbolic,
this could be
the end of Bitcoin, at least for most of
the public."
kakobrekla: asciilifeform heres an explanation: >>Gavin Andresen was
the crowd-pleaser of
the evening, as he disguised himself
to accept
the award for best Visionary Academic Paper on Satoshi Nakamoto’s behalf, garnering laughs from
the audience. Check out his get up!
assbot: To make error is human.
To propagate error
to all server in automatic way is #devops
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD
ticker | Best bid: 447.61, Best ask: 448.87, Bid-ask spread: 1.26000, Last
trade: 447.61, 24 hour volume: 4019.07082484, 24 hour low: 445.01, 24 hour high: 452.41, 24 hour vwap: 448.580478107
Vexual: You know when you know someone well enough
to lend
them something but not well enough
to ask
that it be returned?
Vexual: Im going
to jail like bb is.
benkay: <Vexual> Fucking parole << what does
this mean
then
Vexual: 3 letter
things are inherently difficult
to google
BingoBoingo: Vexual: Apparently it is an exhcange fot
trading exchanges
Vexual: Anyways visual inspection of your shit is a
thing
kakobrekla: BingoBoingo i dont
think bex actually sold a single instance ? and
they have been around for a while
benkay: methheads
tried
to unbolt your hard drive?