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ThickAsThieves: last night, driving home, i see
these large flashy signs saying "NARCOTICS CHECKPOINT"
mircea_popescu: antephialtic and i agree with you[r unstated point]
that
they're
too young yet
to have shown
they suck,
antephialtic: (to
the point where protocol additions/modifications can be implemented
there first)
antephialtic: but I do agree with you
that conformal giving
them some competition is a boon. I hope btcd becomes a fully viable alternative
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "what
the fuck are you doing here ?" "washing your wife, what does it look like!" "get out! " "hey, you owe me fifty bucks"
mircea_popescu: actually
that's exactly it. vagrants with dirty rags at ny stop lights.
ThickAsThieves: i concur, i feel like
they
trailblazing in
the dark
toward a cliff
mircea_popescu: they'll be a major liability
this
time next year, at
the rate
they're going.
mircea_popescu: overall,
they're a slight liability so far, and
the
trend is negative
BingoBoingo: I dunno
that easy ECDSA multisig is a feature and not a "feature"
antephialtic: well, my overall point (which you disagree with me on) is
that
the core devs provide value
to all bitcoin users.
mircea_popescu: antephialtic you're sliding
the conversation all over
the place.
antephialtic: I disagree, P2SH is actually a big improvement in security by making multisig not a huge bitch
to use
mircea_popescu: <antephialtic> asciilifeform: chain fork
that happened << it didn't "happen". mike hearn manufactured it.
truffles: nice
that everything is on 3
things
though
mircea_popescu: in
this sense, if
they went home
today, or if
they went home in 2013, it'd have made no difference
mircea_popescu: antephialtic in point of fact nobody sane uses
their releases, most bitcoin is on .6 at
the latest
BingoBoingo: truffles:
The
topic is and has always been everything. It is unchanging
mircea_popescu: that's a case by case basis. in
their case, it does not.
VanCleef: its good
that bitcoin is centralised
to a few core devs
antephialtic: mircea_popescu: I respect you. But I don't see you committing patches and fixing bugs. It's dirty work, but somebody has
to do it.
mircea_popescu: i know,
the circlejerk
that is
the pretend-core likes
to convice
themselves
they're needed because
they're stupid.
BingoBoingo: truffles:
There's always only been one
topic here
ThickAsThieves: reddit doesnt seem
to notice
that every China-is-doomgloom post is by
the same guy
mircea_popescu: you really don't want
to go into utility. so far
the pretend-core devs are a liability overall.
antephialtic: mircea_popescu: as a grotesque consequence of
the sad state of
the bitcoin-core codebase, bitcoin-core is unreplaceable
truffles: i like how
theyre like 3
topics ongoing heh
antephialtic: look at
the commit log,
they fix chain-splitting bugs constantly
BingoBoingo: Actual miners are
the least knowable
thing in BTC
mircea_popescu: let me underscore
that
the core devs of bitcoin are at conformal not at
the scam foundation.
mircea_popescu: so what of it ? conformal pays its devs
the salary
to work on bitcoin-core full
time.
BingoBoingo: antephialtic: You know
TradeFortress was a hugbox node.js fan
truffles: TAT i
think it will achieve what u want better imo :)
antephialtic: Not
the node.js stuff,
that is a gimmick
to get more shitty stack-overflow copy/pasting devs building crappy webapps
VanCleef: its just my humble opinion, i dont
trust bitpay
BingoBoingo: I dunno how I feel about Bitpay promoting some node.js BBQ stuff
they's been pimping
truffles: TAT why dont u start another channel with
the debate stuff?
VanCleef: bitpay is
the paypal of bitcoin reality
antephialtic: VanCleef: BitPay is doing some good stuff.
They are
the only company
that actually invests in
the protocol itself
mircea_popescu: for as long as he can put up with
the imbeciles, at any rate.
mircea_popescu: he's
the only brain left in
the bitcoin scamfoundation
troop.
ThickAsThieves: The found and CEO of BitPay,
Tony Gallippi, commented: “The launch of our new brand and logo aligns with our open-source culture."
antephialtic: mircea_popescu: w.r.t.
to owning
the hashpower, it is clear
that
the most effective way
to launder
the proceeds of some crime
through bitcoin is
to purchase mining hardware with
the dirty cash
mircea_popescu: she on
the right matters.
they on
the left don't even exist.
mircea_popescu: however,
they are perfectly useless, and will not matter.
truffles: link me (will put on my
to do list)
mircea_popescu: aren't
the girls on
the left just as hot as
the one on
the right ?
mircea_popescu: nah see,
that's just moving
the choir mentality down
the road.
ThickAsThieves: kinda invite outsiders
to watch and see
the channel flex
mircea_popescu: it'd certainly relieve me of
the need
to be always here whenever you schmucks manage
to get an idea or something :D
ThickAsThieves: thinking out loud, so sorry if
this sucks, but i was also wondering whether having scheduled debate/topic events in channel would be cool
mircea_popescu: the point was never
to agree.
the point was
to disagree well.
☟︎ ThickAsThieves: well,
to be candid, and i love you guys, but right now our blog army is mostly preachers
to
the same choir
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if memory serves,
the lessons learned were more about vetrov
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves
the point of blogging is
to explore exactly
that.
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: But different
things make us uncomfortable unequally
ThickAsThieves: i'd like
to see a blog
that consistently
tackled
the
topics
that make people like us most uncomfortable
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dun
think
that was such a bad call myself.
mircea_popescu: so
the channel spends a while as a dump of copy/pasted material
chetty: well perhaps none of us will live long enough
to see
the next centralization
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the idiots left
to replace you will decide well...
the only way
to maintain
the glory of -assets
that was
mircea_popescu: suppose you all get extradited
to
the us
to stand
trial as witnesses in civil proceedings against unrelated
third parties, and are liek waterboarded for lyf. as
the forum says will happen.