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mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> i kinda suspect that usb disk wp is one of those gizmos that everyone who needs - already has.
<< not so.
davout: "The first thing they could do would be to double-spend already confirmed transactions. For example, they could send some bitcoins to an exchange, trade them for dollars, wire the dollars to their bank account, and then announce a longer blockchain where the transfer to the exchange never happened. Now they have dollars and bitcoins."
<<< such braindamage
kakobrekla:
<mdev>you're giving everyone with voice the ability to up/down voice everyone who hasn't gone through the nanotube challenge
kakobrekla:
<mdev>you should remove the !up thing, it's an annoying system
kakobrekla: x
<BingoBoingo> Pools rise and fall.
< thats true but its incredibly hard to start one these days
mircea_popescu:
<mdev> them at the helm that insult and put down everything, from andreas, to blockchain.info, to /r/bitcoin to altcoins, list goes on and on
<< you know this sounds like cheap copying -assets :D
kakobrekla:
<jurov> hahaha kako spamming teh blockchain
< yeah at some point somebody will do something about that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you're 'mad hatter' enough to have these baked, i'll send you the vectors.
<< i'm not. too big (thick, bulky) for my taste.
mircea_popescu: jurov: and it needs 200M RLIMIT_LOCKMEM or such
<< yes that ;/
mircea_popescu: jurov: lol what i wanted to say?
<< jurov caught drunk in the logs ?
gribble: (later tell
<nick>
<text>) -- Tells
<nick>
<text> the next time
<nick> is in seen.
<nick> can contain wildcard characters, and the first matching nick will be given the note.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: this is probably the first example of the wot for +v selection failing
<< honestly i don't think so.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic: your transitive rating to nano at a certain level, correct. without trust from nanotube you can't rate.
<< good thing they finally moved away from the total rating model, that was silly.
mircea_popescu: Assuming it offers X for Y and delivers X for Y, even if X for Y is a bad proposition... it's not really a scam if it delivers exactly what someone bought.
<< the guy never said "give us some btc and in two years you can have 40 cents to the bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: Blazedout419: what amazing service do you run assbot:AMAZING COMPANY!
<< that was pretty cool lol
danielpbarron:
<+Ssateneth> he needs one more neg rate and he wont be able to rate people
<< is this true?
danielpbarron:
<+Blazedout419> lol your ratings are a joke
<< the reason I queried my rating of you was to show that I had given you a -1 long before it was discovered that you somehow had enough +1's to get voice in here (as in, not my fault)
Blazedout419:
<+benkay>
<kakobrekla> Blazedout419 you are barley making sense // wheat are you going on about
benkay:
<kakobrekla> Blazedout419 you are barley making sense // wheat are you going on about
Blazedout419: [12:54pm]
<+danielpbarron> ;;rated Blazedout419
decimation: "fluffypony: when decimation said "test" they weren't voiced, or was my client just being weird"
<< I actually sent "gpg unauth" to gribble before sending "test"
benkay:
<kakobrekla> >I like NastyMining due to how open and honest they are...for BTC securities that is refreshing. Will my shares make me ROI?? Probably not, but I am still pleased with them. Look around in this section and go troll the real scammers...k thanks! // who is this?
davout: mircea_popescu: "there, much better."
<<< nice
mircea_popescu:
<TomServo> Funnily enough, she proclaimed 'And I'm not pregnant' in the same breath she introduced herself.
<< cirrhosis ?
ThickAsThieves:
<+mircea_popescu> davout so moar drama. /// you know what that means!
mircea_popescu:
<Vexual> the swede bought all his shit before he lab coined
<< how quaint.
mircea_popescu:
<kakobrekla> and this dude is voiced in this chan.
<< whjo ?!
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu but i do suspect someone leaked teh d. series plans, because they've been moving before i said that.
<< can you explain "they've been moving?"
mircea_popescu: pankkake: "It will always be cheaper to run a small amount of hashing power than a large amount" wat
<< in good tech tradition, he understands nothing of business, including the fact that he understands nothing of it.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: who is this petertodd?
<< one of the saner of the power ranger bunch.
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.
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
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:
<Mats_cd03> militants advancing towards baghdad
<< myeah.
mircea_popescu: the total estimated holdings of the bitcoin power rangers
< 1k btc.
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.
mircea_popescu:
<nubbins`> provide a way for cars to fly through the air with minimal time even with only a two-stroke lawnmower engine
<< i know right ? i will sell half my gasoline unless this happens.
mircea_popescu: davout: how would one detect a block witholding attack on a pool ?
<< which kind ?
fluffypony: [2014-06-13T06:39:35+0200]
<mircea_popescu> what's a zek ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake: you can plant them and no one will check the cables every day
<< why not ?
mircea_popescu: punkman: do I have to put them up to my ear and tap them?
<< if you can't hear the tap without putting it to your ear it's not a good one anyway
mircea_popescu: "Professor Chelnov, an old mathematician arrested seventeen years ago and who, when he had to fill in a form"
<< why the fuck'd anyone fill a form already.
mircea_popescu: unbalanced: Big day for me, living la vida crypto. Thanks all. Going afk for a while.
<< that was lulzy lol. like kid with new xmas train.
davout: pankkake: "I've mastered the chosing of avocados"
<<< make me your apprentice
unbalanced: Ermahgerd I fell *up* the stairs.
<beck>Things are gonna change, I can feel it.
</beck>
mircea_popescu: "Ever since the venture capital scene started talking about Bitcoin back in 2013, one of the most frequently cited comments from them is that Bitcoin is interesting for the technology, not the currency. In fact, this mantra has become so common that it almost sounds… scripted."
<< if you're curious as to the reason, it has to do with them not wanting to go under the yoke that's been awaiting patiently and quite unav
mircea_popescu: If cheating can be easily detected and reversed, then maybe it’s no longer essential to prevent it at all costs and you can build it with a more palatable set of trade offs.
<< in fact, there's a reason business has since forever run on "eventually correct" bookkeeping
mircea_popescu: ".I want to see a future digital economy in which nobody is excluded from participation." "No third party should have the ability to interfere in the voluntary dealings of other people."
<< do you see these as logically equivalent ?
mircea_popescu: Jacob Farber of Perkins Coie who advises Bit Angels wrote, “It seems pretty clear that there was no intentional market manipulation. The question is whether there was an ‘appearance of market manipulation’, or an ‘unintended market manipulation’.”
<<< it's pretty obvious that there was quite intentional, and quite fraudulent, market manipulation.
mircea_popescu:
<dub> but around age 6 I had my book (yes book) of games and c64
<< i had one of those too
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> btw i never had the 'wolf & eggs.' too l33t. borrowed from kid next door.
<< that kicked ass
mircea_popescu: the time to
<derp derp derp> is nigh, if not upon us already
benkay: grammar question: "the time to
<derp derp derp> is nigh if not upon us already"
<< y/n?
davout: asciilifeform: "afaik he never penetrated the 'bozo barrier field' that surrounds it"
<<< haha, that's probably very true
mircea_popescu:
<davout> mircea_popescu: well, if you count $10k/month/person that's like 3.6mn/year in salary, that's not *that* much compared to what they raised, and they haven't been 30 for that long o a time i'd assume
<< you know the donner party also wasn't as large before as it was at the point it starved to death.
ThickAsThieves:
<+BingoBoingo> ThickAsThieves: Continued BTCFundnation goodwill... /// isnt bitpay already a plutonium level supernode sponsor member?
mircea_popescu:
<midnightmagic> inb4 someone finds englund's rehire
<< lol k/
mircea_popescu: pankkake> I'm not sure it's smell. it's like greasy air
<< it's the smell. boiled hooves.
mircea_popescu:
<mike_c> and 10k house in 3k neighborhood sells for 5
< no it doesn't
davout: mike_c: "you get to mow their lawns for money."
<<< or feincoin
mircea_popescu:
<fluffypony> my favourite thing about those logs is how dub hasn't changed
<< yup he still delivers.
assbot: Sep 05 00:10:53 *copumpkin throws usagi an ito integral Sep 05 00:12:22
<mirce - Pastebin.com
mircea_popescu:
<davout> i really don't get the fetish -assets has for this usagi guy
<< he's diligently stupid and has been for a long time.
Apocalyptic:
<pankkake> somehow I feel usagi knew something // I have trouble to believe that
mircea_popescu:
<TheNewDeal> I hope the price drops like a rock until that auction then just skyrockets back up
<< lol