asciilifeform: is, e.g., gavin, still in circulation? i admit - lost track
asciilifeform: 'Craig Wright recently boasted they will have 20% of the network hashrate' << apparently these folx NEVER throw an 'asset' away, even when long dead an' rotten..?
asciilifeform: idiot ircs sucking nato cock and paying for the privilege☟︎
asciilifeform: '(Reuters) - Greek police arrested a Russian man suspected of running a money laundering operation involving turning $4 billion from illicit business activities into the digital currency bitcoin, they said on Wednesday.'
asciilifeform: 'could be ANYTHING, and you may NOT program with assumptions as to what it is'
asciilifeform: pretty interesting intro, turns out, to the world pre- intelhegemony -- where you have no ability to assume not only size of byte, but arithmetic model
asciilifeform: i can picture the discussion at the table : 'what if the sign bit on some machine is the FIRST, not last? or kept in the MIDDLE!111'
asciilifeform: in other phunphakts, ada does NOT permit the use of bitwise ops ('and', 'xor', etc) on integer. ( only on booleans; and on 'modular types' - i.e. where the compiler is absolutely certain that subj is a machine integer and machine uses 2s-complement representation.)
asciilifeform: ( reencoding + retransmitting that is )
asciilifeform: interestingly asciilifeform recently learned that the 'mutate high to low S and broadcast malleated tx but ONLY if a 'doublespend attempt' ( you retransmitting, say, with patched trb ) is detected ' thing is STILL running
asciilifeform: this here is separate item, where they lately try to get some of the 'collegiate' chumpatronic moolah
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually in usa 'komyoonity kollege' is where they do the actual teaching -- welding, plumbing, etc
asciilifeform: ftr i have even now nfi what this was.
asciilifeform: 'I hope our competitors will hear our message and will close their services too. Very soon this kind of activity will be considered as illegal in most of countries.'
