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bitcoinpete: "Bitcoin for now exists at the pleasure of governments"
<< this is just priceless
mircea_popescu: rithm: which is broken because you have no way to idetify the person you communicate with on that forum
<< stop slandering
https etc.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1: sorry man that all was before my time, not sure what all happened
<< mnw figured he'd be a smartass, bet everyone pirate will deliver (after default). 10k btc, which he obviously lost, which he then reneged on (pretending he's "delivering" by simply writing 10k BTC in a foirum post) and got banned.
mod6: (10:01)
<+pankkake> oh I loved BOFH!
<< me too, the old ones are best imho.
gribble: mircea_popescu was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 4 hours, 48 minutes, and 15 seconds ago:
<mircea_popescu> i dunno how far i'd trust them to stick with it, but so far it's been encouraging people.
benkay: everify
<decrypted otp>
Apocalyptic:
<the20year1> gribble keeps giving me an error when i do the pastebin thing // what's the error then ?
mircea_popescu: "Well the answer is the IRS is extremely strict about property taxes and nobody in the United States is going to want to use Bitcoin after a 20% tax on it. That combined with Bitcoin rumors about China banning it means we won't see $525."
<< anon expert, april 15th around noon.
Apocalyptic:
<mike_c> seems like data stopped some hours ago
<< good catch
mircea_popescu: meanwhile bitcoincharts disagrees :
<gribble> Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 516.0, Best ask: 517.99, Bid-ask spread: 1.99000, Last trade: 518.0, 24 hour volume: 33065.44812123, 24 hour low: 453.16, 24 hour high: 528.75, 24 hour vwap: 491.745388954
mike_c: kakobrekla is probably bored and could implement those features in assbot. i liked
<title> searches.
mircea_popescu:
<TestingUnoDosTre> If miners have been hashing away for 36 minutes, do they have any better chance of finding a correct hash in the next minute compared to minute 1?
<< no.
thestringpuller: he's on maternity leave
<< hoorah for children. they grow up so fast...
gribble: cory was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 year, 1 week, 5 days, 17 hours, 17 minutes, and 26 seconds ago:
<Cory> \o
gribble: vexual was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 6 weeks, 5 days, 23 hours, 25 minutes, and 0 seconds ago:
<Vexual> lasers in the eye is never good tat
mircea_popescu:
<samantix> hi i was directed to you regarding a ban on bitcoin-pricetalk
Apocalyptic:
<bounce> don't servants live in servants quarters? like, oh, right under the roof, or wherever it was. // it was indeed right under the roof, in France at least
mircea_popescu: "If individuals admit guilt & reach civil settlement w/ govt, they can't deduct costs from tax returns. Companies can"
<< true, and pretty epic
mircea_popescu:
<fluffypony> unless you believe user education is going to work and everyone is suddenly going to start using secure one-time passwords :-P
<< i just belive everyone who isn't is going to be relegated to the salt mines. why should every human qualify as a "user" ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony "password1234!" is ultra-secure
<< remember the 88seals88 and pokerseals etc pws ?
Apocalyptic:
<Naphex> easier to debug, maintain and analyze code others produced // ok this is a point
Apocalyptic:
<mircea_popescu> java is focused on security ?! // surprised as well, it's not focused on performance either
mircea_popescu:
<wywialm> maybe the key difference is the time - and gradual nature
<< they didn't have the press. which is why it took longer. ussr didn't have the internet, which is why it took so damned long.
mircea_popescu:
<wywialm> ...but it's hard for me to believe that us is the first in line
<< it's the first in line of the set {US}
Apocalyptic:
<pankkake> because romanians are busy stealing it and undercutting the market // that's what gypsies do in slovakia
mircea_popescu:
<nubbins`> just 'cause i'm a liberal doesn't mean i suffer fools ;D
<< wait wait. what sort of scamliberal are you ?! THAT IS THE DEFINITION!
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: "Perhaps they could ask the OpenBSD Foundation, which just hit its 2014 goal"
<< cheeky indeed.
ThickAsThieves:
<+mircea_popescu> lol who delivered this year ? // shit, it really is no one
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell benkay "that things I generally assume don't need eliding "
<< you sure you know what eliding means ?
mircea_popescu:
<ThickAsThieves> but he was too scummy for me
<< elitism!
mircea_popescu: Retweets 11,598 Favorites 8,793
<< dude us folk are weird. the actual pic never got 11k retweets wtf.
mircea_popescu:
<BingoBoingo> asciilifeform: A number of watches still use silver oxide cells...
<< the better ones, anyway.
TestingUnoDosTre:
<asciilifeform> laughable at best - "ICAO does not consider these changes will necessarily reduce incidents involving lithium batteries; but they will significantly improve safety."
Apocalyptic:
<jurov> and at least they admitted the problem // that's not something you see everyday in this industry indeed
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: "If I believe at any point there is value or use in them I can just… take… them. If experience is any guide, I shall take them the next day"
<< do you reccommend that as a general strategy?
Apocalyptic:
<benkay> a sniper opened fire on an electric(al) substation?
<< sounds legit
mircea_popescu: Namworld:Depends on the sort of capital they have. Gox's name isn't what's doomed.
<< you gotta be kiddin' me.
benkay: Namworld:Assuming Karpeles doesn't get to keep his 100k that he "also lost"
<< oh, he will. "what bitcoins?"
kakobrekla:
<mike_c> yes, this is different because you can't sell a position.
< its taking awfully long for someone to code that.
mircea_popescu: artifexd: Because, seriously, who the fuck am I?
<< you were here at the right time lol. what the fuck do you imagine a barony is ? exactly that, review the early english history :D
mircea_popescu: Here, mircea and I should not exist in the same caste. I'm just a normal dude. He's a Romanian Billionare. WITH A B! I can conceive of no reason that someone that high up the food chain would give two shits about what I think or why I think it.
<< it's the internet, dood. why else did you think it was revolutionary ?
gribble: (eregister
<nick>
<keyid>) -- Register your GPG identity, associating GPG key
<keyid> with
<nick>.
<keyid> is a 16 digit key id, with or without the '0x' prefix. We look on servers listed in 'plugins.GPG.keyservers' config. You will be given a link to a page which contains a one time password encrypted with your key. Decrypt, and use the 'everify' command with it. Your passphrase will (1 more message)
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<Guest75380> tell later tell and Sent 1 week, 6 days, 11 hours, and 10 minutes ago:
<kyrio> later
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<RBecker> Scammer on your nick - you may want to register MmmmmYah
gribble: Sent 6 days, 10 hours, and 12 minutes ago:
<Mats_cd03> 'challenge and response' meaning encryption, but more specifically encrypted spread-spectrum signals. many consumer drones are equipped with just wifi or bluetooth, which are comparatively easy to attack
dexX7:
<assbot> [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.45100001 BTC [-]
<< ouch
mircea_popescu: artifexd I do understand your point that
<< that's only half the point. this much is valid, but!
artifexd: graphsketch.com
<< That's going into my bookmark list. I resorted to some silly site where I had to take screenshots and upload them to imgur.
cgcardona_: ": dude fucking hell. if it were, call girl services, so you can eat your powerlunch on a naked arts major, it'd have made more sense."
<-- epic
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: "Deliberately and quite maliciously tried to meld the BleedingHeart openssl vulnerability into the Bitcoin code."
<< you're referring to the 2FA they wanted to put in awhile back?
thestringpuller: 22:23
<+cgcardona_> it's funny how IRC is **still** the best social network (forgive the term)i miss BBS; it got phased out when I was just a little one