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mircea_popescu: if the book had no author i definitely wouildn'
t read it.
TimSwanson: Yes, I linked to it in my recent book saying it won'
t work
☟︎ TimSwanson: Honestly, I didn'
t come here to be personally insulted, I thought you actually had data
mircea_popescu: the problem is that you don'
t klnow me, and by extension bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: you don'
t get to say how these debates work. again, because bitcoin.
☟︎ TimSwanson: And not just say "hey, I don'
t know him"
mircea_popescu: i would know if it were or if it weren'
t. you, however, wouldn'
t.
SuchWow: lol either give me permanent voice or stop giving me temp voice. all it does is ping me, and i don'
t usually have anything to say, just observing :)
jdanks: i have great plans to put blockchains on mesh networks. and i invest in coins i think aren'
t shit. i go for the long calls. yea i havent had time. i just sort of stumbled upon your kingdom the last few days
pete_dushenski: wondering if that last 2btc bet on ltc is gonna squeak in (wasn'
t mine fwiw)
ben_vulpes: mjr_: weren'
t you at bitpay for a while?
mjr_: anyone can fill me in on derps those links didn'
t work
mjr_: is that ego doesn'
t get in the way
mircea_popescu: well someone's behind there, the people originally involved with bitfinex ain'
t got the resources required.
mircea_popescu: then not a peep for about a year. so someone with some sort of competence took over. but mjr_ ain'
t telling who.
ben_vulpes: i ain'
t letting anyone hedge with my coins
mircea_popescu: not that this worlview isn'
t common with twentysomething impudent cocklets. but it is universally working to their detriment.
mjr_: i don'
t remember, when you were interested in eve
xmj: mircea_popescu: don'
t negrate people for stating truth next time, please
mjr_: bitlicense doesn'
t apply to you
mjr_: but i just think that it is funny, i think the "bitlicense" is a penalty for people who don'
t use the blockchain
mjr_: i figured it wasn'
t the slovenia i was going to like...
mjr_: don'
t have their addresses
xmj: mjr_: you said "03:20:19 <+mjr_> also, i don'
t know who the fuck most of these people are anymore"
mjr_: but didn'
t know in what context to read
mjr_: think that maybe the idea was similar, but don'
t think the execution was similar
mjr_: can'
t give back an order id on a trade
mjr_: don'
t know of many other exchanges i like better, its why i went to work for them
mjr_: don'
t know about that
mjr_: how'd it go in romania? i was pissed i couldn'
t make it
mjr_: i wouldn'
t put my money there
mjr_: vp of biz dev (don'
t laugh)
mjr_: also, i don'
t know who the fuck most of these people are anymore
mjr_: and mpex.co doesn'
t work for me now, so i found the other site
mjr_: and i didn'
t want to talk about this anyway
mjr_: anyway, i really don'
t understand your point
mircea_popescu: what are you talking about ? abstractions don'
t exist they get called stupid all the time
mjr_: but you can'
t call something stupid if it doesn'
t exist...
mjr_: i won'
t say that things i see don'
t exiest
mjr_: i don'
t care, as long as i can generate my own address whenever i want
mjr_: as long as they don'
t affect the things i use
mjr_: doesn'
t mean you have to
mjr_: well...apparently the legions of the faithful didn'
t know that
mjr_: i don'
t suck his dick
mjr_: but also, someone who can'
t actually use the network for what i want
mjr_: why not just go ahead and say that bitpay doesn'
t exist?
mjr_: yeah, you use the parts of it that you like, and don'
t use the parts you don'
t mjr_: i don'
t have to though
mircea_popescu: "the market" doesn'
t decide jack shit. if "the market" decides things, we might as well make coinbase the new fed and welcome wall street on their own terms.
mjr_: there is no reason why people can'
t send floppy disks to people who have the right converters
mircea_popescu: so your bitcoin has changed, mine hasn'
t, there we go.
mircea_popescu: and until the day they're accepted by me, they don'
t exist.
mjr_: and those features you don'
t like are accepted and valid
mjr_: i don'
t think your tx is anything other than random data
mjr_: so either, things that are recorded in a block don'
t matter
mjr_: and those transactions, that you say don'
t exist
mjr_: i don'
t give a shit about a derp saying anything
mjr_: that doesn'
t change reality
mjr_: you don'
t have to notice or care
mjr_: you don'
t have to use them
mircea_popescu: well so there you go. you wish o matter personally, but i don'
t give a shit. im your employer not your lover.
mjr_: how can something thta doesn'
t exist die
mjr_: for fucks sake, there was a fork in the fucking blockchain because people didn'
t agree on which version to use
mjr_: i didn'
t bring up soup
mjr_: so, we can agree, you don'
t care about the changes, they don'
t affect you, they are irrelevant
xmj: A works on B doesn'
t imply B works on A
mjr_: that doesn'
t mean it hasn'
t changed, you conflate backwards compatible with identical
mjr_: you couldn'
t do tx of a certain size before
mjr_: i really don'
t see how you can say that
mjr_: i don'
t care...yuo said the protocol hadn'
t changed
mjr_: i don'
t give a shit how you try to spin that
mjr_: i'm saying that you can bury your head in the sand, it doesn'
t mean that reality ceases to exist
xmj: you can'
t craft a multisig transaction right now that will be accepted by the network valid per bitcoin rules
mjr_: tell me i can'
t craft a multisig transaction right now
mircea_popescu: if i let you live in my garage because i'm too lazy to kick you out today, that doesn'
t mean the garage is your home.
mjr_: and then they didn'
t mjr_: ok, and yet i don'
t like condoms on my tv sets
mjr_: but that isn'
t to say that extraneous features aren'
t removed, or stupid ones added
mjr_: so to say that it hasn'
t changed is flat out wrong
mircea_popescu: mjr_ it's not meaningfully different or else it wouldn'
t be able to run.