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ben_vulpes: buttonwood
_: you can't trust people that you don't trust. end of story.
mats: its not a real thing, buttonwood
_.
decimation: buttonwood
_: do you work for the economist?
mircea_popescu: <mircea
_popescu> once you sign out of an output, it's out. < o.O
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes nah. im just saying, if it's ambiguous, then it's ambiguous.
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes is this "bitcoin as it should be" or "bitcoin as it is to be inferred from current codebase"
mircea_popescu: <mircea
_popescu> jurov i thought we were discussing bitcoin as a spec, rather than bitcoin as a hack. <<
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes all that needs to be done is verify that a tx input matches a previously included output, and that the block was valid.
assbot: Logged on 25-01-2015 00:53:08; mircea
_popescu: let me model this for a moment.
jurov: mircea
_popescu: pls closer describe your idea of checking the transaction. maybe there lies the problem
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes it needs to retrieve arbitrary blocks. why txn specifically ?
jurov: mircea
_popescu: but it also means it will relay all shit imaginable, you regard it as convenience otherwise?
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes once a transaction is proposed, the software has two options. 1) "oh , this looks like a tx involving inputs i remember were valid" and 2) "these are the inputs. check. these are their sources. check. these are their sources. check. this is the coinbase. check. ok."
jurov: and to do it you need to find all the inputs, if i understand ben
_vulpes correctly
mircea_popescu: <mircea
_popescu> bitcoind should broadcast verifiable txn submitted to it. <<
ben_vulpes: <mircea
_popescu> txn are verifiable aren't they. << not really. transaction only includes txid of previous transaction which itself has the pubkey required for validation.
ben_vulpes: mircea
_popescu: how long does a "rescan" take these days?
jurov: ben
_vulpes: what is meant by "cough up transaction"?
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes: asciilifeform: i don't know that the thing needs to cough up *any* transaction on demand. << one can make his own emacs scripts do whatever one wants. notthe job of emacs to provide a preloaded button for arbitrary tasks.
davout: ben
_vulpes: apple numbers is unsuited for math either, it uses floats...
Bagels7: I think I think you are sexist Micea
_popescu
ben_vulpes: <mircea
_popescu> [] "the people" are simply stupider than they were even twenty years ago. << stupider? or more?
thestringpuller: pete
_dushenski: you money and my money ain't the same damn kind
mircea_popescu: pete
_dushenski runny colors are pretty much the identifying mark of this here cunt
thestringpuller: mircea
_popescu: random: you would like the show shameless.
nubbins`: mircea
_popescu tbh your post went a bit off the rails when you started ranting about niggers, but otherwise reasonably well put together
mircea_popescu: Pierre
_Rochard: ^ definitive proof b-a is not a cult << butt...butt... we promote hate ?
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea
_popescu.rate.Blazedout419.-1:d28e9ad9ae166d0437b767c3aab2568097ab1e4ee6d43b46233e1a05bda33db4
badon: mircea
_popescu: Yes, make my own flower, peanut butter, etc.