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davout: mircea
_popescu: for the first >1mb block you will necessarily have a different merkle root, so you can't possibly have the same block hash at any point afterwards
davout: mircea
_popescu: what would be in that table?
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Well, that's what the channel's for.
BingoBoingo: <davout> mircea
_popescu: there is this auxillary proof of work notion, "Not to be confused with the "previous block". This is a block that is structured for the parent blockchain (i.e. the prev
_block hash points to the prior block on the parent blockchain). The header of this block is part of the AuxPOW Block in the auxiliary blockchain. " << Basically this is my understanding. Both Bitcoin's would insist on being the "Parent" unl
davout: mircea
_popescu: there is this auxillary proof of work notion, "Not to be confused with the "previous block". This is a block that is structured for the parent blockchain (i.e. the prev
_block hash points to the prior block on the parent blockchain). The header of this block is part of the AuxPOW Block in the auxiliary blockchain. "
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Best I can tell it's a nobody. But they had a bunch of perfect ratings from tiny trades.
davout: mircea
_popescu: also i read a bit more about merged mining yesteday and today, especially how merge-mining namecoin came to be
felipelalli: mircea
_popescu: thank you. Is that possible to buy these shares on OTC or only in MPEx?
decimation: asciilifeform:
http://www.withouthotair.com/cD/page_284.shtml "The power per unit area of bioethanol from corn is astonishingly low. Just for fun, let’s report the numbers first in archaic units. 1 acre produces 122 bushels of corn per year, which makes 122 × 2.6 US gallons of ethanol, which at 84 000 BTU per gallon means a power per unit area of just 0.02 W/m2E – and we haven’t taken into account any of the energy losses in
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Sure, but... never escaped his problem having potential
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> stalin could also have problems. << Well Tito is a serious amount of problem to have.
ben_vulpes: <mircea
_popescu> [] "arbitrary access to transactions in the chain is not allowed to avoid having clients start to depend on nodes having full transaction indexes" << there has to be more to this story. << pointless degradation of network protocol to reduce utility of bitcoin.
thestringpuller: mircea
_popescu: anyway, it could easily be self-financing << only if lots of games are available over time. vis-a-vis crypto-arcade/midway but meh dunno. Long road is long :P
thestringpuller: mircea
_popescu: something simple like playbot, i want to play chess << already pretty much done with this in GPG. Needs to be vetted thoroughly tho before any widespread release
mircea_popescu: something simple like playbot, i want to play chess with peterl. to which it responds "peterl are you playing with mircea
_popescu ?" and then it looks for the moves, updates an inner state and keeps spitting out pngs of the board as links.
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> "arbitrary access to transactions in the chain is not allowed to avoid having clients start to depend on nodes having full transaction indexes" << there has to be more to this story << Prolly related to post 0.8.x versions not keeping a full txindex by default. Have to set a flag for them to do it.
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes: hey whose idea was it to prevent the network from relaying transactions outside of the context of blocks and was it really that good of an idea? << i think it's rudimentary spam control.
undata: mircea
_popescu: I've got it adding keys and accepting valid signed messages, building out the bundle-and-stamp process
davout: mircea
_popescu: see you published, nice! reading nao
ben_vulpes: <mircea
_popescu> [] if the fashion looks like it doesn't have the steam, backlash prevails. << i wonder if Apple has the steel to pull off their watch play.
ben_vulpes: words don't just *lose* their meaning mircea
_popescu sheesh
ben_vulpes: <mircea
_popescu> [] ben
_vulpes so why not bring mom here ? << well now she's full-bore communist. notrly good company for the asshats.
jurov: mircea
_popescu: it's okay i forgot it's another account. derp :(
mod6: <+mircea
_popescu> mod6 actually this would be a good datapoint to compute. find out the sum total of orphans to date. << noted. will see what I can come up with.
mod6: <+mircea
_popescu> mod6: so we /might/ need to add something similar... but im not positive that this is actually the issue yet. << i don't see how concurrent chains would cause memory outages. << well, there is a container that holds these orphan blocks unchecked in v0.5.3. if this actually is related to the R.I. chewing through all its ram, perhaps a limit should be introduced.
pete_dushenski: mircea
_popescu this'd only be a problem if you thought that parents = friends
mircea_popescu: pete
_dushenski of course, they might not like you anymore.
fluffypony: mircea
_popescu: that's an entirely separate issue to "I choose to live in your house and abide by your rules...except when it doesn't suit and I can just claim 'art' instead"
sgornick: mircea
_popescu, Yes, I can successfully !up in a PM to assbot to get voice.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: microsoft
_moves
_major
_projects
_to
_github/ << heh. github as-is is actually precisely fit for microsoft.
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes: what are you running, windows on ferrari? << bwahahaha these two. should be cuffed together, endrunkened to 115% and dropped on a sound stage.
mircea_popescu: pete
_dushenski: "not until you've murdered your romans and finished your greens, benny" << hahahaha
mod6: so there was a check in 0.5.3 that requires checkpoints for this, which i removed in the rm
_checkpoints patch
jurov: ;;later tell mircea
_popescu deposits pls
assbot: Logged on 18-01-2015 08:29:31; ben
_vulpes: Adlai: coming to ars this spring?
ben_vulpes: well pete
_dushenski since it's just you and i...
ben_vulpes: <mircea
_popescu> [] i give you even money she's contributing to open source projects, doing his/their substitutions. << "she"?
ben_vulpes: pete
_dushenski: i'm not buying a non-Apple mobile computer
ben_vulpes: <mircea
_popescu> [] "apple is not a technology, apple is a vision" << oh jesus 51% sent me a bill to review in apple's proprietary spreadsheet format today
ben_vulpes: there've been a few bottles of wine, pete
_dushenski
pete_dushenski: ben
_vulpes friends just haaaad to get married that weekend