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mircea_popescu: i have nfi. same way everything is done that we don't know how to do.
mircea_popescu: whether stuck or not remains debatable, but what's certain is that this gal's going straight home from the battered women shelter.
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, is the sum-total intellectual output of tardstalk "bitcoin theory" thinking for 2011.
mircea_popescu: and no, "i was the first to mash 1 into the kbd eighty-nine million times" is not it.
mircea_popescu: there is no sane way to lay claim of ownership to random strings
mircea_popescu: otherwise this too much resembles the ai problem of thought();
mircea_popescu: it's not clear what the meaning of "coin" is supposed to be without the owner.
mircea_popescu: not even the marine chronometer dudes aimed to make it COSTLESS
mircea_popescu: and timekeeping for free doesn't seem to be a tenable proposition.
mircea_popescu: people fail to correctly comprehend the batshit insanity that is an unorderd bag because common reality graciously provides default orderings in all cases
mircea_popescu: quite. there's 0 incentive for people to stick to a chain otherwise.
mircea_popescu: yep. i vituperated against the nonsesne in the 2011s, because well, nonsense.
mircea_popescu: how do you imagine tx fee working with "mining is a bug" ?
mircea_popescu: all the weird, pointless random shit on trilema that has nothing to do with anything!
mircea_popescu: not a bad piece if i do say so myself. but yes, perhaps that's what it is.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, a non-amounts coin is by definition unfungible.
mircea_popescu: lenin, as well as everyone else, can still be admired exactly as they were
mircea_popescu: to make it perfectly clear -- the reason blockchain still exists today is not the 2015 miners.
mircea_popescu: however forcing one to keep A PORTION of blockchain is not altogether a bad outcome ; it is better than the current "forces to keep nothing -- and they provably, as historical fact, DID NOT!" and through lubby ensures blockchain is never lost.
mircea_popescu: anyway, re ^ : romanian mythical-hero math professor (moisil) famously allowed students to pick questions.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the exact way to apply luby to it prolly can take more thinking. but hte idea certainly has merit.
mircea_popescu: it is, cards on the table, more of a buried lie than ~anything else in the "protocol"
mircea_popescu: here's the idea : currently, you only know the pubkey for a bitcoin address once it spends ; before it spends you do not know its pubkey.
mircea_popescu: it suffices to prove that all outputs without an input are proper block rewards.
mircea_popescu: (and -- suddenly have an incentive to, too! because if they don]'t.... fed)
mircea_popescu: the chain of beneficiaries can obv verify the balance, but "public" can not.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the idea is you verify balance when spent ; not before.
mircea_popescu: the important point here is exactly this - that it should no longer be possible to meaningfully talk of "payer".
mircea_popescu: as long as right amt showed up -- right amt showed up, proceed.
mircea_popescu: even something as simple as -- ammt made it, therefore paid is good enough really.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, say politically. if you decide to claim tomorrow that there never was such a thing as c3, how do i deal with it ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, as an entirely idle example : the set of numbers with mpfhf defined on it is actually a fine example in this vein. it ISNT an algebraic structure ; but an algorithmic structure.