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smickles: mircea_popescu: i know, but how would you be careful about it. seems binary
to me
mircea_popescu: if it's not
temporary
then
there's no mining oportunities
gesell: brief opportunities if
that
gesell: also, what effect would
this split have on hash/mining opporutunities?
mircea_popescu: vampireb it's hopefully
the end of a certain misplace attitude.
mircea_popescu: smickles
that incoming
txs might be wiped on fork merge
BitHub: it not
the end of
the world?
the-bucket-shop: never let a
tragedy go
to waste fellas. Plaster Satoshi Dice's name all over
the news and posts if you can.
benkay: i'd
take a bearish position on ltc, settled next month...
smickles: "Every be very careful about accepting any
transactions for
the
the next few hours" << what is
that supposed
to mean :P
vampireb: so what? it isn't
the end of
the world. a minor hiccup
benkay: too bad he never got around
to it.
mircea_popescu: vampireb so he was looking
to hire a qa. good for him.
Bowjob: now lucif is gonna make some bullshit up how he calculated
this could happen
smickles: "an easy way
to do it is
to go
to home depot with 5 usd, buy stuff
to make it happenj"
dub: if
the 20k failsafe is still
there
dub: but
today would be a good candidate
vampireb: well guess what,
that's why when I last
time I met gavin he was looking
to hire QA
benkay: did
testnet
testing not catch
this due
to atomic
transaction size blah blah?
gribble: BTCUSD
ticker | Best bid: 45.01000, Best ask: 45.90277, Bid-ask spread: 0.89277, Last
trade: 46.50000, 24 hour volume: 70342.96544144, 24 hour low: 43.11000, 24 hour high: 48.46900, 24 hour vwap: 46.71424
mircea_popescu: you make an upgrade
that fucks up
the network, it's not
the db, it's not satoshi, it;s you.
dub: the one in
the middle
vampireb: i dont have
the context, but ok
dub: BitHub:
they supply
the biscuit
BitHub: what is
the point of
the foundation
smickles: well, if anyone want's
to short s.mpoe, i have a fair amout of shares available
mircea_popescu: this will probably be
the foundation of all further discussions
dub: gesell:
this will spill over into all manner of discussion
Bowjob: k
thats all i care about
gesell: will
this spill over into
the discussion of soft limits and sdice foo?
BitHub: isn't
that
the foundation job? or not really?
mircea_popescu: vampireb read up
the context in
the channel you're
talking.
Bowjob: are asics safe and compatible after
this?
BitHub: why doesn't
the bitcoin foundation use all
that money
to actually hire proper programmers
smickles: gesell: you want
to short s.mpoe?
vampireb: well not a bitcoin issue,
the old db was a problem
mircea_popescu: the problem is
that much like anything else of
the kind, it depends on keeping politics low.
BitHub: hand
the code over
to bill gates
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of intrinsic strength in
the open and independent dev model.
Bowjob: btc-e
trollbox is celebrating
dub: bitcoin is so resilient it only
took one satoshidice
to break it
pizzaman1337: mircea_popescu: have you considered hiring people
to work on it?
evoorhees: it's how resilient btc is in
the face of
them
that matters
evoorhees: Bowjob don't be a fool. If you actually saw
the devs react
to
this and remedy it, you'd be very impressed
BitHub: just email your wallet.dat
to
the bitcoin foundation
tell
them
they've won and
then hang yourself
mod6: i've got a chain
that was last updated dec 29th...
Bowjob: Everyone move
to lite coin!
Bowjob: I
thought we're supposed
to be unhackable and shit
Bowjob: this actually scares me..
that bitcoin can be compromised like
this
gribble: BTCUSD
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trade: 45.00000, 24 hour volume: 66465.70498496, 24 hour low: 43.11000, 24 hour high: 48.46900, 24 hour vwap: 46.77472
BitHub: ima have
to read
this :)
dub: BitHub:
they kinda are
dub: and no reindex in 0.7 so you have
to download and validate
the chain
mircea_popescu: the only way is basically foer
the people who upgraded
to downtime
BitHub: he needs
to come in and fix
these n00bs mistake
dub: you cant downgrade
to 0.7
dub: oh
this is gettgin good
BitHub: to be honest i have noticed
the lack of like really really god like programmers
mircea_popescu: BitHub
they're for
the most part not intelligent enough
to understand
the point or value of money.
BitHub: all good, but yeah, makes me
think
they could just do
this sort of stuff on purpose just
to manipulate
the price
mircea_popescu: when i
told
them
they'll be pushed aside coupla months ago i guess
they groked it
dub: mircea_popescu: at least for
the next 100 years
mircea_popescu: dub yes,
they want it forever
this niche
toy where
they matter.
Bowjob: wow.. what will
the institutional investors
think
dub: mircea_popescu: its obvious
they don't want adoption
dub: mircea_popescu: you know
the answer right
mircea_popescu: BitHub i'd be more
than happy if
the usual pompous idiots came out with an apology.
BitHub: mircea do you
think
the bitcoin foundation will pay out a compensation? lul
Bowjob: This is a huge blow
to bitcoin. WTF I
thought its supposed
to be secure
Bowjob: All right, what
the fuck is going on
gribble: BTCUSD
ticker | Best bid: 43.12000, Best ask: 44.50000, Bid-ask spread: 1.38000, Last
trade: 43.12000, 24 hour volume: 62664.75566320, 24 hour low: 43.12000, 24 hour high: 48.46900, 24 hour vwap: 46.92695
Chaang-Noi: mp i sold 50k ltc yesterday for btc, odds on
this being accepted?
mircea_popescu: and
then
they merge into one
that doesn't include you being paid.
mircea_popescu: crediting incomingpayments may be unsafe, if
they are doublespent across
the forks
davos: meh - its only down 4, less
than 10%