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mod6: its like punching myself in
the dick
mod6: yeah, wow. im blown away by some of
this. how did I not zero in on
these
things?
BingoBongo: WordPress and a watch only wallet powered by ArmoryD is probably how I'd write a bitcoin site if I had
to.
mod6: na, gotta be able
to pick
the right
tool for
the job... but
that doesn't always mean
that
the guy will make
the best choice
mircea_popescu: maybe it's a bad idea for coders
to be allowed
to chose
their language.
mircea_popescu: BingoBongo ya srsly. why
the fuck do
these people make
these choices.
mircea_popescu: they who have anything
to lose are, of course,
the miners. so a system where miners vote somehow on standard block size may be a replacement, maybe.
mircea_popescu: ie, "let
they who have anything
to lose decide where it should be"
mircea_popescu: now,
the only way
to change something like
that is
the way gavin proposed it
mod6: right, so yeah,
they wrote it in, no going back.
BingoBongo: mircea_popescu it still follows many of
the arbitrary limits (because bitcoind), but
the code organization is much better. Kind of sad because well, Java.
mircea_popescu: as stupid as
that may
turn out
to be, it's still in
the fucking contract
mircea_popescu: if i get married
to you on
the understanding
that you always wear red underwear
mircea_popescu: mod6
the problem here
tho is
that bitcoin as it is is bitcoin as it is.
mod6: i have been hit in
the head a lot :S
mod6: oh... it seems
to me
that if 1 billion people send 1 satoshi in 5 years, it could be a 10gb block... who cares, process it
mod6: do you believe
there should be a block size limit at all?
mircea_popescu: recently i discovered
the way bitcoind works is all quirky and based on assumptive limitations like
that.
mod6: mircea_popescu: yeah,
that seems pretty strange
to me now.
BingoBongo: mod6 I would bet my bet makes it in
this next block...
mircea_popescu: i never understood how
that 250k limit got
to be
there
mod6: but its a 250k limit so
the joke's on me LOL
BitHub: its such a good word, i use it for slang all
the
time
BitHub: and
that's stopped you before?
mod6: cross your fingers and pray
to dog
mircea_popescu: And
thus it came
to pass
that
the splendid son of bright-minded Keleos,
BitHub: so is mpex going
to do its own gox? :D
mircea_popescu: they have been bleeding market share month by month by month. by now i wouldn't even bet
they do a
third.
BingoBongo: ANd
that's
the crucial difference from 2011
mircea_popescu: the
thing is
tho,
the net result of mtgox's however we call it, incompetence, being stretched
too
thin
BitHub: not good
to depend just on mtgox?
BitHub: be nice is
there was something just as big or popular as mtgox
mircea_popescu: moreover,
there's some lessons being learned here. everyone wants
to be more like mpex.
BingoBongo: Gox never really had
the staff or skill
to handle
the low information customers
mircea_popescu: it's a win-win :
the noobs get bragging rights (which
they don't know how
to use, but hey, youth), mtgox gets out of some stick.
mircea_popescu: after
the french fiasco
they certainly didn't feel
the need for a replay, so.
BingoBongo: Coinlab probably
though it was a bargain
BingoBongo: BitHub I
trust it will be smooth, but
the newbs opions shape
the shouting
BingoBongo: I dunno yCombinator has all of
that renting apartments out
to methheads money Mircea, it was probably either bought, hyped, or humiliated. I don't
think Gox was forced, but I say
this with a low degree of confidence.
BitHub: i
think you'll see a lil bump but gox should be okey :)
BitHub: they're are many peeps many working on ways for americans
to get around coinlab into gox
mircea_popescu: BingoBongo im not even sure
they seriously want
the #1 spot.
BingoBongo: The Coinlab buying Gox's USD book
threatens Gox's sustainability angle
mod6: that's been a while now, longer
than most of us
BingoBongo: I mean
the girl's been hammering
the Gox is dead mantra and some noobs seem
to be
trusting her for a change. You might have survived
the game long enough
that people start
to assume you're legit.
mircea_popescu: as long as it's
the consensus it's as good as any other, for a service provider.
mircea_popescu: tho
tbh... what diff would it make
to anyone if its gox spot or oix or a random number coming out of a hat.
BingoBongo: Maybe Coinlab, You just debuted
that OIX
thing
that kind of
threatened
to replace MT Gox spot...
Though you presented it more modestly.
mircea_popescu: i dunno dood, god knows i'm well loved and i can't
think of anyone or anything
that'd have it in for me.
SpNg: mircea_popescu: seriously? wtf? you have a link
to
the post?
mircea_popescu: there's a forum post
the girl made summing up everything
mod6: im starting
to
think
the same
thing. like fast-times-at-btc-high.
BingoBongo: Bitcoin is a drama role playing game and it just so happens
the
tokens
to play
the game happen
to be valued quite a bit. Like WoW gold.
SpNg: hey mircea_popescu I have been out of
the loop
the last couple days. What's going on with MPEx? I see
that it's down right now.
BingoBongo: You're welcome. It's one of
those World Baseball Classic penny bets, because apparently
that didn't have enough chutzpah
to attract much interest. I've had
too much vodka
tonight
to mess with
the python script so I don't know at
this weight if I will clear anything, but fuck it. Bitcoin is an MMORPG and
that's what I'm
telling
the 5-0
mod6: are
tx's going
through
though?
BingoBongo: I bet
they might, BitCOin's just playmoney anyway
Bowjob: mhm anyone
think bfl wont deliver by april?
jcpham: you would
think, but...
jcpham: now all we have
to do is collude
jcpham: i
think
this entire chat would be insider
trading somehow
jcpham: lots of info for SD investors
to speculate on
mircea_popescu: forget having oppinions. just
tap
the kbd
till it does it.
mircea_popescu: until
the point
that's
the case none of you people have any business eating even.
mod6: yeah,
torrents are uber fast
mircea_popescu: this means blockchain MUST be downloaded in 15 minutes
tops.
mircea_popescu: simple illustrative point : i can pick a
torrent worth 7gb right now, anything with less
than 20 seeders
mod6: so you're gonna make your own client,
that'll have your branch (exclusion of '1dice') in
there native?
mircea_popescu: actually it may be
the worst piece of crap ever used by
this many people.
mircea_popescu: the best
thing you can do for adoption
to scale right now is
to fix
the motherfucking client.
mircea_popescu: herpderp joe sixpack becomes a dev if you aggregate 5000 of
them !?