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mircea_popescu: but in any case : money talks. not "
power rangers" and not the 0.3% ROI miners. and if moneys says fuck you everyone goes home and tries something else for next year's costume party.
mircea_popescu: 'BLM Special Agent" ? what the fuck ? everyone in the us got their
power rangers now ?
mircea_popescu: kind-of why the blind insistence / pretense put forth by the
power rangers is so amusing to me
mircea_popescu: the opinions about the Mysts of Mystery emitted by fans of the
power rangers and co.
jurov: of
power rangers of ~ ?
davout: also i finally understand why the
power rangers think checkpoints are a good idea
mircea_popescu: contrary to what the guy claims, the bugs he found appear to be in the
power rangers "consensus" library, not in conformals'.
mircea_popescu: i dunno if you think valgrinding bitcoind is sexier than fixing phuctor or something, but a) it is not, and moreover b) doing it while the other waits is actually negative, it's not even zero. moreover c) this nonsense is exactly how the
power rangers got to be
power rangers.
mircea_popescu: see, the exact thing happening in bitcoin, where the
power rangers fell off the curve, happened long ago to wordpress.
davout: funkenstein_: malleability is currently being soft-forked away by
power rangers mircea_popescu: but yes, broadly speaking the efforts of
power rangers are irrelevant to bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: it's entirely untrue, and a poor attempt at trying to salvage some clout for the
power rangers.
funkenstein_:
power rangers added more int types later like arith_uint256
mircea_popescu: basically, this would be prima facie evidence that the code the
power rangers sign has very little to do with them.
mircea_popescu: (mp fondly remembers how he's one of the... one guy that hit the
power rangers over the head until they finally put encryption into wallets. which, prior to mid 2012, were plaintext)
mircea_popescu: hence the bitbet model, hence the reusing of addresses etc etc, numerous specific measures to hinder the little solace idiots a la
power rangers etc are trying to give the "defungibilize bitcoin" party.
mircea_popescu: so basically... it's about as redundant as everything else the
power rangers have made, past coupla years.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the only problem is the notion that
power rangers = "core", somehow.
mircea_popescu: just nothing the
power rangers ever felt like discussing, prior.
mircea_popescu: which is roughly what the
power rangers figured out eventually too.
mircea_popescu: and the local
power rangers are trying to prop both by fiat.
mircea_popescu: in other words : in bitcoin checkpoints exist mostly because the protocol is strong, and the
power rangers are trying to leech strength to prop their own shitty code.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> there's cpu to spare << funnily enough, what the
power rangers wish to fix is... cpu speed.
mircea_popescu: always handwaved away by teh
power rangers, but hey, you don't end up at the bottom of my shitlist by being responsive and responsible.
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Power Rangers mircea_popescu: it was to be fixed "eventually".
power rangers still not got around to it.
mircea_popescu: what's next, ima write letters to the vessenes fake foundation about how their
power rangers are fucking up bitcoin ?
mircea_popescu: (another bit of braindamage th e
power rangers forced upon the world, other than "historical transaction validity" as a thing, is "block as aheight"
mircea_popescu: in general, we';re not against anything
power rangers CLAIM to want to do. it's just that a) thjey never actually do it and b) always break other things 'attempting'
mircea_popescu: trying to invent a "this is the right way" because we're the
power rangers isn't the way
mircea_popescu: now, he'd like for it to be the case, obviously, because that'd imply that the "Work" the
power rangers have been doing for the past year is worth more than zero, which is a proposition he holds dear for obvious reasons.
mircea_popescu: decimation that is happenstance, arriving from the very haphazard manner in which abstraction works out of the group of
power rangers mircea_popescu: etc etc. there's this large pile of mental viral load they're currently carrying, so as to do essentiually what the
power rangers want bitcoin to do : play cozy with TITB.
davout: the interesting in this bit is that if you s/devs/
power rangers/ it works just as fucking well, if not better
mircea_popescu: anyway, a point of strategy, which i think everyone'll appreciate cuz it's lulzy. so : the scam foundation and its merry band of
power rangers have very carefully constructed this situation where "nobody knows" what's what and whence it came and where it's going, because they (wrongly) perceived that ownership of an opaque codebase will guarantee them control and continued relevance.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: it may be unfair to tar all work done since satoshi with the
power rangers brush. <<< term only came of age last year.
ben_vulpes: it may be unfair to tar all work done since satoshi with the
power rangers brush. gettxoutsetinfo + createrawtransaction + signrawtransaction are pretty close to a minimum viable bitcoind.
thestringpuller: the other
power rangers I do not know. But jgarzik definitely publicly stated he'd like to see a GPG-like implementation in pure JS, which is mind boggling for a supposed intelligent person to say.
thestringpuller: cazalla: Luke-Jr strikes again! The
power rangers have to burn cash to survive it seems.
mircea_popescu: "I'm not sure this is getting through the fog of their own farts, but the group of
power rangers has so far:
mircea_popescu: that they went all "o you dudes are like
power rangers"!!!
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: what is the origin of this '
power rangers' nick? << hours after the fork gavin & hearn brought upon the network through their alleged ineptitude (which allegation i don't credit, it was deliberate)
mats_cd03: what is the origin of this '
power rangers' nick?
mircea_popescu: i don't share the
power rangers' suspicions of Werner Koch.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: at this point, the enemy is enemy not simply because of what he does or may do, but because of what he has done and what he is. <<< well, at the previous point the enemy was not an enemy at all, just a bunch of derps. it's ony recently that trilema went from "
power rangers" to "gavin has turned", and for a while there prior to the 2013 debacle he was not even being treated in concordance with the idiocy
mircea_popescu: same reason bitcoin
power rangers have not done anything useful since satoshi left
thestringpuller: I wonder if this huge push on sidechains is because the
power rangers realize the blocksize ain't increasing anytime soon...
mircea_popescu: which is by now becoming a major problem in waiting, because under the hollow pretense of the
power rangers, the codebase is actually fractured to all shit.
ben_vulpes: " My dislike of other mining nodes is a consequence of directly correlated forking dangers of alternative mining code, and I think we both know that." << one of these days i'm going to get left behind as reward for my courtesy of loyalty to the
power rangers i can feel it coming but maybe if i complain a lot in public maybe the inevitable won't happen
mircea_popescu: <thestringpuller> it's weird how this issue hasn't been addressed << they're called
power rangers for a reason you know.
mircea_popescu: losing sight of this basic concept is part of what makes the
power rangers so retarded.
mircea_popescu: in this sense atc appreciating against btc is quite a negative signal for the
power rangers.
mircea_popescu: think of it, this is a space where fucktarded "community members" aptly represented by the "bitcoin foundation" and well catered for by the
power rangers a) gave half a million btc to trendon shavers and then b) gave half a million btc to silk road
mircea_popescu: the total estimated holdings of the bitcoin
power rangers < 1k btc.
mircea_popescu: you know, when i said the
power rangers are too stupid to be on the internet and they said i'm just being evil, because they're about as smart as everyone else derping about "open source software" we were BOTH right
mircea_popescu: that's a summary of 80% or so of what the
power rangers have to say
BingoBoingo: Not really. The
power rangers fight documentation like the actual
power rangers fought lord Zed
bitcoinpete: it piles on the nonsense committed by the
power rangers even further
BingoBoingo: Eh, et the
power rangers keep hanging themselves on their words
jurov: who said that? some of
power rangers?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves this is a sore spot
power rangers would rather not go into.
mircea_popescu: jurov: afaik gpg never saves unencrypted keys to disk << indeed. it's not made by the
power rangers, not using qt, etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, no, its current zombie/laughingstock state is useful. much like the
power rangers.
mircea_popescu: best & biggest government in teh whole world! real
power rangers those people.
mircea_popescu: anyway, forget about
power rangers. here : The programmer’s wife tells him: “Run to the store and pick up a loaf of bread. If they have eggs, get a dozen.”. He comes back with 12 loaves of bread.
mircea_popescu: because the
power rangers still cling to the delusion of relevance, but meanwhile are starting to comprehend what killed them.
mircea_popescu: breaking news from the bitcoin
power rangers : they used the java carkey class
mircea_popescu: I'm not sure this is getting through the fog of their own farts, but the group of
power rangers has so far: