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mircea_popescu: (which goes back to
a long held asciilifeform notion, of "
mining is a bug" -- certainly, but looky here :
mining is also the direct result of "i want
a shunt for the bruteforce, so i can say to people, "x
is cheaper therefore y won't happen")
a111: Logged on 2017-12-27 01:58 asciilifeform: i'd like to encourage trinque to put some of his 'crackpot' algos 'to paper', as articles. the hypertext thing was interesting imho, for instance, and so was earlier trinque pill for '
mining is a bug', and possibly other occasions. dun be afraid to write down conjectures, trinque , gauss did
a111: Logged on 2017-12-02 16:22 mircea_popescu: anwyay, revisiting an ancient conversation re
http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=mining+is+a+bug : i have to thoroughly concede this point to asciilifeform . the model
is as follows : if
a)
a PoW system exists in which b)
a participating entity can recognize work done by itself as opposed to work done by others then it NECESSARILY follow that entity can, and therefore it ALSO follows that it eventually will c) impose further con
a111: Logged on 2017-12-02 16:22 mircea_popescu: anwyay, revisiting an ancient conversation re
http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=mining+is+a+bug : i have to thoroughly concede this point to asciilifeform . the model
is as follows : if
a)
a PoW system exists in which b)
a participating entity can recognize work done by itself as opposed to work done by others then it NECESSARILY follow that entity can, and therefore it ALSO follows that it eventually will c) impose further con
mircea_popescu: anwyay, revisiting an ancient conversation re
http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=mining+is+a+bug : i have to thoroughly concede this point to asciilifeform . the model
is as follows : if
a)
a PoW system exists in which b)
a participating entity can recognize work done by itself as opposed to work done by others then it NECESSARILY follow that entity can, and therefore it ALSO follows that it eventually will c) impose further con
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: point being, until and unless the process
is thoroughly and well understood, we'll keep being blindsided by "
mining is a bug" bugs.
mircea_popescu: how do you imagine tx fee working with "
mining is a bug" ?
trinque: it proceeds towards asciilifeform's "
mining is a bug" point
a111: Logged on 2016-10-21 00:47 mircea_popescu: anyway, if
mining is a bug, then the philosopher king
is a backdoor.
mircea_popescu: this part of
mining is a bug, except it
is evidently no part of
mining mircea_popescu: anyway, if
mining is a bug, then the philosopher king
is a backdoor.
☟︎ ascii_butugychag: the more i think about it, the more it seems to me that
mining is a catastrophic
bug per se
mircea_popescu: and in the latest eulora news : today's
bug is, "mp just got
a large
mining find, so large in fact that it didn't fit in his
mining claim, so it got truncated."
Vexual: that
mining bug is a motherfucker