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04:27 asciilifeform !q uptime
04:27 snsabot asciilifeform: time since my last reconnect : 14d 10h 56m
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06:28 gregorynyssa http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-06-08#1038467 << Mr Yarvin mentioned in a fairly recent article that any coin can be turned into a security if some wealthy person or group creates a second coin and declares that the two shall be pegged.
06:28 snsabot Logged on 2021-06-08 16:06:59 asciilifeform: upstack -- imho bitcoin 'went only half-way' -- we don't know what a 100% debasement-proof currency would look like; would need to be paperization-resistant, not merely publicly-ledgered and deterministically-inflating.
06:31 gregorynyssa http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-06-09#1038521 << is there any remaining hope of bringing back 1980s style FGPAs?
06:31 snsabot Logged on 2021-06-09 12:58:36 asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i'd much like a FPGA where each LUT has a pixel output. but not expecting such a thing to be made (even if moore's law were not dead)
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14:10 asciilifeform http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-06-10#1038524 << this is merely a restatement of the problem -- paperization. i rec to reread yest.'s thrd re theoretical possibility of solutions to same.
14:10 snsabot Logged on 2021-06-10 02:25:02 gregorynyssa: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-06-08#1038467 << Mr Yarvin mentioned in a fairly recent article that any coin can be turned into a security if some wealthy person or group creates a second coin and declares that the two shall be pegged.
14:12 asciilifeform gregorynyssa: successful paperization requires the paper-buying chumps to perceive it as 'just as good or better than real thing'. e.g. paper gold/btc/etc can be leveraged (can borrow against it and allow it to auto-liquidate if margin called).
14:13 shinohai Just when I think there can't *possibly* be another stupid BIP proposed for prb: http://anyprevout.xyz/
14:13 asciilifeform gregorynyssa: if you can somehow interfere with this (i.e. set things up so that holding the real thing confers advantages which paper cannot) then have a chance at a depaperized coin.
14:15 asciilifeform shinohai: seems like yet-another anyone-can-spend crapola
14:15 asciilifeform (how many of these are there in current prb? at least 2?)
14:16 shinohai afaik 2, I must say I can't wrap head around how one can sign a tx without reference to an output.
14:17 asciilifeform http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-06-10#1038526 << ice40 has moar LUTs than any '80s fpga. and documented. i suspect you meant to ask '1980s FPGAs with the LUT count of high-end xilinx from 2021'
14:17 snsabot Logged on 2021-06-10 02:27:55 gregorynyssa: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-06-09#1038521 << is there any remaining hope of bringing back 1980s style FGPAs?
14:17 asciilifeform shinohai: they aint signed, recall, they're segshit-'signed'.
14:17 asciilifeform this can mean whatever the segshit perps want it to mean.
14:19 asciilifeform if tomorrow gavin & co decide that a valid segshit signature is either the expected one, or with clitler's key, it shall be so (for prb users). they'll eat it up.
14:19 shinohai The taproot thing looks likely to pass in next 200 or so blocks, so all that mETHereum goodness coming soon to a prb near you.
14:22 asciilifeform shinohai: i don't use prb anywhere, for many yrs nao (at one time i had a remaining prb box, for compat. testing; ssd smoked, and i did not bother recreating it) so nfi how many of these nao, and what sorta bombs therein
14:23 shinohai I fiddled with luke-jr's "knots" prb for a while for testing, but it seems broken now that Gentoo removed libressl compat upstream.
14:25 asciilifeform shinohai: i can't think of any reason to bother
14:28 shinohai I just wanted to troll him awhile and see if anything interesting was within not in vanilla prb. I got +b'd pretty quick from #bitcoin-gentoo tho. xD
14:34 asciilifeform shinohai: i very rarely think about prb nowadays; when happen to, is usually re: the conundrum of 'is it possible to induce miner cartel into claiminig the anyone-can-spend outputs'
14:34 asciilifeform *claiming
14:35 asciilifeform prb is interesting imho only from an exploitation pov. (and even there, not very, because -- being a usg 'NOBUS' product -- set up in such a way that exploiting is very expensive)
14:36 shinohai Maybe can find answer when geothermal mining cartel comes to El Salvador, can bribe MS-13 miners to perform experiments.
14:36 asciilifeform shinohai: there's some missing piece , or already long ago 'experiment' would have been performed.
14:37 asciilifeform the chinese miners, for instance, are (by asciilifeform's observations) so dysfunctional, that it is even conceivable that they simply do not know how to craft the necessary tx !
14:37 asciilifeform ( you can't do it w/ prb, unsurprisingly )
14:38 asciilifeform prb won't relay it, either.
14:38 asciilifeform (or mine it. supposing anyone is actually mining with stock prb)
14:42 trinque I'd expect miners to be extremely conservative, given how exchange-rate sensitive they must be.
14:43 trinque while taking w/e segwit funds would be hilarious, it'd likely also crash the paper exchanges they dump into
14:45 asciilifeform trinque: why would the taker necessarily have to dump the proceeds on an exchange ?
14:45 trinque just the taking would crash the exchange rate.
14:45 shinohai My thoughts were this *could* be likely reason, why not wait until BTC/fiat exchange rate moons to an astronomical lvl then throw the kill switch.
14:46 trinque the current price of btc is not supported by ubermenchen willing to ride their USD short into the dirt
14:46 trinque though I certainly am
14:46 asciilifeform trinque: personally i doubt that you could get even a july 2020 style crash outta it. but whoknows.
14:47 asciilifeform trinque: imho even chinese miners have (whether realize it or not) an interest in getting the opportunistic vermin the fuck outta bitcoin.
14:48 trinque yep, just the man who can reliably recognize his own interest is rare
14:48 asciilifeform a year or 2 of 3figure $ price would be, i suspect, quite effective for this
14:49 asciilifeform trinque: slightly upstack -- i'm not aware of anyone having calculated precisely how much miner cooperation would be required to make segshit-dekulakization happen.
14:49 asciilifeform i expect not all of'em would have to play, and not eternally.
14:50 asciilifeform and not even 51%.
14:51 trinque as soon as someone squeaks a block with The Bad in it, the strong incentive is to accept it and move on, yes
14:51 trinque (assuming block's otherwise valid according to protocol)
14:52 trinque the reason I don't expect this is that I do assume most miners are using w/e mangled copy of one of the open-source nodes, this because mining's a shitty business with very narrow margins
14:52 trinque but I don't have a high confidence rating on that opinion
14:53 asciilifeform trinque: i'd expect need >1 block
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15:25 whaack It doesn't make so much sense to me how one would have the noggin to get the hardware infrastructure setup for actually winning blocks but simultaneously not be able to construct a segwit-snagging transaction
15:28 whaack Nothing is preventing one from monitoring the mempool and broadcasting these segwit snagging transactions as the ones intended with prb rules come in, you could even split the loot by adding a hefty miner fee
15:39 thimbronion What nodes would validate such a tx?
15:41 asciilifeform thimbronion: trb.
15:41 asciilifeform http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-06-10#1038574 << recall the story of the july-4 fork.
15:41 snsabot Logged on 2021-06-10 11:22:17 whaack: It doesn't make so much sense to me how one would have the noggin to get the hardware infrastructure setup for actually winning blocks but simultaneously not be able to construct a segwit-snagging transaction
15:42 asciilifeform http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-06-10#1038575 << prb won't relay'em. but potentially if you find a direct path to miner, could get it where he can see it
15:42 snsabot Logged on 2021-06-10 11:24:51 whaack: Nothing is preventing one from monitoring the mempool and broadcasting these segwit snagging transactions as the ones intended with prb rules come in, you could even split the loot by adding a hefty miner fee
15:42 thimbronion Ah right. But if only trb nodes validated, would the block propagate?
15:44 asciilifeform thimbronion: this re mempool. the fork being 'soft', theoretically prb will retro-eat such block if part of greater-pow chain
15:48 whaack asciilifeform: I don't think you can make claims about the intelligence of the miners 9 or at least majority of them, because of the July 4th fork, they may have been paid handsomely in other means
15:49 asciilifeform whaack: i can only suspect.
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17:38 asciilifeform all of this btw would be a great application for billymg's network mapper -- find a straight path to miners. (then -- offer'em the boojum, regularly. suppose someone bites..)
17:38 snsabot Logged on 2021-05-13 13:11:19 asciilifeform: whaack: i rec to collaborate w/ billmg, who is baking a very related thing based on watchglass.
17:44 asciilifeform ... and a great application for whaack's block explorer -- e.g. could sum up the 'anyone-spendable' utxo's, display a 'this is the size of the pot!' catchy lotto-style picture.
17:49 asciilifeform in cartel lulz. (heathen graphic, nfi how factual, re: hash %)
17:53 asciilifeform $ticker btc usd
17:53 btcinfobot Current BTC price in USD: $36537.84
17:54 asciilifeform !w poll
17:54 watchglass Polling 17 nodes...
17:54 watchglass 84.16.46.130:8333 : Could not connect!
17:54 watchglass 185.163.46.29:8333 : Could not connect!
17:54 watchglass 108.31.170.100:8333 : (pool-108-31-170-100.washdc.fios.verizon.net) Alive: (0.096s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=687078 (Operator: asciilifeform)
17:54 watchglass 205.134.172.4:8333 : (172-4.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.145s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=687078
17:54 watchglass 54.39.156.171:8333 : (ns562940.ip-54-39-156.net) Alive: (0.112s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=687078
17:54 watchglass 205.134.172.28:8333 : Alive: (0.084s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=687066 (Operator: whaack)
17:54 watchglass 192.151.158.26:8333 : Alive: (0.087s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=687078
17:54 watchglass 208.94.240.42:8333 : Alive: (0.161s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=687078
17:54 watchglass 143.202.160.10:8333 : Alive: (0.176s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=687066
17:54 watchglass 213.109.238.156:8333 : Alive: (0.330s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=687060
17:54 watchglass 176.9.59.199:8333 : (static.199.59.9.176.clients.your-server.de) Alive: (0.282s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=412055 (Operator: jurov)
17:54 watchglass 54.38.94.63:8333 : (ns3140226.ip-54-38-94.eu) Alive: (0.320s) V=88888 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.8.88.88/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=687078
17:54 watchglass 185.85.38.54:8333 : (tlapnet-38-54.cust.tlapnet.cz) Alive: (0.294s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=687064
17:54 watchglass 205.134.172.6:8333 : (172-6.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.690s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=686323
17:55 watchglass 205.134.172.26:8333 : Busy? (No answer in 100 sec.)
17:55 watchglass 24.28.108.235:8333 : Busy? (No answer in 100 sec.) (Operator: trinque)
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18:49 shinohai https://twitter.com/Nakadai_mon/status/1403040619229069318 <<< Taleb looks like "what dafuq have I done?"
18:49 asciilifeform shinohai: dafuq is this ?
18:50 shinohai Taleb joined Hoaxtoshi and is speaking remotely at the "BSV conference"
18:52 asciilifeform that taleb ?
18:52 snsabot Logged on 2021-02-12 19:28:52 thimbronion: Taleb reportedly selling his Bitcoin. WTF happened to that guy?
18:54 shinohai One and the same. Bitcoin twitter pissed him off somehow, so he went "Fine I'll join the OTHER scammers".
18:55 asciilifeform shinohai: ok, scammer-x shat out something-or-other in re scammer-y etc etc. why, though, does shinohai give a shit ?
18:55 asciilifeform do you also read whatever it is that gavin, hearn, etc. have to say erryday?
18:57 shinohai No, now how long has asciilifeform known me and how I find great entertainment in watching scammers get rekt, no matter if they are on x,y, or z axis.
18:57 asciilifeform i suppose there's a little entertainment in 'i sold all of my papercoin!' and 4mo later 'lemme tell you what to think about btc'
18:58 asciilifeform afaik fella is a typical reich shill, in no particular respect unique or even unusual.
18:58 snsabot Logged on 2021-02-12 20:11:40 asciilifeform: late-era sovok contained quite a few figures resembling, imho more than superficially, taleb -- i.e. 'dissidents' which were nominally in opposition to it (but vanished into insignificance with its collapse) , nominally 'oppressed' (while occupying plum jobs -- 'writer's union' came w/ massive leisure, primo food, vacation house, car, sometimes -- driver)
18:59 shinohai I generally like to keep pulse of what they are up to - have undercover twitter account, sent girls to Miami to spy, etc.
18:59 asciilifeform ('opposition'-flavoured, rather than clitler-flavoured, but big fat diff)
18:59 shinohai I can't see that he was ever anything more than degenerate gambler with fiat stocks, wrote a few books, etc.
19:00 asciilifeform learn to win lottery like me!!
19:00 snsabot Logged on 2021-02-12 20:16:13 asciilifeform: there are few things on satan's green earth more noxious than a lottery winner cum judas goat 'teaching success'.
19:09 shinohai AH! Here was the piece explaining why the prb crowd turned on him https://archive.is/sfGmO
19:11 asciilifeform shinohai: he's 1 of the pins on the crankshaft of the heat engine, simply
19:11 snsabot Logged on 2021-04-23 13:08:03 asciilifeform: a major moving part behind the price swings are the people who run this heat engine -- 1) spread fud re bitcoin 2) 'buy the dip' 3) drum up enthusiasm among morons 4) sell dear 5) goto 1, nao w/ moar coin, extracted from morons on both strokes of the engine piston
19:12 shinohai I think I actually quoted your "heat engine" thread and linked back to logs on twitter some time back, but even such a simple concept beyond comprehension of avg twitter Bitcoiner so did 0 good.
19:12 asciilifeform 'He also said bitcoin had failed in its supposed role as a replacement for government-backed money, mainly because of its volatility' and guess where the volatility comes from, lol
19:12 shinohai xD
19:16 asciilifeform that this gavin is invited to whatever-conference, tells you 100% of what you need to know about the conference and the inviters etc.
19:16 asciilifeform the algorithm is recursive and extremely effective.
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19:39 feedbot http://thetarpit.org/2021/the-cost-of-ransomware-attacks-will-go-beyond-9000-in-the-next-decade << The Tar Pit -- The cost of ransomware attacks will go beyond 9000 in the next decade
19:48 whaack asciilifeform: any reason you can think of why dumpblock [height] would spit out an orpahned block? My trb appears to be doing this for block 685135, see http://fixpoint.welshcomputing.com/2021/jwrd-logs-for-Jun-2021/#2435
19:51 asciilifeform whaack: at what height is the node at the time of the command?
19:51 asciilifeform (afaik this can happen strictly if the node is in fact on an orphaned chain)
19:53 whaack asciilifeform: node is on block 687094
20:00 asciilifeform whaack: nao ~that~ is interesting. the logic, for reference ( asciilifeform orig. wrote this. )
20:00 asciilifeform whaack: are you certain you got an orphaned chain outta that dump ? (can plz describe process?)
20:02 whaack I've only gotten 1 orphaned block out of the dump, the future blocks seem to be the correct main chain
20:03 asciilifeform this makes absolutely 0 sense, whaack , if yer noad were on orphaned chain, subseq. blocks would be on same.
20:04 whaack I agree it makes 0 sense and I'm digging into wtf is going on, it is likely a bug in my python interpretation, but i smoothly loaded in blocks 0..685135 and then suddenly discovered a 'chink in my chain' with 1 block being an orphaned block
20:13 whaack asciilifeform: Do you have a quick way to check the hash of a block via the command line? I want to see what dumpblock is currently giving me
20:23 whaack I was able to get the job done with the command "head -c 80 685135_dump.txt | sha256sum | cut -c1-64 | xxd -r -p | sha256sum | cut -c1-64" (returned answer in swapped endian, but this was sufficient for seeing which block dumpblock was giving me)
20:24 whaack sooo I can confirm that dumpblock is giving me the wrong block for 685135
20:27 asciilifeform whaack: can post your block somewhere plz ?
20:28 whaack asciilifeform: sure one second
20:32 asciilifeform whaack: here's my 685135 and 685156 ftr.
20:32 asciilifeform whaack: compare w/ yours
20:33 whaack asciilifeform: http://ztkfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/685135_dump.txt that's my binary file directly from dumpblock
20:34 asciilifeform ugh why txt, confusing
20:34 whaack asciilifeform: I think your permissions are wrong on those files
20:34 asciilifeform lemme check
20:34 asciilifeform try nao
20:35 whaack sry was being thick, renamed to http://ztkfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/685135_dump.blk , kept "txt" there in case you started using it already
20:36 whaack asciilifeform: looks like you have the same problem as i do.
20:39 asciilifeform whaack: and all yer post-685135 blox matched those of the linked www's ?
20:46 asciilifeform whaack: i actually suspect a subtle bug in my orig. dumpblock : really oughta walk ~back~ from top, rather than emitting from bottom; and no one ever choked on this simply because the only use to date of eatblock/dumpblock has been to replicate nodes, and trb ignores the orphaned block, only numeration ends up off
20:47 asciilifeform whaack: we can determine now if this is the case : do you happen to have block hashes of all subsequent (to 685135) blocks from yer noad?
20:47 whaack asciilifeform: It seems to be the case, yes, although I only checked for the next 3 blocks after the problem block 685135. in any event from my POV dumpblock on 685136 returns a block whose previous hash does not match the hash of the block from calling dumpblock on block 685135
20:48 asciilifeform whaack: if my hypothesis is correct, somewhere in the list will appear the hash of the 'troo' 685135.
20:49 whaack i don't have all those hashes readily available but i can write a script to get them
20:49 asciilifeform whaack: this would be very handy ( asciilifeform just nao hasn't the hands )
20:50 asciilifeform whaack: we already know that orphaned blox are stored sequentially on the disk with the rest.
20:51 whaack so your saying some block between 685136..current height, as obtained from dumpblock, may have the hash of the block of 685135 on the mainchain?
20:51 asciilifeform whaack: aha.
20:51 asciilifeform which is why the noades continue to operate.
20:51 whaack aha=yes?
20:51 asciilifeform whaack: correct, somewhere it must appear.
20:52 whaack (i'm also convinced that the node has the block somewhere, since i was able to use getrawtransaction to get a transaction that only appears on the main 685135)
20:52 asciilifeform whaack: i suspect you found a 'so-called great experts of tmsr all supposedly looked and signed but trivial bomb' type of bug.
20:52 asciilifeform whaack: dumpblock oughta be a top-down traversal.
20:53 asciilifeform ( can traverse bottom-up, same as nao, but call IsInMainChain() predicate when counting, alternatively )
20:54 asciilifeform whaack: do me a favour, make the patch, i'll test, sign.
20:55 asciilifeform subj, for ref.
20:57 asciilifeform the iterator in the original blockdump doesn't follow pnext. instead dumbly walks the list.
20:58 asciilifeform this is a trivial fix, whaack , sadly i'm not near a box atm where can do it. so you have a golden moment.
21:00 asciilifeform !q seen-anywhere jurov
21:00 snsabot jurov last seen in #asciilifeform on 2021-05-17 08:03:15: slackware?
21:01 asciilifeform jurov: consider coming back to life so this patch can live on the official tbf page ? and to go in the newsletter ?
21:02 asciilifeform jurov: if you don't want to do these, asciilifeform will, but will need access to the box.
21:06 whaack asciilifeform: Alright, I'll try to patch it, I don't know the trb source much at all and also don't know C++, but I'll give it a whirl
21:06 * whaack has to eat first
21:17 asciilifeform whaack: no reason to hurry, lol, this bug sat for 6+y!!!! and no one, apparently, gave a shit until nao.
21:22 asciilifeform whaack: lemme know if you get stuck. i'ma do it, then, but prolly no earlier than sunday.
21:23 whaack asciilifeform: Well it's possible that it never appeared at all until block 685135, right?
21:24 asciilifeform whaack: mno. all orhpaned phorklets appear on the disk. but this is afaik 1st time that anyone actually had cause to notice that a dumpblock sequence contained orphaned blk.
21:25 asciilifeform whaack: to date, dumpblock/eatblock was used afaik strictly to hand-feed a noad
21:26 asciilifeform when dumping for this purpose, your dump will contain (turns out) orphaned blocks, but will ~also~ contain the winning-chain ones, so in the end no visible breakage
21:27 asciilifeform and the overall numeration is preserved. so no one noticed.
21:27 whaack Well my point was that perhaps block 685135 was the first block that wuold have an orphaned blk in a dumpblock sequence. but perhaps you understand something i dont
21:28 asciilifeform ( if we had in fact done the 'cement' experiment, ~then~ would've immediately noticed )
21:28 snsabot Logged on 2020-08-26 13:40:09 asciilifeform: the solution to (2) is 'cement', and regular updates of the cement snapshot from trusted wot folx, i.e. for 99+% of the init noad bringup, the noad knows already the hash of $nextblock and will request it directly
21:29 asciilifeform whaack: in order for an orphaned block to appear in a dumpblock sequence, the block gotta be on disk. there are 2 ways to stand up a node currently -- 1) from 'wild' 2) from dumpblock. in (2), for each orphaned block, you have a roughly 50% chance of the ~correct~ one appearing in the dump (breadth-1st traversal)
21:30 asciilifeform and in (1) there is also a substantial chance of not seeing the orphaned block at all.
21:31 asciilifeform so, 'tldr', subtle, annoying bug, where high probability of correct output despite erroneous algo.
21:36 asciilifeform this is, i suspect, neither 1st nor the last time that an alert reader finds that asciilifeform made a mistake, N supposedly-literate people signed off on it uncritically, etc
21:36 snsabot Logged on 2020-05-07 15:16:05 asciilifeform: fat lotta good the folx who supposedly 'read' and then signed ch15, did.
21:38 * asciilifeform bbl
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23:15 asciilifeform whaack: ok, baked, tested: asciilifeform_dumpblocks_force_mainchain.kv.vpatch ; asciilifeform_dumpblocks_force_mainchain.kv.vpatch.asciilifeform.sig .
23:17 asciilifeform whaack: now returns the expected mainchain block (tested only your case, but oughta work for others, changed absolute minimum, simply uses IsInMainChain to test for linkup to mainchain)
23:22 asciilifeform ^^ ACHTUNG trinque shinohai jurov mats dpb lobbes billymg BingoBoingo thimbronion and any other trb users tuned in / lurking!! ^^
23:23 asciilifeform ( the vpatch, ftr, is predicated on this one. it was published w/out manifest entry, as i expected mod6 to reissue it, but afaik not happned )
23:23 snsabot Logged on 2020-02-27 10:44:22 asciilifeform: attn trb operators: 205.134.172.27 is nao running mod6's latest variant, augmented with this experimental patch (my sig thereof ) .
23:24 shinohai Gracias asciilifeform! Can hopefully build/test tomorrow.
23:25 asciilifeform np. thx to whaack for the find.
23:26 asciilifeform shinohai: the only affected knob is 'dumpblock'. so test as described upstack.
23:28 asciilifeform again apologies to all trb users inconvenienced by this bug, asciilifeform was responsible for it.
23:29 trinque nice job whaack.
23:29 trinque asciilifeform: can think hard and be perfect, but ~actual fuggin use~ hard to beat.
23:30 trinque whaack has a good use-case, and bug pops right out
23:30 asciilifeform well in this case we were lucky.
23:30 trinque doesn't downplay the thinking hard, but emphasizes the importance of widespread use
23:37 asciilifeform trinque: the interesting bit is that the knob was used many times. but in order to step on the mine, there has to be an orphan block on disk; gotta get 'lucky' (50%) so it gets emitted when climbing the tree; ~and~ the dump gotta be 1 block, rather than sequence where you won't notice (given as eatblock will eat and perform correct pow logic)
23:38 asciilifeform having said this, ~very~ good odds that the list of proposed 'cement' hashes asciilifeform published at one time, contains orphaned blox.
23:38 asciilifeform (no one ever used this item for anyffin, or would've noticed)
23:42 trinque ftr trinque still grasps for exactly what business he'd run *in* BTC, and will be the first to say when otherwise.
23:44 asciilifeform trinque: i.e. 'in' as in $item priced strictly in btc w/out ref. to reichsmarks ?
23:44 asciilifeform (or sumthing moar specific?)
23:45 trinque strictly in btc would be the ideal, of course
23:45 trinque bitbet comes to mind as one of the best to date
23:47 asciilifeform trinque: there's in fact nothing to keep asciilifeform from perma-fixing his isp price sheet in btc. but i'd expect that eventually the customers would barf and go home
23:47 asciilifeform (picture if i'd done this in '19)
23:47 asciilifeform we did a similar thing w/ FG, and it resulted in some laffs
23:48 asciilifeform trinque: maybe i'm thick, but afaik gambling houses are the only possible service where the units do not matter at all.
23:49 asciilifeform errywhere else, you are outputting sumthing other than btc, and users will be sensitive to the ratio and at least vaguely aware of the 'official' exch rate.
23:51 trinque true, but I suppose I have a similar problem if I'm a restaurant serving derpburgers in USD, in that USD meanwhile erodes, but there's not a liquid market for derpburgers to set my prices for me
23:51 trinque tbh your model of publishing the company's pricing equation is in the direction of a solution
23:51 asciilifeform fwiw asciilifeform has a still-standing treasure bounty denominated in btc. (and artifacts priced in same; and prolly elsewhere)
23:51 mats id love to use bitbet again
23:52 asciilifeform mats: i'd luvv to use an ideal 'spherical' bbet with impeccable curator..
23:52 asciilifeform (the original -- not so much)
23:54 trinque in retrospect, ought've deployed a soldier to Antigua instead of UY
23:54 asciilifeform why there?
23:54 trinque favorable regime for gaming, hosts lots of poker etc
23:55 asciilifeform trinque: recall, bbet did not implode because usg anti-gambling police confiscated it..
23:55 asciilifeform ( y'know, rather like how pizarro did not implode because of usg isp censors.. )
23:57 mats ive considered doing a bitbet reboot, but idk anyone interested in running the book
23:57 asciilifeform mats: is the implication that you wouldn't dare to run it yerself?
23:57 trinque https://www.coindesk.com/nevada-regulators-bitcoin-poker-operator-arrest
23:57 trinque bbet wasn't big enough for sauron's lazy eye
23:57 mats i wonder now how many of the props were created by the house (as opposed to walk-ins)
23:58 trinque but in either case, what one could've attracted in Antigua was more investment
23:58 asciilifeform trinque: it aint clear that such a thing needs very much in the way of investment
23:58 mats asciilifeform: i don't think i'm competent to run a book
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