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10:00 asciilifeform meanwhile, in pumps.
10:00 asciilifeform !!ticker btc usd
10:01 deedbot $27,963
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10:52 signpost worthwhile to discuss whether there are design flaws in bitcoin which are thwarting its use as a currency. I'm suspicious the issuance schedule stair-stepping is entirely wrong.
10:53 signpost with traditional gold (not the paperized modern system), prices increasing would motivate more mining and increase supply, which would act as a brake on "MOON"
10:53 signpost price falls, mining falls, balances price in the other direction
10:54 signpost bitcoin issuance has zero connection with human activity, and is in fact designed to maintain its schedule *despite*.
10:56 signpost https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/stats/fees-percent-of-reward/ << were fees climbing enough to have engulfed block reward, this would be less of a problem. will happen in time, but again, not sure this was given enough thought.
10:58 signpost looks like segwit happened around the time the "congestion" died down, which is to say fees taking over for block reward was thwarted.
10:58 asciilifeform signpost: the block reward thing kept (and still to an extent) a lid on req'd tx fees, which theoretically 'good for adoption', or at least was probably the idea
10:59 signpost yeah, I'm not calling satoshi an idiot, so much as calling design of this issuance schedule a nation-building tier design problem.
11:00 asciilifeform the fixed issuance, otoh, prevented (and continues to prevent) reich from inflating the shit outta btc simply by building asic farms
11:00 asciilifeform so asciilifeform not convinced it was bad idea
11:01 asciilifeform miners collectively fighting over a ~fixed issuance, was imho 1 of the few ~good~ ideas in there.
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13:42 signpost fixed issuance for all time would've meant steady and slowing decay of reward/allBtc
13:42 signpost hilariously, doge did this.
13:43 asciilifeform signpost: what means 'for all time' there ?
13:43 asciilifeform ( i.e. a 100% premine ? )
13:43 signpost if you just say it's 10BTC or whatever for all time, the ratio of reward to total BTC in existence dwindles
13:43 signpost nah, per block, but not have halvings.
13:43 asciilifeform a
13:44 asciilifeform i.e. infinite inflation
13:48 asciilifeform signpost: in asciilifeform's pov, there are serious defects in the design that in fact originate in entirely unsolved, to date, problems , but don't reduce to numeric value of knob settings at all
13:48 dulapbot (asciilifeform) 2021-11-08 asciilifeform: i.e. the 'responsibility collapse triangle' of collectivist failure where there's 'users' who 'just want', and a set of 'providers' who are to supply the thing they 'just want', and somehow they are to live happily-ever-a
13:50 asciilifeform importantly, however, 'it still worx'(tm)
13:50 signpost if I were running a business where treasury was held in BTC, it'd be really hard to hedge where I think I am in the bubble cycle. these might be getting smaller, and maybe we disagree that they're in part supply shocks.
13:50 dulapbot (asciilifeform) 2021-07-18 asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-07-18#1046402 << pretty sure we had at least one 'what does it mean to ask whether bitcoin still works?' thread, and not long ago
13:51 signpost another thought would be making the reward decay gradual rather than step-function.
13:51 signpost anyway, not an economist.
13:52 asciilifeform btc/fiatola hedging of whatever kind is much easier said than done.
13:52 dulapbot Logged on 2023-01-18 14:13:43 asciilifeform: the other boojum is that the hedging he recommended requires maintaining fiatola reserves, which precludes 'pure btc biz' right off the bat
13:52 dulapbot (asciilifeform) 2022-03-26 asciilifeform: the 'hedge' folx have an expression about this, iirc approx 'can only make bets when the horses are actually separate, you can't bet on asteroid flattening the horses'
13:54 asciilifeform signpost: hypothetically, the block reward could've been hardwired to difficulty, say. but not clear to asciilifeform what, exactly, this'd've accomplished.
13:55 signpost yup
13:55 signpost and yes, not paying for txn relay, operating full nodes, etc., are problems.
13:56 asciilifeform shitoshi was unable to come up with a means for 'pay for relay' just as e.g. asciilifeform to this day could not. is unsolved, afaik, problem (any solution would have to counteract sybilization, implicit in any scheme where 'paid for showing up')
13:57 asciilifeform afaik is 1 of those problems that no one even dared to approach, given that nuffin resembling an approach is known.
13:58 asciilifeform ( even possible that it's a fundamental lul : relaying is simply too easy, hypothetically folx could already charge for service of getting a tx into a block, but market price of this service ~= 0 ultimately )
13:58 asciilifeform ditto the idea of rewarding noad operation / disk usage
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14:59 awt http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2023-03-19#1024864 << >> sec filings (warning, pdf) Do you think Microstrategy lied in multiple SEC filings? If not does that change your view on the
14:59 bitbot Logged on 2023-03-19 21:27:31 asciilifeform[jonsykkel|awt|deedbot]: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2023-03-19#1024859 << often enuff some rockefeller will say 'i bought over9000 btc' but no one but him & odin know whether bought actual coinz or goxolade
14:59 awt increase in price?
15:00 awt Oh wait I see bought here has been shifted to mean bought and moved to custom cold storage.
15:00 signpost yeah, his custodian might very well be coinbase
15:01 signpost or kraken, whoever
15:07 awt http://paste.deedbot.org/?id=FSsm
15:11 asciilifeform 'third-party custodial services' etc
15:11 signpost yeah there you go, so some custodian
15:11 asciilifeform could be justabout anywhere (other than actual coldwallet, lol)
15:12 awt Yes however the question was, how can the price be going up?
15:12 asciilifeform !!ticker btc usd
15:12 deedbot $28,166
15:12 awt Microstrategy took a bunch of coins off the market and hasn't sold them.
15:12 asciilifeform (indeed up!11)
15:12 awt You can argue that Coinbase is selling paper Bitcoin, I suppose.
15:12 signpost could be that a few exchanges have not yet succumbed to fractional reservism.
15:13 signpost would be nice if this were so
15:13 signpost FTX as the glimmering turd counterexample
15:13 asciilifeform is ok, per reich, for it to go up, tho, so long as later goes down.
15:13 bitbot Logged on 2023-03-19 21:44:24 asciilifeform[6]: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2023-03-19#1024844 << per asciilifeform's hypothesis, reich cares much less re the absolute value of the exchrate than about preventing monotonic climb (i.e. where could outperform various reich paper in re being a perceived inflation shelter.)
15:14 asciilifeform signpost: fractionalism overwhelmingly attractive nuisance, likely (what does a gox operator win from full reserve?)
15:16 asciilifeform awt: would be interesting if e.g. coinbase were pwned, and we found out how many coinz the users collectively thought they 'owned'. but afaik to date this kinda thing only took place 2-3 times (orig. mtgox being 1)
15:17 asciilifeform the usual cover story, when fractional reserve gox is uncovered, recall, is 'we were hacked, coinz were lifted'
15:18 asciilifeform but the simplest explanation is that 80-90% of'em existed strictly in the imagination of the chumps who 'bought' them.
15:19 signpost from what I've heard through the grapevine both brian and jesse (CEOs) are "believers" in btc, but the reich's environment corrupts, so it's hard to rely on that.
15:19 signpost say for instance they're treating US treasuries like cash. lol.
15:19 signpost or their banks get seized and gutted by the feds
15:19 asciilifeform ^ as in fact taking place atm
15:19 * signpost expects this more than overt goxian theft
15:19 signpost yep
15:21 * asciilifeform ftr suspects that reich.'legit' goxes collectively share a reich-administered pool of actual coin as reserve, which was promised to be dispensed in the event of a 'run'
15:21 asciilifeform similar in fact to how the remaining fiat banks are known to work.
15:22 signpost latter is about to be formalized into fed cdbc accounts post "liquidity crisis"
15:22 asciilifeform aaha
15:22 signpost banks will be like domain name registrars, lol
15:23 asciilifeform already were; nao will be simply with less lipstick on the pig
15:23 signpost true enough
15:23 signpost coming out party
15:23 asciilifeform if asciilifeform's hypothesis (for which he has ftr 0 concrete proof) is tru, goxes aint vulnerable to a 'run' on 1 or 2, but only if the victims withdraw ~collectively~
15:24 signpost https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/other20230315a.htm
15:25 asciilifeform signpost: wassat? 'swift' minus the pretense of decentralization ?
15:26 signpost just about. refactored company store credits deeb.
15:27 * asciilifeform leafed through the linked www, but not discovered how, precisely, differs from the traditional electro-usd
15:31 signpost seems like blockchains rustled their jimmies and they're increasing settlement speed.
15:32 signpost would expect this means establishing more control over the state of accounts at banks in general.
15:32 * signpost bbl
15:32 * asciilifeform wonders in what sense reich previously lacked control over electro-usd in banks
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16:15 awt In case anyone wants to run ChatGPT in their terminal: http://paste.deedbot.org/?id=tfW9
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