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00:09 cazalla https://www.quantcast.com/qntra.net?qcLocale=en_US is basically what a post at the top of /r/bitcoin gets you.. front page of the interwebs my ass
00:09 assbot Qntra.net Traffic and Demographic Statistics by Quantcast ... ( http://bit.ly/1W9yNHd )
00:13 cazalla damn them chicken wings were good.. 24 hours in a tub of soy and yellow box honey then smoked with mesquite.. i am snake full of chickun wingz
00:15 cazalla http://i.imgur.com/EOsblrE.gif
00:15 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1OF8Gpz )
00:18 deedbot- [BitBet Bets Bets] 1.00000000 BTC on 'No' - Federal Reserve will raise federal funds rate October FOMC meeting - http://bitbet.us/bet/1201/federal-reserve-will-raise-federal-funds-rate-october/#b1
00:18 mircea_popescu Quantified Directly Measured Data 42,348 US rank (quantcast) ; Global Rank 1,096,708 (down 546,035) Rank in United States 419,214 (alexa)
00:18 mircea_popescu clearly there is something to these measures.
00:20 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 73941 @ 0.00074929 = 55.4033 BTC [+] {3}
00:23 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25650 @ 0.00074847 = 19.1983 BTC [-] {3}
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00:46 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 64650 @ 0.00074858 = 48.3957 BTC [+] {3}
00:48 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 52452 @ 0.00074797 = 39.2325 BTC [-] {2}
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01:10 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 70866 @ 0.00075442 = 53.4627 BTC [+] {3}
01:17 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3182 @ 0.00076016 = 2.4188 BTC [+]
01:23 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19500 @ 0.00074898 = 14.6051 BTC [-] {2}
01:23 ag3nt_zer0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFoZJ25QL-U&spfreload=1
01:23 assbot Julian Bream - Granada - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1iDHAmJ )
01:29 deedbot- [BitBet Bets Bets] 16.00000000 BTC on 'No' - The ETH scam won't see 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1199/the-eth-scam-wont-see-2016/#b11
01:31 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34900 @ 0.00074801 = 26.1055 BTC [-] {4}
01:31 mircea_popescu dat eth bet
01:31 mircea_popescu https://bitbet.us/bet/1199/the-eth-scam-wont-see-2016/ << already worth 10k.
01:31 assbot BitBet - The ETH scam won't see 2016 :: 10.04 B (19%) on Yes, 43.35 B (81%) on No | closing in 2 months 1 week| weight: 95`867 (100`000 to 10`000) ... ( http://bit.ly/1iDIjEg )
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01:51 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7368 @ 0.00074797 = 5.511 BTC [-]
01:52 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 49432 @ 0.00076082 = 37.6089 BTC [+] {4}
01:56 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26956 @ 0.00074771 = 20.1553 BTC [-] {3}
02:06 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 29964 @ 0.00074728 = 22.3915 BTC [-] {2}
02:07 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4300 @ 0.00074695 = 3.2119 BTC [-] {2}
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02:43 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11550 @ 0.00075267 = 8.6933 BTC [+]
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03:07 BingoBoingo That ETH bet is moving up awfully fast for a bet that only started with 1 BTC
03:21 mircea_popescu 4:1 to go down 80% in a quarter.
03:21 mircea_popescu kinda soft, imo
03:36 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 37850 @ 0.00075242 = 28.4791 BTC [-] {3}
03:36 BingoBoingo I'm wondering how long it will stay 4:1
03:44 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 60400 @ 0.0007479 = 45.1732 BTC [-] {5}
03:55 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 40326 @ 0.00074615 = 30.0892 BTC [-] {4}
04:07 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4428 @ 0.00075362 = 3.337 BTC [+] {3}
04:19 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7716 @ 0.00074555 = 5.7527 BTC [-]
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04:37 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12600 @ 0.00074555 = 9.3939 BTC [-]
04:45 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27549 @ 0.0007451 = 20.5268 BTC [-] {3}
04:46 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16937 @ 0.00074493 = 12.6169 BTC [-]
04:54 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13190 @ 0.00074471 = 9.8227 BTC [-] {3}
05:02 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12750 @ 0.00074463 = 9.494 BTC [-] {2}
05:13 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10900 @ 0.00074791 = 8.1522 BTC [+] {3}
05:17 cazalla http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-08-2015#1250310 <<< it may live again, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/18/supersonic-breakthrough-concorde-could-fly-again-within-four-years
05:17 assbot Logged on 24-08-2015 17:42:57; mircea_popescu: in the 70s, we had supersonic airliner. today... not.
05:17 assbot Supersonic breakthrough: Concorde could fly again within four years | World news | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ol4oEv )
05:18 mircea_popescu o cool
05:19 mircea_popescu "The organisation hopes to buy the Concorde currently on display at Le Bourget airport in Paris. If it is successful, the plane will be restored before resuming operation as a private heritage aircraft that will be flown at air displays as well as being available for charter. "
05:19 mircea_popescu lol fuyll cargo cult.
05:24 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28242 @ 0.00074463 = 21.0298 BTC [-]
05:31 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 33547 @ 0.00074454 = 24.9771 BTC [-] {3}
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05:56 kakobrekla mircea_popescu> <kakobrekla> how the latter flows from it < dishonest software does not require honest hardware the way i see it << more or less unrelated. dishonest accountand doesn't require dishonest FED nor vice-versa < mno. what another lie to a liar?
05:57 kakobrekla whats*
05:57 shinohai https://i.imgur.com/sWwkIfi.jpg >.>
05:57 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1KstIS7 )
06:07 punkman http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279194 more related to Lex than yacc I think. definitely worth a look https://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/
06:07 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 02:46:22; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278952 << is this meant as some kind of improvement on good ol' yacc ?
06:10 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8750 @ 0.00074514 = 6.52 BTC [+] {3}
06:24 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30000 @ 0.00074665 = 22.3995 BTC [+]
06:31 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 32300 @ 0.00074782 = 24.1546 BTC [+] {3}
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06:47 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10320 @ 0.00075066 = 7.7468 BTC [+]
06:56 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 78500 @ 0.00074268 = 58.3004 BTC [-] {5}
07:10 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11637 @ 0.00074776 = 8.7017 BTC [+] {2}
07:11 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 37895 @ 0.00074194 = 28.1158 BTC [-] {3}
07:12 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6033 @ 0.00074171 = 4.4747 BTC [-]
07:16 punkman http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/09/improved-digital-certificate-security.html
07:16 assbot Google Online Security Blog: Improved Digital Certificate Security ... ( http://bit.ly/1F85D78 )
07:16 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 82448 @ 0.00074067 = 61.0668 BTC [-] {4}
07:17 punkman "During our ongoing discussions with Symantec we determined that the issuance occurred during a Symantec-internal testing process." hah
07:17 punkman https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPJyQFLUsAA1f2q.jpg:large
07:17 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1F85Hny )
07:18 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16639 @ 0.00074009 = 12.3144 BTC [-] {2}
07:19 punkman Trump: "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."
07:20 shinohai wut
07:24 punkman http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7967908e-5ded-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html "The assumption is that if a central bank introduced negative interest rates — a radical move that would effectively amount to a charge on holding money — people would convert deposits into cash. But abolishing cash would remove that option. "
07:24 assbot Scrap cash altogether, says Bank of England’s chief economist - FT.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1KoxA7B )
07:28 punkman http://i.cbc.ca/1.3235030.1442618354!/fileImage/httpImage/image.PNG_gen/derivatives/original_620/sexist-ad.PNG
07:28 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1Koy65p )
07:29 punkman https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPK9LeKW8AA_xxy.jpg
07:29 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1KoycKe )
07:30 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20600 @ 0.00075066 = 15.4636 BTC [+]
07:38 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 40900 @ 0.00074775 = 30.583 BTC [-]
07:41 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36700 @ 0.00074775 = 27.4424 BTC [-]
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08:04 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 60300 @ 0.00075064 = 45.2636 BTC [+]
08:11 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13450 @ 0.00075124 = 10.1042 BTC [+] {3}
08:16 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31250 @ 0.00075064 = 23.4575 BTC [-]
08:17 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 74916 @ 0.00075158 = 56.3054 BTC [+] {5}
08:29 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18040 @ 0.00074942 = 13.5195 BTC [-] {3}
08:32 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7900 @ 0.0007412 = 5.8555 BTC [-]
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08:59 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 43000 @ 0.00074004 = 31.8217 BTC [-] {4}
09:02 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 90300 @ 0.00073923 = 66.7525 BTC [-] {5}
09:13 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36046 @ 0.00073918 = 26.6445 BTC [-]
09:17 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 39750 @ 0.00073906 = 29.3776 BTC [-] {3}
09:26 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9750 @ 0.00073859 = 7.2013 BTC [-] {4}
09:26 danielpbarron http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279296 << me too! I visited a false church on the outskirts of Waco for their harvest festival, and they were telling me that Bush sometimes attended / was seen "praying" at the main musical event
09:26 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 03:13:14; trinque: I met people in TX that were a meatwot node away from the Bush family. They're *not* free people.
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09:52 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36050 @ 0.00074313 = 26.7898 BTC [+] {4}
10:01 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18050 @ 0.00073785 = 13.3182 BTC [-]
10:15 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279466 << pretty good, what is that punkman ?
10:15 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 11:17:59; punkman: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPJyQFLUsAA1f2q.jpg:large
10:16 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279471 << yeah, because that's the point of government, to try and prevent people doing what they want to do.
10:16 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 11:24:12; punkman: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7967908e-5ded-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html "The assumption is that if a central bank introduced negative interest rates — a radical move that would effectively amount to a charge on holding money — people would convert deposits into cash. But abolishing cash would remove that option. "
10:16 mircea_popescu government by the aliens, for the aliens, with these people.
10:16 punkman mircea_popescu: japanese parliament iirc
10:17 mircea_popescu someone gotta explain to me on what basis the (mistaken, btw) proposition that "the UK" exists, or has a government or anything is even supposed to rest.
10:17 mircea_popescu we might as well discuss the heavenly host. purely imaginary nonsense with no practical bearing.
10:17 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 51012 @ 0.00074052 = 37.7754 BTC [+] {3}
10:18 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6828 @ 0.00075037 = 5.1235 BTC [+] {3}
10:21 mircea_popescu vbuterinEthereum - Vitalik Buterin thehighfiveghostEthereum - George Hallam Blue-ChainEthereum - Ken Kappler avsaEthereum - Alex van de Sande crypto_jesusEthereum - Konstantin Kudryavtsev frozemanEthereum - Fabian Vogelsteller
10:22 mircea_popescu justincase.
10:23 mircea_popescu http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethercoin/ << lol.
10:23 assbot Ethercoin (ETC) price, charts, and info | Crypto-Currency Market Capitalizations ... ( http://bit.ly/1YnVVDP )
10:24 mircea_popescu re http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=06-09-2015#1264355 :
10:24 assbot Logged on 06-09-2015 21:27:29; mircea_popescu: ;;calc 0.00541072 * 15000
10:25 mircea_popescu ;;calc 0.00362294 * 15000
10:25 gribble 54.3441
10:25 mircea_popescu it actually dropped 50% in two weeks.
10:25 punkman ethercoin is an altcoin, not ethereum
10:26 mircea_popescu http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/ <
10:26 assbot Ethereum (ETH) price, charts, and info | Crypto-Currency Market Capitalizations ... ( http://bit.ly/1Pexkvq )
10:26 mircea_popescu (the other one is around 0.001 last it traded, which is August)
10:26 mircea_popescu this one STARTED in august, and it's gonna be 0 by november or whatever.
10:26 punkman "Ethercoin is a proof-of-stake blockchain with a fixed supply of coins provably backed by REAL ethers purchased from the Ethereum sale"
10:27 mircea_popescu yaya
10:27 punkman oic
10:27 mircea_popescu i can't fucking believe there's 40 btc on its survival.
10:30 mircea_popescu https://www.ethereum.org/ << impressive they crossed out "safe". unimpressive they omit to mention "ethereum is blablabla JUST LIKE RIPPLE" and "its perspectives are nil, JUST LIKE RIPPLE'S WERE".
10:30 assbot Ethereum Frontier ... ( http://bit.ly/1YnX7aw )
10:31 mircea_popescu "Social business founded to open up the world of how things are made"
10:31 mircea_popescu really this thing should be preserved for future derps.
10:31 mircea_popescu somehow.
10:31 mircea_popescu the problem of making future derps digest history is un fucking solvable already.
10:32 mircea_popescu like getting malnourished african children to eat beef jerky.
10:34 mircea_popescu o brother.
10:34 mircea_popescu "The foundation is currently in the phase of restructuring its communications activities. Several members of our current communications team in London are soon leaving or reducing their involvement in the Foundation in order to pursue for-profit ventures on top of the Ethereum ecosystem; we wish them the best of luck. And so, we have both the necessity and a unique opportunity to “reboot” that side of the organizat
10:34 mircea_popescu ion and take another look at how the Ethereum foundation interacts with the community.
10:34 mircea_popescu As some initial steps, we are going to do the following:
10:34 mircea_popescu We will make an effort to de-emphasize Skype, and emphasize Gitter as a means of real-time communication for developers. Gitter has the advantages that (i) it’s easier to quickly jump in and participate,"
10:35 mircea_popescu "We will continue our general direction of increasing permissiveness that we began with our recent changes to branding guidelines, and emphasis on maintaining norms of common sense and civility over strict rules. We are not following in the footsteps of /r/bitcoin‘s theymos. Discussion of EthereumXT (I suppose the closest equivalent we have is Expanse, with its 10x higher gas limit) is NOT banned.
10:35 mircea_popescu We will de-emphasize the “ETH DEV” brand (with the exception of “DEVcon”) and focus attention on “Ethereum” going forward"
10:35 mircea_popescu a) all the wrong fucking choices ; b) they actually believe this shit has some sort of meaning. god help me, "the eth dev brand" ? how the fuck is it a brand.
10:36 mircea_popescu they actually sit around and pretend like this shit's a thing. i have so much trouble processing this...
10:36 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27500 @ 0.00075242 = 20.6916 BTC [+]
10:36 mircea_popescu from fb : Ethereum September 7 at 8:02am · Executive Director Ming Chan (@mingchan88) posts on Ethereum's new updated branding guidelines https://www.reddit.com/…/…/new_ethereum_branding_guidelines/
10:37 shinohai http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/18/microsoft_has_developed_its_own_linux_repeat_microsoft_has_developed_its_own_linux/ <<< The only linux guaranteed to get you pwnd.
10:37 assbot Microsoft has developed its own Linux. Repeat. Microsoft has developed its own Linux • The Register ... ( http://bit.ly/1ioUfJz )
10:37 mircea_popescu srsly ? "executive director" ? branding guidelines ?
10:37 mircea_popescu what the everloving treefortfuck!
10:37 mircea_popescu shinohai nah, it's ok, ubuntu was there first.
10:37 shinohai When you create your own money, you also get to make up a job title! How cool is dat?
10:40 mircea_popescu very cool.
10:41 mircea_popescu http://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/3143/is-there-a-way-to-send-all-ether-from-one-address-to-another << considering this is the most read/commented item on the thing's forum, and also the only one to get any comments / more than 5 views, and also the principal item in "protocol discussion" (a heading made to differentiate from NON TECHNICAL discussions)
10:41 assbot Is there a way to send all Ether from one address to another? - Ethereum ... ( http://bit.ly/1ioUtQX )
10:41 mircea_popescu all i wanna know is what the fuck broken parenscript they use.
10:41 mircea_popescu eth.sendTransaction({from:eth.accounts[1], to:eth.accounts[2], value:eth.getBalance(eth.accounts[0])-eth.gasPrice*21000, gas:21000})
10:41 mircea_popescu Unlock account
10:41 mircea_popescu Passphrase:
10:41 mircea_popescu Negative value
10:41 mircea_popescu at InvalidResponse (:-81076:-133)
10:41 mircea_popescu at send (:-154580:-133)
10:41 mircea_popescu at sendTransaction (:-131712:-133)
10:41 mircea_popescu at :1:1
10:41 mircea_popescu it looks exactly like someone gutted lisp and replaced it with "easier to use" javascript.json
10:44 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 41350 @ 0.00073687 = 30.4696 BTC [-] {4}
10:46 mircea_popescu http://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/3512/cant-compile-a-contract << meanwhile the "contract compiler" segfaults. and stuff. srsly, i need a "contract compiler" written in fucking cpp to spit out what's obviously parsed output ?
10:46 assbot Can't compile a contract - Ethereum ... ( http://bit.ly/1Yo0bU1 )
10:47 mircea_popescu asciilifeform seriously, it seems like this thing aims to be ~ urbit. made by people of the same exact ilk ("got some usg payola") but who understand EVEN LESS of computing.
10:47 shinohai I'm still rofl from the guy who sent all his coin to a contract the other day and now can't recover it.
10:48 mircea_popescu so they're not even at discussing jets and immutability yet. so far we're doing "branding imperatives" and "How to call Serpent function from JAVA SCRIPT (including encoding of function arguments)"
10:48 mircea_popescu mindboggling what the population of excel-educated project managers in obscure office space will do with their time if you let them loose.
10:49 mircea_popescu i simply had no fucking idea, i imagined they'd go ineptly hit on girls or something. eat many cakes.
10:49 mircea_popescu shinohai i'd be actually surprised if anyone managed to use this thing as intended to date.
10:50 mircea_popescu i also can't believe the butthurt "augur" people that kept derping on reddit about how mean bitbet is actually are built atop this shit and somehow still expect anyone to take them seriously.
10:52 mircea_popescu http://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/1576/mist-preview-discussion-thread << heh.
10:52 assbot Mist preview discussion thread - Ethereum ... ( http://bit.ly/1ioUW5v )
10:52 mircea_popescu aaanyway. that was entertaining. thanks whoever threw away 10k on bitbet, for the morning lulz.
10:53 mircea_popescu "Taylor Gerring @TaylorGerring · Sep 17 Taylor Gerring retweeted Vitalik Buterin The benefit of #Ethereum being defined by a spec, not an implementation "
10:53 mircea_popescu o god almighty.
10:54 mircea_popescu who the fuck keeps telling people enthusiasm matters. shut the fuck up and sit down, you're not helping. in fact, you're most of the problem.
10:58 shinohai I decided not to bet on that one, I mean there are people that *still* believe in paycon despite Garza being what he was.
10:59 mircea_popescu obviously. i'm sure there's somewhere some people secretly waiting for neobee "brick and mortar stores" to come out of hiding.
11:00 mircea_popescu http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/paycoin/ << $ 1,343 MARKET CAP!!11
11:00 assbot Paycoin (PYC) price, charts, and info | Crypto-Currency Market Capitalizations ... ( http://bit.ly/1ioVkRu )
11:00 mircea_popescu 20 dollars guarantee!!11
11:01 shinohai LOL at that mc now.
11:01 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26750 @ 0.00073617 = 19.6925 BTC [-] {4}
11:02 shinohai In that vein, TradeFortress is sure to give me back the coin I lost in coinlenders too.
11:06 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279559 << i don't see any traces of lisp in this atrocity
11:06 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 14:41:47; mircea_popescu: it looks exactly like someone gutted lisp and replaced it with "easier to use" javascript.json
11:06 mircea_popescu im still puzzled as to why all the eth derps imagine they're competing with bitcoin, quoting all sorts of bitcoin news etc, when it's quite clear they're trying to eat the ever shrinking ripple pie.
11:06 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279561 << holy fuck
11:06 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 14:46:16; mircea_popescu: http://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/3512/cant-compile-a-contract << meanwhile the "contract compiler" segfaults. and stuff. srsly, i need a "contract compiler" written in fucking cpp to spit out what's obviously parsed output ?
11:06 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: it suddenly makes sense when you realize that they are not competing with bitcoin, but with 'bitcoin'
11:07 mircea_popescu oh.
11:07 mircea_popescu but that'd be dogecoin
11:07 asciilifeform as in, the thing usg universities, 'ngo' complex, etc. finance.
11:07 mircea_popescu right.
11:07 asciilifeform nah dogecoin is the u.s. dept. of reddit's version.
11:07 mircea_popescu technologically urbit, managerially dogecoin, practically ripple.
11:07 asciilifeform these are (hard as it may be to believe) separate ministries
11:08 asciilifeform aha.
11:09 mircea_popescu and within not so long, the only people left standing will have a very strong "opentransactions" flavour to it
11:09 mircea_popescu (which is pure necrodearia style insanity-on-a-stick, for the people who haven
11:09 mircea_popescu 't been watching the show back in 2012ish)
11:09 asciilifeform the other thing is, i was briefly astonished at how broken the thing is, but then remembered an old mircea_popescu lemma which leads to 'it must necessarily be broken' - i haven't the link handy, but this was an article where 'usg dare not safely use a working bitcoin or even similar item, because it will begin to warp around it'
11:10 mircea_popescu there's very faint traces of usg in all of this.
11:10 shinohai meanwhile, thank you asciilifeform for giving us a bitcoind that isn't a horribly bloated p.o.s.
11:10 mircea_popescu mostly because warm soup at maryland, but that's limited.
11:10 asciilifeform shinohai: l0l it wasn't just my doing
11:11 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the soup at md was poured by nsf (a good $2M worth iirc, straight from the crown)
11:11 asciilifeform and that's merely the first parcel.
11:11 mircea_popescu 2mn is not enough to take a piss.
11:12 asciilifeform it is an appetizer. pays for two profs and a stable of arsewipes
11:12 mircea_popescu yes, but the stable gets $20 a head.
11:12 asciilifeform one of these days i'ma walk over to their sweatshop & count'em
11:13 asciilifeform (yes, presently anybody can just waltz in)
11:13 mircea_popescu or send pet.
11:13 asciilifeform or.
11:13 mircea_popescu she can pretend she's wymyn in tech, interested in ethereum for glory.
11:14 mircea_popescu see what happens
11:14 mircea_popescu (i do this sort of thing ALLLLL the time.)
11:14 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9800 @ 0.00073611 = 7.2139 BTC [-]
11:16 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279498 << i never quite understood why this has not happened yet in usa
11:16 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 14:16:03; assbot: Logged on 19-09-2015 11:24:12; punkman: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7967908e-5ded-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html "The assumption is that if a central bank introduced negative interest rates — a radical move that would effectively amount to a charge on holding money — people would convert deposits into cash. But abolishing cash would remove that option. "
11:17 asciilifeform popular explanations range from 'nah they can't ban it, with what will we pay the mexican strawberry pickers' to 'it will come any day now'
11:18 mircea_popescu us cash is banned anyway.
11:18 mircea_popescu think for a second : your largest bill is worth ~80 euros.
11:18 mircea_popescu the eu still has 500 euro bills, which are about as useful as argentine 100 pesos.
11:18 mircea_popescu for a functioning cash economy you'd need 10k bills.
11:18 mircea_popescu stuff with two digits should be reminted as coins.
11:18 asciilifeform this will come.
11:18 asciilifeform as per zimbabwe.
11:19 mircea_popescu "no inflation for a century" ==> "time to cut two zeros off the currency"
11:19 asciilifeform aha.
11:19 asciilifeform as the ruble, under hruschev
11:20 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23050 @ 0.00073494 = 16.9404 BTC [-] {2}
11:21 asciilifeform back to u.s. cash, i suspect that it remains a thing at least partly due to ease of extrajudicial confiscation
11:23 mircea_popescu prolly.
11:23 mircea_popescu nobody that you know paid in cash for a house or even a car. think about that. what cash ?
11:24 mircea_popescu twenty years ago you COULD NOT buy a house in romania other than for cash. no matter what.
11:25 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: in usa, if you are so much as seen publicly with a bag of cash big enough for a car (much less a house) - immediate jail, unless you have an alibi
11:25 mircea_popescu so then what "will".
11:25 asciilifeform and if you ~do~ have a 'good reason', you might still be dekulakized
11:25 mircea_popescu it's banned.
11:26 asciilifeform ah the 'will' is per 'shave two zeros'
11:26 mircea_popescu the only incentive to do that is the loss of face over having to print wider bills to accomodate the increase in digits.
11:27 mircea_popescu as the us is not printing new bills, the incentive is not present.
11:29 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i also suspect that one of the drivers of usg interest in demented pseudo-bitcoin contraptions ('permissioned blockchain technology!') is that these folks dream of a hybrid bulldog-rhinoceros, 'best of both', where usg can electronically steal everything you have, but without any bureaucratic snags - it will look precisely like a voluntary donation, from a mathematical standpoint
11:30 mircea_popescu i doubt anyone thinks this far ahead.
11:30 mircea_popescu so far it's more like a "pack of wild dogs invaded your living room ? quick, drop some squaky toys on the floor!11"
11:30 mircea_popescu "we'll figure it out later..."
11:32 mircea_popescu so since i'm now looking at the table of "crypto currencies", as if that's a thing now (hey, why not you know, alternate centers of gravity - why not!!1), here's a table :
11:32 mircea_popescu #Name"MKT CAP"unit priceM3Trade volumeChange
11:32 mircea_popescu 1 Bitcoin $ 3,380,982,278 $ 231.09 14,630,650 BTC $ 14,104,800 -1.02 %
11:32 mircea_popescu 2 Ripple $ 242,349,655 $ 0.007460 32,488,247,336 XRP $ 614,620 -0.87 %
11:32 mircea_popescu 3 Litecoin $ 121,542,198 $ 2.87 42,357,610 LTC $ 811,946 -3.64 %
11:32 mircea_popescu 4 Ethereum $ 61,476,700 $ 0.838699 73,300,075 ETH $ 426,907 -1.99 %
11:32 mircea_popescu 5 BitShares $ 14,993,647 $ 0.005969 2,511,953,117 BTS $ 468,786 12.20 %
11:32 mircea_popescu someone fucking explain to me what is the MEANING of "quarter billion mkt cap" over half a million trade volume.
11:33 mircea_popescu in what sense does this make sense ? you don't even need to have finance experience to notice this nonsense.
11:33 asciilifeform idk, how does 3B with 14M volume make sense ?
11:33 mircea_popescu leaving aside "what the fuck is bitshares" etc.
11:33 mircea_popescu asciilifeform it doesn't.
11:33 asciilifeform no shit
11:34 asciilifeform see also http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-07-2014#742046
11:34 assbot Logged on 03-07-2014 17:34:41; asciilifeform: overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than 145 millions. Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot.'
11:36 asciilifeform there is this.
11:36 asciilifeform but also, unless i catastrophically misunderstand, 'market cap' is a pseudoscientific measure to begin with.
11:36 mircea_popescu General Motors Company (GM). volume : 17,957,300 (3 mo avg) , 1.58 Bn outstanding.
11:36 asciilifeform it is possible that, e.g., 'market cap' for rembrandt canvases is $3B but this year's trading volume is $0
11:37 mircea_popescu so bitcoin is pushing it with its 0.005. but this 0.001 bs...
11:37 mircea_popescu asciilifeform "possible" in what alt-universe ?
11:37 asciilifeform if none had changed hands ?
11:38 asciilifeform in the time period under consideration
11:38 mircea_popescu dividing the mkt cap by the mkt volume roughly yields the "empty hopes" factor.
11:38 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 33100 @ 0.00074329 = 24.6029 BTC [+]
11:38 mircea_popescu why would that be the case, the less liquid a market is the more hope driven it is.
11:41 mircea_popescu anyway, to sum up : mkt cap / mkt volume factors. bitcoin 0.004171805 ; ripple 0.002536088 ; ltc 0.006680363 ; 0.006944208 ; "bitshares" 0.031265642 ; general motors, 0.01136538
11:43 mircea_popescu or if you don't like gm, apple is 59,026,600/5.70 bn = 0.010355544
11:44 asciilifeform how about physical gold ?
11:44 mircea_popescu that's too cooked.
11:44 asciilifeform suspected as much
11:45 mircea_popescu but if you'd prefer minerals, how about shell. 1,583,440 / 3.16bn = 0.000501089
11:45 mircea_popescu (rds-b)
11:49 pete_dushenski jpm : 16,534,400 / 3.70 bn = 0.00446875675676
11:50 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 54158 @ 0.00073959 = 40.0547 BTC [-] {5}
11:50 mircea_popescu eh jpm.
11:51 pete_dushenski http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279569 << was augur fussing about bitbet ? i musta missed this and just figured they'd pretend like bb/mpex were never invented
11:51 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 14:50:33; mircea_popescu: i also can't believe the butthurt "augur" people that kept derping on reddit about how mean bitbet is actually are built atop this shit and somehow still expect anyone to take them seriously.
11:51 mircea_popescu anyway, berkshire's 297/811760 = 0.000365872, better example in that vein
11:52 pete_dushenski http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279575 << you!!1 >> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=24-08-2015#1250344
11:52 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 14:54:39; mircea_popescu: who the fuck keeps telling people enthusiasm matters. shut the fuck up and sit down, you're not helping. in fact, you're most of the problem.
11:52 assbot Logged on 24-08-2015 17:51:38; mircea_popescu: because enthusiasm beats anything else nine times out of seven.
11:52 mircea_popescu damn.
11:53 mircea_popescu wait, i call scamminigans.
11:53 mircea_popescu i was discussing women and blowjobs wasn't i.
11:54 pete_dushenski my guess is bois thought that gender equality meant that they could be enthusiastic too
11:54 mircea_popescu https://www.reddit.com/r/BitShares/comments/3js068/is_this_a_dream/ << o brother, the traders.
11:54 assbot Is this a dream? : BitShares ... ( http://bit.ly/1KXOzmC )
11:54 mircea_popescu pete_dushenski they could! IF THEY WERE SUCKING COCK.
11:54 mircea_popescu o wait. they also think wrinkly old usgfag qualifies huh.
11:55 mircea_popescu jesus.
11:55 pete_dushenski discrimination
11:55 deedbot- [BitBet Bets Bets] 12.10078888 BTC on 'No' - The ETH scam won't see 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1199/the-eth-scam-wont-see-2016/#b13
11:55 mircea_popescu anyway, "bitshares" turns out to be yet another bitbet-killer
11:55 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 45595 @ 0.00074465 = 33.9523 BTC [+] {3}
11:55 mircea_popescu it's a wonder that shit site's still around.
11:55 mircea_popescu "BTS's consensus algorithm is DPOS, which is roughly that stakeholders vote on a relatively small set of block validators (~100). All stakeholders care about is "sufficient" decentralization - block validators are quick to replace. These validators can be high-performance servers."
11:58 mircea_popescu "I read about interest on bitAssets. Tell me more!
11:58 mircea_popescu If you tumbled over the term interest, you probably read an outdated posted. Sorry to tell you but there is no interest on your bitUSD ... for legal reasons ... thus the community decided to call it a yield :-). That yield is payed out every time you transfer bitUSD (that are older than 24h). This effectively is an interest, but has an other name. Check out the our info graphic about is:"
11:58 mircea_popescu sigh
11:58 pete_dushenski i remember way back when bitshares was a new thing, all the local kidz (some of whom were twice my age) jumping aboard and mining and trying to swindle me into it
11:59 pete_dushenski it was 2013's Great New Thing
11:59 pete_dushenski 'ground floor' kinda stuff
11:59 mircea_popescu dude that eth bet's a killer lol
11:59 pete_dushenski tip o' the cap to whoever drafted it up
11:59 pete_dushenski 'etc' notwithstanding
12:00 mircea_popescu i suspect it was a deliberate jab
12:00 mircea_popescu etc is an actual eth thing.
12:02 pete_dushenski what's the relation between eth and etc ?
12:02 pete_dushenski "Ethercoins are redeemable for Ether on a 1:1 basis."
12:02 pete_dushenski "Please Note: We are in no way affiliated with the Official Ethereum project."
12:02 pete_dushenski ^from ethercoin website
12:03 mircea_popescu also above in log.
12:03 pete_dushenski http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279519 << aha
12:03 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 14:26:49; punkman: "Ethercoin is a proof-of-stake blockchain with a fixed supply of coins provably backed by REAL ethers purchased from the Ethereum sale"
12:03 pete_dushenski still makes no goddam sense but w/e
12:03 pete_dushenski lol
12:04 pete_dushenski "President Barack Obama nominated Eric Fanning to become the next secretary of the Army, the White House said, paving the way for the first openly gay leader of a military service branch in U.S. history."
12:07 mircea_popescu http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/business/20150915/arcadia-based-company-under-investigation-councilmans-connections-under-scrutiny
12:07 assbot Arcadia-based company under investigation, councilman’s connections under scrutiny ... ( http://bit.ly/1WaoX7X )
12:07 mircea_popescu bwahahaha
12:07 mircea_popescu the company ? which the guy called "a major breakthrough in finance" ?
12:07 mircea_popescu GEMCOIN
12:08 mircea_popescu i thought azn ppl were supposed to be throwing the curve.
12:09 mircea_popescu "Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has joined forces with a cryptocurrency firm to bring bitcoin ATMs to Las Vegas. The deal with Conexus and Bitcoin Direct is believed to be the first celebrity partnership in the bitcoin industry."
12:10 mircea_popescu awww, twinklefenton's gonna be butt-hurt ? again
12:10 pete_dushenski http://polimedia.us/dtng/c/src/135778037437.png << link from http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1108 goes straight to mpex.ws
12:10 assbot MPEx, the Bitcoin securities exchange. ... ( http://bit.ly/1KXQffY )
12:11 pete_dushenski there are probably a raft of 'polimedia' links on loper that do the same.
12:11 mircea_popescu old chan thing that meanwhilke died.
12:12 mircea_popescu hahahaha australia, that shithole where canaries are illegal ? lmao.
12:15 mircea_popescu https://np.reddit.com/r/primecoin/comments/3lg17m/if_primecoin_becomes_international_transferring/
12:15 assbot If Primecoin becomes international transferring instrument, the price versus USD will potentially hit 1,000! : primecoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1Waptmp )
12:19 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7000 @ 0.00075242 = 5.2669 BTC [+]
12:28 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10900 @ 0.00075242 = 8.2014 BTC [+]
12:30 mircea_popescu "CoinTelegraph Media Group is the largest international cryptocurrency-related marketing and advertising agency in the world. Our Ad opportunities provide our clients with wide-reaching penetration into the cryptocurrency-oriented community."
12:36 mircea_popescu !up crescendo
12:37 mircea_popescu and in retrospective lulz, murdoch paid 5bn for dow jones in 2008. last summer ft sold (to nikkei) for 1.change bn.
12:37 mircea_popescu the only question being wtf were the japs thinking.
12:37 mircea_popescu it does maybe 20mn profit over half bn revenue. which half bn revenue dropped 80% over the decade and will drop 90% over the next decade.
12:47 pete_dushenski japs were thinking 'not my bezzlars, don't care where they come from or where they're going, just that they're active rather than passive'
12:47 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 76549 @ 0.00075305 = 57.6452 BTC [+] {4}
12:49 pete_dushenski "General Motors admitted wrongdoing and will pay a $900-million penalty, but will avoid federal prosecution for its mishandling of an ignition-switch defect in some of its older cars." << even 'chosen ones' have to pay their tithes/baksheesh.
12:51 pete_dushenski http://www.contravex.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ivananucar.jpg << the competition for 'best troll name' intensifies. this, from a local car dealer.
12:54 pete_dushenski ;;later tell Pierre_Rochard http://www.loper-os.org/?p=69 << "Employers much prefer that workers be fungible, rather than maximally productive."
12:54 assbot Loper OS » Where Lisp Fails: at Turning People into Fungible Cogs. ... ( http://bit.ly/1NDt8Gj )
12:54 gribble The operation succeeded.
12:56 mircea_popescu "Many economists believe that balance sheet losses are irrelevant for a central bank, so they should play no role in policy."
12:56 mircea_popescu ahjahahaha
12:56 mircea_popescu win.
12:56 pete_dushenski this is precisely what i mean by 'economists' of which noah smith is a prime example
12:57 pete_dushenski 'many economist believe that inflation doesn't erode your savings'
12:57 pete_dushenski sure, why not.
12:57 pete_dushenski it's the most meaningless source in the universe for a journalist to cite
12:58 pete_dushenski how many 'economists' exist ? tens of thousands ?
12:58 pete_dushenski so 100 of them is 'many'
12:58 mircea_popescu clearly they're shopping for many economists the same place gavin did
12:58 mircea_popescu which may or may not be related to the toilet.
12:58 pete_dushenski at walmart
12:58 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 104950 @ 0.00075475 = 79.211 BTC [+] {6}
12:59 pete_dushenski bbias
13:00 mircea_popescu http://heidiroizen.tumblr.com/post/118473647305/how-to-build-a-unicorn-from-scratch-and-walk
13:00 assbot Operating Partner, DFJ ... ( http://bit.ly/1MiUU9z )
13:01 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 37800 @ 0.00075223 = 28.4343 BTC [-]
13:04 mircea_popescu roizen is actually one of those actual women in, well, not tech, but anyway.
13:05 * ben_vulpes pours out a drink for the memory of trinque in town
13:05 ben_vulpes good morning, assett
13:05 ben_vulpes assets*
13:06 mircea_popescu "In the deal, Hooli would invest $200 million for equity while in return the two companies would enter into a business development agreement on the side in which Pied Piper guarantees to spend that money in a massive consumer campaign on Hooli’s ad platform."
13:06 mircea_popescu aka, graham's yahoo advertising ponzi scheme.
13:08 ben_vulpes this is relevant to a question i've been mulling of late. say a new client shows up at my door, and i like their shit so much i want to buy a chunk of it. how would i navigate both owning a chunk of the new company and also my consulting company that would be building large swathes of the product? seems a bit ethically and incentive-alignmently fraught.
13:14 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35962 @ 0.0007542 = 27.1225 BTC [+] {3}
13:17 mircea_popescu the only problem with it is that it's a profession, and you don't have a clue how it works.
13:25 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20000 @ 0.00075612 = 15.1224 BTC [+] {3}
13:27 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7600 @ 0.00075149 = 5.7113 BTC [-] {2}
13:27 * pete_dushenski off for a haircut and some exercise (fear not, the jewfro will survive)
13:28 * ben_vulpes doesn't understand anything about how the world works
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13:54 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8143 @ 0.00075683 = 6.1629 BTC [+]
13:57 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12150 @ 0.00075683 = 9.1955 BTC [+]
13:58 mats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gweDBQ-9LuQ
13:58 assbot The Perl Jam: Exploiting a 20 Year-old Vulnerability [31c3] - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1Lp8Obx )
14:02 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27800 @ 0.00075377 = 20.9548 BTC [-]
14:13 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 57100 @ 0.00074793 = 42.7068 BTC [-] {3}
14:18 * asciilifeform opens crate, says to pet, 'wanna learn some galois theory?' -- pet: 'not unless it will teach me how to die with honour in duel !'
14:20 mircea_popescu o.O
14:22 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 54027 @ 0.00073781 = 39.8617 BTC [-] {5}
14:23 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279776 << this is about a tv series, 'silicon valley', which is a merciless parody of the whole idiot culture and actually worth seeing
14:23 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 17:06:23; mircea_popescu: "In the deal, Hooli would invest $200 million for equity while in return the two companies would enter into a business development agreement on the side in which Pied Piper guarantees to spend that money in a massive consumer campaign on Hooli’s ad platform."
14:24 mircea_popescu im writing it up as we speak.
14:24 * asciilifeform barely watches film at all these days, but saw all of 'silicon..', at the instigation of phriendz, and l0lled
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14:50 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10050 @ 0.00073334 = 7.3701 BTC [-]
14:58 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15661 @ 0.00073704 = 11.5428 BTC [+] {3}
15:00 mircea_popescu in other news, trilema article i been working for the past coupla hours now stands at 7.5k words
15:06 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3482 @ 0.00074621 = 2.5983 BTC [+]
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15:23 BingoBoingo Sweet
15:28 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24650 @ 0.00073852 = 18.2045 BTC [-]
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15:58 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42000 @ 0.00073658 = 30.9364 BTC [-] {3}
16:05 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19750 @ 0.00073594 = 14.5348 BTC [-] {2}
16:07 ag3nt_zer0 happy saturday all
16:08 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24000 @ 0.00073374 = 17.6098 BTC [-] {4}
16:08 ag3nt_zer0 watching this great horror film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHyvRHrYYBA
16:08 assbot Indoctrinate U - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1gBi9A4 )
16:09 ag3nt_zer0 "An investigation of how political correctness has impinged on freedom of speech and intellectual diversity on college campuses."
16:12 shinohai o/ ag3nt_zer0
16:12 ag3nt_zer0 same topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph5LdzBE1V4 if anyones interested I like watching this kid fight
16:12 assbot Ben Shapiro on indoctrination of America's youth in universities - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1OmafJz )
16:12 ag3nt_zer0 yo shinohai, how goes it?
16:20 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 87641 @ 0.00073348 = 64.2829 BTC [-] {3}
16:21 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 32750 @ 0.00073326 = 24.0143 BTC [-] {2}
16:24 mats http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/16/440667030/another-government-shutdown-looms-at-the-end-of-the-month
16:24 assbot Another Government Shutdown Looms At The End Of The Month : The Two-Way : NPR ... ( http://bit.ly/1OmbmJl )
16:30 shinohai not bad ag3nt_zer0 having a glass or 8 of wine and you?
16:32 ag3nt_zer0 shinohai: just watching that indoctrinate U movie haha
16:34 cazalla http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279578 <<< nah, that's the first paycoin, this is garza's paycoin (was also first! ignore the 2 in the url) http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/paycoin2/ still, may as well be $1000
16:34 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 15:00:17; mircea_popescu: http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/paycoin/ << $ 1,343 MARKET CAP!!11
16:34 assbot PayCoin (XPY) price, charts, and info | Crypto-Currency Market Capitalizations ... ( http://bit.ly/1OmbSqL )
16:38 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 40850 @ 0.00073322 = 29.952 BTC [-] {3}
16:41 mircea_popescu oic.
16:47 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20122 @ 0.0007331 = 14.7514 BTC [-]
16:52 deedbot- [Trilema] You know what gets no airplay ? Unflattering truth. - http://trilema.com/2015/you-know-what-gets-no-airplay-unflattering-truth/
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17:08 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31354 @ 0.00074518 = 23.3644 BTC [+] {3}
17:10 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 41800 @ 0.00074133 = 30.9876 BTC [-]
17:23 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26000 @ 0.00074559 = 19.3853 BTC [+]
17:24 shinohai https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1184053.msg12466995;boardseen#new <<< keks
17:24 assbot need someone familiar with finite field arithmetic to write whitepaper ... ( http://bit.ly/1FmZEv1 )
17:24 shinohai tl;dr I don't know this shit but it is critical to get people to adopt my scamcoin. SO help plox, thx bye.
17:26 mircea_popescu ;pr
17:26 mircea_popescu prolly tring to do rijndael something or the other
17:31 shinohai btw excellent trilema post mircea_popescu. I don't have the greatest understanding of such things but that certainly makes sense.
17:31 mircea_popescu *thumbsup*
17:33 shinohai It's easy to see in comparison why most new ventures fail nowadays.
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17:56 pete_dushenski http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/city/food/216541-searching-for-the-grey-market-foods-of-nyc << mimolette, salmiakki, betel nut, fujianese rice wine, and sassafras
17:56 assbot Searching for the "grey market" foods of New York City — Hopes&Fears — flow "Food" ... ( http://bit.ly/1YpbhIn )
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18:12 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 39150 @ 0.00074624 = 29.2153 BTC [+] {2}
18:12 phf http://www.wired.com/2015/09/amazon-tablet-casio-calculator/ << "the pricey calculator" section about new casio s100, which costs $220, about as much ebay hp-16c, but otherwise is a piece of shit
18:12 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1YpdR17 )
18:17 shinohai Tablets are shit too, imho phf
18:18 phf that goes without saying
18:20 phf i wouldn't have posted otherwise, but for the recent calculator discussions. all the talk about "limited edition retro appeal" in stark contrast to b-a considerations
18:21 shinohai b-a has the brightest minds in bitcoin finance, yet I never hear anyone here hawking the latest hardware.
18:24 shinohai https://i.imgur.com/7EgfHNf.jpg <<<dem shoulders though :/
18:24 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1QPDO4W )
18:25 mircea_popescu they just did. casio ftw!
18:26 mircea_popescu shit, i want two.
18:29 shinohai To all reading the b-a logs: I wish to compile a list of realbitcoin nodes so if you have one I can list feel free to ping.
18:30 mircea_popescu which do you have so far ?
18:31 shinohai I got ascii's I think and danielpbarron 's
18:31 shinohai I don't necessarily have to make them public, just wanted to put them somewhere so I could connect if need be.
18:32 phf asciilifeform: phf: they all have fuckin' ~huge~ binaries so far as i'm concerned << i don't think i was too picky at the time, i.e. cmucl dumps 20mb images, and my main concern was audio latency anyway. oh i also used mlkit for that reason, it uses a combination of frame based memory management and gc, so you can have realtime guarantees.
18:33 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17250 @ 0.00073936 = 12.754 BTC [-] {3}
18:33 mircea_popescu shinohai 188.68.240.159 is also on
18:33 phf never the less later that was reason why i looked at ocaml, with some flags and afair abandonment of all stdlib packages, you can get it to produce binaries in the low 100kb range. entirely useless.
18:35 shinohai thx will add that, need to write a simple script that can show which are on/off etc
18:40 phf if b-a was a 1912 revolutionary clique, pete would be a hotheaded guy with a nagant, shooting up chandelier to announce our arrival. "comrade mats was questioning comrade lenin's communique, so i gave him nagant to the gut."
18:49 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279839 << i thought betel was banned in usa? or was that khat ?
18:49 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 21:56:32; pete_dushenski: http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/city/food/216541-searching-for-the-grey-market-foods-of-nyc << mimolette, salmiakki, betel nut, fujianese rice wine, and sassafras
18:49 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36050 @ 0.00074574 = 26.8839 BTC [+]
18:49 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279842 << lulzy. for comparison, i picked up a (turned out, virginal (!!!)) ti-92plus for 25 usd.
18:49 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 22:12:54; phf: http://www.wired.com/2015/09/amazon-tablet-casio-calculator/ << "the pricey calculator" section about new casio s100, which costs $220, about as much ebay hp-16c, but otherwise is a piece of shit
18:50 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279861 << l0l! aha.
18:50 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 22:40:54; phf: if b-a was a 1912 revolutionary clique, pete would be a hotheaded guy with a nagant, shooting up chandelier to announce our arrival. "comrade mats was questioning comrade lenin's communique, so i gave him nagant to the gut."
18:51 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279859 << ever got mlton or smlnj, or mosml, to build glibc-less binaries ?
18:51 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 22:33:17; phf: never the less later that was reason why i looked at ocaml, with some flags and afair abandonment of all stdlib packages, you can get it to produce binaries in the low 100kb range. entirely useless.
18:51 asciilifeform (standalone ones. i will not use the threaded code ones for anything)
18:52 asciilifeform static or nada.
18:52 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279856 << frame-based ?
18:52 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 22:32:40; phf: asciilifeform: phf: they all have fuckin' ~huge~ binaries so far as i'm concerned << i don't think i was too picky at the time, i.e. cmucl dumps 20mb images, and my main concern was audio latency anyway. oh i also used mlkit for that reason, it uses a combination of frame based memory management and gc, so you can have realtime guarantees.
18:53 phf i think it's actually called region-based memory management
18:54 phf also no re glibc-less binaries
18:54 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279839 << i just came out of a shop near dc, it sold that same mimolette (as far as naked eye could tell)
18:54 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 21:56:32; pete_dushenski: http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/city/food/216541-searching-for-the-grey-market-foods-of-nyc << mimolette, salmiakki, betel nut, fujianese rice wine, and sassafras
18:55 phf presumably it's either glibc and small binaries or no glibc and the entire stdlib attached to the thing. ocaml at least doesn't do any sort of "tree shaking"
18:56 phf *didn't
18:57 phf have you already dropped ocaml from your evaluation based on that article you posted couple of days ago?
19:00 cazalla http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279708 <<< was it not something like protoshares then bit X and proto X and about 5 other incarnations prior to it being bitshares?
19:00 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 15:58:44; pete_dushenski: i remember way back when bitshares was a new thing, all the local kidz (some of whom were twice my age) jumping aboard and mining and trying to swindle me into it
19:02 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21027 @ 0.00074622 = 15.6908 BTC [+] {3}
19:04 cazalla http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279827 <<< this was a great sunday morning read
19:04 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 20:52:53; deedbot-: [Trilema] You know what gets no airplay ? Unflattering truth. - http://trilema.com/2015/you-know-what-gets-no-airplay-unflattering-truth/
19:06 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279881 << i fucking hate single-vendor items
19:06 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 22:57:48; phf: have you already dropped ocaml from your evaluation based on that article you posted couple of days ago?
19:07 cazalla http://www.jewocity.com/blog/13-female-footballers-removed-from-federation-internationale-de-football-association-16-following-ncaa-warning/71799 "Athletes are paid in ‘an education, ‘ the only currency more hard to spend than bitcoin”, Oliver joked"
19:07 assbot 13 female footballers removed from Federation Internationale de Football Association 16 following NCAA warning | Jewocity.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1MjkJGB )
19:07 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279879 << actually as far as i can tell it is ~worse~. the 'small binaries' are bytecode-compiled that runs SLOW AS FUCK ~and~ REQUIRED RUNTIME INSTALLED
19:07 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 22:55:01; phf: presumably it's either glibc and small binaries or no glibc and the entire stdlib attached to the thing. ocaml at least doesn't do any sort of "tree shaking"
19:07 asciilifeform the 'large binaries' are a 200kB helloworld ~and~ dynamically link libc.
19:08 asciilifeform and what the fuck do people smoke that makes them release a compiler without tree shaking?
19:08 asciilifeform what do we need the dead code for ???
19:08 asciilifeform i just don't get it.
19:10 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35450 @ 0.00074862 = 26.5386 BTC [+] {4}
19:24 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19887 @ 0.00073781 = 14.6728 BTC [-]
19:26 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36800 @ 0.00074078 = 27.2607 BTC [+] {3}
19:39 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35700 @ 0.00074312 = 26.5294 BTC [+]
19:47 cazalla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMQxhBN-gUk lol
19:47 assbot The Truth Behind AbbyBitcoin - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1KtsgPp )
19:49 pete_dushenski http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279882 << 'protoshares' rings a bell, now that you mention it.
19:49 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 23:00:00; cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279708 <<< was it not something like protoshares then bit X and proto X and about 5 other incarnations prior to it being bitshares?
19:49 cazalla http://www.coindesk.com/london-photographer-embarks-on-bitcoin-only-challenge/ gg coindesk promoting scams ha
19:49 assbot London Photographer Embarks on Bitcoin-Only Challenge ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ktsjuz )
19:50 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26906 @ 0.00074312 = 19.9944 BTC [+]
19:53 pete_dushenski http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279901 << 'he found me in a mental hospital'
19:53 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 23:47:30; cazalla: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMQxhBN-gUk lol
19:53 pete_dushenski yikes.
19:53 pete_dushenski !s abbybitcoin
19:53 assbot 0 results for 'abbybitcoin' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=abbybitcoin
19:53 pete_dushenski figured as much
20:03 pete_dushenski http://www.initc3.org/publications.html << your public dollars at work.
20:03 assbot Publications - IC3: Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts ... ( http://bit.ly/1F8Lo9p )
20:04 pete_dushenski with hot new titles such as "Nonoutsourceable Scratch-Off Puzzles to Discourage Bitcoin Mining Coalitions."
20:05 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: this one's not entirely rotten. see logs.
20:05 asciilifeform (not the specific paper, aha, but the concept)
20:05 asciilifeform !s nonoutsourceable
20:05 assbot 0 results for 'nonoutsourceable' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=nonoutsourceable
20:05 asciilifeform !s non-outsourceable
20:05 assbot 4 results for 'non-outsourceable' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=non-outsourceable
20:05 asciilifeform ^
20:05 pete_dushenski oh hey, nifty
20:06 pete_dushenski but i still need something to mock !
20:06 asciilifeform as for why this general thing, see mr mold: 'The CS-research bureaucrat's main difficulty is that no one wants to fund bureaucrats. Therefore, he must pretend to be either a creative programmer or a mathematician, preferably both. Since this task is critical to his survival, he is extremely good at it. The bureaucrat has many strategies. But probably his best is to take an area of creative programming and devour it like a locu
20:06 asciilifeform st, by turning it into a form of mathematics. Math outcompetes creative programming in the funding process, simply because it appears to be more rigorous. It is more rigorous, and it generates a longer, deeper river of more impressive publications. And, because its area is nominally applied, it doesn't have to compete with the real mathematicians over in "algorithms," who would clean the bureaucrats' clocks in five minutes.'
20:07 pete_dushenski "The Ring of Gyges: Using Smart Contracts for Crime." << should do the trick :)
20:07 asciilifeform (from the mega-classic http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/08/whats-wrong-with-cs-research.html )
20:07 assbot Unqualified Reservations: What's wrong with CS research ... ( http://bit.ly/1F8LwFV )
20:07 asciilifeform '... Whatever their tactics, what CS bureaucrats always sacrifice is relevance. Of course everyone has a conscience, and everyone would like to be actually relevant. But, especially when the only people checking up are your own godfathers in the funding agencies, it's much easier to pretend to be relevant. Actual relevance is extremely difficult to achieve, and hardly rewarding at all. In fact it's embarrassing, because everyo
20:07 asciilifeform ne who isn't relevant and knows it has an automatic grudge against you. Since CS research is quite competitive, evolution has its way, and relevance goes the way of the snake's legs.'
20:08 * asciilifeform recommends whole thing
~ 18 minutes ~
20:26 pete_dushenski "Finally, we note that a node can send unsolicited ADDR
20:26 pete_dushenski messages in two cases: first, upon receiving an incoming
20:26 pete_dushenski connection from n, a node x sends an ADDR message, to a
20:26 pete_dushenski randomly chosen peer, containing only x with the times-
20:26 pete_dushenski tamp set to the current local time. Nodes keep state about
20:26 pete_dushenski which addresses their neighbors know of (because they
20:26 pete_dushenski receivedl sent information about these nodes from/to their
20:26 pete_dushenski neighbor). When nodes receive a ADDR messages with
20:26 pete_dushenski fewer than 10 entries, either as the result of a GETADDR
20:26 pete_dushenski response or a new connection, they choose two peers at
20:26 pete_dushenski random and relay the same ADDR information (without
20:26 pete_dushenski updating any timestamps), as long as the node believes
20:26 pete_dushenski the neighbors don’t already have this address. Nodes
20:26 pete_dushenski purge all information about what addresses their neigh-
20:26 pete_dushenski bors know every twenty-four hours. Thus when a node
20:26 pete_dushenski with a hitherto unknown address joins the network, the
20:26 pete_dushenski relay messages containing the node’s IP address eventu-
20:27 pete_dushenski ally flood the entire network. Whenever an existing node
20:27 pete_dushenski x makes a new connection, its address propagates in the
20:27 pete_dushenski network; how far depends on how many nodes already
20:27 pete_dushenski knew about x. Finally, a node will update addrMan upon
20:27 pete_dushenski receiving an ADDR message with a newer timestamp for
20:27 pete_dushenski an address. The two-hour aging penalty is applied to the
20:27 pete_dushenski new timestamp learned."
20:27 pete_dushenski eff...
20:27 pete_dushenski apologies. source : http://cs.umd.edu/projects/coinscope/coinscope.pdf
20:27 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1V2eER0 )
20:27 pete_dushenski de-pdf : http://dpaste.com/2VEJQRR.txt
20:27 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1V2eER6 )
20:27 cazalla l2dpaste
20:27 asciilifeform didja key that in on a telegraph or what
20:27 pete_dushenski :)
20:28 pete_dushenski copypasta from that txt there
20:29 pete_dushenski for a node network n00b, i found the aforejizzed quote quite interesting
20:30 punkman that was patched in newer phoundation versions, should still work for realbtc
20:37 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 62700 @ 0.0007425 = 46.5548 BTC [-]
20:41 * pete_dushenski off to dinner. laters !
~ 22 minutes ~
21:03 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 45607 @ 0.0007429 = 33.8814 BTC [+] {3}
21:05 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 87079 @ 0.00074632 = 64.9888 BTC [+] {5}
21:10 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 115947 @ 0.00075379 = 87.3997 BTC [+] {5}
21:15 asciilifeform ;;seen artifexd
21:15 gribble artifexd was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 21 weeks, 3 days, 2 hours, 58 minutes, and 11 seconds ago: <artifexd> I'm comfortable calling it a review. Not just of what it is but what it was and how it got to where it is.
21:16 punkman http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/chris-the-overgrown-australian-sheep-breaks-unofficial-world-record-following-shearing-10483977.html
21:16 assbot Lost sheep with overgrown coat found and shaved, yields enough wool to make 30 sweaters - Australasia - World - The Independent ... ( http://bit.ly/1OHoesJ )
~ 20 minutes ~
21:37 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 82936 @ 0.00073519 = 60.9737 BTC [-]
21:39 punkman for chrome users: http://a/%%30%30
21:44 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 86050 @ 0.00075553 = 65.0134 BTC [+] {2}
21:47 punkman https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPSzb53U8AEd4rD.png "I'm not "phobic" of all of Islam, just the several hundred million Muslims who think "suicide bombing is sometimes or often justified.""
21:47 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1OHqJLI )
21:49 punkman gotta wonder how "justified" translates to all those languages
21:50 punkman or "I wonder what a survey of Jews and Christians would show re: justification of drone bombings."
21:50 mircea_popescu i think suicide bombing not only can be but actually is perfectly justified.
21:50 mircea_popescu what are you gonna do, pleabargain ?
21:50 punkman aha
21:51 mircea_popescu a dysfunctional legal system makes suicide bombing a necessity. you don't like that, fix the fucking legal system.
21:51 punkman there is the question of who you suicidebomb though
21:51 mircea_popescu no there isn't. that's the thing with suicide bombing : no more questions.
21:51 mircea_popescu you like questions and shit, fix the fucking legal system.
21:51 mircea_popescu that's the place for questions.
21:53 mircea_popescu wait, old holland's banned in the us ?!
21:55 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25904 @ 0.00075683 = 19.6049 BTC [+] {2}
21:56 punkman https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPLih9lW8AA8Q7H.jpg:large
21:56 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1OHrlB6 )
21:56 punkman for mp's castle ^
21:59 mircea_popescu lol
21:59 mircea_popescu i thought alf was the anal afficcionado
21:59 punkman https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5006/5296624387_c98a68ff69_b.jpg same in wintertime
21:59 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1OHrBjz )
21:59 punkman it looked more like a cunt from that other angle
22:00 mircea_popescu haha
22:01 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-09-2015#1279902 << da fuck is that stupid shit
22:01 assbot Logged on 19-09-2015 23:47:31; assbot: The Truth Behind AbbyBitcoin - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1KtsgPp )
22:05 mircea_popescu "In fact it's embarrassing, because everyone who isn't relevant and knows it has an automatic grudge against you." <<< so ? the flailing is amusing.
22:06 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-09-2015#1280000 << win
22:06 assbot Logged on 20-09-2015 01:59:36; punkman: https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5006/5296624387_c98a68ff69_b.jpg same in wintertime
22:06 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: wai wut
22:08 mircea_popescu ;;bc,stats
22:08 gribble Current Blocks: 375276 | Current Difficulty: 5.933535123386657E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 376991 | Next Difficulty In: 1715 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 6 days, 22 hours, 38 minutes, and 2 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
22:11 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 37830 @ 0.00073476 = 27.796 BTC [-] {3}
22:12 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 65970 @ 0.0007328 = 48.3428 BTC [-] {2}
22:14 punkman http://qntra.net/2015/09/xiaoxing-xi-isnt-a-chinese-spy-after-all/ << https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10207388
22:14 assbot Xiaoxing Xi isn't a Chinese spy after all | Qntra ... ( http://bit.ly/1OHsLLJ )
22:14 assbot I used to work in the same research field as Xi. A very nice guy, did some very ... | Hacker News ... ( http://bit.ly/1OHsNn4 )
22:15 asciilifeform l0l, ulbricht
22:15 asciilifeform 'the history you didn't know' (tm)
22:19 punkman http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=17-09-2015#1277938 << illustrated https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bryg_k0CYAAIfsY.jpg:large
22:19 assbot Logged on 17-09-2015 18:45:27; ascii_field: the canonical 'two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner'
22:19 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1FUINut )
22:30 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 87533 @ 0.00073809 = 64.6072 BTC [+]
22:33 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 33400 @ 0.00074366 = 24.8382 BTC [+]
22:34 mircea_popescu ahahaha fucktarded gestapo is iliterate so xi ended up with a giant step forward sorta deal ?
22:35 mircea_popescu dude, this is so cool, getting to see the 50s first hand from atop a mountain of prime veal and home made black forest ...
22:36 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 77550 @ 0.00075306 = 58.3998 BTC [+] {5}
22:36 mircea_popescu i couldn't have it better if i planned it.
22:36 asciilifeform hey it sure beats seeing them from inside !
22:36 mircea_popescu mhm.
22:36 asciilifeform (inside the firebrick, with the gas on, where else)
22:37 * mircea_popescu toasts for this.
22:38 asciilifeform 'I saw a huge steam roller, / It blotted out the sun. / The people all lay down, lay down; / They did not try to run. / ... ...' - k. vonnegut
22:42 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19000 @ 0.00075727 = 14.3881 BTC [+] {2}
22:43 mircea_popescu fuck 'em.
22:47 mircea_popescu !rated slush
22:47 assbot You rated user slush on 20-Aug-2015, with a rating of -10, and supplied these additional notes: fuckwit.
22:47 mircea_popescu !unrate slush
22:47 assbot Request successful, get your OTP: http://w.b-a.link/otp/af7e9ebcf40eb27e
22:48 mircea_popescu !v assbot:mircea_popescu.unrate.slush:c6ff2578e04e5100530f440a0ddf17701e43e87010b7eee8128b2c43deaf5233
22:48 assbot Successfully unrated slush
22:48 mircea_popescu sad that in 2015 you still gotta teach old hands sense with the hot poker.
22:48 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: comment on the relative merits of -10 vs 'unrate'
22:49 mircea_popescu hm ?
22:49 asciilifeform as in, what is the logic above
22:49 asciilifeform (when does it make sense to unrate a fuckwit, vs keep -10)
22:49 asciilifeform as i understood, a negrate is a kind of radioactive tomb, a warning to others
22:50 mircea_popescu well, they stopped with the "bip 101" bullshit.
22:50 mircea_popescu i don't think the guy's toxic, just, acts the imbecile on occasion.
22:50 asciilifeform but is he cured in any sense, or just removed from the opportunity to commit atrocities at the given moment ?
22:53 mircea_popescu eh. tell you what, 4 years ago, when most of the current "experts" didn't know how to spell the name, the guy was hit by the first targetted attack, alongside some others.
22:54 mircea_popescu guy at linode ran off with ~5k bitcoin or so. never prosecuted, slush covered out of pocket.
22:55 mircea_popescu this, incidentally, being the reason why nobody uses linode to this day.
22:55 asciilifeform but do we know whether this was the lion's share of his pocket, or just pocket lint ?
22:56 mircea_popescu eh, at the time we're discussing nobody in bitcoin had enough money for a spare sandwich.
22:56 mircea_popescu top tier ~= enthusiasts with a spare basement.
22:56 asciilifeform but isn't this because a sandwich cost 100,000 btc at the time?
22:56 mircea_popescu at the time bitcoin was ~4 usd.
22:56 asciilifeform ah hm.
22:57 mircea_popescu so if memory serves he lost like 3.x k worth 10-20k or so.
22:57 mircea_popescu whichy, as he said then and i believed then, set him back a few months of dayjob.
22:58 * asciilifeform given that we had the thread re: 'market depths' today, cannot help but wonder whether a fella with, e.g., 10,000 btc in those times did ~not~ actually see himself as in possession of 40,000 usd
22:58 mircea_popescu there's a difference, a major difference at work here.
22:58 asciilifeform possibly this sounds batshit, but it could explain why the 'early adopt' folks were so eager to part with their coin in return for a song and a promise
22:59 mircea_popescu stuff like ripple or ether is in the 0.05 range because NOBODY WISHES TO BUY.
22:59 mircea_popescu bitcoin is in that range because nobody wishes to sell.
22:59 mircea_popescu huge fucking difference.
22:59 mircea_popescu bitcoin has a history coming up from 1 cent.
22:59 mircea_popescu these shits, do not.
22:59 asciilifeform but whenever someone seems willing to mass-sell, it tanks ?
22:59 mircea_popescu notrly.
22:59 asciilifeform my current understanding is that treating price as a scalar is loony
22:59 asciilifeform it isn't a scalar.
22:59 mircea_popescu whenever "someone" aims to engineer faux sell pressure, "someone" gets raped.
22:59 asciilifeform more of a tensor.
23:00 mircea_popescu no price was ever a scalar.
23:02 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 99000 @ 0.00073809 = 73.0709 BTC [-]
23:02 mircea_popescu then again, no velocity was ever a scalar either, doesn't prevent cars from displaying odometers.
23:04 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 94850 @ 0.00073556 = 69.7679 BTC [-] {5}
23:10 deedbot- [BitBet Bets Bets] 12.31075552 BTC on 'Yes' - The ETH scam won't see 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1199/the-eth-scam-wont-see-2016/#b17
23:10 mircea_popescu o.O
23:11 mircea_popescu curious if this means a further 60 btc on no, now.
23:11 mircea_popescu very instructive comparison, https://bitbet.us/bet/1191/the-hearn-gavin-scamcoin-will-fizzle-in-2016/ vs https://bitbet.us/bet/1199/the-eth-scam-wont-see-2016/
23:11 assbot BitBet - The Hearn-Gavin scamcoin will fizzle in 2016 :: 101.11 B (97%) on Yes, 2.91 B (3%) on No | closing in 9 months 2 weeks | weight: 91`180 (100`000 to 1) ... ( http://bit.ly/1JoYZVq )
23:11 assbot BitBet - The ETH scam won't see 2016 :: 22.83 B (29%) on Yes, 55.6 B (71%) on No | closing in 2 months 1 week| weight: 94`816 (100`000 to 10`000) ... ( http://bit.ly/1iDIjEg )
23:12 mircea_popescu same time frame, same substantial dispute (altcoin pretending importance). the gavin/hearn idiots have trouble going past 3:100 against them ; ethereum is so far 3:1 or some shit.
23:13 mircea_popescu "according to bitbet, ethereum has two degrees of magnitude better odds at surviving 2015 than gavin's scamcoin."
23:13 mircea_popescu "a total of ~200 bitcoins were locked up for ~3 months to provide this determination"
23:14 mircea_popescu and wait - not even same timeframe o.O
23:14 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 233950 @ 0.00073183 = 171.2116 BTC [-] {11}
23:15 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21207 @ 0.00073102 = 15.5027 BTC [-] {2}
23:16 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 61193 @ 0.00073097 = 44.7302 BTC [-]
23:23 mircea_popescu actually the topic of how to compare these two props is kinda interesting.
23:25 asciilifeform unrelated but spiffy, http://www.adapower.com/index.php?Command=classes&Title=Source+Treasury
23:25 asciilifeform (sorta like the old 'swag' for pascal !)
23:37 mircea_popescu how goes TomServo
23:38 TomServo Good! Relieved to know I'm still a person after having to refer to a backup.
23:38 asciilifeform TomServo: bullet whistled by, took off your hat ?
23:39 mircea_popescu >D
23:40 TomServo Almost as dramatic.
23:40 * mircea_popescu foresees great cinematic drama, "the brainwallet". where guy gets shot in head, has to recoup his brainwallet.
23:40 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: it'll be something like the film 'memento'
23:41 mircea_popescu mebbe so
23:41 asciilifeform i can picture it.
23:41 mircea_popescu maybe like "beautiful mind" only with better conflict.
23:43 TomServo All this ETH talk, I felt I should mention the waterfall had run dry: http://btc.blockr.io/address/info/36PrZ1KHYMpqSyAQXSG8VwbUiq2EogxLo2
23:43 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1QqQJcI )
23:44 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 49000 @ 0.00074635 = 36.5712 BTC [+]
23:44 asciilifeform TomServo: for all we know, it just split into parcels
23:44 mircea_popescu aww.
23:54 mircea_popescu asciilifeform are you wedged at 367850 ?
23:55 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 170750 @ 0.00073226 = 125.0334 BTC [-] {3}
23:57 mircea_popescu i just managed to reproduce the wedge AGAIN
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