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punkman: not like I used it anyway but annoying
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nubbins`: morning folks
nubbins`: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-03-2016#1424380 << against better judgment, i figured i'd go back and re-read sturles' conversation just in case i'd missed something
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 02:59:17; mircea_popescu: sturle's theory fell apart upon examination in chan.
nubbins`: all i see is mp and alf complaining loudly that sturles' node shouldn't work the way it does because it's improper
nubbins`: but, of course, it does
nubbins`: if that's a "theory falling apart", i'd like to see you guys take on gravity, or germ theory
nubbins`: "little tiny bugs shouldn't be able to hurt a hyooman!"
nubbins`: !rate mircea_popescu -1 tinpot dictator, throws tantrums when embarrassed. petulant and unwilling to admit error in the face of overwhelming evidence. a poor example of how a lord should behave. great for milking a few BTC from, but otherwise avoid.
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nubbins`: !v assbot:nubbins`.rate.mircea_popescu.-1:c4b87f050b85b49aada6a81e8e32c6367bd53b43f88ada62c95a94b10e8e417d
assbot: Successfully updated the rating for mircea_popescu from 2 to -1 with note: tinpot dictator, throws tantrums when embarrassed. petulant and unwilling to admit error in the face of overwhelming evidence. a poor example of how a lord should behave. great for milking a few BTC from, but otherwise avoid.
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shinohai: ;;ticker --market all
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 410.5, vol: 5166.35971885 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 412.934, vol: 7021.9455 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 410.5, vol: 13974.58828093 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 408.0, vol: 1.20992211 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 419.4288, vol: 52510.01710000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 408.494, vol: 1300.31356398 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 410.81265, vol: 235.90882398 | Volume-weighted last average: (1 more message)
shinohai: ;;more
gribble: 416.52671852
nubbins`: weird that the chinese mining cartel revealing themselves hasn't affected the exchange rate
nubbins`: you'd think it'd be a big deal
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nubbins`: maybe the market got confused and accidentally dumped 500btc worth of MPOE over the last 24 hours instead of dumping all their btc
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danielpbarron: nubbins`, it looks like you're the one throwing a tantrum, and it "shouldn't work that way" is the general complaint in here against bitcoin for some time now. this event was more like the last straw kinda thing
nubbins`: nah, just making quips
nubbins`: and "shouldn't work that way" does not mean the same thing as "did not happen"
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 02:59:17; mircea_popescu: sturle's theory fell apart upon examination in chan.
nubbins`: ^ did it, though? feel free to link.
kakobrekla: i dont think it did.
nubbins`: that's because it didn't
nubbins`: but mp hears what he wants
nubbins`: in fact, no rebuttal to sturles' explanation was offered -- just a lot of gnashing about "but that's crazy!"
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nubbins` is a bit surprised that more lords aren't concerned about mp's shame leading him to proposing an altcoin as the way forward
danielpbarron: i'm not interested in bitcoin if he's not interested in it
danielpbarron: it's not like the code is something wonderful to behold. The only thing it had going for it was that some important people found a use in it for a time
shinohai: Not a lord here, but I have a lot of time invested in trb and I agree with danielpbarron.
shinohai: Eventually one has to stop building with legos and mve on to more robust materials.
nubbins`: if mp no longer finds a use for btc, i'm eagerly awaiting the liquidation of all mpex assets
nubbins`: danielpbarron if your interest in a subject is predicated on who else is interested in it, then i have no sensible response
kakobrekla: actually this somewhat fixes "bitcoin is too accessible" as the requirements to include tx in a block are having your own block producing setup
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: except - cartel. go, make a block.
kakobrekla: obv its not accessible to me!
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 02:59:17; mircea_popescu: sturle's theory fell apart upon examination in chan.
nubbins`: asciilifeform care to offer an opinion on ^
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nubbins`: kako and i seem to agree that nothing about sturles' theory "fell apart upon examination", although we'd both be eager to hear your thoughts on the topic
nubbins`: bbl coffee/breakfast
asciilifeform: nubbins`: the point re: mpex is valid imho.
nubbins`: asciilifeform first things first, sturles' theory: fell apart upon examination or no?
asciilifeform: it did not explain mircea_popescu's observations though
asciilifeform: gotta explain the resurrected tx, no?
asciilifeform: i saw same thing when sending a lee sedol bet a few wks ago
punkman: gotta explain why the 0fee tx wasn't visible in anyone's mempool for days, although I don't know how exactly mp examined the mempools and of which nodes he was connecting to
shinohai: Also has been seen by outside source according to: http://qntra.net/2016/03/a-miner-problem/#comment-47975
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asciilifeform: (and here was even the high-S thing also involved)
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 02:49:05; nubbins`: advertising 0-fee tx's in a mempool flood is a DOS attack
punkman: the fact it was resurrected is not surprising if you ask me
nubbins`: my node wouldn't have broadcast A1 until the backlog subsided
nubbins`: i'll broadcast 0-fee tx's when it suits me, not the other way around
asciilifeform: punkman: he has, iirc, a thing that tries to connect to 'anyone who's anyone' as determined by his intel
asciilifeform: punkman: i have nfi , ask him when he wakes up
nubbins`: <+asciilifeform>punkman: he has, iirc, a thing that tries to connect to 'anyone who's anyone' as determined by his intel << seems his intel connected him to a shit set of nodes
asciilifeform: !s reactor test
assbot: 2 results for 'reactor test' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=reactor+test
asciilifeform: ^ see above.
punkman: anyway if someone can replicate the experiment with similarly old coins, that would not favor the bitbet-screwed-by-miners theory
nubbins`: i could, as i've got an enormous amount of coins that haven't moved in a very long time
nubbins`: but i have extremely low incentive to help mp exorcise his ghosts
nubbins`: shinohai re: the link you posted
nubbins`: how'd the mempool look when that guy's tx was sent out?
nubbins`: homework for ya
jurov: i can offer coinbr users' coins for the experiments... seems using users' funds is en vogue
asciilifeform: one more thing. careful readers of the logz will have noticed that the cn miners have openly admitted collusion
asciilifeform: i.e. gatherings for whatever purpose
nubbins`: asciilifeform do note that collusion on tx relay nodes in the form of "don't broadcast 0-fee tx's if the mempool is > x" would explain observed behaviour
asciilifeform: all but the resurrection
nubbins`: obviously ant/f2 have node farms as well as mining farms
nubbins`: if there was 60 live nodes last year, it seems extremely improbable that a mining cartel wouldn't rent out a data center and stuff it with nodes
nubbins`: once that's in place, whatever rules they set are essentially universal
asciilifeform: this was one of mp's accusations actually
nubbins`: right.
nubbins`: but that's not "deliberately withholding bitbet's tx"
nubbins`: that's "withholding all 0-fee tx's during a backlog"
nubbins`: which is not retarded
nubbins`: if ant/f2 own 500 nodes out of an available 560, how in the fuck are you gonna see a transaction that they're not broadcasting?
nubbins`: ESPECIALLY if you're only connected to your favourite whitelisted nodes?
asciilifeform: that was his point, no? that the scum took over.
nubbins`: do you have any idea how many 0-fee transactions i could make, today, with higher priority than A1?
nubbins`: i could've kept A1 in limbo for a month if i'd wanted to
asciilifeform: try, make? except that spamola temperature seems to be low today
nubbins`: 6k unconfirmed tx's right now
asciilifeform: nubbins`: most of them are spam
nubbins`: A1 was spam.
asciilifeform: and in fact chained crud
asciilifeform: nubbins`: how so?
nubbins`: 0-fee tx followed by 3 double-spend attempts in the midst of a mempool backlog
asciilifeform: did it have unconfirmed inputs? No
nubbins`: no, it didn't
nubbins`: neither did the 20,000 transactions ahead of it with higher priority
asciilifeform: how does something that ~follows~ a tx make it spam?
nubbins`: how does a node operator distinguish between the 50,000 spam 0-fee tx's and bitbet's 0-fee tx?
asciilifeform: the usual way?
nubbins`: calling A1 spam was a stretch and not correct, but calling A1 anything other than the absolute lowest priority is unreasonable
asciilifeform: age of inputs ?
asciilifeform: i have nfi, btw, what the age was. did you look into it?
nubbins`: again, i could create 10k tx's right now with older inputs than A1
nubbins`: and i wouldn't even have to crack open two cold wallets
nubbins`: asciilifeform the age of A1's inputs ranged from a couple days to a couple months iirc
asciilifeform: sure. but do we have a reason to think this was done?
nubbins`: do we have a reason to think which was done?
asciilifeform: if it actually had 'days old' input, then this was reactor test.
asciilifeform: but the resurrection still has to be explained.
davout: asciilifeform: any bitbet recipient had a strong incentive to rebroadcast, as soon as the second transaction actually paid them
davout: not sure what makes you say that the tx reappearing needs any kind of explanation other than "people like extra money"
nubbins`: look: i receive A1 when it's first broadcast, i hold onto it but i DON'T RELAY IT because my backlog is too big.
nubbins`: once my backlog has been eliminated, i have no qualms about relaying A1
nubbins`: but if i have a massive backlog, no 0-fee bum is gonna get a free ride
nubbins`: davout +1
nubbins`: if you think the relaying of A1 was triggered by B, you're daft
nubbins`: an actor doing it on purpose, sure
nubbins`: what bitbet payout recipient wouldn't want free coins
nubbins`: hell, maybe the "bitbet stole my coinz" guy relayed it
nubbins`: but a cabal saying "OK guise, he paid out from a new source, let's get A1 back out there!".... c'mon
nubbins`: don't insult your own intelligence
nubbins`: hmm i wonder if mp putting me on ignore means he's gotta filter me from his logs as well
nubbins`: he's gonna find conversations really hard to follow
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danielpbarron: asciilifeform> i have nfi, btw, what the age was. did you look into it? << http://qntra.net/2016/03/a-miner-problem/#comment-47581
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danielpbarron: nubbins`> again, i could create 10k tx's right now with older inputs than A1 << isn't this a "glass canon" as in, can only be fired once? How many nubbins` are out there with cannons? It costs money to assemble this weapon in short order. You have it from years of doing business.
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nubbins`: danielpbarron don't pretend to assume you know how many glass cannons i have
danielpbarron: i'm just going by what you said
nubbins`: also, don't change the argument into how feasible it is for a lowly shoemaker to pull it off
nubbins`: it's irrelevant
danielpbarron: that wasn't my implication. I meant "
danielpbarron: "how many nubbins`" in an endearing way
nubbins`: you meant that in general it's an expensive attack and would require lots of old coins
nubbins`: do you suppose there are any miners out there who'd be interested in generating a large mempool backlog for any given reason?
nubbins`: do you suppose any large-scale miner would be anything but a complete fucking idiot if they haven't been socking away a percentage of each block reward for use when old coins are needed?
danielpbarron: i suppose that there are plenty of groups, including miners, who would like to interfere with #bitcoin-assets properties
nubbins`: i suppose you grossly overestimate what you're a part of
nubbins`: look: how many new coins each day?
danielpbarron: if what i'm a part of isn't as big as my estimation, I don't care for bitcoin anyway. So whatever.
danielpbarron: you got your bouquinism and I got my Bible. I just hope other people have their things or it can get pretty depressing
nubbins`: 3600 new coins per day, give or take
danielpbarron: regarding this hypothesis that miners are socking away a percentage, why then do most coin bases have a single output?
danielpbarron: as far as i know, the only pool taking advantage of the ability to create as many outputs as you want in a coin base is Luke-Jr's Eligius
nubbins`: uh, you know you can move the coins again, right?
nubbins`: they're not trapped in place
danielpbarron: yeah but why not just do it in the first place? even older.
nubbins`: easier bookkeeping, for starters
nubbins`: why don't you see pool-mined blocks split the reward into a million outputs?
nubbins`: because it's retarded to chop up a reward before you have to
danielpbarron: well that's what Eligius does, or did last i looked into it
nubbins`: this doesn't preclude the fact that /any/ individual pool miner can have 10%, or 50%, or 100% of his daily take socked away immediately into long-term storage
davout: danielpbarron: just because Luke-Jr does it doesn't necessarily make it sensible
adlai: p2pool does this, too
mircea_popescu: and welcome to the wonder of halfway logs. sigh.
mircea_popescu: davout whatever happened to xeur bot yest
nubbins`: ;;echo sounds like you thought this whole ignore thing through about as much as you thought through your cartel conspiracy
gribble: sounds like you thought this whole ignore thing through about as much as you thought through your cartel conspiracy
davout: danielpbarron: also splitting coinbases directly hurts the miner's bottom line
nubbins`: ;;echo enjoy following the convo
gribble: enjoy following the convo
nubbins`: davout +1
adlai: splitting coinbases only makes sense for pools which actually have multiple workers
nubbins`: why do extra work when the timer's counting down? adding a single extra output could mean the difference between mining a block and not
adlai: (in which case, it *helps* the bottom line, sparing the cost of payout txen)
davout: mircea_popescu: not sure what you're referring to?
mircea_popescu: !s marketmaking from:jurov
assbot: 5 results for 'marketmaking from:jurov' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=marketmaking+from%3Ajurov
nubbins`: given that age is a factor in propagating tx's, it seems implausibly short-sighted to assume that miners don't keep a portion of their earnings untouched to build up age
davout: mircea_popescu: these weren't me
nubbins`: given that any rational miner would save old coins, it seems implausible to think that a small number of miners would be unable to create a huge mempool backlog
nubbins`: given that it's trivial to create a large backlog of old coins, it seems implausible to think that mp's relatively new coins could not simultaneously be high enough priority to be kept in mempool but low enough priority that it's one of the last tx's to be cleared
davout: bot was down last night too obviously
danielpbarron: you got a blog, go investigate the age of flood inputs and write it up; i'll read it
nubbins`: given that miners who run node farms aren't fucking idiots, it seems implausible to assume that halting rebroadcast of lowest-priority tx's until the backlog is cleared is not a thing that would happen
nubbins`: danielpbarron why in the fuck would i do that? i'm not so cheap that i can't afford a dime for fees
mircea_popescu: hence my question :)
nubbins` has never, ever, ever had a stuck tx and is baffled as to why anyone w/ money ever would
mircea_popescu: jurov approved.
nubbins`: a dime. actually nine american cents at the time of the incident.
danielpbarron: nubbins`, you should write it up for the sake of changing the minds of people who are so far not impressed with your unsubstantiated claims in the channel
nubbins`: no, i really shouldn't
nubbins`: i should just state the obvious explanation and let whoever wants to sing about cartel collusion do so
mircea_popescu: check it out, 3 minute inclusion.
mircea_popescu: this is novel, even for 600byte txn with above-average fees and 10^10 size inputs aged halfyear+
nubbins`: idgaf about some 17btc transaction, only to point out that if someone touts targeted collusion as the most likely answer, they're probably selling something
nubbins`: i actually think it's beyond mirthful that mp lost 17 btc of bitbet's money
nubbins`: and is so hotly ashamed that he's resorted to this
trinque: who the fuck cares what amuses you, and how does that illuminate the issue?
trinque: this level of discourse is what's shameful.
mircea_popescu: so yes, for the sake of keeping the record straight - it is not possible for miners to include my (high-S, btw!) txn in blocks within 2:55 if in fact running a chain head delayed reporting scheme. either it got turned off or it never existed in the first place, anyone's call.
nubbins`: trinque agreed. mp's ludicrously false statements set the bar really low
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 02:59:17; mircea_popescu: sturle's theory fell apart upon examination in chan.
nubbins`: still waiting for someone besides mp to agree that this is what happened
nubbins`: preferably with, y'know, a link to where it happened
nubbins`: rather than blankly stating it to be so
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nubbins`: anyone?
nubbins`: we all read the logs, yes?
nubbins`: anyone else who wishes to bring up the subject of shameful discourse is welcome to revisit the logs where i began speaking on this topic
nubbins`: and see who was interested in speaking like an adult and who was interested in speaking like a child
trinque: regardless, it's a fine way to go forward.
trinque: I've read all the l0gz
nubbins`: i know everyone else likes to just let idiocy happen
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nubbins`: i was forced by my own sanity to actually call this one for what it was
mircea_popescu: adlai there's some historical charge in there : bitcoin's first and largest ponzi ran a "mining" whatever, for the obvious and transparent purpose of acquiring freshly minted coins to pay out the idiot "investors". this was a major contributor to the early crystalisation of what came to be known later as "mining pools" which is what eventually in due time coallesced into today's problem. whether it was avoidable at all
mircea_popescu: or not is dubious, but that aside pirate's gpumax certainly played a major early role.
mircea_popescu: people didn't use to split coinbases because they preferred to sell them, for 103% or w/e.
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nubbins`: did you guys also like how the 17 btc of mp's own money that he lost is going to be taken from shareholder dividends?
nubbins`: not sure how kakobrekla feels about that, but if i worked for a company where my boss gave away 17 btc of his own money and then recouped it from the company's dividends, i'd call the cops
nubbins`: (bitbet, being a 0-asset corporation, did not own the funds contained in transaction B; they were ostensibly owned by mp. any funds disbursed via B are not the responsibility of bitbet in any way, shape, or form)
nubbins`: in fact, the entire S.BBET february statement is fraudulent, based on this
nubbins`: unfortunately, mp's gonna have to wait until he catches up on the logs to read that ^
nubbins`: trinque, danielpbarron, other assorted fans?
nubbins`: shinohai, kakobrekla?
shinohai: !s S.BBET february statement
assbot: 2 results for 'S.BBET february statement' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=S.BBET+february+statement
hanbot: nubbins' your projectile posturing isn't particularly useful. mp told you, i count two? three times? yest how to form your thoughts into something reviewable.
trinque: this is what I meant about the level of discourse. I have not declared myself a "fan" of anything.
hanbot: you fucked that up, what, you figure more spewing is the answer?
trinque: there is a scientific way to criticize a claim.
danielpbarron: hi dooglus
dooglus: I was looking at trb, and trying to sync it from my bitcoin core node
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mircea_popescu: -addnode ?
dooglus: I notice core won't talk to it for long before cutting it off
dooglus: is this a known issue?
mircea_popescu: what version is this ?
dooglus: it has a lot of 9's
mircea_popescu: no, the "core"
dooglus: "receive version message: /therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/: version 99999" and - um - 0.12?
mircea_popescu: hm. and you have these two running on the same machine, or within a local net ?
dooglus: core doesn't like messages bigger than 2MB, and trb sends ~7MB messages
dooglus: that's why it's getting disconnected. both on the same machine
mircea_popescu: something which may be related if not outright this is known here as blackholing
mircea_popescu: !s blackholed
assbot: 24 results for 'blackholed' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=blackholed
dooglus: (with -port and -rpcport, on separate users)
mircea_popescu: it'd be interesting if you managed to reproduce it in the lab.
trinque: could also be the malleus patch if that version of prb issues heathen commands
dooglus: see main.cpp: int nLimit = 500 /* + locator.GetDistanceBack() */ ;
mircea_popescu: mod6 trinque asciilifeform ^ prob of interest.
mircea_popescu: trinque but he said it cuts the other way.
dooglus: commenting out that part fixed it for me - they talk happily now
mircea_popescu: !rated dooglus
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mircea_popescu: no wai ?!
dooglus: GetDistanceBack() is huge, causing it to try requesting 100k's of headers at once
dooglus: you unpersoned me because CLAM
mircea_popescu: !rate dooglus 2 ran one of the best dice sites of all times, before being torpedoed by fiat government posturing. trb testing.
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mircea_popescu: utter pity what happened to jd.
dooglus: oh, I was also wondering - is it normal that the trb build process downloads and builds the linux kernel?
dooglus: 'cos it did...
trinque: dooglus: yep, it is using buildroot to have a deterministic build environment
mircea_popescu: !up TrueBanker
nubbins`: <+hanbot>you fucked that up, what, you figure more spewing is the answer? << you don't seem to get that me spelling the entire thing out again in long form is zero on my list of priorities, but i appreciate you switch-hitting for mp because it'd really look silly if he responded himself
mircea_popescu: dooglus yeah. it's fully encapsulated, initial idea was to run it on pogos.
mircea_popescu: well.. actually that's still the idea, just we ended up running around with all sorts of subquests that turned mainline.
shinohai: I still have faith that one day my pogo will sing.
mircea_popescu: i sitll have crates of the things in storage that will one day sing.
nubbins`: dooglus: are you saying that trb nodes are eventually ignored by core nodes simply due to trb passing enormously large messages?
nubbins`: mircea_popescu, kakobrekla : http://pastebin.com/raw/6d72j4jZ
dooglus: nubbins`: yes, I believe so. this appears to fix it: http://dpaste.com/0FFDMQT
assbot: dpaste: 0FFDMQT ... ( http://bit.ly/1Suc0WT )
deedbot-: [Trilema] Eulora auction, March 13th - http://trilema.com/2016/eulora-auction-march-13th/
shinohai: mircea_popescu: I wound up buying 3 thanks to mats, had considered more lol
nubbins`: which oddly confirmed almost right away because i blew a whole quarter on the fees
nubbins`: dooglus how 'bout that!
nubbins`: one has to wonder if bitbet is using this boojum in production
hanbot: nubbins' what again? didn't you just bitch at someone over not giving a link to what they claim happened? take a breather, preferably a long one, and figure your own shit out. you're smelling.
mircea_popescu: fortunately with that asshole mp killing moore's law, not terrible danger of pogos ever not being worth the 10 bux or w/e they cost.
nubbins`: oh, you need a link to the bitbet listing agreement?
assbot: S.BBET last 3000@0.00008301 ... ( http://bit.ly/1SucmwO )
hanbot: jesus already. get lost.
nubbins`: you'll find the text for section 3.2 (h) under section 3.2 (h)
nubbins`: you fuckin get lost.
nubbins`: running the mouth
nubbins`: struggling harder than mod6 was just to get a gentoo install running
nubbins`: then daring to enter into a conversation about technical issues
dooglus: see commit 85ea8b4f4380dac803d43cd0b7829b107cc09e38 in core : "Limit getheaders to a hard 2000" - fixes the issue there
mircea_popescu: well... really, it CREATES an issue.
mircea_popescu: it just turned a mild magic number ("get all the headers no less than 2000) into a fucking protocol limit. "only get 2k". this is utter nonsense.
mircea_popescu: and any "node" running that crap is ipso facto and for this non-compliant with bitcoin
dooglus: this isn't creating the protocol limit of 2MB - that's elsewhere
mircea_popescu: of course not.
mircea_popescu: this is breaking bitcoin in some other edge.
assbot: irc_bots:deedbot [bitcoin assets wiki] ... ( http://bit.ly/1NQw0l8 )
nubbins`: hanbot check the rules before opening your word-hole again: http://trilema.com/2013/bitcoin-assets-rules-and-regulations/
assbot: #bitcoin-assets rules and regulations on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1k32ZX6 )
dooglus: but ... but ... the protocol is whatever core does! didn't you hear?
nubbins`: danielpbarron there were too many iterations of deedbot so i rolled my own. i can share the code, but it should be compatible
mircea_popescu: never heard.
mircea_popescu: possibly on account of all the heralds of that idiocy getting shot.
nubbins`: "You are free to be as offensive, annoying, disparaging, crass, crude or indecorous you feel the need or inclination to be. This includes any and all comments that in other, non-professional venues may be regarded as racist, sexist, chauvinist, fascist or whatever else. Pros don't give a shit, it's the clueless twits and assorted pretenders that do"
trinque: nubbins`: got an axe to grind with everyone now?
shinohai pops popcorn.
nubbins`: yeah, "now". maybe you should read the rules too, or shut the fuck up and get out
nubbins`: everyone QQing because nubs is a meanie
nubbins`: trinque "Professional means that you respect your elders, on account of their superior experience, which makes them better people than you. "
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22709 @ 0.00053452 = 12.1384 BTC [-]
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-03-2016#1424721 << this is not actually correct, it should build only gcc and toolchain, then trb.
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 15:38:44; dooglus: oh, I was also wondering - is it normal that the trb build process downloads and builds the linux kernel?
asciilifeform: something likely went wrong with his buildroot bringup.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-03-2016#1424728 << if we plug the 1) blockindex crap (see logz) and 2) idiot tx-sticks-around-forever leaks - pogos sing.
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 15:40:39; shinohai: I still have faith that one day my pogo will sing.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-03-2016#1424731 << how this will be settled ? pistols at dawn ? gladiators ?
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 15:43:08; nubbins`: mircea_popescu, kakobrekla : http://pastebin.com/raw/6d72j4jZ
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform which blockindex was this ?
shinohai: Nothing says Republic like gladitorial combat! :D
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my experiment where i determined that :
asciilifeform: !s 300 bytes
assbot: 4 results for '300 bytes' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=300+bytes
asciilifeform: this was the smaller leak. in the sense where i quantified it ~exactly~, algebraically.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14562 @ 0.00053523 = 7.794 BTC [+] {2}
nubbins`: asciilifeform ideally it'd be settled by mp admitting he was grossly incorrect and revising the statement
nubbins`: asciilifeform but something tells me that s.bbet is going to be a "scam investment" from here on out.
mircea_popescu: unbound memory yeah.
mircea_popescu: ;;bc,stats
nubbins`: after all, 17 btc is one thing, pride is another
gribble: Current Blocks: 401587 | Current Difficulty: 1.584272037673917E11 | Next Difficulty At Block: 403199 | Next Difficulty In: 1612 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 3 days, 9 hours, 36 minutes, and 0 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
mircea_popescu: ;;calc 300 * 401587
gribble: 120476100
mircea_popescu: that's a large pogo rigt there.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall eatblock ?
asciilifeform: i created it for this test.
mircea_popescu: anyway. 2 has a much more obvious solution, if as discussed not exactly trivial and wtf are fibonacci stacks.
mircea_popescu: this however - you will conceivably need some sort of block indexing mechanism.
nubbins` is curious to hear opinions of others re: bitbet fraud, but fears that he'll be the only one sticking up for the investors
mircea_popescu: i meant it figuratively!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: permanently parking things in ram is retarded.
mircea_popescu: well it's certainly voiding the warranty, as that's not what the ram is for.
asciilifeform: ram exists as cache of disk.
mircea_popescu: (imagine, as a subtopic, the wonder of computing if hardware came with guarantee "unless used for uinappropiate purpose" and then coders had to write code that didn't void any warranties.)
asciilifeform: if warranties were still a thing.
asciilifeform: they sorta died away when hardware became largely disposable crud.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: imho the shareholders have a legit complaint re: the reactor test, and ought to be told why/what/etc. but i'm not a s.bbet shareholder, and nobody asked me (tm) etc.
PeterL: for the record, I agree with nubbins` about bitbet transction
asciilifeform: i'm wondering if mircea_popescu is not in a position similar to the familiar murder mystery detective, where he ~knows~ that dr. evil did the deed, but cannot prove.
asciilifeform: (or cannot prove without blowing up a glass cannon)
nubbins`: either way, introducing a private debt to s.bbet is plainly breaking the listing agreement, and the method by which mp has proposed to discharge it is also plainly breaking the listing agreement
nubbins`: it's interesting to see a man's will fight cold logic
asciilifeform goes and reads the bbet broadcast
asciilifeform: nubbins`: were you heare for the onetimepad thread ?
mircea_popescu: the shareholders can have all the legit complaints they want, about anything that happens whatsoever. we can all hold hands and sing kumbaya about our legit complaints that bitcoin doesn't work, and we would like it to, and it should be fixed by other people at their expense so we can continue our lifestyle undeterred. meanwhile - nonvoting shares can be sold, and if there's a single icann in the lot with enough actual
mircea_popescu: gumption to put together a hostile takeover package, i'll certainly consider it.
nubbins`: asciilifeform not sure
PeterL: mircea_popescu made a stupid mistake, and now he makes the shareholders pay for it
nubbins`: yeah
mircea_popescu: and i suppose i'm going to have my own legit complaints about how much this thing costs to run, and start billing by the hour, and in fiat, and the legit complainers can run off to the bank with their bitcoin and pay, or somesuch nonsense.
nubbins`: ;;echo "don't like fraud? sell your shares"
gribble: don't like fraud? sell your shares
mircea_popescu: PeterL when the ceo of a company makes a stupid mistake, the company pays for it. there are exactly no exceptions to this rule, nor will there ever be. morever, even when what the ceo does isn't a stupid mistake, the shareholders still pay for it.
nubbins`: ;;echo don't like fraud? shut the fuck up or i'll vastly inflate expenses
gribble: don't like fraud? shut the fuck up or i'll vastly inflate expenses
mircea_popescu: this is the definition of these terms.
nubbins`: this is so fucking rich
nubbins`: "when the ceo of a company makes a stupid mistake, the company pays for it"
nubbins`: not when the ceo makes a mistake on his own time, out of his own pocket, the company doesn't
nubbins`: fucking idiot
PeterL: and when the ceo of a company consitently makes mistakes, he gets fired
mircea_popescu: by all means. hence, " and if there's a single icann in the lot with enough actual gumption to put together a hostile takeover package, i'll certainly consider it."
asciilifeform: where is kakobrekla ? i thought he was ceo of bbet ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the way it worked, from the beginning, was that he did the site and i did admin and payouts.
nubbins`: asciilifeform kakobrekla is probably wondering what the future holds for him, as he is currently being forced to decide between PGP signing a fraudulent financial statement or losing his livelihood. i envy him not.
nubbins`: sadly, it will be mp's ego that costs him the loss either way
nubbins`: although i guess if s.bbet can break its listing agreement with impunity, it can also stop providing signed financial statements to MPEx with impunity
nubbins`: so it probably won't be delisted
nubbins`: after all, it's more about ego than logic or facts
nubbins`: pathetic, really
nubbins` sidesteps a tumbleweed
PeterL: nubbins` yes
dooglus: I'm new to this whole bitbet payout mess, but read somewhere that the 'B' transaction was made after receiving advice to do so. Who advised it, and why?
mircea_popescu: wasn't publicly shared.
dooglus: oh, ok
mircea_popescu: but the somewhere'd be prolly qntra i'd guess.
nubbins`: dooglus it would seem that mp did it on his own accord. bitbet is a "zero asset" corporation, and thus doesn't own any capital; there was nowhere for a second 17btc to come from.
asciilifeform: from the sturles thread, i learned that most idiot nodes are set up to ignore what they think is 'double spend' on purely chronological what-i-saw-first grounds. and mircea_popescu was mighty pissed, and i also (to me, this was new, i do not habitually track prbism)
nubbins`: at any rate, being a 0a corp, the funds from B weren't bitbet's. regardless of who owned them.
dooglus: I expect so. I was also trying to find the 16% referenced in http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-03-2016#1421022
assbot: Logged on 03-03-2016 16:18:56; mircea_popescu: in any case, at the time this was discussed in the logs, the miner priority was in the 9th decile, about 16% of the global mempool.
nubbins`: asciilifeform mp's anger morphed into "this theorem was disproven" in his broken brain
PeterL: there is no spec, they can order transactions in whichever way they want
mircea_popescu: this is a minor point. there are better bits. such as - that an transaction known but not advertised constitutes the simple definition of "transaction withholding".
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 1.00000000 BTC on 'No' - AlphaGo will defeat Lee Sedol overall in March 2016 match - http://bitbet.us/bet/1249/alphago-will-defeat-lee-sedol-overall-in-march/#b138
mircea_popescu: also a minor point, but at least relevant re protocol discussion.
dooglus: because it seems unlikely to be true. A1 had an uncommonly high priority, way over 100 million
PeterL: nubbins` I guess bitbet is not keeping a 100% reserve of bets now?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: imho the relevant bit here is that we (at least i) do not know ~who~ withheld it, and then exhumed and transmitted it, and why
asciilifeform: it could have easily been a node operator.
nubbins`: PeterL A1-A4 had bitbet's inputs. A1-A4 went awol. B had mp's personal inputs.
asciilifeform: when mircea_popescu said 'miners' i assumed he had intelligence pointing in that direction.
nubbins`: bitbet keeps a 100% reserve, not a 200% reserve, which is why we know B's inputs had to have been mp's personal funds.
mircea_popescu: initially i thought that "nodes" is a meaningful term, but what i see now is a large ball of node with a bunch of sattelites that have ~ no importance flattering themselves into thinking they're part of a network.
PeterL: so B should not be counted against bitbets funds if it was not bitbet money
mircea_popescu: sort-of like us electoral process works.
nubbins`: asciilifeform when you assume someone has intelligence...
nubbins`: PeterL yes, precisely. section 3.2 (h) of bitbet's listing agreement forbids this.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i thought this was quite apparent long ago
nubbins`: that's the basis of my as yet unanswered fraud accusation
asciilifeform: ball of node + dryer lint
mircea_popescu: besides the point - it is a factual matter now.
mircea_popescu: somehow the difference between this and that keeps getting elided.
mircea_popescu: as if everyone's a little bit everything and it all evens out or something, dunno.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: consider this:
nubbins` bends an ear
mircea_popescu: but in any case, there is a substantial difference between "i think X on the basis of my personal experience" and "mp said x on the basis of bitbet experience as documented on qntra". exactly of the sort and caliber as the difference between "i think there exist alien" and "here's pictures of man walking on the moon", in fact.
asciilifeform: you are on a nuke sub. captain, having been informed by six different crew members that reactor coolant has been replaced with pisswater, and the valve gaskets - with chewing gum, gives in to the temptation to run a test.
PeterL: the qntra article is illogical and jumps to the conclusion you want, ignoring the simplest explanation
nubbins`: i wouldn't put too much weight behind mp's bitbet experience
asciilifeform: the thing begins to melt.
mircea_popescu: PeterL this statement would be a lot less ridiculous had the "simplest explanation" been actually formed as the article even encourages the reader to do!
asciilifeform: want to fight with captain? pump bilgewater to cool down the rods ?
asciilifeform: i have nfi. i'm not even on the sub.
nubbins`: asciilifeform maybe the captain can just refund the gum and pee for gaskets and coolant, the ship's financial officer OKs it, life goes on, ego bruised but the sub still floating?
nubbins`: we've got all the coolant and gaskets RIGHT HERE
nubbins`: the only reason we'd need to sink is if cappy's too proud to use em
mircea_popescu: but, time's not wasted, go forth and write down your proposed simplest explanation.
nubbins`: PeterL i think he's hinting that text is too hard and he needs an infographic
mircea_popescu: with any luck it'll be something like "miner cartel, what a ridiculous idea - not like the anon derps involved are a) known to be idiots and b) have certain incentive do do exactly this! moreover, the much simpler explanation is that... uh... uh... mp conspiracy! and scam! and fraud! and he doesn't care about bitcoin! and i'm an idiot that'll show him!!11"
mircea_popescu: wtf is this shit even.
nubbins`: ^ as you can see, lots of hand-waving and rhetoric is the best response mp can dig up when under fire
nubbins`: still not a word re: blatant fraud
PeterL: can you not see sturle's comment, seems the most logical to me?
mircea_popescu: we discussed this that same day he made it. plox to check your copy of the logs.
nubbins`: ah, right.
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 02:59:17; mircea_popescu: sturle's theory fell apart upon examination in chan.
nubbins`: no such "falling apart" was witnessed, upon review of the logs by ALL parties present.
nubbins`: what did happen was mp got very upset and the topic changed
PeterL: 0fee txn, nodes hold onto it (but don't rebroadcast), later when backlog is smaller they broadcast it
nubbins`: yep.
nubbins`: incredibly simple explanation.
nubbins`: it's what my node does
nubbins`: baffled that most don't
nubbins`: ...or maybe they do!
mircea_popescu: congrats, you've formed a theory about a selection of the facts on record.
mircea_popescu: wanna try for the whole thing ?
PeterL: and "the code is the spec", so the spec says first txn see overrides any later (regardless of fees)
nubbins`: ^ this is what you'll get as a response no matter how well thought-out your explanation is
nubbins`: sauce and hyperbole
PeterL: which facts does it miss?
mircea_popescu: it also says txn get thrown out of pools after x days.
PeterL: how do you know?
mircea_popescu: PeterL they're in the qntra piece.
mircea_popescu: how do YOU know what the code says ?
nubbins`: and you wonder why i have zero interest in "doing up a blog post" or whatever masturbatory navel-gazing bullshit is somehow better than explaining it real-time
PeterL: did you go look into the mempool of every node?
nubbins`: hahaha
nubbins`: mp has node x-ray goggles.
mircea_popescu: i looked into whatever i looked sufficient to satisfy myself.
nubbins`: he sends a special packet and the node dumps its mempool, json format
nubbins`: that way he can tell what transactions other nodes are aware of but are not rebroadcasting
nubbins`: oh, wait, that's fucking retarded
PeterL: it would only take one node holding onto the txn for it to be rebroadcast
mircea_popescu: and instamined.
kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-03-2016#1424891 < this is not so. it was not bitbet experience (for example i was not even aware of any of it) and publishing your interpretation on qntra does not assert absolute truth, it just tells everyone who reads it what you think.
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 16:24:11; mircea_popescu: but in any case, there is a substantial difference between "i think X on the basis of my personal experience" and "mp said x on the basis of bitbet experience as documented on qntra". exactly of the sort and caliber as the difference between "i think there exist alien" and "here's pictures of man walking on the moon", in fact.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla it does not tell everyone what "i think", it tells everyone what i saw.
PeterL: and maybe that node was connected when you broadcast the first time, turned off, and reconnected 8 days later, at which point it rebroadcast the txn?
mircea_popescu: but, sure, "experience of that fraction of bitbet that does payouts", is right.
mircea_popescu: PeterL possibly, sure.
nubbins`: PeterL imagine how high the priority would be on A1 by the time it makes it to the front of the mempool queue
nubbins`: why, it'd instantly be included in a block!
mircea_popescu: also trivially meets the definition of "withholding txn", but w/e.
nubbins`: oh, wait, that lines up with the fucking facts
PeterL: withholding txn, sitting on txn, not the same thing
nubbins`: ;;echo no, it tells everyone what you think you saw, and as we've seen today, what you think you saw couldn't fill a hat.
gribble: no, it tells everyone what you think you saw, and as we've seen today, what you think you saw couldn't fill a hat.
dooglus: maybe that node was connected when you broadcast the first time, turned off, and reconnected 8 days later << or maybe one of the winners of the bet saw he had been paid and rebroadcast A1 so he could get paid again; that seems like the most obvious motivation for rebroadcasting A1
mircea_popescu: also possible.
nubbins`: dooglus logic has no place in this discussion
mircea_popescu: HOW did they see it ?
mircea_popescu: at that time, it was yet invisible.
PeterL: what was invisible?
mircea_popescu: ~nobody saw it, somehow, hence questions about bitbet payouts.
nubbins`: you're assuming the bitbet broadcast node is covert.
nubbins`: that's probably a stupid assumption
dooglus: the winners wouldn't have seen A1 vanish after 48h or whatever the mempool lifetime is; for them A1 credits one of their addresses and so it sticks around forever for them
PeterL: A1 you sent out to the world, everybody listening saw it
mircea_popescu: except nobody did, somehow.
mircea_popescu: this is integral.
nubbins`: ^ you have no way of proving that
mircea_popescu: see, the problem with assumptions is - making them.
dooglus: everyone you sent it to saw it. Didn't you broadcast it to ~100 nodes?
mircea_popescu: i thought i had, yes.
PeterL: mircea_popescu you seem to be making some big assumptions and plugging your ears whenever anybody questions them
dooglus: they won't tell you they saw it - it was 0 fee, so won't be relayed to anyone
nubbins`: PeterL that's sort of the way it is
nubbins`: dooglus i've been saying this since the first minute, but he just won't listen
mircea_popescu: depends what code they run, but this could well be.
nubbins`: it's actually mind-boggling
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 40962 @ 0.00053446 = 21.8926 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: so far, we're with the assumption that "bettor with incentive was running one or more of the nodes mp connected to".
mircea_popescu: this - should be given a %.
mircea_popescu: as it isn't, per your theory, the case that "Whole world saw". just the set in question.
nubbins`: ;;echo remove bettor from the statement, it's falsely constricting
gribble: remove bettor from the statement, it's falsely constricting
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 10.00000000 BTC on 'Yes' - AlphaGo will defeat Lee Sedol overall in March 2016 match - http://bitbet.us/bet/1249/alphago-will-defeat-lee-sedol-overall-in-march/#b139
nubbins`: ^ just to put everyone at ease even though payouts are on indefinite hiatus, here's a 10 btc house bet
nubbins`: yes, that's right, payouts are on indefinite hiatus because paying 9 cents tx fee isn't a solution
dooglus: "bettor" could be replaced by "anyone who wants to fuck MP over" I guess if you want to increase the probability somewhat
nubbins`: dooglus +1
mircea_popescu: well... if it's not a bettor then "for them A1 credits one of their addresses and so it sticks around forever for them" doesn't stick anymore.
nubbins`: yeah, how could a non-bettor have a watch-only address in his wallet?
nubbins`: surely he couldn't just add the pubkey.
nubbins`: dooglus if you're wondering, mp ignored me in a fit of rage yesterday
PeterL: so there are what, 23 outputs or so? and it would take just one of them seeing the txn to hold onto it
nubbins`: PeterL one person watching one of the 23 outputs, yes
mircea_popescu: all the outputs go to bet winners.
mircea_popescu: let's move on to the next step. THEN, MP broadcast A2, which HAD a fee. to a non-overlapping set of nodes. the disjunction of the two sets had a perfectly valid txn they... also didn't broadcast, because magic reasons.
nubbins`: except for B, where one of the outputs went back to you because it was your money, not bitbet's
mircea_popescu: and then we do this a coupla more times, and so on.
nubbins`: "to a non-overlapping set of nodes" -- aha! he's found an out that he hasn't used yet -- the nodes weren't overlapping now, see?!
PeterL: well, there is probably a large overlap between bettors and people running nodes, since these are people who have an interest in the bitcoin network working so they can get paid
mircea_popescu: by this measure, there's a large overlap between all sorts of things. maybe there is, sure.
nubbins`: large overlap between blatant fraud and mp right now
nubbins`: still no response to allegations!
nubbins`: shareholders of all mpex assets must be shitting
mircea_popescu: anyway, ima bbl.
nubbins`: can't simultaneously invent complicated lies and hold a convo
nubbins`: cheers
nubbins`: weird, still no signed bitbet statement
nubbins`: hope there's nothing wrong with the financials
nubbins`: that'd be turbo embarassing
dooglus: if A1 and A2 went to non-overlapping sets of nodes then A2 should have been accepted and mined, right?
nubbins`: dooglus in the absence of proof, i'd assume that they were sent to the same nodes
PeterL: <mircea_popescu> by this measure, there's a large overlap between all sorts of things. maybe there is, sure. << it only takes one, and I bet and have a node, therefore it might have been me too
nubbins`: hey, i bet and have a node too
PeterL: so maybe it was you!
nubbins`: maybe we should open a node cartel!
nubbins`: maybe bitbet shouldn't be sending 0-fee transactions when there's a massive mempool backlog!
nubbins`: maybe mp shouldn't have put a personal expenditure on bitbet's books!
PeterL: maybe just never send 0fee txn, because customer payouts should be a priority?
nubbins`: all these maybes, and more, to be left unaddressed -- stay tuned!
dooglus: I suspect that's the client's fault - used to be that high-priority inputs meant you didn't need a fee
nubbins`: PeterL i think it's fairly obvious that customer payouts are zero priority, given the 0-fee payout attempt followed by a payout embargo
asciilifeform: nubbins`: my current hypothesis is that he did not intend a reactor test, but simply allowed the transmitter to calculate a default fee, which turned out to be 0, and sent.
PeterL: but how is mircea_popescu going to address the concerns if he ignores the people who raise them?
nubbins`: PeterL i don't think you understand how this place works
nubbins`: mp does not address concerns, flaws, mistakes, or errors. ever.
nubbins`: the hilarity that's ensued today is me proving this to the point of ridiculousness
PeterL: asciilifeform but sending the second txn was pure idiocy, since he had no way of knowing the first would not also be mined
asciilifeform: nubbins`: this is not true, see the onetimepad thread, mp admitted that he made an arithmetical mistake once !
nubbins`: asciilifeform if i send $7,000 cash in the mail, i don't let the post office choose the delivery standard
adlai: nubbins`: couldn't the inputs of B have been from other bets? maybe not how "bettors have come to expect" payouts would work, but not strictly speaking funds which don't belong to s.bbet
nubbins`: asciilifeform well then!
asciilifeform: PeterL: what, i am curious, would you have done ?
asciilifeform: so he sends A1, and notices that it is in limbo.
asciilifeform: now what.
PeterL: well, either wait for the first transactio
asciilifeform: or what?
nubbins`: or send another turbo low fee transaction 12 hours later.
nubbins`: with the same inputs.
asciilifeform: didn't he ?
nubbins`: while the backlog is still huge.
nubbins`: yes, he did
PeterL: or double spend the outputs (and get a miner to include) before sending txn B
nubbins`: unsusprisingly, nothing happened
asciilifeform: and then do what? eat pistol ?
nubbins`: if he'd gone straight from A1 to A4 we'd probably all be drinking soda together now
asciilifeform: what was bbet (or mircea_popescu at the console, or imagine youself there instead) do instead ?
nubbins`: or, y'know, fucking waited
nubbins`: it's not like prompt payouts have ever been a priority
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i thought your objection was precisely to a4
nubbins`: don't make me dig up examples of bets that took a week to resolve
PeterL: but in any case not send txn B until txn A has been resolved
asciilifeform: where he had to use mysterymeat input of his own
nubbins`: B was mysterymeat input
nubbins`: of his own
nubbins`: A1-A4 was bitbet's money
asciilifeform: anyway i have no idea if mircea_popescu send the 'doubles' because he was pissed and mashing keys, or if he forgot that most of the node network is run by imbeciles who go by chronology to 'resolve doublespend', or what. ask him, not me.
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 16:50:24; adlai: nubbins`: couldn't the inputs of B have been from other bets? maybe not how "bettors have come to expect" payouts would work, but not strictly speaking funds which don't belong to s.bbet
nubbins`: even if it'd worked, he still would have been introducing a private expense to bitbet's books and then paying himself back from A* inputs, which still breaks the listing agreement
davout: were A2, A3, A4 ever published?
nubbins`: adlai i don't think that mixing bets like salad paints a prettier picture.
nubbins`: and there's a name for an operation that pays cashouts from more recent takings
asciilifeform: nubbins`: what does the listing agreement say re: what to do, as a shareholder, if you think mp has been afflicted by martian brain parasites and broke the agreement ?
nubbins`: it shares many letters with the word pizza
adlai: nubbins`: it does change the picture from "fraud! abdication! blood of tyrants!" to "mp made a mistake when acting as coin-handler for a corporation"
nubbins`: asciilifeform unsurprisingly, it says zilch.
nubbins`: adlai yes, the refusal to admit the mistake is what's constituting the fraud.
nubbins`: as it stands, mp's debt is bitbet's debt.
assbot: The greatly anticipated BitBet (S.BBET) February 2016 Statement on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1LamWrs )
nubbins`: see with your own eyes
PeterL: nubbins` payout from inputs is good for transparency, but it would be perfectly legitimate for bitbet to send all funds to one address and then make all payouts from the same address
kakobrekla: davout afaik no.
adlai is fairly certain bitbet has been "mixing bets" for ~ever. isn't this how the whole "bitbet as tumbler" story was supposed to work? ie, the blockchain tells a different story than the addresses listed on the site
nubbins`: wait, no
nubbins`: Should BitBet fail to execute this Agreement, as for instance by but not limited to breaching 3.2.h above, MPEx will notify the named individuals of their breach and may, at its sole discretion, suspend the asset from trading thus activating the liquidation of the asset.
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 13:36:34; asciilifeform: kakobrekla: except - cartel. go, make a block.
nubbins`: so if mp defrauds bitbet, mpex has the OPTION of liquidating it.
kakobrekla: BingoBoingo show me.
nubbins`: any bets on whether that'll happen?
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Might take a while...
kakobrekla: Thats what they said for Jesus.
davout: kakobrekla: pls to do so, i'm looking through my nodes logs to see if and when i heard about them
PeterL: and by the way, how did we jump to the conclusion that the collusion is from "Chinese miners"? (And why is the disclaimer on bitbet so tiny and discreet?)
kakobrekla: davout i dont have that information.
nubbins`: it's so tiny so people won't stop betting.
nubbins`: turbo scammy
nubbins`: and "we" jumped to the conclusion because there's a not-insignificant amount of worry in the ecosystem right now about chinese monopoly, so it's an easy lie to sell
PeterL: kakobrekla is there an estimated timeframe for when bet payouts will resume?
asciilifeform: PeterL: i have nfi how mircea_popescu concluded that miners were involved. the only clue i have is that it has recently come out that the top cn miners have formed a derp committee of some kind, apparently for purposes of negotiated separate peace with the enemy
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 16:53:56; davout: were A2, A3, A4 ever published?
gribble: The operation succeeded.
nubbins`: go to qntra article and see how long it takes for someone to even MENTION the obvious cheapo explanation
nubbins`: by the time it's raised, you can barely read it for the noise about "bitcoin has been forked"
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i ~really~, very much, hate the miners. but i do not have the smoking gun that tells us that they were at fault.
nubbins`: asciilifeform bush didn't have the smoking gun but he still went to iraq
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's observations best fit the 'there is no longer a reliable network' model.
nubbins`: agreed with caveats
asciilifeform: rather than 'miner cartel' model.
kakobrekla: asciilifeform there never was.
thestringpuller: nubbins`: "Why is Bush so convinced Iraq has weapons of mass destruction?" Negrodamus: "Because he has the receipt."
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: mircea_popescu sent the first tx. noticed that it has apparently vanished from the fact of the earth. what is the thing to do in that case ?
asciilifeform: *face of
thestringpuller: ^-patience?
davout: asciilifeform: do a double spend, manage to get a conflicting tx mined
nubbins`: so, where do we go from here? we have an mpex listing where the owner's introduced fraudulent expenses and the other owner won't sign the financial statement. the only party who has recourse of any sort is mpex, but of course the conflict of interest involved will preclude mpex from resolving the situation to honest satisfaction
asciilifeform: davout: which is what he did ?
davout: asciilifeform: no, the tx he sent was not conflicting
nubbins`: ^ true
jurov: asciilifeform: why was he ever sending zerofee tx?
asciilifeform: davout: 'A second transaction was broadcast, spending the same inputs as A1, including a fee of 0.0001'
nubbins`: jurov incompetence
PeterL: nubbins`> go to qntra article and see how long it takes for someone to even MENTION the obvious cheapo explanation << if you look at the timestamps, it was just a couple hours before we started complaining, which was pretty much as soon as I got around to reading the article in question
nubbins`: PeterL fair nuf :)
davout: asciilifeform: it's the "manage to get mined" that's the important bit here
asciilifeform: seems to me like he did a reasonable thing, which is to transmit a doublspend with moar fee
asciilifeform: but forgot that the network is now run by aggressive imbeciles
nubbins`: still not enough fee, by his own admission.
asciilifeform: who will drop the tx on the floor
nubbins`: so A1 and A2 were bad judgment calls, we can all agree there
kakobrekla: asciilifeform certainly not sign more parallel transactions to same effect and broadcast them like nothing happened
nubbins`: a thousand times this
asciilifeform: but what instead ?
nubbins`: this is like ordering pizza from 2 different shops, eating the one that shows up first, and acting surprised when you see both charged to your credit card
davout: asciilifeform: try harder?
kakobrekla: asciilifeform see the agreed upon solution for future bets payouts
nubbins`: asciilifeform the "what instead" has been stated to be "use a fee of 9 cents" more than once.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: from the statement ?
nubbins`: maybe 10 cents if you're feeling brave.
kakobrekla: asciilifeform yes.
davout: bbl
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: it sounds reasonable. except that i suspect that most of the users will cry, 'how do i transmit a tx?111 waaah'
nubbins`: most of the users will cry "this place is fucked"
nubbins`: "i have to push my own tx because bitbet can't afford a tx fee"
nubbins`: "what are they sniffing?"
kakobrekla: i dont think this will be a problem. notice the 'double-check' guy from comments.
nubbins`: seriously. "the stupidest tx ever was slow to propagate, therefore all payouts are suspended"
nubbins`: sounds reasonable
nubbins`: anyone who supports this gibberish shames themselves
assbot: A Miner Problem | Qntra ... ( http://bit.ly/24BzVIP )
nubbins`: kakobrekla seems like you've got a good understanding of the likelihood of each explanation
asciilifeform: [02:07:54] [mircea_popescu] ALL these ~happened~ to somehow drop out of mempools ? << from the document << later we learn that prb DROPS what it deems 'doublespend' SOLELY based on chronology.
nubbins`: turns out "somehow" is "here's how:"
asciilifeform: which handily explains why A2-A4 vanished.
nubbins`: agreed
PeterL: does trb do replace by fee?
nubbins`: and a desire to not propagate shit tx's handily explains why A1 was retained but not relayed by nodes, agreed?
asciilifeform: PeterL: what's that ?
kakobrekla: 'replace by fee' is a new thing that has not been ported
PeterL: if trb sees A1 and A2, which does it keep?
PeterL: (A1 is 0fee, A2 has fee, same inputs)
assbot: Satoshi asciilifeform_add_verifyall_option/src/main.cpp ... ( http://bit.ly/1LaoiSM )
asciilifeform: ^ apparently whichever it sees 1st.
asciilifeform: which is a bug.
nubbins`: so we can explain why A1 was held for so long before being mined, and we can explain why A2-A4 vanished, and we can explain why mp thought that sending B was a good idea, but we now see that it was simply not a good idea because mp did not understand the payment protocol as well as he thought he did, and now we've got a 17 btc fraudulent expense on bitbet's ledger
BingoBoingo: 'replace by fee' USED to be how double spends were typically resolved by miner implementations
asciilifeform: nubbins`: incidentally i have nfi what mpb does, i have never seen it and don't expect to
nubbins`: asciilifeform agreed
nubbins`: if there are any omissions or corrections to be made to my summation above, now would be the time
nubbins`: i'm all ears
PeterL: maybe mircea_popescu can tell us how his own implementation works?
nubbins`: maybe he can defraud bitbet investors too
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i fully expected that mircea_popescu would cover the 17 from the coin stuck in his toenails
nubbins`: asciilifeform seems odd behaviour for a wealthy man, no?
nubbins`: especially considering the shitstorm that this egregious fraud has blown up
asciilifeform: but i have nfi, i'm not his mother, cannot answer why he does things! l0l!
nubbins`: maybe he needs a loan. hanbot seems like she buys lots of stuff
PeterL: asciilifeform I was suprised when he decided to stick it onto bitbet's books
nubbins`: i was shocked
nubbins`: i guess we should put his lordship to a vote in a few days if he hasn't resolved things satisfactorily
nubbins`: TMSR~ can't afford to harbour scammers or fraudsters
asciilifeform: nubbins`: it is possible that mircea_popescu is holding a drill.
asciilifeform: in his place, i would do it regularly
PeterL: If I send a txn to the addresses listed on a bitbet page, will that expense be put on the bitbet books too?
nubbins`: i'm afraid your metaphor escapes me
nubbins`: PeterL only if you own 25% of the shares
PeterL: asciilifeform a scammer drill? to see if we call out an negrate scammers in a timely fasion?
nubbins`: oh, that type of drill, not a power tool
nubbins`: doubt it
PeterL: and if we blindly follow him then he knows we are all derps?
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nubbins`: PeterL i don't know how much of the logs you've read, but it's mostly derps
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2016 22:35:15; asciilifeform: except i admit that i only expected 'this' to happen after cia murdered mircea_popescu and took his coin...
nubbins`: i could count the individuals i'd consider intellectual peers on one hand
PeterL: it's mostly mircea_popescu and asciilifeform bickering back and forth?
nubbins`: they don't bicker much, and alf's a smart guy
nubbins`: but by and large, this place is an intellectual wasteland
nubbins`: take the situation of poor bitcoinpete: his underwear probably smells like mp's dick
nubbins`: a less-loquacious parrot regurgitating half-understood conceits
PeterL: are Canadians allowed to talk about each other so impolitely?
nubbins`: or mod6, by all accounts a great guy, head of TRB, almost quit in the first week because he couldn't get a gentoo install up and running.
nubbins`: and felt unfit to lead.
PeterL: each of us have our warts
nubbins`: yep. and a quick "you got it buddy" to mod6 and "you're really good at typing things up, you're wasting your talents at the loading bay" to dpb and you've got two more sets of undies smelling like mp's dick
trinque: I don't get these shots at mod6; he wrote up a fine guide to building a gentoo...
nubbins`: didn't even have to pay bingo to stick around, just bought him a domain and some text-only
nubbins`: trinque not a shot, merely stating facts
asciilifeform: nubbins`: when you were a boy, didja ever lead a band of other boys to raise hell ?
asciilifeform: do you recall how it's generally done ?
thestringpuller: a clockwork orange this is not
nubbins`: asciilifeform i waited until adulthood to start raising hell, nobody listens to kids. but i smell a story coming
asciilifeform: or, similar example, do you know how famous sov. circus trainer kuklachev trained housecats to perform ?
PeterL: figure out which way they are running, jump in front and say "this way, boys!"?
asciilifeform: PeterL: not quite.
nubbins`: asciilifeform i'll venture a guess that it's the same way mp trains derps to stick around and parrot the party line
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asciilifeform: nubbins`: i dun think he needs the parroting for anything
nubbins`: put some wet food on the other side of the hoop and dole out a few head scratches
asciilifeform: it is like the vroom of a racing engine
asciilifeform: yes, it goes with the engine.
nubbins`: asciilifeform agreed which is why i think pete annoys me so much
asciilifeform: but it does not move the car.
nubbins`: like a small child holding a hot wheels shouting "vroom!"
asciilifeform: nubbins`: fwiw pete_dushenski and i are not huge fans of one another.
nubbins`: asciilifeform if we're calling spades spades, i think he's a piece of shit, but one has to wonder what weight MY opinion holds in such matters
thestringpuller: all this before civil war II
asciilifeform: nubbins`: why piece of shit? i think he's a snore, and he - likely thinks i am a snore. but why the mega-rage, l0l
nubbins`: don't conflate strong feelings with rage, i'm having a great day :)
nubbins`: as to why, i find his worldview repulsive
nubbins`: and his personality lacking
nubbins`: but this is off-topic
nubbins`: fwiw, i also think mp is a piece of shit, but it was easy enough to idle in here and fleece some money out of him now and again. that time's obviously passed since all of his ventures are either spinning wheels or outright fraud shops
asciilifeform: afaik pete_dushenski is this canadian fella who likes to race cars, and also occasionally reads the logz and writes summaries, in something like stalin's radio caster (levitan) voice.
asciilifeform: i don't much care for them, myself.
asciilifeform: i got enough of that as a kid.
nubbins`: of course, one can converse with pieces of shit just fine, and even occasionally work together on common goals
nubbins`: but when the shit turns sour and starts liquefying and spreading around, well, it'd be remiss of me to not try to contain it
asciilifeform: nubbins`: do you actually think he was trying to personally fleece you ?
asciilifeform: (or anybody ?)
nubbins`: asciilifeform goodness no
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu works as a pope.
nubbins`: you got it backwards
asciilifeform: does nubbins` understand why this is a painful job ?
nubbins`: because the gold crowns are really heavy?
asciilifeform: they ~are~.
nubbins`: ...?
nubbins`: what i was saying is that i came here and stuck around to make money
asciilifeform: nubbins`: recall the quantum computer thread ?
nubbins`: i'm not here to make friends and brown-nose some random dude
nubbins`: i'm here to get paid and call bullshit
assbot: Moscow Cats Theatre - Repertoir ... ( http://bit.ly/1nrH3FX )
nubbins`: and mp is spraying bullshit like a fountain
assbot: Logged on 10-02-2016 17:08:22; mircea_popescu: alowing the possibility that this scam is actually worth taking seriously costs the people who follow what i say whatever it may cost them.
asciilifeform: nubbins` ^
asciilifeform: being pope is not easy.
asciilifeform: he can't simply say 'oops!'
nubbins`: lol.
nubbins`: he can't simply admit his unquestioned fraud?
nubbins`: strange temple you've built here, stan
asciilifeform: l0l me?
nubbins`: you're the one saying he can't just say oops
nubbins`: of fucking course he can. what planet is this?
asciilifeform: well that is my current understanding.
nubbins`: "sorry guise, turns out, as you ALL KNOW, i made a mistake that would be interpreted as fraud if it stands"
nubbins`: i can't tell if you're advocating letting the fraud stand as the only sensible option
asciilifeform: what does kakobrekla have to say ?
nubbins`: he's probably too busy worrying about bitbet vanishing
asciilifeform: i dun think kakobrekla is congentalyl capable of worry
asciilifeform: he had that muscle removed in the war.
nubbins`: put his job on the line and see if he worries
nubbins`: bitbet is a scam site if this stands, unequivocally. i dare you to declare otherwise, and if you so choose, please PGP sign it for us all
nubbins`: make a history for ourselves
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i'ma wait for mircea_popescu to wake up and admit he was conducting a drill.
assbot: The Hour Of Reckoning on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1Laq9r0 )
nubbins`: what's the upper bound on the amount of time you'll wait?
nubbins`: you can't leave it open-ended, that's just not gonna fly
nubbins`: pick a timeframe and we'll see
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nubbins`: wanna give him a month? next bitbet statement should be out by then
asciilifeform: nubbins`: idk, if this carries on, i might have to take up his offer and visit in person (and perhaps disappear into whatever gulag they put the real mircea_popescu in !1111)
nubbins`: and if that statement doesn't cover march AND february, then s.bbet has failed reporting requirements as per mpex regs
nubbins`: currently, no signed financial statement for feb 2016 exists
nubbins`: 1-month absences are allowed if the missed statement is rolled into the next
asciilifeform: nubbins`: you did not complain when mine was late ?
nubbins`: yours didn't have a $7,000 private spending spree on the books
nubbins`: did it?
asciilifeform: read it, it's up
nubbins`: asciilifeform looks all A-OK to me
thestringpuller: it has a $200 expense for phuctor
thestringpuller: that will be recurrin
asciilifeform: anyway nubbins` i srsly have nfi why the 17 was put in as bitbet expense, ask mircea_popescu, i'm not his mother.
asciilifeform: and yes if i were bbet shareholder i'd be going ???.
asciilifeform: but i;m not.
asciilifeform: if i had to guess (why?) - say - drill.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: Are you familiar with the Dark Knight Returns?
nubbins`: asciilifeform if you'll recall, i'm unable to ask mp because he has me on ignore; i've asked him via gribble ;;echo but he has deigned not to respond, save only through his girlfriend, who had nothing sensible to say
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i think you did a perfectly fine job of putting the argument in the logz.
nubbins`: asciilifeform thanks, it's refreshing to learn that at least one other person present is able to obtain information from words that have not been packaged up into a "blog post"
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nubbins`: just as long as we're all on the same page here that the 17 btc is fraudulent and mp is refusing to admit his fraud, i don't really have anything else to add, aside from shredding the ridiculous rebuttals put forth so far
nubbins`: kakobrekla do you think you could make the "PAYOUTS CANCELLED FOREVER" text a bit smaller? it's taking over the whole page
nubbins`: brb lunch
shinohai waves at #b-a from his hot air balloon powered by todays logs.
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nubbins`: i can't see bitbet staying around as a going concern if mp doesn't eat crow
nubbins`: seriously: outstanding bets that are in the system RIGHT NOW will be heading to mp's pocket later, to pay him back for his personal loss
nubbins`: why the fuck would you use such a site?
nubbins`: kakobrekla is gonna be pissed when he realizes that under mp's proposed terms, kako doesn't see a dime of dividend payouts until mp is made whole again
nubbins`: even hanbot must be ashamed of him
PeterL: anybody want to guess as to whether one of the winning bets on the JebBush bet was owned by mircea_popescu? who got the extra 7btc payment?
nubbins`: nah, although i think it's fairly boilerplate that if there's x to be made by betting y on a late bet, it happens
nubbins`: rubes wouldn't normally wager 7 btc to earn 0.4, but if you hold the keys, it's less of a gamble
PeterL: yes, large late bets are common, but it could be mp doing it
nubbins`: sure. why not / who cares?
PeterL: just saying
nubbins`: i always assumed it was so
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nubbins`: see 8btc final bet
nubbins`: i should make a bet, "mp will attempt once more to remove nubs from lordship list by march 9"
nubbins`: oh, wait, payouts are on hold
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nubbins`: mpoe sinking like a stone since mp falsely claimed a chinese cartel fork
nubbins`: guess investors finally had enough crazy
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asciilifeform: so i reread the log, and,
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 16:12:01; mircea_popescu: PeterL when the ceo of a company makes a stupid mistake, the company pays for it. there are exactly no exceptions to this rule, nor will there ever be. morever, even when what the ceo does isn't a stupid mistake, the shareholders still pay for it.
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu pulled the reactor control rods out because he had a drink too many, the shareholders, per the spec, have precisely two options - to forgive him, or to sell
asciilifeform: as far as i can tell.
asciilifeform: and this is not a mega-surprise, it is quite how the 'separation between the man and the uniform' thing works.
asciilifeform: there is nothing in the bbet listing concerning 'if officer blows up the reactor, he will pay for it out of his lunch money'
asciilifeform: because we are not in the soviet air force.
nubbins`: there is, however, a thing in the bbet listing about not putting private expenses on the books.
asciilifeform: there is.
nubbins`: a private expense being, e.g., mp spending his own money out of free will
nubbins`: aka tx B
asciilifeform: actually i have no idea where B came from
asciilifeform: perhaps it was freshly-incoming bbet meat.
asciilifeform: or change. or whatnot.
nubbins`: that's worse.
nubbins`: that's taking new funds to pay off an old debt
nubbins`: aka a ponzi
asciilifeform: well in that case it wouldn't be 'his own money', but legit operating meat, no?
nubbins`: ask madoff about legit meat
asciilifeform: why ponzi ?
asciilifeform: i dun get it
jurov: i'm rather curious if the point 3.2d was fullfilled, i.e. kakobrekla agreed with whole crapolade
nubbins`: asciilifeform B was money for another bet payout -- from what will B's winners be paid? C?
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asciilifeform: nubbins`: recall, mircea_popescu said something to the effect of that he was putting out a fire.
asciilifeform: with whatever was in reach.
nubbins`: jurov iirc no; let me find link
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 16:31:53; kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-03-2016#1424891 < this is not so. it was not bitbet experience (for example i was not even aware of any of it) and publishing your interpretation on qntra does not assert absolute truth, it just tells everyone who reads it what you think.
nubbins`: he did it behind kako's back
nubbins`: that's 3.2 (d) and (h) busted
jurov: well, we have breach of conract then
nubbins`: yes, doubly
nubbins`: unfortunately, in the case of breach of contract:
asciilifeform: nubbins`: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=07-03-2016#1424847 << suggests that it was not 'behind back' but the normal operation of bbet
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 16:13:55; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the way it worked, from the beginning, was that he did the site and i did admin and payouts.
nubbins`: 4.3. Should BitBet fail to execute this Agreement, as for instance by but not limited to breaching 3.2.h above, MPEx will notify the named individuals of their breach and may, at its sole discretion, suspend the asset from trading thus activating the liquidation of the asset.
nubbins`: ,"may", "at its sole discretion" do nothing, also
nubbins`: asciilifeform then the listing agreement is extremely poorly written
kakobrekla: asciilifeform things of far lesser importance were normally discussed by 'the board'.
jurov: but i wouldn't call it ponzi, at least till bitbet has equity
nubbins`: <+asciilifeform>with whatever was in reach. << madoff was putting out fires with whatever was in reach, too
asciilifeform: i admit that i don't see the ponzi aspect here.
nubbins`: nothing noble in the act, in and of itself
nubbins`: jurov i wouldn't either; i don't believe B was from another bet
nubbins`: ponzi is the alternative explanation, if B was not mp's funds but was funds from another bet
nubbins`: so your choices are ponzi or fraud, served with a side of breached contract
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36014 @ 0.00053448 = 19.2488 BTC [+] {4}
nubbins`: my guess is fraud; alf's suggestion that B was nipped from another bet is suggesing ponzi
asciilifeform: i am also sympathetic to the argument that the currency chair broke when he sat down on it and wtf.
nubbins`: but i don't think this is necessarily alf's position
nubbins`: oh, me too. i'm not sympathetic to children playing at adult games tho
asciilifeform: so chair collapsed and he grabbed whatever pipe was within reach.
nubbins`: "their money, my money, whatever"
jurov: stfu you redditor!!11
nubbins`: that was mp's strongest rebuttal
asciilifeform: anyway i have nfi, will let mircea_popescu explain whether his chair collapsed, which pipe, if any, he grabbed, what kind of reactor coolant came out, etc.
asciilifeform: rather than trying to telepath.
asciilifeform: which i am not any good at.
nubbins` is still curious how kako feels about being denied his dividends until mp gets 17btc worth
nubbins`: that's gonna take like a year or two, man
nubbins`: long time to work for free
asciilifeform: incidentally, i also have nfi how the 'zero asset' thing works. i.e., what was the plan if somehow bbet had lost x btc through some other misfortune.
asciilifeform: somehow i can't picture that 'zero asset' means 'dies if the wind farts on it'
asciilifeform: does it ?
nubbins`: not my story, i have nfi.
nubbins`: i guess the plan was for mp to bail it out and trawl the divs for x months
nubbins`: he could've picked a better month to try it
nubbins`: also seems a fairly retarded way to run a business, now that this has happened
nubbins`: just think: if bitbet had socked away the 10btc that the random dude said it stole from him, there'd only be a 7 btc fraudulent expense on the books
assbot: BitBet Stole ~$7,000 from me (10 BTC) ... ( http://bit.ly/1QCqtie )
asciilifeform: nubbins`: if he had wanted to bail it out, he could have trivially - and anonymously - throw in however many coin.
asciilifeform: and it would have been 'donation to shareholders'
nubbins`: instead, he chose to...
asciilifeform: and no one would even have noticed that any was lost.
asciilifeform: but he did not do this because he is a ~principled~ fella.
nubbins`: lol.
nubbins`: i resent the implication that i haven't been
asciilifeform: nubbins`: you eminently also have been.
nubbins`: you're not passing this off as being principled
nubbins`: not happening
asciilifeform: why would an unprincipled mp ~not~ anonymously fill in the hole ?
nubbins`: why would judas rat out his buddy?
asciilifeform: you think mircea_popescu actually ~needs~ the 17 for something ?
nubbins`: no, i don't
asciilifeform: i think he uses more than 17 btc of toilet paper whenever he shits.
asciilifeform: (with gold leaf.)
nubbins`: sure, why not
nubbins`: which is why it's insane that he didn't shrug off the loss
nubbins`: and instead chose to breach a contract
nubbins`: egregiously and unapologetically
asciilifeform: the way i'm reading it, he was trying to make a point, that the currency is broken (and it is), and that he refuses to be held to answer for ~it being broken~
nubbins`: oh, so he didn't know it was broken before this?
nubbins`: hadn't taken a look at the rat's nest?
asciilifeform: not to this degree ?
nubbins`: in fact, he pushed out A1 knowing precisely the spaghetti-mess it was being pushed into
nubbins`: ten american cents would have effortlessly done the job
asciilifeform: i hold myself responsible for some of mircea_popescu's rage. and think that it is justified. because the thing ~is~ br0k3n.
nubbins`: but he said:
nubbins`: fuck everybody, i am mp. a 0-fee tx "should" work in my ideal utopia, so it's everyone else's fault if something weird happens
nubbins`: asciilifeform guy said himself A1, A2 should never have worked.
nubbins`: didn't give a fuck, tried em anyway
asciilifeform: nubbins`: if i had to guess, a1 was sent with default knobs.
nubbins`: because wooooo spring break
nubbins`: default knobs!
nubbins`: did he send it from his windows box?
nubbins`: or his ipnohe?
asciilifeform: mpb prolly.
asciilifeform: which i know ~0 about.
asciilifeform: for all i know (and i have said this) it runs on kremvax.
nubbins`: "the default settings should be good enough, even though an iota of thought would reveal that they're not"
nubbins`: right
nubbins`: so you're blaming the black box?
asciilifeform: nubbins`: default settings worked on every day prior to day x.
nubbins`: sure about that?
nubbins`: wait, right, black box.
asciilifeform: again i have nfi, but this is the most parsimonious hypothesis
asciilifeform: based on what mircea_popescu said in his article.
nubbins`: most persnickety
asciilifeform: nubbins` carefully inspects his chair every day before he sits down in it ?
asciilifeform: every time ?
asciilifeform: and let's say the chair breaks one time, and nubbins` finds out that it was because of something a bunch of subhuman scum did.
asciilifeform: what will he say ?
kakobrekla: its not only that chair broke. he deliberately sat on it again (more precisely sat bitbet on it) after he noticed it was broken.
nubbins`: if the chair accepted fees to better ensure my ass stayed sat, yes, i'd examine the chair very carefully when sitting for free.
nubbins`: or, y'know, just pay the chair a reasonable fee
nubbins`: say, nine cents.
nubbins`: to sit $17,000 worth of ass
nubbins`: back to the analogy drawing board
nubbins`: kakobrekla he sat bitbet on it, then broke his own chair too, then billed bitbet for two chairs
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> nubbins` carefully inspects his chair every day before he sits down in it ? << This is inspiring a yard project. I have a tall yet narrow tree to take down. Will make a tree stake before gone forever!
nubbins`: cannibal holocaust remake?
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Nah, just craft project. Not film project
nubbins`: even better
danielpbarron: maybe the 17 btc should be donated to bbet by s.nsa? If indeed the whole point was to make a point about the brokenness of bitcoin.
BingoBoingo may have to make the jump to power tools. Crosscut saw has given arm a beating.
nubbins`: danielpbarron hahaha now we're thinking outside the box
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: how do the shareholders of s.nsa feel about such a thing ?
asciilifeform: any happier than the bbet ones ?
asciilifeform: jurov ?
nubbins`: asciilifeform i think it's clear that the shareholders are happy eating salted shit
jurov: asciilifeform: i do check the mempol stats before sending small tx
asciilifeform: nubbins`: well danielpbarron was asking about s.nsa shareholders
jurov: and ALWAYS add at least 0.00001,
danielpbarron: heh i'm a shareholder of both, although not a very big one. full disclosure : i have more invested in bbet than nsa
nubbins`: asciilifeform and his suggestion provoked a hearty lel from me
nubbins`: for its novelty as well as its impropriety
nubbins`: jurov i've never sent a 0-fee tx
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: i must confess that if mircea_popescu was conducting an experiment to demonstrate the brokkenness of bitcoin, under the banner of s.nsa, he would have put it as expense in s.nsa statement.
nubbins`: bitcoin's not for poor people
asciilifeform: which we signed. and notice, there is not such a thing there.
asciilifeform: so even though mircea_popescu is not here, i can say with some certainty that he was not conducting an s.nsa experiment that day.
jurov: i have mostly (and painfully) divested from s.nsa, but think two wrongs does not make right
jurov: (i.e. taking from s.nsa money for something it was not involved with at all)
nubbins`: i don't think anyone's seriously floating that as a solution
asciilifeform: danielpbarron suggested it, so i was curious re: his logic.
nubbins`: in fact, the only rational exit is for the 17 to come out of mp's couch cushions
danielpbarron: just seems like more of an nsa themed thing, but I'm no expert in these matters and I'm not married to the idea
nubbins`: danielpbarron you're assuming this was not borne of incompetence
nubbins`: i don't know why
nubbins`: but it was
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: this would, then, have the unpleasant flavour of the car wash folks, who wash you at a red light and then ask for pay.
asciilifeform: which i do not think was meant here.
nubbins`: bitbet got washed at a red by mp
nubbins`: cost for 1 windshield: 17 btc
danielpbarron: i'm not saying you haven't made some sound points nubbins` , but I trust Mircea more than I trust you, and that's that.
nubbins`: danielpbarron as is your perogative; however, in a battle of trust vs facts, i'd rather stick with facts
punkman: was this even the first time bbet double paid?
nubbins`: speaking as a man of no religion, you understand.
nubbins`: everyone's slice is buttered differently
punkman: wow mega backlogs
nubbins`: punkman sorry, 80% me
trinque: I butter mine on both, use as a transportation device
nubbins`: cool, do you get on the bread, drop it on the floor, and thusly get the fuck out?
asciilifeform: at any rate, mircea_popescu is prolly off sitting in the war room recrunching the numberz, and will come back and either show us that we're idiots, or apologize and 'gracious donation to shareholderz.'
asciilifeform: but imho it is not a very interesting thread without him.
punkman: bitcoin runs on drama!
asciilifeform: thus far this is reminiscent of the otp thread.
jurov: asciilifeform: lol 'war room', do you remember he did accounting mistakes wrt bitbet divs almost every month?
trinque: nubbins`: bawww
jurov: and we all know discussing what mp should and should not do is in vain, but he's not alone in there. i'm looking forward to see how kakobrekla follows with this
asciilifeform: jurov: i have nfi, i admit that i do not typically follow the subject
danielpbarron: as to whether the listing agreement was violated, I hope for the sake of myself and other shareholders that bbet isn't liquidated at the specified price of 0.00001 btc per share
asciilifeform: recall, i am here for slightly different reason than other folks, i'm not really an 'assets' fella
trinque: nubbins`: you have an embarassing habit of throwing jabs at everyone in a room when you have a problem with one
asciilifeform: i have no assets and no net work, i just like maths.
asciilifeform: *net worth
nubbins`: trinque take one on the chin, why don't ya
danielpbarron: asciilifeform, you ~are~ an asset <3
trinque: awwww
asciilifeform: i think i am what mircea_popescu terms a 'shoemaker.'
asciilifeform: which is fine with me.
asciilifeform: (this is a term in ru also.)
nubbins`: accounting mistakes wrt bitbet divs almost every month? << iirc there was an s.mg that had an error around my stock warrant too
danielpbarron: i'm a shoe shipper hehe
nubbins`: wow, he called me a shoemaker as an insult earlier
nubbins`: MAYBE IT WAS A COMPLIMENT
jurov: better than shoe polisher at any rate
danielpbarron: well i don't masquerade as a finance expert while making my shoes..
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 03:01:31; mircea_popescu: !rate nubbins` -1 more or less shoemaker insistent on derping above the crepidam.
nubbins`: danielpbarron this isn't expert finance, my buddy
nubbins`: simple logic
nubbins`: mp shrugged too, sux for everyone i guess
nubbins` shrugs
nubbins`: anyone else?
danielpbarron: i'm baking an article about this for my blog, fwiw
nubbins`: i won't read it, fwiw
asciilifeform: i will read.
danielpbarron: on a related note, neither is worth much
davout: oh god, such mega-drama
asciilifeform: nah, this is mere kilo-drama.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-03-2016#1424706 << this got lost in the noise and i would like to come back to it.
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 15:34:51; dooglus: see main.cpp: int nLimit = 500 /* + locator.GetDistanceBack() */ ;
dooglus: see also: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/951 -- if it's not illegal to post github links in here ;)
assbot: Limit getheaders to a hard 2000. by TheBlueMatt · Pull Request #951 · bitcoin/bitcoin · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1U0bTn3 )
asciilifeform: i have to agree with mircea_popescu on this one , http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-03-2016#1424756
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 15:47:24; mircea_popescu: it just turned a mild magic number ("get all the headers no less than 2000) into a fucking protocol limit. "only get 2k". this is utter nonsense.
asciilifeform: dooglus: when trb disagrees with prb, prb is ipso facto wrong.
asciilifeform: because wtf goats do not get to decide human questions.
dooglus: sure
asciilifeform: so this answers it.
asciilifeform: if your client barfs when working with trb, patch your client.
dooglus: I saw MP's "a cartel of Bitcoin miners is deliberately and systematically withholding blocks for an interval of about 20 minutes to a half hour" and was sceptical
dooglus: then remembered prb's 0.12 release writes the current block height into the locktime of transactions it creates
assbot: dpaste: 0FCJN2C ... ( http://bit.ly/1U0cchP )
dooglus: weird distribution of current block heights there
asciilifeform: dooglus: mircea_popescu does not use prb.
dooglus: doesn't matter
nubbins`: everyone else does
nubbins`: and everyone else is who relays tx's
asciilifeform: nubbins`: yeah but he baked the tx
nubbins`: he baked his fucking betting website
asciilifeform: so prb tx-baking behaviour would not influence matters
dooglus: most people don't use prb - most transactions don't have a non-zero locktime - but lots do
nubbins`: BingoBoingo how do / can i submit a qntra piece?
nubbins`: it would be remiss for readers to miss out on a summation of this action
dooglus: many other transactions in that block *do* have block heights baked into them
asciilifeform: ah this is re: whether blocks are being withheld as per mircea_popescu's hypothesis.
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin main net block size to increase before July 2016 :: 3 B (58%) on Yes, 2.18 B (42%) on No | closing in 2 months 3 weeks | weight: 40`287 (100`000 to 2`000) ... ( http://bit.ly/1U0ctRQ )
assbot: Bitcoin Block #401585 ... ( http://bit.ly/1U0cwx7 )
dooglus: right. the majority of txs which do have a height baked in were created 10 blocks before that block
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: what are we looking at here ?
pete_dushenski: re links : number of txen, fees, hash, merkle root match - size of block and number of coins transacted do not match
assbot: Lacessiveram editor on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1GY9tv0 )
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: dunno if this is a common occurrence, just noticed it because it was raised in bb comment.
pete_dushenski: i haven't the patience to compare every listed tx. perhaps someone else has script or program for this
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: for your (two)dogged persistence, cheers.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i do not. but this'd be a good beginner project
asciilifeform: (write block disasmer that can take output of 'spitblock')
asciilifeform: dumpblock, rather
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 59550 @ 0.00053315 = 31.7491 BTC [-] {4}
asciilifeform: and this is really appropriately a shiva project.
dooglus: pete_dushenski: that block is 999962 bytes long, which is 976.5254 * 1024 - so that's the discrepancy
asciilifeform: and now that i think about it, phf had a block disasmer in commonlisp.
thestringpuller: ;;calc 976.5254 * 1024
gribble: 999962.0096
asciilifeform: but i have misplaced the link, and cannot find it in the logz
dooglus: echo $((($(bitcoind getblock $(bitcoind getblockhash 401585) false | wc -c) - 1) / 2))
pete_dushenski: so bc.info suddenly forgot that there are 1024 bytes in a kb, like the girl who thinks that her 3 months old son is '12 weeks old' ?
pete_dushenski: strange.
dooglus: they also think kB is spelled with a capital K. whenever blockchain.info disagrees with another block explorer, it's wrong
nubbins`: pete_dushenski no hard feelings, i swear!
asciilifeform: !up Chicago
nubbins`: okay, pretty sure this qntra submission conforms to standard
nubbins`: BingoBoingo what's next?! signed & ready to go
dooglus: then there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte telling me there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte and 1024 bytes in a kibibyte...
assbot: Kibibyte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1OXTXBC )
shinohai: dafuq?
nubbins`: dooglus kibi/mibi/gibi has been the bane of many
nubbins`: FWIW, this is why "1 terabyte = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes"
nubbins`: because it actually does
nubbins` always chalked it up to americans not using the metric system, in which kilo is 1000 by definition
asciilifeform: i side with tradition and honest ram vendors vs. consistency and scummy hdd makers.
thestringpuller: ram vendors are honest?
nubbins`: fwiw, the "bi" is short for "binary", because -- yep, you guessed it -- 1024 is a tidy 2^10
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: in the sense that they 1024.
nubbins`: abusing SI prefixes is honest?
nubbins`: no metric unit is 1024 anything
asciilifeform: because those who stopped, stopped so that they could scam consumers.
thestringpuller: ;;calc 2 ** 10
gribble: 1024
danielpbarron: nubbins`> BingoBoingo what's next?! signed & ready to go << link the signed encrypted thing as a text file (on dpaste or your own site) in a later tell to Bingo
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: lol is 'piece of shit' a term of endearment on your end of the globe ? i have a hard time keeping track of all the different culture nuances in this vast and expansive country of ours
danielpbarron: make sure it's encrypted and not just signed.. otherwise the web crawlers get to read it first
pete_dushenski: cultural*
pete_dushenski: http://dpaste.com/0FCJN2C << v. interesting, dooglus
assbot: dpaste: 0FCJN2C ... ( http://bit.ly/1U0cchP )
dooglus: pete_dushenski: yeah, but what does it mean?
pete_dushenski: i'm not qualified to say what it means !
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: hey there's no rule proclaiming that everybody has to be friendz.
asciilifeform: nubbins` and pete_dushenski are entirely welcome to sit on opposite ends of the bar and give mean stares or whatnot.
nubbins`: <+asciilifeform>because those who stopped, stopped so that they could scam consumers. << two wrongs make not a right
nubbins`: [18:26:01] <+nubbins`>pete_dushenski no hard feelings, i swear!
BingoBoingo: <nubbins`> BingoBoingo how do / can i submit a qntra piece? << sign/encrypt a document and pass it to me somehow
assbot: dpaste: 382FKCJ: blocks either side of 400739 show a similar pattern too ... ( http://bit.ly/1U0eX2G )
nubbins`: tyvm, please see pm from gribble
nubbins`: BingoBoingo LMK if you plan to not publish
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: to be sure.
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: i gotcha ;)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-03-2016#1425662 << this very readily suggests to me a malleus-II
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 22:08:22; dooglus: pete_dushenski: http://dpaste.com/382FKCJ
asciilifeform: that will refuse to relay tx where locktime is set.
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: will let you know, but it seems rather long
nubbins`: succinctness is not my strong point
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: also wasn't encrypted
nubbins`: lol why i gotta encrypt?
BingoBoingo: seems a bit early to do a piece on this.
nubbins`: breaking news, buddy. your loss
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 113593 @ 0.00053404 = 60.6632 BTC [+] {5}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34008 @ 0.00053225 = 18.1008 BTC [-] {3}
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 1.00000000 BTC on 'Yes' - AlphaGo will defeat Lee Sedol overall in March 2016 match - http://bitbet.us/bet/1249/alphago-will-defeat-lee-sedol-overall-in-march/#b142
davout: dooglus: any interpretation for the data you posted? i fail to see anything meaningful to conclude from it
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 55350 @ 0.00053615 = 29.6759 BTC [+] {3}
davout: curious why you'd say "that's a weird distribution - 70 transactions were made when block 400728 was the current block, and only 16 were made at a later point in time" when the majority of the referenced transactions have a 0 locktime
davout: am i missing something ?
nubbins`: also, FWIW, S.BBET has officially missed the Feb 5th deadline for publishing a (signed) feb 2016 statement.
nubbins`: according to the listing agreement (3.2 (g)), this can only happen once per year, and it's march 7th
nubbins`: *march 5th deadline
nubbins`: seems early to be using your lifeline
nubbins`: guess it took a couple days to work up the courage to introduce that private expense
nubbins`: unfortunately, by the logic of the listing agreement, feb 2016 statement is null and void no matter if kako signs or not
nubbins`: better luck next month with the feb+march statement
asciilifeform: nubbins`: gonna also apply to snsa ?
nubbins`: asciilifeform i haven't read over s.nsa listing agreement in depth
asciilifeform: did i ever even once publish a broadcast exactly on time ?
nubbins`: dude, it even says "solemnly promise and warrant".
nubbins`: 5th of the month.
nubbins`: idgaf if they're published or not, but:
nubbins`: The representatives of BitBet solemnly promise and warrant that complete and accurate Revenue and Net Revenue statements for each calendar month will be published by them no later than by the fifth day of the new month.
nubbins`: instead, we have an incomplete, unsigned, inaccurate statement published on the 7th
nubbins`: again, doesn't affect me, just saying. pretty cavalier.
thestringpuller: are there any NSA statements published after the 5th?
nubbins`: thestringpuller homework for ya
thestringpuller: ain't nobody got time 4 that
nubbins`: no kidding, i can only fit one broken contract in my head at a time
nubbins`: i've made promises that are more thorough than this thing
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 48350 @ 0.00053629 = 25.9296 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 55800 @ 0.00053104 = 29.632 BTC [-] {5}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19300 @ 0.00053067 = 10.2419 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: Stiuso, amenaza para Cristina y desafío para Macri - 07.03.2016 - LA NACION   ... ( http://bit.ly/1QH5ZS5 )
mircea_popescu: "El fiscal Alberto Nisman volvió a ocupar el centro de la escena. La investigación sobre su muerte está tomando una orientación, cuyo desenlace se puede prever: Nisman fue víctima de un asesinato en el que participó el gobierno de Cristina Kirchner, en combinación con agentes iraníes."
mircea_popescu: looking for the low down on argentina ? read it in qntra today, or in the argentinian mass media a week later.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu !
asciilifeform: see logz. reactor meltdowns, folks shat pants, etc.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-03-2016#1425011 << they should have been. except if the "non overlapping" sets of miners DO in fact overlap, in the sense of being merely meaningless facades of the same one thing, in which case they wouldn't necessarily know that they can be trivially fingerprinted by the symptom of "hey, apparently they know about a txn they shouldn't know about".
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 16:45:54; dooglus: if A1 and A2 went to non-overlapping sets of nodes then A2 should have been accepted and mined, right?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is there anything more than random derp of tenuous association with b-a has a total meltdown when he realises that b-a is not fiat, the republic not a democracy and i don't give a shit about "people themselves" ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-03-2016#1425015 << you think so. but in reality, you're not actually part of the relay network.
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 16:47:14; PeterL: so maybe it was you!
mircea_popescu: you just don't know enough about this sort of thing to find this out.
asciilifeform: see log. jurov, kakobrekla, and i all wondered wtf mircea_popescu thought he was doing when he programmed a1
asciilifeform: and i think nubbins` has gone to drink
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform see above neh ?
asciilifeform: i have nfi, and might be a shoemaker.
nubbins`: told ya he was just gonna carry on like nothing's happened
asciilifeform: how is nubbins` 'tenuous' ? i thought he was a serious stockholder, long before i even came here.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform suppose there's nodes N1... Nn advertising themselves on the network. suppose you send txn X to all nodes Nk where k is divisible by 2, which has the properties that a) it would not be broadcast to any further nodes, and b) it would prevent transaction Y from being accepted in the mempool. suppose you verify that nodes Nk where k = 2i do not in fact advertise X. suppose you broadcast Y to nodes Nm where m
mircea_popescu: =2i+1. suppose you verify that nodes Nm do not advertise Y. is this proof sufficient to you that nodes N1... Nn is a charade, and they are all node N ?
nubbins`: no need to defend my character, just note that the attack is ad hominem and not addressing any of the various logical fallacies projected by the attacker
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i seem to recall he failed both tests for continued lordship and was basically not on the list of names to be cleared because he asked not to be.
mircea_popescu: this'd be my definition of tenuous.
asciilifeform: he did ask
asciilifeform: and deedbotted it iirc.
assbot: Logged on 10-02-2016 02:24:16; nubbins`: speak now if you believe a lord that has contributed TRB patches, who owns the second-largest s.mg stock warrant, who trades in the only physical collectibles that are priced solely in BTC, who pays the bill for eulora.org, who is the republic's de facto minister of letters awaiting with bated quill the whittling-down of a codebase fit to publish, should be stripped of his title; speak your treason now, th
asciilifeform: or was this a different nubbins`
nubbins`: nope, nickserv would not allow
davout: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-03-2016#1425729 <<< did you actually do this when broadcasting A1...4 ?
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 22:49:27; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform suppose there's nodes N1... Nn advertising themselves on the network. suppose you send txn X to all nodes Nk where k is divisible by 2, which has the properties that a) it would not be broadcast to any further nodes, and b) it would prevent transaction Y from being accepted in the mempool. suppose you verify that nodes Nk where k = 2i do not in fact advertise X. suppose you broadcast Y
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 22:49:27; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform suppose there's nodes N1... Nn advertising themselves on the network. suppose you send txn X to all nodes Nk where k is divisible by 2, which has the properties that a) it would not be broadcast to any further nodes, and b) it would prevent transaction Y from being accepted in the mempool. suppose you verify that nodes Nk where k = 2i do not in fact advertise X. suppose you broadcast Y
mircea_popescu: minus the magic numbers, but this.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is standard syblic detector.
mircea_popescu: and so no, one who things "well there's nodes, so it's a p2p network" is utterly flattering himself. no such thing in bitcoin. there's a supernode, and a bunch of whatevers.
nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu>asciilifeform i seem to recall he failed both tests for continued lordship and was basically not on the list of names to be cleared because he asked not to be. << memory failing you once again
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform right.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you actually did this experiment, and this was the result, then you just nailed a set of sybils, yes
asciilifeform: but we knew that it was infested, no ?
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 22:52:54; mircea_popescu: myeah.
asciilifeform: all of my experiments pointed at precisely this conclusion.
mircea_popescu: the chief problem with trying to communicate things is that there's always going to be a set of idiots / lazy thinkers who want a specific outcome out of the conversation, and then proceed to parasitize it with their half-assed sententious bullshit.
mircea_popescu: anyway. to my eyes this is specifically and precisely said in the qntra piece, but w/e, more passes never hurt anyone, i guess. except if the passes are beatings or something.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: well you also had a hypothesis concerning miners
asciilifeform: which is what got folks rioting
mircea_popescu: that's also in there. different part.
mircea_popescu: let's just say that i lifted the rock and i saw every type of heresy in there.
nubbins`: asciilifeform he spent all afternoon "napping" by throwing together some maths and deciding to switch stories
mircea_popescu: which yes, on the sheer strength of the abundance and precision, "dang, this better be a nightmare"
nubbins`: i guffaw loudly at the continued refusal to discuss 17 btc bitbet fraud
nubbins`: and call shame upon mp
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've been lifting the rocks for a while. but i do it with sapper's spade , but as i understand you did it with bbet's foot ?
nubbins`: suppose i run two nodes, one a member of Nk and one a member of Nm. As long as my nodes are running proper sanity checks on each other (i.e. passing tx's between them), which obviously they should be because i'm not running SPV nodes, mp's "mathematical" argument falls apart at the seams
nubbins`: nice try tho
asciilifeform: nubbins`: what he was asking is, why would the nodes that he did NOT transmit a1 to, reject a2.
asciilifeform: if they aren't relaying a1.
nubbins`: numbers aren't your strong suit, maybe stick to doing the dark andreas antonolololopous schtick, it's what you're good at
asciilifeform: this is a logical question.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: they are, however, my strong point. and mircea_popescu asked an entirely logical q.
davout: asciilifeform: i don't see how one could conclusively assert that A1 has not been relayed by the node one originally broadcast it to
nubbins`: because two entities control most of the mining, and it's absolutely retarded for those same entities to not have a similar amount of control over nodes?
mircea_popescu: anyway, if anyone had anythong intelligent to say that got buried in the spew, feel free to restate. i'm not wading through that pile of idiocy.
asciilifeform: davout: if it ~was~ relayed, it would be mined.
mircea_popescu: what has the log done to be reduced so!
nubbins`: "feel free to restate"
nubbins`: stating an argument once is insufficient
mircea_popescu: davout because one can connect to it again and see what it says.
nubbins`: you must then write a blog post
davout: asciilifeform: a transaction being relayed does not imply it will be mined by anyone
nubbins`: and restate on irc once more
nubbins`: guffaw
asciilifeform: davout: so a1 was rejected by miners because ????. and a few hundred nodes, a day later, showed no symptoms of knowing about it.
davout: mircea_popescu: true
asciilifeform: then ages later, it gets unearthed. by whom, and how?
davout: asciilifeform: i have nfi, but absence of proof isn't proof of absence
nubbins`: i also flatly disbelieve that mp sent A2, A..n to completely different nodes, because it's extremely, extremely relevant and didn't come out until his original argument shit the bed
nubbins`: which by that time he'd been accused of thieving 17 btc
mircea_popescu: a statement of fact is a statement of fact. it only becomes a proof if used in a reasoning. a fact and a proof are very different items : one's a realia, the other ideal.
nubbins`: and generally royally fucking up
asciilifeform: nubbins`: the most plausible scenario i can think of is that mircea_popescu's network has been boxed in by sybils.
nubbins`: so, no, there's no Nm set of nodes.
asciilifeform: aha, he's under a dome.
asciilifeform: or however you say it in engl.
davout: ftr i checked my own logs, and what they say is that my node heard about A1 around march 1st
mircea_popescu: davout that was 2nd pass.
davout: obviously
nubbins`: ^ 2nd pass = A1 or A2?
mircea_popescu: its sudden appearance was discussed in these very logs - even for that brief interval before it made it into a block.
davout: now, i'm quite curious to actually see A2...4 with my own eyes, and check those too
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is obviously always possible. except it'd be bitbet, raqther than mp. i've been otherwise unmolested throughout.
mircea_popescu: how are you going to see them ? they never made it.
dooglus: davout: curious why you'd say "that's a weird distribution << when mining block N, I have my pick of all the transactions broadcast while block N-1 was the newest block. some of those will have decent fees. transactions broadcast while block N-10 was the newest block that haven't already been mined are probably not very attractive to mine now. so why is block N including so many transactions created 10 blocks ago and so few created 1 block ag
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as discussed earlier, it is uniquely easy to do this to bbet.
nubbins`: the most plausible scenario i can think of is that, like dooglus concurred, a shit-fee tx took forever and then got relayed
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no argument. in which it becomes entirely a bitbet's swamp, which bitbet has to drain.
davout: mircea_popescu: i like to check stuff, maybe there's stuff to learn if i find out they somehow were relayed to my nodes at some point
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is so far imho the best argument for why it had to be bbet's foot on the mine.
mircea_popescu: i'm willing, on general goodwill, to help. i am certainly not willing to underwrite an open ended personal support for some venture i happen to manage.
asciilifeform: i'm not a bbet shareholder or for that matter anything at all, but am willing to help
mircea_popescu: it is unclear what the help'd be at the present time, however. i see exactly no signs of any of the observed behaviours discussed in teh qntra piece anymore.
asciilifeform: and so far my verdict is that bbet was sybilled into going under a dome.
asciilifeform: but it is entirely unclear to me that miners had anything to do with the observables here.
mircea_popescu: but, generally speaking, sybil testing on purported bitcoin nodes are a good idea, especially if carried out in secret and uncoordinatedly.
asciilifeform: (miners ~are~ misbehaving, as, e.g., i witnessed with my lee sedol bet. but this is separate.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how does a transaction that shouldn't even be relayed GET relayed, and then mined, in short order ?
mircea_popescu: davout> asciilifeform: a transaction being relayed does not imply it will be mined by anyone << especially a 0fee one.
asciilifeform: trivially: the sybilnet has a pet miner.
mircea_popescu: but a pet miner is not good enough.
asciilifeform: one of those block-a-day things.
asciilifeform: perhaps the 'telco 241' or what was it.
mircea_popescu: it is an intricate discussion, and one i'm unwillingto carry in the full detail, but on the basis of what i have seen, it is my considered opinion that at the time in discussion, the miner cartel was running a ~half hour block delay thing.
mircea_popescu: and they put it in, at the ~same second they "broadcast" it to the hanger-on nodes.
nubbins`: "one i'm unwillingto carry in the full detail" lololol.
nubbins`: SFYL everyone
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i assumed that you had nonpublic intel that led you to say this.
davout: dooglus: so in other words: block witholding
mircea_popescu: i also said as much at that exact time, in this very chan.
asciilifeform: but i have to say, it is not supported by the incident described in the article, and so this is giving folks indigestion, fwiw.
mircea_popescu: and there are VERY GOOD game theoretic reasons for a miner cartel to do this.
asciilifeform: because it looked like '1,2,3, ....magic happens, ... --> ergo x.'
mircea_popescu: specifically because it allows them the only possible moat against competition
asciilifeform: and very clearly there are mighty good gametheoretical reasons for the cartel.
asciilifeform: it is half of why i believed that a cartel exists.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform when you say "it is not supported", what do you mean ?
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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the incident with bbet, can be explained without miner cartel.
asciilifeform: evil nodes suffice.
mircea_popescu: specifically the "sudden mining of an old 0fee tx" ? how ?
asciilifeform: you just need 1 coopted miner.
mircea_popescu: "pet miner". if pet miner has 1% of hash, the observed phenomena occur 1% of cases.
asciilifeform: of modest stature.
mircea_popescu: and if it doesn't find a block that day ?
davout: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-03-2016#1425817 <<< the "sybil testing" part is not documented in the qntra piece or did I miss it?
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 23:07:12; mircea_popescu: but, generally speaking, sybil testing on purported bitcoin nodes are a good idea, especially if carried out in secret and uncoordinatedly.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what makes you think they haven't been squeezing the trigger for 100 shots
asciilifeform: until this finally fired.
asciilifeform: i can easily see that this pistol might shoot 1% of the time the trigger is pulled.
mircea_popescu: i've been watching. this is 1.5 to maaaaybe 2.
asciilifeform: this, perhaps, was 100th.
mircea_popescu: i had been watching. this, and many other things.
nubbins`: the all-seeing eye
nubbins`: shoulda been watching the mempool size when you pushed out a 0-fee
nubbins`: this, and many other things!
nubbins`: !rate mircea_popescu -1 basic scammer, no accountability
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mircea_popescu: but anyway, yes, if you believe 1 in 100, they yes, you don't need cartel, just persistent miner.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is my current picture.
nubbins`: !v assbot:nubbins`.rate.mircea_popescu.-1:dbed451e84f3cd09d7ae986fa83201a1562d21d299af2619c70317009d6f5c28
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nubbins`: wow, was -1 already? lel
asciilifeform: nubbins` i think you already did this earlier
nubbins`: right, yes, much less succinct
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform by this logic tho, are there also 99 bitcoins we don't know about ? 99 linuxen ? 99 gccs that statically link ?
nubbins`: the other one said something about "petulant and unwilling to admit error in the face of overwhelming evidence"
davout: thinking about it, I interpret the fact that A1 did not (on first attempt) get relayed to my node as indicative of nodes *not* being merely facades for some sort of 'super-node'
mircea_popescu: davout how do you figure ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: waiwut
nubbins`: davout all it takes is a default setting of relayshitzerofeetransactions=FALSE
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my hypothesis was that it suffices for the enemy to have a pistol that does this, e.g., per every N trigger pulls, and that the number came up.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, and we for whatever reasons just see the 1 in 100 gunshot.
asciilifeform: much about the turdnet is stochastic, and so this is mega-unsurprise.
davout: mircea_popescu: if everyone's actually the same node, broadcasting to one node is actually broadcasting to everyone, and it follows that it should have relayed properly. I guess it can also be the sign of your connections all actually being to the same sybilling node
asciilifeform: davout: issue is that 'everyone knew' SOLELY for the purpose of rejecting a1...n but NOT for relay to miner!
davout: nubbins`: for the tx not to relay at all it has to be 'false' for everyone
mircea_popescu: davout i don't think you take my meaning. the situation that you imagine is, "hey, whatever, summertime and a bunch of us are at the beach". the situation in reality is, "a moroccan clan and some fat frenchies at the beach". guess how likely you are to a) find out the price of dried fruit and b) find out that you aren't finding out the price of dried fruit.
mircea_popescu: or if you prefer, see phf's example with "my friend, the kgb agent"
nubbins`: or, if you prefer, here's some gibberish in lieu of content
nubbins`: ;;echo but where does that leave the 17 btc of your own funds that you put on bitbet's liability sheet?
gribble: but where does that leave the 17 btc of your own funds that you put on bitbet's liability sheet?
mircea_popescu: you think you're running a node, because, symptomatically, in the windows definition of running code (hey, click items till it works) you are. but the sense of running code contemplated for bitcoin is negative, not positive, and you don't know how to check for that nor do you specifically care.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is sorta sheckley's hour of battle thing.
mircea_popescu: in a sense.
nubbins`: ;;echo omg you guize i think he's actually just gonna pretend he hasn't defrauded bitbet and breached two sections of the contract
gribble: omg you guize i think he's actually just gonna pretend he hasn't defrauded bitbet and breached two sections of the contract
davout: asciilifeform: it might also very well be that most nodes use similar relay policies and that A1 simply didn't satisfy the relaying rules
mircea_popescu: anyway, i've been thinking about your theory ever since, but i don't credit it asciilifeform. for one thing, it's unstable. seriously, supernode and miniminer ? it'd get torn apart.
mircea_popescu: back in the day bitcoin mining was healthy, after a fashion, pools came and went. they've been stable for a long time now.
asciilifeform: davout: if it did not satisfy relaying rules, WHERE DID IT COME FROM on day x !?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: tell how not stable ?
asciilifeform: some bastard is running 3000+ sybils. what's unstable here.
mircea_popescu: because the other miners would have an incentive to destroy the miniminer's supernode, and there's jackl the miniminer could do to protect it.
nubbins`: <+asciilifeform>davout: if it did not satisfy relaying rules, WHERE DID IT COME FROM on day x !? << once the backlog was cleared, it satisfied relaying rules once again?
mircea_popescu: a supernode only grows in the shade of miner cartel.
asciilifeform: the other miners are amoeba ?
mircea_popescu: i'm not saying what you're saying is provably impossible. i am saying to my eyes - it is very improbable.
davout: asciilifeform: i do not claim I know where it came from, but do note that 'not being relayed by most nodes' is absolutely not conflicting with 'some dude rebroadcast it because he felt like it'
asciilifeform: it is quite unclear to me that they have the brains of a teenager writing trojans in vb in murmansk.
mircea_popescu: but i dunno how to carry that particular discussion in a way that'd dispose.
asciilifeform: collectively.
mircea_popescu: well... this is hard to argue against.
nubbins`: so's a fraud accusation
nubbins`: just as well to ignore
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mircea_popescu: it is also the first time i've seeing you err on THIS side ever before.
mircea_popescu: so i guess you do balance, after all !
nubbins`: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 171492 @ 0.00053048 = 90.9731 BTC [-] {5} man, i think my zinger triggered that one
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i conduct own 'intel', and yes, i don't have a radiotelescope like mircea_popescu's, only eyes.
davout: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-03-2016#1425886 <<< well, I *am* running a node in the sense that I receive and broadcast transactions (with the occasional double-spend) just fine
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 23:20:09; mircea_popescu: you think you're running a node, because, symptomatically, in the windows definition of running code (hey, click items till it works) you are. but the sense of running code contemplated for bitcoin is negative, not positive, and you don't know how to check for that nor do you specifically care.
mircea_popescu: my telescope, in it being man made not god given, is not much more than a tool.
mircea_popescu: davout that's what i mean by positive. yes, "it works".
mircea_popescu: this is very different from the negative, "it doesn't not work".
asciilifeform: at any rate i am broadly unconvinced that network sybil octopus needs any kind of miners other than a small share of standard hashrate.
asciilifeform: in order to wreck things.
asciilifeform: sybil octopus can get between victim and miners as a whole. and yes, this is enabled by the concentration of hash power in a shithole kingdom.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but in order to maintain itself!
mircea_popescu: i mean... miners can just... ban it.
asciilifeform: how do they identify the pseudopods ?
mircea_popescu: "not our own" ?
davout: mircea_popescu: well, it also "doesn't not work" in the sense that I sometimes have got transactions stuck because I'm a cheap zero-fee jew, that I got unstuck by issuing a double-spend
asciilifeform: the miners gotta accept tx from white devils
asciilifeform: because that's who does the bulk of tx-ing
davout: now i'm unsure how to further go into negative bitcoin definition
nubbins`: i'll leave you guys to your non-reality-based distractions, feel free to ping me if mp decides to address his fraud in any fashion.
asciilifeform: they cannot plug the hose from their arse into their mouths and sustain themselves.
mircea_popescu: davout i don't mean it as an attack or anything. and the question of exploring the negative is open now and will remain open until spec.
nubbins`: asciilifeform i still need your mailing address
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i will attend to this as soon as i get home.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i am on the stake.
nubbins`: hey, at least you didn't commit fraud
davout: nubbins`: absence of proof isn't proof of absence yo
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i'm about to commit gluttony and lust.
davout: :D
trinque fist-bumps asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform even so, i don't think banning sybil reduces to "unable to talk to white devils".
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suspect that they, supposing there were brains anywhere involved, ~tried~ to fight the octopus but eventually lost.
mircea_popescu: i've encountered to signs of this animal, and this is such an unlikely event if there were a battle even ?
asciilifeform: where, incidentally, do most tx fodder for cn miners originate ? i do not have good data for this.
mircea_popescu: used to come straight out of bluematt's arse.
asciilifeform: i am not in the habit of eating from arse.
mircea_popescu: "lighting network"
asciilifeform: so i have ~no data.
mircea_popescu: or somesuch
asciilifeform: at any rate, i have long seen nodes as an astonishingly weak point, which is why i pressed the whole pogo thing
mircea_popescu: in any case : some degree of proxying is absolutely unavoidable in bitcoin relay , because ... ddos.
asciilifeform: the whole orchestra does no one any good if there is reliably amoebic scum between your console and the free world.
mircea_popescu: well yeah, had we had the pogos deployed last year or somesuch this might have been a very different story.
mircea_popescu: but... no pogos. because no static linking in gcc. because etc.
asciilifeform: the sad part is that i fixed pretty much all of the cthonic hell-pits that prevented pogo,
asciilifeform: aside from the two listed earlier.
asciilifeform: (the blkindex and mempool exhaustion)
mircea_popescu: re prev point : so yeah, most strong nodes will have multiple interfaces they look at. so most people (who know, as opposed of feeling like they know) aren't necessariyl surprised by ~some degree~ of sybiling.
mircea_popescu: which is what everyone (at least previously) told himself is happening to go to bed and not wake screaming
asciilifeform: recently i contemplated doing a rotor port to a chinese tv box, 1G of ram, available for ~30 usd in qty. infinite. but when the fuck would i do this, a student ought to do this
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, don't feel bad, one can only try.
asciilifeform: i have 256 fingers but they are all in some orifice.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'g' is another angle of attack against the octopus.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm sure nubbins` will be done derping idly, dump the ugly broad, get the fuck out of the meaningless paper products shuffling, get back in math school and generally make himself useful. any day now.
asciilifeform: which is actually why i invented it.
mircea_popescu: looking forward to the nubbins 1g box so he can be a lord on his own merit for once.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you said chix can be taught anything. teach >= one to partake in this.
asciilifeform: i would much appreciate.
asciilifeform: ever see picture of the 19th c. german one-man band things ?
mircea_popescu: do i charge s.nsa ? what's the shareholders think ?
asciilifeform: a bloke with drum, tuba, etc.
mircea_popescu: the long suffering s.nsa shareholders lol
asciilifeform: that's me right now.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i almost forgot that nubbins` was a math grad!?
asciilifeform: but hm, iirc he was.
asciilifeform will bbl, removing stake from arse, driving home.
cazalla: now this is podracing! nice logs
pete_dushenski: podracing ? like the episode i thing ?
cazalla: it's a me me pete_dushenski
mircea_popescu: curious how long before alf buys one of those self-driving cars so he can irc while he idles.
mircea_popescu: ;;ud podracing
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pod+Racing | When you jerk off two dicks at once. The dicks must be on each side, so it looks like you're pod racing.
mircea_popescu: no homo.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2543 @ 0.00053211 = 1.3532 BTC [+] {2}
cazalla: ahah
pete_dushenski: wasn't there a southpark about that ?/
pete_dushenski: kyle's dad and a hot tub or something
cazalla: nfi, have not watched many of the more recent seasons
cazalla: don't recall that one in anycase
nubbins`: "dump the ugly broad" is the best popescu can come up with as a rebuttal to legitimate accusations of fraud
nubbins`: here's a quip for you, ya fuckin idiot
nubbins`: [12:27:57] <nubbins`>look: true or false: mp is fraudulently entering 17btc into bitbet's liabilities
nubbins`: [12:28:04] <kakobrekla>correct
nubbins`: [12:28:23] <kakobrekla>i am not arguing that.
shinohai sighs
nubbins`: sigh as loud as you want, he's not gonna read it or respond to it in any way
nubbins`: because he's jsut a scammer
nubbins`: always was shady, always was more about bluster than substance, but this abandons pretense
assbot: Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub - South Park Archives - Wikia ... ( http://bit.ly/1p3odpI )
pete_dushenski: "Randy asks Gerald if he'd ever had a gay fantasy and Gerald explains that he has always thought of watching another guy masturbate. The fantasy then becomes a reality."
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 23:47:43; nubbins`: [12:27:57] <nubbins`>look: true or false: mp is fraudulently entering 17btc into bitbet's liabilities
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 23:47:43; nubbins`: [12:28:04] <kakobrekla>correct
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 23:47:43; nubbins`: [12:28:23] <kakobrekla>i am not arguing that.
nubbins`: ;;echo just for you mp
gribble: just for you mp
cazalla: fwiw, and isn't worth much, i think nubbins` has legit cause for complaint, shame to see the fangs and then venom flow though
cazalla: pete_dushenski, never seen pod racing used in that context though, guess ill find a new me me
nubbins`: cazalla understand that in the face of abject fantasy, i have no choice
pete_dushenski: cazalla: gotta have fangs and venom, or else it's just huggy reddit...
nubbins`: asciilifeform and others who have partnered up with mp should keep a close eye on things from here on out
nubbins`: kako's straight-up getting scammed
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18800 @ 0.00053622 = 10.0809 BTC [+]
danielpbarron: nubbins`, we get it already. I don't think spamming and circumventing other people's ignore help your case..
nubbins`: i don't think you do get it
danielpbarron: what should I do? /part ?
nubbins`: no, you should stick around and say what you think
nubbins`: precious little of that happening
cazalla: pete_dushenski, sure, but sometimes a dry bite is all that's needed
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danielpbarron: on that note..
nubbins`: cazalla you'll notice that mp still has yet to address the fraud claims that kako's verified
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28307 @ 0.00053622 = 15.1788 BTC [+]
pete_dushenski can't help but wonder if nubbins` has s.mpoe or s.bbet shorts. and if he didn't before, is now looking . if he just wants to "fleece some money out of [mp]", why not eh ?
pete_dushenski: danielpbarron: glad to see you're blogging btw :)
nubbins`: pete_dushenski that well's gone dry. mp only pays hangers-on in shares these days
danielpbarron: and if my wwwtron dies again, i just archived it..
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: but surely you could find someone who would sell you options
nubbins`: pete_dushenski i'm long s.mg!
nubbins`: i wonder how mp's gonna cash out my stock warrant if he's got me on ignore?
nubbins`: "this stock warrant is valid forever or until you are mean to me"
cazalla: nubbins`, mp did say you are more than free to have another lord relay any messages
hanbot: jurov> !rate nubbins` 2 voice of sanity << jurov seriously, is yest/today's spewage what sanity is to you? are you out of yer mind?
nubbins`: cazalla i care little for what that scammer says
danielpbarron is fairly heavily invested in Eulora via his character who is one of the richest players in the world
nubbins`: he's free to wrap his head in plastic
nubbins`: hanbot weren't you told to shut up?
nubbins`: adults talking here
cazalla: nubbins`, sure, but now you're misrepresenting other issues
nubbins`: cazalla like..?
jurov: hanbot surprise surprise i happen to agree with the "spewage" ant i asked similar questions
nubbins`: surprise surprise, jurov's questions were ignored too
cazalla: he won't cash your stock warrant as he has you on ignore? it's clear such a request can be relayed to him if required
nubbins`: cazalla lighten up pal!
cazalla: nubbins`, tell me what you really think of me! lol
nubbins`: i think you're a raw cunt
hanbot: jurov you asked questions. all i see from nubbins is ~24hrs of rabbling, at pretty much anyone who tries to engage him.
nubbins`: but that's just one man's opinion. liked your writing on qntra
nubbins`: hanbot most adult speak sounds like gibberish to children
cazalla: nubbins`, raw cunt is quite endearing to an australian :)
punkman: imho, bitbet can decide to spend its future profits on whatever they want, advertising, servers, or 100% bonuses to random bettors. it doesn't make me want to buy more bitbet shares of course.
jurov: hanbot rabbling is better than silence
nubbins`: hanbot you'll notice that the adults in the chan actually engaged me in conversation: jurov, kako, alf, and others. it's only mp that's wagging his jaw and QQing
pete_dushenski: ;;ud qqing
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=qqing | Top Definition. qqing. Whining/crying about something. From QQ. "Stop being sexist!" "Stop qqing." by A Person Who You Don't Know October 27, 2013. 13 7.
nubbins`: fucking embarassing for both of you, really
hanbot: okay, but is it -sanity-?!
nubbins`: you're not fit to judge that
nubbins`: pete_dushenski 2 big eyes w/ tears leaking out
jurov: hanbot so tell us your opinion, is it sane what mircea did, without even telling kakobrekla, when contract demands unanimous agreement on such thing?
danielpbarron: nubbins`, i'm trying to give you an out to the negative rating i fear i will eventually have to give you, and I don't mean that as a threat, just that at a certain point what you are doing is spamming, and i like to read this log every day and have the power to at least turn the nozzle two clicks towards the off position
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: makes me think of japanimation
mircea_popescu: cazalla everyone has very legit cause for complaint. the problem is that [the subsection of everyone who thinks the us is the world] imagines that the thing to do when you got legit cause of complaint is to try and identify a kulak and get him to admit his mistakes.
nubbins`: danielpbarron if it's any comfort, i usually come here in bursts
mircea_popescu: no idea why he imagines that'll carry, but whatever. it ain't gonna. he doesn't like bitcoin - he can either fix it or stick to cad.
nubbins`: i thought it was mp who doesn't like bitcoin
nubbins`: because it's been forked by chinese miners, his exact words were
mircea_popescu: wanna complain, go negrate the set of power rangers that made this idiocy possible, da fuck already.
assbot: A Miner Problem | Qntra ... ( http://bit.ly/1QCR1jt )
hanbot: jurov hehe what're you doing with such loaded questions? mind you, i'm not suggesting you're wrong for disagreeing or asking or anything of the sort. i'm just curious about your judgment of what i see as a guy on full tilt.
jurov: i like guys on full tilt!
hanbot: lol
nubbins`: danielpbarron also, as a lord, your clicks don't put me towards the off position at all
mircea_popescu: i like guys on fult tilt too, is the weird thing.
danielpbarron: hm.. idk if that's ever been tested actually
mircea_popescu: ;;seen eskimobob
gribble: eskimobob was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 years, 35 weeks, 2 days, 17 hours, 17 minutes, and 27 seconds ago: <EskimoBob> no idea how executions are shown on btct
mircea_popescu: wow it's been 3 years already ? too long, even.
nubbins`: danielpbarron L1: 1
danielpbarron: yeah but ability to self voice is through ~L2~
nubbins`: jurov notice how hanbot didn't answer your question
nubbins`: because it's obviously not sane but she can't just SAY SO
nubbins` chuckles
nubbins`: imagine finding yourself in such a spot
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mircea_popescu: jurov contract demands unanimous agreement on dispositions of bitbet. if it's sold, say. it doesn't demand, nor has in practice been ever the case that its sought in all matters.
nubbins`: jurov ask him about the putting a private expense on the books! see if he dodges it! ;p
mircea_popescu: i had no idea he even wants or wanted the liability - but my guess is no, he didn't.
jurov: 3.2h solemnly concerns *expenses*
mircea_popescu: he also has had at all points ~0 say in how bets are resolved, for instance.
nubbins`: maybe explicitly ask about the inputs of B: whose money? BitBet's? MP's?
mircea_popescu: "t, that all expenses charged against BitBet will exclusively reflect expenditure in good faith resulting from the operation of its business"
nubbins`: it seems you need to ask explicit, short, direct questions to allow mp's mind to absorb them
mircea_popescu: this is what this is.
nubbins`: lol he selectively quoted so bad that he got half a word at the start.
nubbins`: quote the whole 3.2 (h) maybe?
nubbins`: where it says you can't just donate 17 btc to the public and expect bitbet to pick up the tab?
jurov: Well. 1.who and when decided to send zerofee tx 2. how is that evver acting in good faith?
mircea_popescu: how is this open to your inquiry ?
nubbins`: ^ stop asking questions, in other words
nubbins`: how dare you call a fraudster a fraudster
nubbins`: it was his right to introduce a private expense to the business
jurov: *rolls eyes*
nubbins`: his right as, uh.. whatever he is
nubbins`: asasshole in a suit who can't count
jurov: Yes.
mircea_popescu: you think who and when decided what in a private corp is open to your inquiry because you have the ability to roll your eyes ?
jurov: Yes.
mircea_popescu: this is nice, but i don't credit it.
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> kyle's dad and a hot tub or something << Kyle's dad and Randy's dad. 2nd part of 3 that includes Jew Scouts
nubbins`: jurov pathetic :(
jurov: Others who are directly involved in the agreement may credit it.
jurov: Or not, of course.
mircea_popescu: i guess then they can answer or w/e.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: bingo.
nubbins`: well, i guess this is what MPEx has been reduced to
nubbins`: scam exchange
nubbins`: no accounting standards
nubbins`: sign the statements, don't sign em, whatever
nubbins`: your money, my money, who cares
mircea_popescu: jurov> hanbot rabbling is better than silence <<< not really. see the jirinovski problem. an idiot spewing makes the discussion that much harder for saner people with meaningful things to say.
nubbins`: nobody seems to have anything meaningful to say but me
nubbins`: and jurov
jurov: mircea_popescu: well, if the discussion got so hard now, where are all the negrates?
mircea_popescu: what do you mean ?
jurov: if #b-a thinks nubbins` should not have a voice, let's negrate him
mircea_popescu: looky, a republic is not a democracy no matter on what face you turn the democracy pebble.
nubbins`: mp did negrate me, if you'll recall
nubbins`: for all the good it did, being a lord and all.
nubbins`: turns out he can only do so much
nubbins`: doubt he ever thought his clubhouse'd end up like this
nubbins`: if i had a satoshi for every time mp said "looky" when he'd lost an argument, i'd be able to donate a tx fee to bitbet
nubbins`: ^ that one was for you hanbot
nubbins`: call me, k?
mircea_popescu: but that aside, i did mean about the ugly broad and the general waster attitude. who knows, maybe discovering how little credit he carries with the people he likes and who he flattered himself into seeing as equals provides the much needed impetuus to make something of himself.
mircea_popescu: this whole "nubbins, the guy who made some funny observations" thing is certainly punching below his weight.
nubbins`: ad hominem attacks: often used by people who have valid arguments and can defend them on merit alone
nubbins`: wait...
nubbins`: FTR, calling my wife an ugly broad hurts just about as much as calling my left elbow a bicycle
nubbins`: meanwhile, MP's girl with calves thicker than pete's thighs
pete_dushenski: notpossibru
hanbot: jurov i'll be doing that; ignoring him clears the shit from my client but not the nice logs, and after two attempts to get the guy to speak rather'n spew (just mine, mind you), we find the guy figures he's my "elder" because i asked some questions about gentoo, of all things.
BingoBoingo awaits allegations of lasers
nubbins`: pete_dushenski photographic proof!!
hanbot: anyway i'm not sure if i oughta take jurov's rating as a wholesale endorsement. advise as ya like.
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: let's just say i coulda done long track speed skating ;)
nubbins`: never too late
nubbins`: hanbot i'll take that as an apology, you're probably not so bad underneath that rough exterior
shinohai: I must say hanbot - awesum outfit.
nubbins`: sucks about the scammer she's shacked up with huh
danielpbarron: !rated nubbins`
assbot: You rated user nubbins` on 30-Jun-2014, with a rating of 2, and supplied these additional notes: He's good for a trade in the 1 bitcoin range..
danielpbarron: !gettrust assbot nubbins`
assbot: Trust relationship from user assbot to user nubbins`: Level 1: 1, Level 2: 10 via 12 connections. |http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/trust/?from=assbot&to=nubbins%60 | http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/user/nubbins%60/
danielpbarron: !v assbot:danielpbarron.rate.nubbins`.-1:5a354a1ffe0871d83743d45093803fc184c2e412a326a17fe4b049761b7be9ad
assbot: Successfully updated the rating for nubbins` from 2 to -1 with note: for the purpose of turning the spam nozzle two clicks towards the off position, and in the interest of discovering whether a lord can be silenced or not
nubbins`: can he?
danielpbarron: well that was only 2 clicks, 8 more to go
danielpbarron: !gettrust assbot nubbins`
assbot: Trust relationship from user assbot to user nubbins`: Level 1: 1, Level 2: 8 via 12 connections. |http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/trust/?from=assbot&to=nubbins%60 | http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/user/nubbins%60/
danielpbarron: that remains to be seen
danielpbarron: anyway, easy go easy come; I think you have some valid grievances, just going about it the wrong way
nubbins`: hey, ya don't like the argument, it's your choice to tune it out. doesn't make it invalid
danielpbarron: i don't like you abusing the bots to get around an ignore
nubbins`: out of curiosity, what's the "right way" to go about airing my grievances?
nubbins`: danielpbarron in fairness nanotube probably doesn't like it either
danielpbarron: write a blog article, deedbot your formal accusation, say whatever ~once~ in the log (not 20 times)
trinque: probably not firing off a "fuck you" to everyone you can think of in one conversation, l0l
trinque: free to do it
nubbins`: i did actually deed my formal accusation.
trinque: but it's not persuasive
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 15:43:19; nubbins`: also deed-ified here: https://blockexplorer.com/address/1EyQFmKg6PtARLgN2bKtNuDY28um1nbfFr
danielpbarron: i can actually did yours for you if you don't feel like figuring it out (it's very simple)
danielpbarron: deed yours*
nubbins`: sure, go ahead, it's here: http://pastebin.com/raw/6d72j4jZ
nubbins`: you owe me a satoshi if it feeds the same address as mine
assbot: Public Key Server -- Get "0xcf2950f23c844002 " ... ( http://bit.ly/1QCU6A2 )
deedbot-: Bad URL or network outage.
trinque: erm no
trinque: I would bet his key's already in there
deedbot-: accepted: 1
nubbins`: what's the url for the deed log again?
nubbins`: been so long
trinque: deedbot.org
deedbot-: accepted: 1
nubbins`: i think i last used it three iterations ago
danielpbarron: there ya go
danielpbarron: ah crap
trinque: nubbins`: been about a year and a month, and I don't have any plans to shut it down
trinque: danielpbarron: I will remove the dupe
danielpbarron hangs head in shame
nubbins`: trinque good to hear
nubbins`: danielpbarron guess i coulda done it myself huh
nubbins`: what's the refresh on the frontend?
BingoBoingo: ;;google hugelkultur
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danielpbarron: yes that is what i told you around the time you just linked from the log
nubbins`: 1 block i guess huh
trinque: nubbins`: it'll fart at the hour, upload at the 15
nubbins`: great
nubbins`: anyway, my deedify script generated a pubkey of 1EyQFmKg6PtARLgN2bKtNuDY28um1nbfFr
nubbins`: that was compatible with one of the early iterations
nubbins`: wonder if it's still the case
nubbins` awaits with bated breath
danielpbarron: i think it depends if any other deeds get bundled with it
nubbins`: right
trinque: this one sha256's the bundle (all messages of that hour separated by single \n), uses that as privkey
nubbins`: anyway, i deeded the thing myself earlier
nubbins`: and posted the PGP-signed text in chan
nubbins`: if that's not good enough for mp, well, bully.
nubbins`: he can wait for the new deed and ignore that one too
nubbins`: maybe toss a few more gem insults my way about my radiant wife or the fact that i'm financially unencumbered and spend my days in leisure
pete_dushenski off to train the next generation of would-be long track speedskaters
nubbins` off to smoke weed and count money
hanbot: !v assbot:hanbot.rate.nubbins`.-1:001b32f62b0e9367cf7b1300337c3a35571273ba07885b35c1bd4fc70e900e0b
assbot: Successfully added a rating of -1 for nubbins` with note: Thinks screaming at the dike plugs the hole. See http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-03-2016#1424682 .
asciilifeform: oh buggerall.
asciilifeform: what does gentoo even have to do with it?!
asciilifeform: nubbins`...?
BingoBoingo: alf has boat, hanbot has dike, /me wonders what next metaphor for the waters BTC precariously insulates from will be
hanbot: lol
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: btc is the good ship aurora.
asciilifeform: y'know, the one with the cement bottom.
asciilifeform: in the leningrad harbor.
trinque: lol
assbot: Что тебе снится, крейсер "Аврора" - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1QyYOgT )
asciilifeform: 'what are you dreaming, cruiser aurora '
assbot: What are you dreaming of, Cruiser Aurora? with subtitles | Amara ... ( http://bit.ly/1QyZ6Ez )
asciilifeform: anyway.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-03-2016#1426161 << fwiw, some of the folks i showed that picture to, i suspect, literally creamed their pants
assbot: Logged on 08-03-2016 00:30:14; shinohai: I must say hanbot - awesum outfit.
asciilifeform: in unrelated nyooz, my rom emulator is here.
asciilifeform: and holy shit, the chassis is ~steel~
asciilifeform: 'made in usa'
asciilifeform: i can almost imagine i live in 1980.
shinohai: pics?
asciilifeform: pretty common unit.
shinohai: That looks fun. :D
shinohai: BingoBoingo: did you see what they called in to get that hamplanet off the truck today? https://vid.me/2Z7A
assbot: 2016-03-07 170122000 4A542 iOS - vidme ... ( http://bit.ly/1QCX1bW )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15146 @ 0.00053398 = 8.0877 BTC [-]
BingoBoingo: shinohai: Can you give me a quick ;tldw
shinohai: 'twas a special "HEavy Rescue Unit"
shinohai: I kek'd
mod6: haha
shinohai: I almost felt sorry for the cops tasked with detaining her.
BingoBoingo: she prolly pooped in the car
shinohai: I was actually surprised the roof of the truck didn't collapse under the weight.
shinohai: Well at least you won't have to worry about her running around on you!
mod6: haha shinohai
asciilifeform: mod6: mega-l0gz
mircea_popescu: <assbot> with note: Thinks screaming at the dike plugs the hole <<< wait, did i just get called a fat homosexual woman ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> i can almost imagine i live in 1980. << the things one yearns for
mircea_popescu thought the 80s fucking sucked. then again, back then hadn't seen the 90s. 00s. 10s. etc.
mircea_popescu: shinohai no, that is PRECISELY what you'll have to worry about : her running around ON you.
asciilifeform: everyone thinks this. until the world is replaced with brittle plastic.
asciilifeform: and half-working machinery.
mircea_popescu: absence of cool is no cooling of absence tho. 80s still fucking sucked.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 45410 @ 0.00053198 = 24.1572 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: what was it, cher on every channel and the velvet fog on every radio ?
asciilifeform goes, and looks up, what was a cher, and what is a velvet fog.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> mod6: mega-l0gz << oh yeah, been reading all day.
BingoBoingo: cher is a sort of kaiju
asciilifeform: wats a kaiju
BingoBoingo assumes velvet fog is a tropical illness
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: a kaiju is one of those japanese monster from the films with the people in the suits
mircea_popescu: sometimes if you crack open an acaju nut, a tiny girl comes out, and you feed her various comestibles and eventually grows up into a slavegirl.
asciilifeform: godzilla?
BingoBoingo: godzilla, cher, et al
mircea_popescu: and this my dear alf is how slaves are born on the planet gor.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i thought this was how you got momotaro, the peach pit samurai.
asciilifeform: who slays ogres.
mircea_popescu: ;;google velvet fog best of in autoplay format that can't be turned off. ever.
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mircea_popescu: holy shit ?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, cher was a teenage pop singer chick that successfully pivoted into a sort of softcore burlesque career pre dita von teese. also married to sony bono.
mircea_popescu: and the velvet fog aka mel torme was this very soppy lounge act / singer mostly on the old vegas circuit.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 147450 @ 0.00053198 = 78.4405 BTC [-]
BingoBoingo: ;;ticker --market all
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 413.9, vol: 5713.29998851 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 414.216, vol: 7342.69249 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 413.65, vol: 14857.74689053 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 422.0, vol: 3.54660738 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 419.047083, vol: 46801.24770000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 410.288, vol: 1164.83181327 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 417.484368, vol: 34.89035527 | Volume-weighted last average: (1 more message)
BingoBoingo: ;;more
gribble: 417.001259016
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 1947 @ 0.00053397 = 1.0396 BTC [+] {2}
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: One nugget you may have missed in the log shitting is that weather permitting this week I will attempt to do the tree to stake conversion for the art
mircea_popescu: whassat ?
BingoBoingo: Well, there's a ~15-20 foot tree that grew up as a weed and was neglected. Before taking it all the way down will convert it to pointed stake as I believe alf suggested as an idea in much earlier discussion
mircea_popescu: inb4 city fine for zoning violation.
mircea_popescu: but bonus points if you do conversion with really large pencil sharpener
BingoBoingo: Will only stay in that condition long enough to take a picture.
BingoBoingo: Was going to do it with arm powered crosscut saw, but probably picking up a reciprocating saw tomorrow.
BingoBoingo is getting old
BingoBoingo: Can't landscape amish style forever
asciilifeform: betcha tepes had a giant sharpener.
BingoBoingo hasn't sharpened pencils with sharpener in a long time.
hanbot: BingoBoingo stick a ragdoll-Muhammad on it!
BingoBoingo: someone around here prolly makes ragdoll muhammads
assbot: Logged on 08-03-2016 03:23:51; mircea_popescu: inb4 city fine for zoning violation.
assbot: pawns – Daniel P. Barron ... ( http://bit.ly/21UsGNi )
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well just down the hill from here there is an arena where motor vehicles and farm equipment engage in gladatorial combat
BingoBoingo: Anyways here the only zoning ordinances seriously enforced without neighbor complaints are those on commercial signage, because marketing sucks
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36723 @ 0.00053374 = 19.6005 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3277 @ 0.00053173 = 1.7425 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24850 @ 0.00053089 = 13.1926 BTC [-] {4}
TomServo: Pretty disappointing show 'round here today.
mod6: got that right
ben_vulpes: TomServo: in what way?
TomServo: ben_vulpes: I'm not even sure where to start.
TomServo: Lotza motza balls hanging out there.
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 2.00000000 BTC on 'No' - AlphaGo will defeat Lee Sedol overall in March 2016 match - http://bitbet.us/bet/1249/alphago-will-defeat-lee-sedol-overall-in-march/#b148
asciilifeform rereads log
asciilifeform: holy shit did nubbins` really put 10 on alphago ?!
asciilifeform: out of spite ??
asciilifeform: (how does this work?)
ben_vulpes: [02:12:30] [mircea_popescu] so then, upon advice, i sent it separately. and it went through within half hour. AFTER WHICH somehow the txn was magically found, and… this time it wasn't dropped from mempool ? what changed since last week, mempool is even bigger now. << most underexamined line in this whole saga to date.
assbot: Logged on 02-03-2016 18:06:28; mircea_popescu: you know how it sometimes happens that a platoon gets sent on a random patrol, ends up surprising a moving contingent of enemy, a flurry of radioing and reinforcing and whatnot happens and suddenly the front is in a new place ?
ben_vulpes: with*
ben_vulpes: *undeservedly underexamined*
ben_vulpes: what out-of-wot advice is this? and why send the wire twice instead of calling your drinking buddies who /use the same bank/ to ask if /their/ wires are in the habit of simply not showing up and what they've done in the past in the circumstances
ben_vulpes: near as i can tell, mircea_popescu went to pop a mining cartel and only caught a sybil.
ben_vulpes: 'tis quite obvious why this had to be done with poor kakobrekla's property and not his own.
asciilifeform: apparently not ?
ben_vulpes: bitbet's addresses are not so much public as waved eagerly to the world, and mpex' barely advertised, and i'd split my sides laughing at the notion there was only the one public mpex address
trinque: I think ben_vulpes has it
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