#asciilifeform | 2020-10-26

btcinfobot: The 24-Hour VWAP for BTC is $ 13178.05 USD

watchglass: Polling 16 nodes...

watchglass: 205.134.172.26:8333 : Alive: (0.022s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=654361

watchglass: 205.134.172.4:8333 : (172-4.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.023s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=654361

watchglass: 205.134.172.27:8333 : Alive: (0.085s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=654361 (Operator: asciilifeform)

watchglass: 205.134.172.6:8333 : (172-6.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.082s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=654277

watchglass: 54.39.156.171:8333 : (ns562940.ip-54-39-156.net) Alive: (0.117s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=654361

watchglass: 108.31.170.3:8333 : (pool-108-31-170-3.washdc.fios.verizon.net) Alive: (0.157s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=654361 (Operator: asciilifeform)

watchglass: 205.134.172.28:8333 : Alive: (0.084s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=652488 (Operator: whaack)

watchglass: 208.94.240.42:8333 : Alive: (0.085s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=654361

watchglass: 192.151.158.26:8333 : Alive: (0.208s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=654361

watchglass: 176.9.59.199:8333 : (static.199.59.9.176.clients.your-server.de) Alive: (0.277s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=391673 (Operator: jurov)

watchglass: 143.202.160.10:8333 : Alive: (0.221s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=654361

watchglass: 185.163.46.29:8333 : Violated BTC Protocol: Bad header length!

shinohai: In "muh smart contracts" https://twitter.com/harvest_finance/status/1320650530377633792

shinohai: PLEASE Sir, can you return my magic beans?

asciilifeform: shinohai: what exactly was this ?

shinohai: Some mETHereum defi contract that got wasted overnite. (Defi latest jenkem this crowd is huffing)

asciilifeform: shinohai: lulzy, iirc this aint the 1st, 2nd, or even 3rd time where idjits burned by 'smart' shitcoins

snsabot: Logged on 2020-10-22 12:04:47 asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-10-22#1023452 << asciilifeform does not, and never at any point has, considered 'smart contracts' to be a subject worthy of any attention whatsoever , outside of the strictly ~criminological~ attention merited by an artifact of fraud.

shinohai: Yup I thought it lulzy for exact reasons mentioned in thread (Though it is nothing but rehash of 2016 "DAO hack" with slightly different gold-colored spray paint on the turd)

asciilifeform: shinohai: etherism illustrates what usg would ~like~ bitcoin to look like. e.g. where, say, 'your' funds are only yours unless a 'council of N' multisig-votes to eat it; and, say, monetary mass is uncapped and can only be estimated because emission is controlled by rules even author does not 100% grasp ; etc

asciilifeform: and, of course, the cherry on the cake, where 'right people' will insert speshulcase into client to steal 'back' whatever tx they decide 'oughtn't have happened'.

BingoBoingo: Anyone else got that suspicion that Bitcoin is adding a zero by the end of March?

thimbronion: BingoBoingo: they're having a hard time crashing it below 13000.

superkuh: It's over 9000!

asciilifeform has doubt re 'add a zero' -- that is, outside of the 'sandwich' scenario

snsabot: (alethepedia) 2020-10-11 asciilifeform: thimbronion: the altcoinists -- sure . but i was speaking of the fact that the exch rate prolly aint growing another 0 -- or rather, not w/out the dollar price of archaetypical sandwich also growing a zero.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: what've you been up to ?

trinque: asciilifeform: the thing about the sandwich is that it drives the other.

trinque: any amount of e.g. company treasury flight into bitcoin will send the real purchasing power of bitcoin way up.

BingoBoingo: asciilifeform Been working on continuing to make the live video thing increasingly professional, got a "how to book" project increasingly close to launch, expanding local social circle

BingoBoingo started out trying to do straight news, but gardening talk started to take over

BingoBoingo: asciilifeform We do have to remember that November 3 through at least December 14th one of those destructive USG.State color revolutions will be firing in US