verisimilitude: I no longer believe I'll be finished by today, but instead the twenty-fourth, perhaps.
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shinohai: Apologies for spam, donattion shilling was only supposed to go out to telegram users of bot.
shinohai: (Doesn't seem to work on irc anywayz)
shinohai: asciilifeform: btc/shitcoin price checks, calcs, misc.
shinohai: atm most entertaining are the "mobile coin" lulz via Moxy Marlinspike (or whatever the idiot's name is).
shinohai: Conbase IPO was pretty funny, most of the upper echelon dumped their shares within week.
shinohai: Nah it isn't missing much *at all*. Useful mechanism to ply some Bitcoin proper from the cattle, otherwise mostly boredom and/or headaches.
thimbronion: It is apparently merge mined on ltc, but has or is about to flippen ltc's "market cap"
shinohai: I had forgotten, re: shitcoin lulz that I went to skim Pete Dushenski's blog, and see he is full defending his "Ethereum investments" and NFT's now.
shinohai: I mean, I'll take ETH if someone is giving away, but not gonna write blog posts on it rather ship it to exchange posthaste.
verisimilitude: I'm aware of some artists making money from NFTs, but they seem like the only people who will benefit from it, and not the buyers.
shinohai will note if there are any NFT aficionados present, I will gladly sell you some .gif certificates!
shinohai: Basically it is phenomenon where idiots pat millions in ETH to buy a jpeg imag, or the hash thereof
shinohai: Pretty close I'd say, since anyone can copy pic of said tits and add it to the pr0n folder.
shinohai: With NFT, you just pay extra for the ass rape.
verisimilitude: It's sheer dumbassery. I wouldn't be surprised to learn they were created to exploit those who have cryptocurrency, but don't understand it.
snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-28 13:18:40 asciilifeform: adlai: i recall a long parade of various crackpot schemes , this & others. all had 1 thing in common -- peddled by, and discussed largely exclusively by, the enrichment-scheme (invariably premine scamola, or even straight boobytrap) shitcoin enthusiast culture.
snsabot: Logged on 2020-12-28 13:08:51 asciilifeform: and in general all 'oddball algo by anon' are guilty until proven innocent of being elaborate smoke&mirror schemes for inflatola, premine, or even straight magic-key theft
snsabot: (trilema) 2014-07-23 asciilifeform: if any of them took the trouble to write something interesting (e.g. system analogous to the original btc but of proper, rather than 'power ranger' quality) and resisted the temptation of premine shenanigans, etc. - but no.
gregorynyssa: asciilifeform: an NFT is a token which bears a distinct ID number. moreover, it may be associated with a distinct URL.
gregorynyssa: what people call "NFT artwork" is simply an NFT whose URL leads to a .png file.
shinohai: gregorynyssa: I kinda think the "distinct url" thing to be ridiculous, what happens when bitrot?
shinohai: (In b4 the IPFS derps chime in)
gregorynyssa: shinohai: I was just about to say, many people are using IPFS paths as their URLs, to avoid the problem of the URLs breaking someday.
gregorynyssa: nothing within the NFT standard-document (called ERC 721) guarantees that the .png associated with the NFT will remain constant.
gregorynyssa: it is entirely possible that you buy an NFT of the Mona Lisa, and its associated .png is replaced with Rick Astley.
shinohai stuffs an image across several OP_RETURNS, makes LukeJr cry and avoid url breakage .....
gregorynyssa: btw. I found it fascinating how LukeJr, one of the most prominent figures in Bitcoin, is a Sedevacantist.
gregorynyssa: when I was living in the DC area, I sat in on a Sedevacantist service in Mayland on a few occasions.
gregorynyssa: there seems to be a phenomenon throughout history of people from rare religious sects attaining disproportionate achievements.
shinohai: I haven't engaged with Luke Jr since trilema days, when he promptly told me I was going to burn in hell for the bits-for-tits scheme since it encouraged lust and masturbation.
gregorynyssa: shinohai: Jimmy Wales apparently sold pictures/videos of women as well before founding Wikipedia.
gregorynyssa: this brings up an interesting question. what happens if the .png associated with an NFT is suddenly swapped with some illegal image?
gregorynyssa: would the owner of that NFT be obliged to surrender the ownership to the police?
snsabot: Logged on 2021-04-20 16:32:29 gregorynyssa: btw. I found it fascinating how LukeJr, one of the most prominent figures in Bitcoin, is a Sedevacantist.
snsabot: Logged on 2021-04-20 12:58:45 shinohai: I had forgotten, re: shitcoin lulz that I went to skim Pete Dushenski's blog, and see he is full defending his "Ethereum investments" and NFT's now.
verisimilitude: I recall one fellow here sending me a private message about avoiding Hell and whatnot.
verisimilitude: I told him I didn't fear Hell and that was the end of it.