asciilifeform: $ticker btc usd
btcinfobot: Current BTC price in USD: $36710.8
asciilifeform: !w poll
watchglass: Polling 17 nodes...
watchglass: 84.16.46.130:8333 : Could not connect!
watchglass: 185.163.46.29:8333 : Could not connect!
watchglass: 108.31.170.100:8333 : (pool-108-31-170-100.washdc.fios.verizon.net) Alive: (0.099s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=686241 (Operator: asciilifeform)
watchglass: 205.134.172.26:8333 : Alive: (0.082s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=686186
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.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=685347
watchglass: 205.134.172.4:8333 : (172-4.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.083s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=686241
watchglass: 54.39.156.171:8333 : (ns562940.ip-54-39-156.net) Alive: (0.113s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=686241
watchglass: 205.134.172.28:8333 : Alive: (0.075s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=686241 (Operator: whaack)
watchglass: 143.202.160.10:8333 : Alive: (0.199s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=686241
watchglass: 208.94.240.42:8333 : Alive: (0.221s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=686241
watchglass: 54.38.94.63:8333 : (ns3140226.ip-54-38-94.eu) Alive: (0.263s) V=88888 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.8.88.88/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=686184
watchglass: 176.9.59.199:8333 : (static.199.59.9.176.clients.your-server.de) Alive: (0.282s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=412055 (Operator: jurov)
watchglass: 213.109.238.156:8333 : Alive: (0.339s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=686186
watchglass: 24.28.108.235:8333 : Busy? (No answer in 100 sec.) (Operator: trinque)
shinohai: For 2nd day in row, BTC mempool ~empty.
verisimilitude: Am I understanding this is the global pool?
shinohai: yup
shinohai: https://mempool.space/ <<< check it
asciilifeform: shinohai: this dun look much like 'empty'
asciilifeform: (heathen displayer, they lump in segshitnesses obv., but even so)
asciilifeform: shinohai: outta curiosity, didja bother to look at e.g. own noad's pool, or even >1 displayer? or saw some rando claim 'empty' and immediately bought?
shinohai: segshit, despite all their claims of "cheap and fast" takes sometimes half day to confirm, if i win the segshit lottery when withdrawing btc from exchange
shinohai: asciilifeform: no looked @ several. what i see is "nowhere near as many txn's waiting to confirm" as is usual.
asciilifeform: shinohai: i admit, haven't personally played 'segshit lottery', cannot comment, but noshit, sole purpose of that gavinism was to help wreck bitcoin, rather than 'cheap', 'fast', whatever baits in the mousetrap
asciilifeform: shinohai: the troo metric is what actually ends up in the blocks, rather than how much crapola floats around in particular nodes' pools
shinohai: (sent bitcent to columbia earlier from boring 'ol legacy addy @ 8/sat vb and went next block mined fine)
asciilifeform: i mean, would be great if in fact the liquishit flood were finally over.
snsabot: (trilema) 2017-11-21 asciilifeform: virtually entire block mass for past... 3 ? yrs , is just about a+a+a+a+a+a+a+a+a.
asciilifeform: simply, don't see any reason to think that it is.
asciilifeform: ( see also. )
snsabot: (trilema) 2017-03-02 asciilifeform: trinque: if blocks were crowded on account of actual people, the free tx thing would be a distant memory