punkman: "My current working theory is that shitcoins will wither and die not because idiot "crypto-investors" would somehow wisen up. There will be simply so many coins that the whole shitcoin space will turn into unholy mess of nothing but useless noise. We are moving there, slowly. "
    
    asciilifeform: punkman: link?
    
    asciilifeform: $ticker btc usd
    
    busybot: Current BTC price in USD: $61148.86
    
    asciilifeform: !w poll
    
    watchglass: Polling 17 nodes...
    
    watchglass: 185.85.38.54:8333 : Could not connect!
    
    watchglass: 205.134.172.26:8333 : Alive: (0.021s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=707125
    
    watchglass: 84.16.46.130:8333 : Could not connect!
    
    watchglass: 205.134.172.4:8333 : (172-4.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.022s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=707125
    
    watchglass: 185.163.46.29:8333 : Could not connect!
    
    watchglass: 205.134.172.27:8333 : Alive: (0.083s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=707125 (Operator: asciilifeform)
    
    watchglass: 205.134.172.28:8333 : Alive: (0.022s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=707125 (Operator: whaack)
    
    watchglass: 205.134.172.6:8333 : (172-6.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.114s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=707125
    
    watchglass: 54.39.156.171:8333 : (ns562940.ip-54-39-156.net) Alive: (0.112s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=707125
    
    watchglass: 71.191.220.241:8333 : (pool-71-191-220-241.washdc.fios.verizon.net) Alive: (0.137s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=707125 (Operator: asciilifeform)
    
    watchglass: 208.94.240.42:8333 : Alive: (0.104s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=707125
    
    watchglass: 143.202.160.10:8333 : Alive: (0.246s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=707125
    
    watchglass: 213.109.238.156:8333 : Alive: (0.329s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=707125
    
    watchglass: 103.36.92.112:8333 : (terebe.ns01.net) Alive: (0.666s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=707125
    
    watchglass: 176.9.59.199:8333 : (static.199.59.9.176.clients.your-server.de) Alive: (0.775s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=484806 (Operator: jurov)
    
    watchglass: 54.38.94.63:8333 : Violated BTC Protocol: Bad header length!
    
    watchglass: 192.151.158.26:8333 : Busy? (No answer in 100 sec.)
    
    punkman: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-10-28#1062173 << https://twitter.com/J0E007/status/1453458983075946497
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-10-28 10:29:45 asciilifeform: punkman: link?
    
    punkman: I disagree though, there's not shitcoin-singularity coming
    
    punkman: they will be around, like penny stocks, like forex scams, like email spam, like any of the saturated, beaten to death, scams
    
    punkman: and of course the "unholy mess of nothing but useless noise" has come to pass long ago
    
    asciilifeform: punkman: chumpatrons 'we shall always have with us' .
    
    asciilifeform: shitcoins remain the most reliable scheme for turning over9000 morons' pocket change into some btc, afaik.
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2021-07-18 21:00:06 asciilifeform: erryone wants to 'be satoshi'. how to achieve this if not by somehow replaying history with $perp at 'the center'.
    
    punkman: got a friend that got into forex, maybe decade ago. has lost some pocket change, keeps "experimenting" with bots, "play money" accounts, etc
    
    asciilifeform: 'feeling like a trader'(tm)(r)(tlp)
    
    punkman: tried to explain, in various ways, that all retail brokers are there to make him a chump. but he does not believe, thinks I'm conspiracy theorist.
    
    asciilifeform: !q seen adlai
    
    dulapbot: adlai last seen here on 2021-08-21 16:08:36: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-08-20#1053299 << I guess plaintext defaults to the latter; however, you can sanely expect no such gpggram within the next week, and now -- in plaintext! -- an apology for wasting your time with the logged babble.
    
    asciilifeform: ( see also. )
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2020-12-28 11:45:08 asciilifeform: loong ago, also had experiments w/ trading bots (was pre-btcism, however) and w/ roughly same aim as adlai's -- laboured under the naive notion that could e.g. apply well-written cl to where the industrial chrematists were stuck w/ indian java monkeys, and exploit, to take 'some of what they thought was theirs'; see also lenin's 'грабь награбленное'(tm)(r).
    
    punkman: told him to try buying/trading btc in 2014, hope he remembers
    
    asciilifeform: lol
    
    punkman: I've been stuck doing house repairs for full month, tiring but kinda interesting break from computer screen
    
    asciilifeform: punkman: it's good for you.
    
    dulapbot: Logged on 2020-07-19 13:39:04 asciilifeform: the fella who remarked to a young asciilifeform 'after N lines of coad, you will smash yer comp and build unabomber cabin' was a cpp programmer.
    
    asciilifeform also planning a 'vacation' involving trucks, bricks, cement, etc
    
    vex: I thought asciilifeform rented his abode
    
    vex: mp would've completed his 42nd solar cirumnagiation today
    
    vex can't wait to see alf's bricklaying... I expect the cnc brickbot is already half built
    
    vex: on shitcoins: mp alluded to having orchestrated the first dao audit. was he using poetic license here?
    
    vex: fuck I sound like rizzo
    
    vex: the coindesk one, not the cocksucker from grease