awt_akris[asciilifeform]: !!ticker btc usd
deedbot[asciilifeform]: $30,558
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: Sadly gave up trying to figure out how to initialize the c types required to use jonsykkel's serpent, but I have been able to get pygcrypt (a python libgcrypt wrapper) working.
billymg[asciilifeform]: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2023-07-12#1028137 << they really do seem to be trying to defend the 31k level, every time it creeps above it gets dumped back down
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2023-07-12 10:45:03 asciilifeform[5]: ...meanwhile, in waterfall lulz.
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: Ran into segfault with jonsykkel's, couldn't find the core dumps, etc.
billymg[asciilifeform]: meanwhile, king shitcoin just broke below 100 for the first time since april '22
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: Can't tell if it's a single pump and dumper or a pumper and a dumper.
asciilifeform not even heard of this shitcoin
asciilifeform: of what is it 'king' ?
billymg[asciilifeform]: asciilifeform: DXY is the "dollar index", USD vs. basket of other fiat currencies
signpost[asciilifeform]: dxy is a dollar index against a bunch of dollar-colony country currencies.
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: !!ticker btc usd
deedbot[asciilifeform]: $30,962
signpost[asciilifeform]: has gone sharply splat the last few times we hit the reset button on the US economy with a pencil.
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: lol - deedbot price is always a bit lower
signpost[asciilifeform]: it's pulling from some volume-weighted thing iirc
signpost[asciilifeform]: can't recall the exact mechanism
signpost[asciilifeform]: but I will whisper "31K" with rapture in my voice if you want, bae
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: that's ok I have it on my ipnoje
signpost[asciilifeform]: lol, same
signpost[asciilifeform]: I am not immune to the imaginary number.
signpost[asciilifeform]: might just be that coingecko's free API doesn't update that often.
asciilifeform not 'immune' but operates in 'how many zeros' mode when looking at exch rate
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: who knows wtf yahoo finance uses - stops working entirely for days every month
asciilifeform: #of 0's not changed in a while
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: harder to go from x billion to x trillion than from x million to x billion
signpost[asciilifeform] pretty convinced the "but what to buy" problem comes for us also.
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in pestronics lulz. (ru)
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: lol - Big in Russia
asciilifeform: signpost: elaborate re 'what to buy problem' ?
signpost[asciilifeform]: e.g. chinese withholding rare earths
billymg[asciilifeform]: neato, linking to pestnet.io -- i should update the spec (iirc it's the latest pressed version but asciilifeform's latest draft is quite a bit ahead)
billymg[asciilifeform]: asciilifeform: should i just copy what you have on your www as the latest draft?
asciilifeform: billymg: asciilifeform has been vehehery slowly updating the predraft, aiming to post new one in coming wks
asciilifeform: billymg: feel free to post the current one if you like tho
asciilifeform: ( the current predraft is still missing buncha things, e.g. rekeying algo )
billymg[asciilifeform]: asciilifeform: will update soon then
asciilifeform: billymg: a++
asciilifeform: ^ htmlized (with bitmap graphics) version of the orig predraft spec
asciilifeform: ( via 'hevea' )
asciilifeform not baked proper vpatch yet for this thing, but will
asciilifeform: ( sha2 of tarball == 34607e5628687b1bc1968d07b9cf4db33f225cca6f21c0ad4fc93f5c7a33f7a2 )
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: !!ticker btc usd
deedbot[asciilifeform]: $31,327
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: got it
asciilifeform: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2023-07-13#1028191 << reading this closely, asciilifeform suspects this may be 1st instance of ru-config'd gptism he's witnessed ( the text is ~exact paraphrase of intro of billymg's pestronics www )
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2023-07-13 13:52:41 asciilifeform[5]: meanwhile, in pestronics lulz. (ru)
awt[asciilifeform]: It does have that flavor.
awt[asciilifeform]: How did you find the article?
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: Just realized that, until the loggers are updated to use akris, multipart messages will not show up in the www logs.