asciilifeform: !!ticker btc usd
deedbot[asciilifeform]: $29,441
billymg[asciilifeform]: according to my meme lines, resistance which was first bumped into in early april 2021 currently sits at ~31,600
PeterL[asciilifeform]: speaking of resistance, saw a headline today that the person who posted the video of LK99 levitating has admited it was a hoax
PeterL[asciilifeform]: billymg: does that mean that if it goes over 31600 we shoot to the moon, or what?
billymg[asciilifeform]: PeterL: yes, unless it's a fakeout, then it either dumps back down or continues to range around here
signpost[asciilifeform]: multiple parties working on a reproduction of the material, but I'm going to check back in on that topic in 6mos
billymg[asciilifeform]: so basically, it can go up, or down, or stay the same
signpost[asciilifeform]: re: price, still looks correlated with difficulty to me.
billymg[asciilifeform]: hence why i call them meme lines
billymg[asciilifeform]: they're still fun though, like astrology for some people
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2023-08-03 14:50:54 asciilifeform[4]: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2023-08-03#1029383 << pons & fleischmann
asciilifeform: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2023-08-08#1029600 << pons & fleischmann's thing took iirc 2+ yrs to conclusively die ( errybody thinks 'mine will work' )
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2023-08-08 13:01:29 signpost: multiple parties working on a reproduction of the material, but I'm going to check back in on that topic in 6mos
asciilifeform: if 1 of'em actually superconducts, you'll know it when folx start firing plasma pistols etc
asciilifeform: this is rather like the periodic 'i broke rsa!1111' posts on ye olde sci.crypt. 'i'll be convinced immediately, just send me my privkey primes'
asciilifeform: all you need for conclusive proof is a working e.g. levitator skateboard.
signpost[asciilifeform]: of the interpretations, the one where dorks were milking a financier and he called their bluff is the most entertaining
asciilifeform: signpost: the original koreans, where 'leaked after 20y' ? or sumbody else?
asciilifeform: prolly over9000 grifters milking financiers at this pt
asciilifeform: just like there are still '+ev fusion! only need coupla $mil invest' folx to this day
signpost[asciilifeform]: somebody mentioned it a few days back in the logs. original koreans.
signpost[asciilifeform]: idea being the third guy was tired of hearing "any day now" and published their paper for them.
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2023-08-04 19:39:42 crtdaydreams[jonsykkel|signpost]: who published everything. accordingly the observation is made that the first article that was published had 3 names on it (likely due to nobel prize laurelate limit of 3 people?). It seems plausible to me that Kwon called bullshit after nearly a decade of thes
asciilifeform: lulzy
signpost[asciilifeform]: in either case, the moment anything real does happen, there will inevitably be thousands of troons posting faked videos of same.
asciilifeform: already posting neh
signpost[asciilifeform]: saying the noise happens no matter what
asciilifeform: ancient tradition ( see e.g. + over9000 similar )
asciilifeform: incidentally, recall anuther interesting blaster 'unlockable' if had roomtemp supercon.
dulapbot: (trilema) 2017-04-14 asciilifeform: btw the 'beta decay can be arbitrarily sped up in magnetic field' throws a bit of new light on just how 'strange, new' a world with roomtemp supercon would be.
shinohai[asciilifeform]: In heathen wallet news: https://milksad.info/disclosure.html
billymg[asciilifeform]: "The victims ensured that their /dev/random Random Number Generator (RNG) subsystem of the Linux laptops had sufficient entropy, but perhaps that wasn’t sufficient after all ..?"
billymg[asciilifeform]: all that trouble and they don't even bother to roll dice
asciilifeform: std::mt19937& pseudo_random::get_twister() lol
asciilifeform also lols, just like last coupla of these, <30 coinz pinched total
asciilifeform: that, over '... we discovered over 2600 distinct and actively used Bitcoin cryptocurrency wallets...'
asciilifeform: redditus & their 'life savings'(tm) eh
billymg[asciilifeform]: b-but, they "ensured"!
asciilifeform: sane 'wallet' would be nice, but aint happening befoar hell freezes over. ( see also )
dulapbot: Logged on 2023-05-24 20:59:04 asciilifeform: not expects anyone to bake sane 'iron wallet' -- the 'how' was imho obv. for 10+yrs nao, but who would pay
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2023-05-24 14:39:28 asciilifeform[6]: on this hypothetical iron, the 'knobs' oughta include a means of entering a decryption pw. the keys per se, to live on removable flashes, 'unclassified when unkeyed'(tm)(r) ergo as many backups as one feels like
asciilifeform: redditus collectively has barely enuff coin to buy a coupla bulldozers to dig their graves with, much less pay for sane walletron to appear
asciilifeform suspects that e.g. llm-powered shitcoad audits will yield at least coupla moar 'aaand they stole almost 30 btc!11' noose items
asciilifeform: ... the only 'btc business model' they can support is the 1 illustrated above, where you give'em a 'wallet' with mersenne twister rng and harvest.
asciilifeform: even this is likely -ev most of the time. we simply dun hear about the ones where 'lolfuck i got over9000 redditards to use boobytrapped wallet and got 0.1btc summed'
billymg[asciilifeform]: strangely, in an article entirely about the dangers of insufficient entropy, no mention of how to get sufficient amounts of said entropy
billymg[asciilifeform]: only offered "solution" is, "be sure to update your software to the latest version next time"
asciilifeform: what'd 'sufficient entropy' do for these tards ?
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2020-08-20 asciilifeform: it is also the case that rng as commercial product is a very questionable biz proposition. it takes quite a bit of 'adulthood' to even get to a place where you actually benefit from a 1000 $ rng. for instance, microshit victims dun really win anyffin from using whatever external rng.
billymg[asciilifeform] only skimmed, but 0 results for ctrl-f 'trng', 'true', 'dice'
asciilifeform: it's a stereotypical lemon market and will continue to produce the very familiar lemons, ad nauseum
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2020-08-20 asciilifeform: Aerthean: related reading. it is ~very~ difficult to profit by 'actually Do Right Thing' in engineering, vs. 'convincingly pretend to Do Right Thing' , 'i can't believe it's not butter!' atrocities.