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Wed Mar 02 19:18:14 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> PeterL that's an anachronistic argument. merely because they included it once B, you infer that they would have included it wherher B or non-B. this both fails tgo explain all the points prior to B that didn't include it (standard lifetime of mempool tx is about half the interval contemplated here) and the fact that you're drawing in the conclusion in the presumptions.
Wed Mar 02 19:16:06 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i'm sure you could live with it. but that's a different question.
Wed Mar 02 19:15:57 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> do you ?
Wed Mar 02 19:15:55 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i don't want a fucking big-brother-bitcoin-from-china-san to pray to.
Wed Mar 02 19:15:43 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> as opposed to prayer technology, say.
Wed Mar 02 19:15:37 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this is the core of shipwrighting as a science
Wed Mar 02 19:15:31 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> same ocean will sink same boat every time and float same boat every time.
Wed Mar 02 19:15:01 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> which, youj know... also many people make a living on.
Wed Mar 02 19:14:54 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and trivially can be shown to map exactly on paypal-usd.
Wed Mar 02 19:14:47 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> that's tghe problem here. something wasn't good for an entire week that suddenly became good. this selective-bitcoin is in no sense bitcoin,
Wed Mar 02 19:14:25 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-03-2016#1420457 << this is specifically NOT the assumption. bitcoin being a working protocol however DOES mean that you should be able to assume that if a transaction is rejected, or not included, or delayed, or in any way treated or not treated it is solely on the basis of data COMPLETELY contained in that transaction.
Wed Mar 02 18:33:29 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and now, if teh esteemed peerage may excuse me for a bit, i really gotta eat and make this smg report. so bbs.
Wed Mar 02 18:32:05 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> well, maybe not first in line, but anyway. somewhere in that line.
Wed Mar 02 18:31:04 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> but i'm first in line to say i'd much prefer a bitcoin protocol that was actually specified, and actually worked.
Wed Mar 02 18:30:27 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> jurov> it's business is much closer to this goal than bitbet << the argument, while in itself respectable, very much sadly not how things work. the jew on a ship, should the ship catch fire, will be a fireman whether he signed up for voyage as jew or as fireman.
Wed Mar 02 18:22:37 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the problem with broken things is exactly that - they "work" for you until they don't. at which point...
Wed Mar 02 18:21:53 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i'm glad to hear. you think that's germane ?
Wed Mar 02 18:21:09 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> holy shit, the warnings i haven't been putting out ;/
Wed Mar 02 18:20:55 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> jurov> let me at least know im funding the war? << i'm sorry, you thought bitcoin WORKED ?
Wed Mar 02 18:20:26 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> jurov companies fold all the time. this is a thing. if in the course of their business they fail to make money, they'll lose exactly as much money as they lost.