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Wed Mar 02 00:19:01 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i suppose we're at the chinese phase of exchanging insults.
Wed Mar 02 00:18:33 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> anyway. at present the best short-term course is, of course, publicizing the matter.
Wed Mar 02 00:14:51 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> whatever mining may be, it's not jsut the codebase that's broken. bitcoin, per se, is not currently functional.
Wed Mar 02 00:13:10 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> kakobrekla not that it'd actually do anything, just adds a gauge.
Wed Mar 02 00:12:34 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> kakobrekla im still thinking what the best solution to this would be, but as far as bitbet is concerned quite likely something like that.
Wed Mar 02 00:12:06 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> as per http://trilema.com/2014/the-hour-of-reckoning/
Wed Mar 02 00:12:05 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform pretty much. i don't see what else is there. this is the fabled hour of reckoning, best i can tell
Wed Mar 02 00:10:50 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this is fine and good. however - i nicely structured this specifically to satisfy my own inquisitive mind. i am satisfied.
Wed Mar 02 00:10:31 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> look, i know oodles of people have observed what to them seems "just normal wierdness"
Wed Mar 02 00:09:05 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> that's about it.
Wed Mar 02 00:09:02 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> moroever, both of these are factual matters, on the basis of observed behaviour.
Wed Mar 02 00:08:48 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> both of these are serious concerns, and both of these are, strictu sensu, sufficient to prove, not to propose, that bitcoin is not actually functional.
Wed Mar 02 00:08:25 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> b) the same majority of miners is running a withdheld block scheme, where they keep about a half hour time differential between the ACTUAL head of the bitcoin chain and what they published.
Wed Mar 02 00:08:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> a) a majority of miners (ie, pool operators) on the bitcoin network conspire together to selectively deny valid transactions
Wed Mar 02 00:07:38 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this is, unless you're insane, sufficient proof that
Wed Mar 02 00:07:29 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> about half an hour AFTER that inclusion, transaction A1 was REBROADCAST, and within 20 minutes of its rebroadcasting, in spite of no fee, low miner priority etc, was included in a block.
Wed Mar 02 00:06:57 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> about three hours ago, tx B, with the same outputs as An, but with different inputs was broadcast. this tx was visible in the mempool throujghout the network as normal, and was included in a block in half an hour.
Wed Mar 02 00:06:13 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> a flurry of other txn, all spending the same inputs and paying ever more in fee were broadcast up until, most recently, march 1st (~16 hours ago).
Wed Mar 02 00:05:44 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> throughout the following 48 hours, neither A1 or A2 were visible on the network.
Wed Mar 02 00:05:30 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> as a result, tx A2 was created, monday, spending the same inputs, paying a fee, and was broadcast.