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Mon Mar 07 23:22:58 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> back in the day bitcoin mining was healthy, after a fashion, pools came and went. they've been stable for a long time now.
Mon Mar 07 23:22:41 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> anyway, i've been thinking about your theory ever since, but i don't credit it asciilifeform. for one thing, it's unstable. seriously, supernode and miniminer ? it'd get torn apart.
Mon Mar 07 23:20:20 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> in a sense.
Mon Mar 07 23:20:14 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: this is sorta sheckley's hour of battle thing.
Mon Mar 07 23:20:09 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> you think you're running a node, because, symptomatically, in the windows definition of running code (hey, click items till it works) you are. but the sense of running code contemplated for bitcoin is negative, not positive, and you don't know how to check for that nor do you specifically care.
Mon Mar 07 23:19:06 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> or if you prefer, see phf's example with "my friend, the kgb agent"
Mon Mar 07 23:18:55 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> davout i don't think you take my meaning. the situation that you imagine is, "hey, whatever, summertime and a bunch of us are at the beach". the situation in reality is, "a moroccan clan and some fat frenchies at the beach". guess how likely you are to a) find out the price of dried fruit and b) find out that you aren't finding out the price of dried fruit.
Mon Mar 07 23:17:54 UTC 2016 <davout> mircea_popescu: if everyone's actually the same node, broadcasting to one node is actually broadcasting to everyone, and it follows that it should have relayed properly. I guess it can also be the sign of your connections all actually being to the same sybilling node
Mon Mar 07 23:16:45 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform you know, and we for whatever reasons just see the 1 in 100 gunshot.
Mon Mar 07 23:16:42 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: my hypothesis was that it suffices for the enemy to have a pistol that does this, e.g., per every N trigger pulls, and that the number came up.
Mon Mar 07 23:16:15 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: waiwut
Mon Mar 07 23:16:10 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> davout how do you figure ?
Mon Mar 07 23:15:43 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform by this logic tho, are there also 99 bitcoins we don't know about ? 99 linuxen ? 99 gccs that statically link ?
Mon Mar 07 23:14:23 UTC 2016 <assbot> Successfully updated the rating for mircea_popescu from -1 to -1 with note: basic scammer, no accountability
Mon Mar 07 23:14:09 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: this is my current picture.
Mon Mar 07 23:13:41 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> but anyway, yes, if you believe 1 in 100, they yes, you don't need cartel, just persistent miner.
Mon Mar 07 23:13:33 UTC 2016 <nubbins`> !rate mircea_popescu -1 basic scammer, no accountability
Mon Mar 07 23:11:54 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i had been watching. this, and many other things.
Mon Mar 07 23:11:36 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i've been watching. this is 1.5 to maaaaybe 2.
Mon Mar 07 23:11:20 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: what makes you think they haven't been squeezing the trigger for 100 shots