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Sun Mar 06 14:44:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the chief problem of human society is pool collusion in this view.
Sun Mar 06 14:43:25 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> ipso definition, individual women in any gendered species are in the pool of womanhood ; and respectively males.
Sun Mar 06 14:42:57 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this is "pools under another name"
Sun Mar 06 14:42:39 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: this being, where you have two or more types of miners, who have inherently opposed interests
Sun Mar 06 14:42:31 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> !s chiral miners
Sun Mar 06 14:40:44 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> lettuce not blame the bearer of bad news.
Sun Mar 06 14:40:38 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this is not a problem of scaling, even if it is a problem made apparent by scaling
Sun Mar 06 14:39:59 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the weakness in the pow and the poor mining/relayer design created perverse incentives not directly apparent in the design phase, however.
Sun Mar 06 14:39:22 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> bitcoin was fine, and would continue to be fine, as is, for any maxint.
Sun Mar 06 14:39:10 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> that was at no point the problem.
Sun Mar 06 14:38:51 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i'll put some boxes to it as a seed, whosoever wants to do the same can do the same and it can take it from there.
Sun Mar 06 14:38:12 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> if mining works correctly (ie, as he naively intended it would) the initial allocation as designed is fine.
Sun Mar 06 14:35:29 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> yup.
Sun Mar 06 14:35:25 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> was a very instructive experiment.
Sun Mar 06 14:35:18 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> thestringpuller indeed.
Sun Mar 06 14:35:06 UTC 2016 <thestringpuller> mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/the-woes-of-altcoin-or-why-there-is-no-such-thing-as-cryptocurrencies/ << well there was this, and then ATC failed around that time
Sun Mar 06 14:35:04 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and there is a very good vp on the table. gossip + proper hashes and ciphers + correct pow + proper relay/mine design + + +
Sun Mar 06 14:34:39 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> yup.
Sun Mar 06 14:33:31 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> we needed a 2nd for a long time anyway, wtf is this ripple eth ltc doge bs.
Sun Mar 06 14:33:19 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform for your own peace of mind : i would ~definitely~ support a beedog coin, irrespective of how cartel mining impasse is resolved or the eventual fate of current-bitcoin.