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Sat Mar 05 21:56:26 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> for varying definitions of working.
Sat Mar 05 21:55:34 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and hopefully the next crop will have more sense.
Sat Mar 05 21:55:24 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> we at the very least achieve a very useful head of a mongoloid on a stick for the education of future retarded children of (principally) asian mothers,
Sat Mar 05 21:54:51 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> so : by breaking the capital investment of the current idiots that had the unmitigated audacity to meet and the breathtaking stupidity to not only admit it, but bring it like some sort of value in public, like the mongoloid children proud of his fingerpainting works in his own shit
Sat Mar 05 21:54:07 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> wherein ACTUALY MINERS are centralized, pools are irrelevant.
Sat Mar 05 21:53:54 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and the degree of brokedness bitcoin experiences now, post-cartelization (an event which we'd more or less date as occuring either in degrees or at some point between the high-s fork and march trhe 3rd)
Sat Mar 05 21:53:16 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> but anyway - there's a substantial difference between the degree of brokedness bitcoin experienced between 2010 and about 2013ish, where imbecile independent miners nevertheless gave their vote blank to "pool" operators (mcuh like idiot shareholders let the various brokers to vote for them)
Sat Mar 05 21:52:57 UTC 2016 <assbot> Logged on 25-08-2015 18:53:47; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: workfunctions, there was once some theoretical work concerning 'non-outsourceable puzzles', i.e. mathematical magic preventing the formation of pools by allowing any pool participant to silently and untraceably claim the entire block reward. but i cannot recall if this went anywhere other than academiwankery.
Sat Mar 05 21:52:26 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> ah, that post was made in a happier time, a more innocent time.
Sat Mar 05 21:51:52 UTC 2016 <mod6> mircea_popescu: so if your pre-req for change to btc protocol was adopted, and ASICs were rendered useless, how does one begin to attack the problem of mining pools?
Sat Mar 05 21:44:52 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> no nefariousness need be involved for people to fuck up grandiosely.
Sat Mar 05 21:44:41 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> "these idiots were given an opportunity, and they figured running the rigs as efficiently as possible is everything that may ever matter."
Sat Mar 05 21:44:16 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> anyway. in my personal scoreboard, this is chalked down as one of those grand disasters of stupidity. exactly in line with an older article of yours,
Sat Mar 05 21:43:02 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> nobody in the us has done a spot of work in about fifty years.
Sat Mar 05 21:41:36 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> wouldja stop being confusing.
Sat Mar 05 21:41:13 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> it ended, long ago, various 2nd hand leaders a la putin now and again go to kick the once-great, currently ridiculous loser.
Sat Mar 05 21:40:47 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> they have no power, no influence, no impact and no credibility.
Sat Mar 05 21:40:37 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> nobody cares. really. honestly.
Sat Mar 05 21:40:25 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the united states of america DO NOT MATTER.
Sat Mar 05 21:40:20 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> dude wouldja stop with the usg shoehorning ?