midmagico

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by midmagico 1y ago
pfft, real neutral pov there
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by midmagico 1y ago
Most of the article is technically ill-informed; unfortunately, much of the logic, while sound if it were based on factual reality, fails in that sense. The gaslighting in this case is therefore inverted.
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by midmagico 1y ago
lol ArtForz was an engineer who single-handedly designed from scratch low-run book printing machines, built his house with CHP that he designed and created himself, created his own pick-n-place machines from parts he had laying around, reve
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by midmagico 2y ago
I'm not gmax, mike, which you definitely knew on IRC when you offered to help me deal with criminal harassment on IRC by handing me +o status in the channels where they were harassing people in your name. (edit) I'm also not answe
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by midmagico 2y ago
man that guy is an idiot
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by midmagico 2y ago
lol, no.
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by midmagico 2y ago
> The fact that the inputs, outputs, and fee of a transaction must add up isn't exactly "detailed knowledge" :) They don't have to! (re: txid 5d80a29be1609db91658b401f85921a86ab4755969729b65257651bb9fd2c10d)
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by midmagico 2y ago
The massive amount of additional logic and thought about Satoshi from OG'ers (e.g. |}ruid etc) that have come out in response to this terrible effort, IMO is partly the purpose of the doco.
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by midmagico 2y ago
Most people have no way to more-deeply authenticate those emails because you didn't provide headers. Many people, myself included, would love some way to better-rule-out whether parts of the messages had been elided, for example. A DKI
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by midmagico 2y ago
Complete nonsense, lol.
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by midmagico 2y ago
This is all pretty much boring, tired lies that altcoin profiteers like to trot out apparently assuming nobody is still around who is interested in contradicting them. The purpose of OP_RETURN was to end the script. It was not designed for
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by midmagico 3y ago
Maybe in the 1990s. Now, try getting it running even on a network edge platform like those from Netgate. NetBSD's hardware support is singularly unstable and unusable. Most new platforms port to Linux, commit drivers to the Linux kerne
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by midmagico 3y ago
FreeBSD can't really be said to support native-hardware PPC. Also don't forget riscv. Which it also doesn't really support in native hardware.
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by midmagico 3y ago
No.
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by midmagico 3y ago
this logic would apply to literally every facet of human existence if it were true; your argument has devolved into "people would make more money if they were engaged in criminality and didn't get caught, therefore everyone even
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by midmagico 3y ago
You are inflating the amounts considerably (and unverifiably with bald assertions) and then generalizing the rest of the industry based on anecdotal individual reports. The amount of bad participation is negligible compared to the whole; th
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by midmagico 3y ago
This is .. pretty much just a total whole-fabric lie.
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by midmagico 3y ago
The first payments in bitcoin were not the pizzas. Malmi sold bitcoins for money prior to that. The first people using Bitcoin were not ransomware users; the first bootstrappers were not involved with Silk Road at all. It is quite the insul
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by midmagico 3y ago
> Current libbitcoin-explorer instructions telling users to use the seed command to generate private keys. .. and receive bitcoin at them. Wow brutal.
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by midmagico 3y ago
And yet r/btc are or were all or almostly entirely paid employees of Roger Ver and Reddit didn't seem to care at all.
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by midmagico 3y ago
It is a lie, since Bitcoin Cash never moved funds that weren't signed by their owners. You're going to have to prove that, now, or admit you overspoke. The direct counter-evidence against Craig's claimed key ownership are t
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by midmagico 3y ago
> I think if even 1 developer has a court order for them to push to master, it will happen whether anyone wants it to, since GitHub is already known to mindlessly abide by government requests. (see popcorntime dmca) No, it will not happe
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by midmagico 3y ago
No, that's incorrect. There is no fundamental trust; you were describing control in a coercive sense among the developers by directly asserting that developers have specific control over the funds in the system. This is obviously not
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by midmagico 3y ago
That is a lie—in terms of funds being controlled specifically absent owner signatures, by the developers, how did even Bitcoin Cash set such a precedent? In fact, there are specific counter-examples with Jeff Garzik's godmode patch
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by midmagico 3y ago
Pfft. Its existence solely and only persists through the mass of nodes run by people who utilize the network. The only control that developers exert is over their own actions and willingness to write code. The overall community consensus
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by midmagico 3y ago
Currently, some people are (IMO deliberately) misreading your research as having immediate live human applications and spreading this news as such, with misleading graphics of human brain scans accompanying their news reports.
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by midmagico 3y ago
Heavily debunked nonsense trope.. https://medium.com/@nic__carter/comments-on-the-white-house-...
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by midmagico 3y ago
It does not have the kind of liquidity, nor anonymity, which could be successfully used at any significant scale whatsoever, and there's no point to it given the USD is a convenient, anonymous, trivially falsifiable source of funds whi
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by midmagico 3y ago
Bitcoin specifically, even at the height of Silk Road, and at Bitcoin's nearly weakest-by-comparison point, has been and is cleaner by proportion when compared with virtually all countries' grey markets in terms of what proportion
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by midmagico 3y ago
Pardon me while I git push -f..

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