186 sats \ 2 replies \ @RocketNode 10h \ on: Top fee rate for a block today? bitcoin
I’m waiting for block 840000 to be mined by OCEAN or an empty AntPool. Both are overdue (just over 1k blocks since either has happened 838886/838906).
125 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 11h \ parent \ on: Why did Bitcoiners stop calling it the halvening? bitcoin
I survived 4 times but never said "halvening".
idk from where that stupid term come from.
halvening is like saying lightening... only shitcoiners said that.
- most contracts do not have an escrow component, that is, what you owe in the future is uncertain and even when it’s certain, the thing owed doens’t exist yet and may never exist. So there is now way to automate how to handle uncertain future conditions
I think it is possible to automate uncertain future events. I've tried to present one way to do this in my loan shark tool. When you use that tool, you create a contract to borrow money first and, if someone accepts and loans you money, you pay off your loan later. But you don't know, at creation time, what utxo you will use to pay it off. To handle this uncertainty, I make it so that you sign a transaction with sighash_anyone_can_pay. This allows you to add a new utxo to the transaction in the future without invalidating your counterparty's signature.As a result, you can contractually agree to give your counterparty a utxo that does not yet exist, and face a penalty if you do not. So there actually is a way to (partially) automate some future uncertain conditions.
2. most contracts involve real world assets, not digital ones, so can’t be fully automated
Agreed. You can create a physical contract (or a digital one, for that matter) that says something like "I agree that this house shall become Jerry's if X bitcoins end up in address Y before date Z." If that happens, you've got public proof on the blockchain, and if it doesn't happen you can prove that to. So you can bring that data to court if necessary, and that is a form of partial automation, but it's not full automation. Someone still has to go to court if there's a breach of contract (e.g. the seller refuses to leave the house).
- most contracts are very complicated and require verbal language (words) to express the terms (and can’t be done with simple symbolic logic; if anything contractual verbiage gets more nuanced and complicated over time, not simpler) and arbitrators/judges/courts to decide when there is a dispute
It seems to me that most "complex" contracts emerge from taking a simpler version and adding more text to it. Those simpler versions were, however, perfectly valid on their own, and many of them can be at least partially automated via bitcoin. His point seems to be that "most" contracts have evolved beyond simple versions, but I don't think that's a positive development. Return to simple contracts, and then automate them as much as possible (well...as much as is desirable anyway).Koala fingerprints are so close to humans' that they could taint crime scenes.
Koalas might not seem to have a lot in common with us, but if you were to take a closer look at their hands, you'd see that they have fingerprints that are strikingly similar to those of humans.
In fact, they're so similar when it comes to the distinctive loops and arches, that in Australia, "police feared that criminal investigations may have been hampered by koala prints," according to Ripley's Believe It or Not. Any koalas who want to commit crimes would be wise to do so wearing gloves.
I don't know much about it either but from what I understand they can move up one division per year if they win their league. It will likely take multiple decades though as the leagues will get much more difficult to win.
It appears the lowest tiered team to ever climb the ranks to premier league is from the 4th tier, which has happened a number of times and each time taking a decade or more to jump from 4th tier to the premier league.
Pete has the cheat code so I am not going to count him out but it's going to be a hell of a mountain to climb.
Maybe we will take a Stacker Sports road trip (plane trip in this case) and go see a Real Bedford game someday.
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What will you be doing / are you doing during the halving?
For me, I left work early today to drive my daughter to rock climbing and also drive my wife around to pickup things during our daughter's rock climbing session. So I'll probably be driving when it happens and won't be able to take a photo of 840000 on my blockclock or even take a phone screenshot of it on Timechain Calendar. Wife and daughter precedes bitcoin I guess. Tick tock next block and happy halving stackers! Onwards to the next epoch.
In the novel No Country for Old Men Ed Tom says "awhile back in San Antonio they shot and killed a federal judge."
This is a reference to the 1979 killing of Judge Wood who was shot by contract killer Charles Harrelson, the father of Woody Harrelson who plays Carson Wells in the film version of No Country.
Do people have an overabundance of options or do they just not know how to choose? I've met a lot of people who are emotionally anemic - I've suffered emotional anemia - and the denial of fundamental unhappiness leads to greater lifetime unhappiness more than whatever is the mad dash and struggle it takes to find happiness.
I think about how people are sometimes encouraged to not trust themselves and I wonder if that is a greater force attributing to the degradation of culture rather than an overabundance of options. Even out of the top songs today, what percentage of them encourage the (presumably teenaged listener) to stop listening to other people and start listening to themselves?
Say there were only ten musicians to listen to, and only in their music only were you inspired in how to live. Seems like you'd have less options about who to actually grow up to be than if you had, say, 100.
I think advertising and the machine of consumer culture has something to do with this, though I hesitate to make a formal argument as I haven't done all the research and I'd rather not paint myself as anti-capitalist. But if culture is made by the choices taken by individuals based on what is in front of them, the incentives of who makes those choices attractive to the average person need to be checked. Largely I think what makes a choice attractive for less experienced people ("the youth") comes down to marketing/emotional appeal. Generally, what incentivizes a person in charge of making any of these choices more appealing than the other?
And to a point of the options kids are presented with being "bad" - banning books (or music, or video games) does not stop people from reading (listening/playing) them. You need to write better books.
Fred Baur, who invented the Pringles can, per his request, was cremated and partially buried in one.
I'm glad you posted this, because I have the same questions. Maybe some European football(!) fan can help us.
Hope they are safe.
A side note, any interesting security/privacy life tips they can share (with out doxing themselves)?
Do they go supper stealthy route (VPN, Tor,Etc..)?
Do they not try at all? (To hard or to legally risky)
Is BTC still king or does XMR (or other privacy coins) dominate?
I always figured it was the geek social fallacies at work, but I definitely see elements of scapegoating.
Yooo this is my first zap split on @sn! It was pretty cool to get that notification. Thanks! 🤙
Rune's has created a penny auction system that creates a lot of high fee transactions. Will be interesting to see how much money is at play in this.