Let's try and stay on topic.

I'd still like to know who was selling Dash on the basic of "ASIC resistance" and what reasons they had for claiming X11 is anything but trivially discretized.

I only watch really good sitcoms.  No basic crap like BBT.  Peep Show if nothing else is out.  Did you see the Portlandia with Matt Berry?   

Are you grumpy because Samson Mow is sending up the Gavinistas with such great aplomb?  Gee, that's just too bad!   

Let's try and stay on topic.

I'd still like to know who was selling Dash on the basic of "ASIC resistance" and what reasons they had for claiming X11 is anything but trivially discretized.

Bitcoin Judas was going to be on the list, but I excluded him due to positive past contributions.  There may be hope for Roger if he has a come-to-Satoshi moment.

Strongarm, Daftfield, and Marshmallong have only set us back with their wretched scumminess and villainy.

The phrase "wretched hive of scum and villainy" comes to mind.

What if Evan caught something communicable from that stripper in Miami?   

I'd rather our dear pony stay home, drink wine, and code.  Or Netflix, dog, wife, and chill.

So in the social UX layer, it's the ever-looming potential loss of "practical freedom to use their preferred software" that puts the criteria in 'consensus-critical.'  If the data layer is borked by some catastrophe, the nodes are mostly useless for their users.

Not being a hippie an altruist, I'd reverse or at least equate the assumptions w/r/t linking the benefits of cooperation and costs of competition.  Dodo Island Effect, don't you know.

Then I'd invert the frame, asking if it is possible to compete at being the most cooperative ('frenemies')!  



Very profound.  Great catch on pointing out I'd mistakenly referred to as "zero-sum" contentious hard forks' negative-sum game theoretics.

It's important to emphasize a Pyrrhic GavinCoin victory doesn't involve a smooth transfer of power from Evil Core to Heroic Classic.

There are Samson Options on the table.  Many Gavinistas actually want a moment of maximal risk, either because they don't own many Bitcoins or like the narrative appeal of a TV Trope style Cathartic Scream.

If hard-forkers insist on a first strike in the form of a "75/25" split, the rest of the network may respond with their Doomsday Machine, aka PoW change.

The sum productivity of such a situation quickly drops from zero to extremely negative.  Perhaps that's just creative destruction at work.

But the recriminations will surely flow, as the Gavinistas survey the decimated Bitcoin ecosystem and exclaim "Look what you made me do!"

That's fucking hilarious.   

The Venn diagram of Monero is pure genius (and represents the tip of an inverted 3-sided Exter Pyramid).  I expect the Redditurds will react to it like apes to the monolith in 2001.

Only big deal about vnl was the hype.

Nothing made it better than the other shitcoins.

Unlike ShadowCash, vnl isn't even cool enough to be broken by Shen.

vnl is only famous for having stolen code, and a dev that attacked GMAX for pointing out that fact.

2/10.  Lame.  Would Not Pump Again.

I think Factom and a dozen other start-ups/altcoins are working on decentralized asset ownership across blockchains.

Why not work with them instead of doing it solo?

Join the ETH/Rootstock ecosystem.  You can't do it all by yourself.  Not even with the power of Java Class Libraries!   

Yes, HostFat has really lost it over "ZOMG RITE MEOW" blocksize drama.

He seems to be in shellshock from the utter loss of XT, and may never recover (especially given how Classic is floundering).   

Thanks for the link.  I've never encountered a stronger Bogon field than in that thread.

Bogon flux was measured at over 9000 Anonymints, before the bogometer spontaneously transmogrified into a brochure for a time-share development in prime Florida swampland.

Samson Mow is the best comedian working in the Bitcoin space.  And FYI he's Canadian.

Can we get him to write a sitcom about Peter Todd and Luke Jr as an odd couple that somehow gets locked in a room together in every episode?

I'm picturing a sort of Peep Show meets Big Bang Theory angsty geekfest of feisty mutual loathing with occasional rapport and reconciliation.   

Richard Ayoade as The Todd.  David Mitchell as Luke?  Benedict Wong can play Samson when they break the fourth wall.   

Any so foolish as to poke, tickle, or otherwise Disturb the Holy Honey Blogger shall be sore vexed with His sharpened Claws, and pointy Teeth, as well as the the stings of His Bees and bite of His Cobra.  Also, being trampled by a retreating, panick-stricken Zebra is not out of the question.

Let napping Honey Bloggers lie, for you are Mortal and contain many pain-transmitting nerves, while They really do Not give a shit.

That's mostly an empirical question in the sense of their respective market responses.

But in theory, (assuming Bitcoin gets sidechains and CT) Monero will have some advantages.  EG https://github.com/monero-project/kovri.

I'm not sure if/how a BTC CT sidechain would support multisig.  Answer might be here: https://people.xiph.org/~greg/confidential_values.txt

AFAIK, CoinJoin isn't really competitive with ring sigs in the anon space, as it entails counterparty risk.

Too late, X11 ASICs exist and are being put into production.

Who told you Dash is "ASIC resistant?"

When and where did that false rumor get started?

People are beginning to understand how multisig+RingCT+GUI will transform quiet, sleepy Monero Mountain into a bustling boomtown.

It gets confusing and idiomatic (esp for non-native speakers) if we have to distinguish between the friendly positive-sum competition of btcd vs the cutthroat zero-sum competition of GavinCoin.

I'd classify other implementations like libbitcoin and bctd as complementary, not competing, in that they all share the same goal of maintaining the One True Holy Ledger.

But let's defer to the core dev, if gmax has a better suggestion for the taxonomy/nomenclature.

Welcome to month 11 of "Sorry Not Tonight Dear"  #BitcoinObituaries  #Hearnia  #DoItRightMeow

Competing implementations of Bitcoin, such as Litecoin and Primecoin, are called altcoins because they establish their own independent alternative socioeconomic consensuses/majorities.

Hostile implementations of Bitcoin, such as XT and Classic, are declarations of war because they attempt to threaten Bitcoin's existing consensus-critical distributed ledger.

Of course I moderate self-moderated threads I've started.  As the OP, that's kind of my job.

I'm not a mod and I've never reported a post.

I don't expect on-topic posts in non-self-moderated threads to disappear in bulk, regardless of how many DashHoles and Gavinistas report them Because Butthurt.