Anon136, a legend with 49/470 merit earned against 203/414. Over 4 times as much. Theymos's new ranking system indeed provides more useful information than the old. And prompt scouting is available, anyway.

Hey, mighty Theymos, do you hear us? We need more statistics, like "Imagination", "Magic Dust" or "Emep", which might stand for "Earned Merit per Eligible Post (ratio)".

Yes, yes, it's the same.

"Beat me to it" quotes of the day (Torque was first). Here go my last merits.

That's his... uhm, religion. Apart from that handicap, discussions with jbreher are mostly fine.


Word. This also really helps gears grind here, so to say. It's like it's my own religion.

TLDR; jbreher, you're a much more varied read than other thread heretics. Don't hurt people's religious feelings with unkornly utterances, and I promise I won't feed the troll in you. Gonna try, with a little help from my frieh-eh-eh-eh eh-ehh.

One problem I see is that these channels would be unidirectional, in the sense of hard to balance out, unless I'm missing something about this use case. Besides, maximum channel capacity is still seriously limited to "pocket change" amounts (that's on purpose, for safety), so LN won't be terribly useful for payouts until the limits are raised.

It's to reward the holders, right?


You beat me to it, ehehe 

(EDIT 2 the following for accuracy/factual accurateness.)

With 0 conf, full nodes have to cache transactions since the latest block and stop propagating newer conflicting ones. For the attack to work, the cheater's transaction must already have been submitted before the victim's after all. As long as the network doesn't selectively hide information from certain nodes, cheating this way will fail.

(EDIT 1: as long as 0 conf implies "earlier tx gets blockspace" rule.)

Any fault in my reasoning? Syke? Experts?

Hard to beat at scouting, and for good taste. We're growing the next legends here.

If the protocol is first transaction gets blockspace, the victim's transaction won't find its way into a block. Double spend will fail, but legitimate RBF transactions could be impossible.

You mean disabling replace by fee?

I actually celebrated without realizing it. Well, after the fact I did. I almost never partake, if not as a social sign of approval. But on 4/20 night I deliberately prepared a mini, just for myself. I knew my company wouldn't want to join the jointment. Getting her to even drink something reasonable was already a small feat in itself. So why would I want a miniJ in such company? Now I see. Unplanned, legitimate celebration.

It's like an Inuit posting here. Theoretically possible. 

Thank you too for some more (contemporary) TA. It wasn't actually needed, though. Your OT's about brick-based testicle training are among the best for me anyway. Or your curt invitations to remove undesired clutter from your no-sun-shining-here areas.

What do we mean when we talk about race? Genetics, culture or a combination? Is it possible to quantify the nature/nurture relevance ratio? How about a child born from a black and a Jew, raised in Asia by a foster family? Which "race" do they get stamped on their Interwebz passport?


I think you refer to my words about nomads. They weren't tribal nomads actually, but yes they have a different, lighter stance towards life. It's the culture that's different. Different from me, I mean. I don't know about you, let alone about "us". Us bitcoiners? Us participants in the WO thread? Are you assuming I'm a thoroughbred Caucasian male? I could be ((( d_eddie ))) for all you know, or half-asian (Thai mom), or black or Inuit - well, I admit the latter's unlikely, but I could be. I guess you see what I mean.


I'm not disgusted with reality. I'm disgusted with tireless back and forth drilling of the same old stuff by the few that care about it, to the detriment of the silent majority who doesn't mind a nice OT, but couldn't give fewer fucks about racist (un)subtleties than an annoyed honey badger.

Some classic TA at last. Thank you, Hairy.

Come on, someone post some classic TA, please. This kind of OT is distracting, irritating and plain disgusting.

At the cost of repeating myself, you have some taste. I mean for fun music. All my likes are granted.

I mentioned the admins having the right to a choice a few posts back. Would PoS in the community coin be a viable voting metric at least for some matters? Has any thought gone into it yet? Interesting stuff indeed.

Can't merit both for budget reasons. Picking the one where it makes more of a difference

I guess there will be exchanges, exchange rates, fees. I'm sure it will be possible to buy a few varyons even from the mainland. On board for sure, at more cost. If you live at sea, then of course they're more useful. Yes, I see your point, becoin. But isn't the concept of a community currency legitimate? A fat stash of it implies a stake in some man-made quasi-island, so what? It might give actual use case value to varyon (XBTVRY stable) - uncommon for a new coin. Hm, which in turn also implies enforcement of money laws of some kind. Tough, eh? Well, as long as the single 'steaders can accept any kind of money they like, it's only fair that the admins get to choose, too. Or is it? I don't have a clue.

Elwar? Did I get the VRY ticker right? :-P

I've been away for a few days. Getting up to date with this is ridiculous. I'm still 37 pages in the red. Makes me want to run and hide in a cupboard or something.

It seems I missed some very interesting OT stuff.