You say this of a culture that thinks in terms of generations. Methinks you might want to learn more about the people you are lambasting.

I don't see Mike Hearn as racist. Narcissistic, arrogant, often stupid, but he'd be concerned about any group other than his own holding a lot of the hashpower.

Only luddites and conservatives and liberals. Humans are ok

Ok, explorer is back up. Took longer than expected, because I failed the first axiom of databases: When in doubt, reboot

There's multiple things on that server, so I didn't want to reboot and then reset everything. But that was what it came down to.

Give it about an hour to catch up, and please let me know if there are further issues.

Sorry I haven't been real active lately, ladies and gentlemen. Life has a tendency to come at me faster than I can handle.

Anyway, there's a problem with the Mongo database on our explorer. I'll have it fixed today, but depending on what the problem is, it might be out of synch for as much as 48 hours. Meantime, if you go to the pool, it has the correct block height, though you can't do blockchain forensics with it.

This.

I've been saying it for a couple of years. Yes, the majority of the hashrate is funneled through a fairly small number of sites. But it is POOLED MINING. Hundreds, maybe thousands of individual miners. If those miners think that one of the pools is getting too big for it's britches, it takes seconds to move that hashpower elsewhere. More small pools have been popping up of late, which tells me this is already happening. That the majority of mining takes place where the majority of human population resides should very much come as no surprise to anyone.

Bitcoin is dead. Long live Bitcoin!

Mostly the courts have refused to hear it, and have variously found many things to be "constitutional" that anybody with a moron's understanding of English could tell were not. An unaccountable court does not make a solid constitution.

But that is an argument for another time. Bitcoin works quite well. I agree that the transaction speed and block size are an issue, but forking as quickly and with as little testing as Hearn wanted was stupid. And now, he whines in public like some little drama mama, causing chaos to a project he ceased to believe in (if he ever did) years ago. I smell fresh dollars.

I actually see this as a good thing, as it will become unsustainable that much faster. The more the governments spend on boondoggles, the more they have to inflate the currency, the better Bitcoin and alts begin to look to the common man, and the faster the Imperial paradigm goes the way of the passenger pigeon. Central governments are probably the worst idea in human history. I'd say nuclear bombs, but without central governments, they wouldn't have come to be.

Must've been

My suspicion regarding their architecture is that they weren't actually cold wallets, but simply offline until needed. Which is a very bad design. No proof of course, just speculation, but it's the only way I can see a backdoor getting the credentials. At best, this was incomplete paranoia. Security people should be diagnosed paranoids.

Yeah. Except.

How the FUCK do you hack a cold wallet remotely? It would have to be actually an online wallet, not true cold storage. And that pretty much requires inside knowledge, even then.

Scientific Method.

Observe phenomena
construct a hypothesis to explain observed facts
test to disprove
repeat until all attempts to disprove have
a: worked -discard hypothesis
b: partially worked -modify hypothesis
c:failed -add hypothesis to general theory.

Religious Method.

Construct a hypothesis based on a holy book.
Observe facts.
if facts differ from hypothesis, deny the facts.

Relax, it's a failsafe. It just means that Wizkid will have to do a manual payout, which he does fairly regularly. The failsafe settings are pretty far to the right of paranoid, which is a good thing in this business.

I wasn't gonna do it... but the stupidity hurts.

Light moves at approximately 300,000 meters per second. The universe is demonstrably expanding. Within the view of instruments that you can buy on eBay are stars who's light cannot have ever reached earth if your ludicrous hypothesis had any merit.

A scientist will indeed say "to the best of our knowledge" rather than an absolute answer, because only fools believe in absolutes. The half life of carbon 14 is longer than your alleged creation time. Proven, observed, we know it's rate of decay. There is carbon fourteen that has become inert, present on earth. 14000 years RIGHT THERE. It's a relatively short half life compared to several other radioactive compounds and elements.

appeal to tradition is a logical fallacy for good reason. Would you argue that a man should never strive to exceed the station he's born into? Tradition of very long standing says he should not. We look back on that tradition with loathing and disgust for a reason. It's unnatural. It's a way to make a living man into a thing. How about a man born a slave? Should he retain thsi? Should he not strive to be free? What of a man born blind or deaf, should he forgo surgery because, traditionally, it didn't exist or was thought to be "playing god"? Or rather, should he strive to get that surgery, become whole and improve himself?

I could go on for hours. But I won't.

The question of this thread is why to people hate islam. There are a good many good reasons. Guess what? Historically, and in some areas at present, every last one of those reasons can be applied to your religion. Yes, Christianity has grown up a great deal in the last 700 years, and has BECOME largely a culture of peace. This is as doctrinally correct as with Islam. But, despite the horrific beliefs of people who have no power of observation, most people are decent human beings and don't really WANT to hate on everyone else. By cooperation, sharing of knowledge, discarding of false ideas in favor of those that WORK, we are made better. Science does not and NEVER HAS purported to know the totality of everything. That's it's goal, of course, but we all recognize that it's at it's very beginning as far as the nature and function of the universe. It may indeed someday prove that there IS some grand design. It can't be ruled out until it has been. But the evidence we have so far looks very much different from that.

And if you misquote Newton's third law one more time, I swear, I just might convert on the grounds that praying against you would be satisfying. DO NOT LECTURE ON  A SUBJECT YOU HAVE ZERO KNOWLEDGE OF. Newton's laws of motion are in a closed system, and so stated. The universe does not appear to be a closed system. Even so, thrust vectors don't even HINT at grand design, they simply describe in a very gross manner how things work. Modern physics, while incorporating Newtons laws, has gone far beyond them.

And I'll close with a broadside from an old friend of mine.

Christian: "<insert hated theorum> is just a theory"
Me: "So's Gravity. Why don't you deny that one, and jump off a bridge!"

Having been in a chat simultaneously with both of you, I had to wait a few minutes to stop laughing when I read that

At polo, you want to talk to Moby Dick. He's the general manager, and somewhat of a friend of mine. He already told me that if enough people bug him, he can get it on. I've been bugging him for almost a year.

At Bittrex, it's richie. I think his username is richiela here, but you can find out for certain in Bittrex's thread. Again, bombard them. I've already done my bit, but I'm one voice.

There will be some variance. With TEK, this is mostly the case, but from time to time there will be blocks that take longer than normal. With most staking coins, the variance is very high. With TEK, you're strategy is pretty sound. Just don't panic if there's a day where nothing stakes followed by a day where two or three blocks stake.

The problem with that is that it don't work. If we look at history, we find that humanity solves the most problems when there is a frontier. In our modern world, there are really only two, with nearly equal challenges at the beginning. The first is the oceans. We can expand into the oceans, and like space, it's an alien environment in which we will have to develop new technologies and new refinements to existing technologies.

So how does that improve the situation for the rest of humanity, in either case?

Those refinements and technological improvements get adapted. For instance, for seasteads you pretty much have to develop multiple ways to produce fresh water and electric power in a small and self contained area. I don't think it will stretch anyone's imagination too much to see how this would benefit humanity in general.

The flip side of this, historically, has been that the frontier was inhabited by other humans, deemed "undesirable" by conquerors and pilgrims. Near space eliminates THAT problem as it's unihabited, and the technological challenges are far greater, so likely the advances that come home will be too.

Or we can turn our backs on these challenges, stagnate and die out.

Crush one and we'll find out.

I'm open to suggestion. I wasn't bitching at you, I was just bitching. The old Soviet Union didn't die, it moved to North America. We even got the KGB  Here in the "land of the free" you can't fucking breathe without official permission. It makes me ill. It looks like you have a great service, just not available to me. I was hoping.

The Troll is strong with this one... You can see ISS with a strong pair of binoculars.