The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @lopp ever

June 2016

@mikejcasey @prestonjbyrne @pascalbouvier @dgwbirch Thankfully open marmot carry is not prohibited.

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@cguida6 @TradeBlock That’s the default, but miners could hold them longer /or/ the sender can just rebroadcast them.

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@AriannaSimpson Did you ever write about your Tesla incident?

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US national average is 1 fatality per 100M miles driven.
Tesla autopilot is at 1 per 130M & will certainly improve.
https://t.co/0GyxSp4iqj

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@rubensayshi @JihanWu @kristovatlas Of course; post was labeled FUD and locked fairly quickly.

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@JihanWu @kristovatlas Ha, I see what you did there. But I think the main question is if there is much support for this proposal.

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@maraoz I’m not, but I don’t understand it that well. Seems like a massive undertaking.

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@masonic_tweets @maraoz @TuurDemeester Funny thing about TA is that TA may reinforce itself. Self fulfilling prophecy feedback loop?

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@maraoz @TuurDemeester Because Bitcoin can’t stand still, so if it does go sideways for long enough, you know it has to move?

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@gigq @flyosity I’ll never forget to install the motherboard case standoffs again.

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bradheath Fun 4th Am. fact: To challenge gov’t search of a box of drugs, you must first claim that it’s *your* box of drugs. pic.twitter.com/AcYhLmrOsy

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bradheath UPS “reserves the right in its sole discretion to open and inspect any package tendered to it for transportation.” pic.twitter.com/BRYkS9iLk2

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The mempool is so empty that BitClub Network just confirmed a bunch of 9 month old low fee UTXO consolidation txns. https://t.co/CNOTnOiED7

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WayneChain is always correct because transaction errors are fixed via time travel! https://t.co/TZ8LM8bSCa

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@washingtonpost @pmarca Technology keeps advancing & the new models are more exciting every year! I’m still waiting for blaster pistols…

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encryption
pseudonyms
cryptocurrency
anonymous networks
zero knowledge systems
identityless reputations
truly free markets
cryptoanarchy

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@theonevortex @maidsafe @TuurDemeester Hard to compare; I’d say @urbit_ has much grander ambitions. https://t.co/1392Rs60ug

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If you thought the <COLOR> Hats have been having a field day with Solidity’s attack surface, wait ‘til they sink their teeth into @urbit_.

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Over the long term, holding stock market index funds is nearly guaranteed to be profitable. https://t.co/b43TOQfbs1 https://t.co/ccP2DUfFHn

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.@coinbase & @circle are only licensed BTC money transmitters in NC; @coinxinc was denied. https://t.co/iTtj8oQsLv https://t.co/ZyuowU4wGe

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An explanation of how completely innocent people can invoke the Fifth Amendment to avoid incriminating themselves. https://t.co/aJX2RmX0eo

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@Bitcoin Several-day-old posts about price movements are confusing :-/

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@Truthcoin I’d try to get direct answers from the pools for more clarification; @james_hilliard tells me that CKPool doesn’t SPV mine.

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@TuurDemeester And those are just the forks you can count (forked via github’s UI.) For example, XT isn’t counted: https://t.co/9euDVGwrj7

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@brian_armstrong It would also be amazing to build a version of Slack that doesn’t use 100% of your RAM.

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Good guy AI chatbot successfully contests 160,000 parking tickets for free. https://t.co/hF7NvpjUDY

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@masonic_tweets You know what makes a great Faraday cage?.50 cal ammunition cans.

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@hrdng It could but from the blocks I examined, the huge txns were many inputs to 1 output.

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@seweso It was significant for the blocks I saw yesterday. The fast low fee blocks had about a quarter the average fee rate.

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OKC bar manager jailed for 3 days for putting strips of bacon inside bottles of vodka. Sounds like a @CrimeADay https://t.co/iYnWKgmUiB

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TL;DR don’t take custodianship of digital assets on behalf of North Carolinians unless you have money to burn. https://t.co/gExTAify1t

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Only 43 perfectly full 1,000,000 byte Bitcoin blocks have ever been mined. All of them by @f2pool! 💏💏💏💏
Most recent: https://t.co/Kxh73NhGyd

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@james_hilliard Nope, haven’t seen empty blocks from CKPool

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@james_hilliard IDK, I’m just noting a behavior change I’m seeing. We’re still seeing the occasional empty block, though…

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4) I consider this an improvement because instead of the miners giving us empty blocks, they’re cleaning up the UTXO set.

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3) This is probably a “safe” strategy b/c fee rates are so low, miners are nearly assured that they weren’t mined in the parent block.

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2) For example
F2Pool mined this block 7s after prev: https://t.co/GPOdUjUNiO
CKPool mined this block 9s after prev: https://t.co/DHbfxp3AJX

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1) It seems some pools have new logic to mine huge low-fee txns after a new block is detected but before they’ve updated their mempool.

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TIL my local credit union has to have its coin counting machines serviced every few weeks to remove random items such as live ammunition.

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NinjaEconomics European bank stocks are getting battered. Down 22% since the referendum on.ft.com/291F8WQ pic.twitter.com/x1XgjdgMHf

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Huge if true. Proof that Technical Analysis of BTC markets is 💩?— @VinnyLingham https://t.co/8AxNULKXL2 https://t.co/V5RBmwyyCJ

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@pierre_rochard Though it seems that @eris_ltd is doing a pretty good job handling the “worst case” scenario for smart contracts.

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@pierre_rochard I think it comes down to: best case scenario, they blow normal contracts out of the water. Worst case: neightmare.

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@AlpacaSW @dgenr818 @santisiri If you’re running reasonable contracts that don’t screw over a significant portion of users, should be fine.

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@AlpacaSW @dgenr818 @santisiri It appears the fine print doesn’t meet the community’s expectation of reasonableness. https://t.co/fCYrxatch0

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bradheath Federal court: Computers connected to the internet aren’t private, have no 4th Am. protection. Expect to be hacked. pic.twitter.com/dHK1g9LpJh

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4) Thus you shouldn’t use a public permissionless blockchain unless you believe most people are moral & rational. I, for one, do believe it.

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3) Historically, this only tends to happen defensively when an individual first screws over a decent portion of the collective userbase.

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2) That is: if “everyone” using a public blockchain decides it’s in their best interest to collectively screw you, you will get screwed.

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1) Public permissionless consensus systems let you use them w/o trusting any one individual. However, you must trust everyone in aggregate.

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@dgenr818 @santisiri It’s not a bug in ETH, but meatspace consensus is that the bug should be corrected…

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@WhalePanda The issue is code execution vs intent of the code devs. It’s not a coincidence that both incidents received the same response.

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@santisiri seemed different initially bc the bug was at app layer, but now there are good arguments that protocol layer wasn’t well defined.

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@santisiri If by “real bug” you mean the code did not execute the intent of its authors… I don’t see the difference.

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One perspective: both “billion BTC” & “DAO attacker” get to keep their tokens, but everyone else has decided to use a different blockchain.

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@fluffyponyza Either way, it appears that intent is more powerful than code when it comes to distributed consensus systems…

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If DAO attacker deserves to keep tokens b/c they followed rules, doesn’t whoever created 184B BTC in 2010 as well? 🤔https://t.co/324157Vz5W

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@govtechnews @jgarzik Myself and @coincenter tend to dispute the “friendliness” of said legislation.

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@ollekullberg My point is that a lot of volume flows through a small number of popular services that take custody of bitcoins.

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@ollekullberg No, some examples would be: Bitcoin exchanges / brokers, payment portals, remittance providers, gambling services…

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@ollekullberg I’m referring to popular custodial Bitcoin services.

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6) No doubt detractors will decry these “centralized hubs” but in reality they were already “centralized” for on-chain txns.

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5) Enter Lightning Network. Once popular custodial services support it, they can reduce on-chain txn volume & retain privacy.

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4) This presents a huge privacy issue - is sacrificing privacy worth decreasing the load on the blockchain? Doubtful many would agree.

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3) However, popular custodial services can only implement periodic settlement if they know which addresses belong to which services.

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2) Settlement could occur in trusted fashion with out-of-band “IOU” updates, or trustlessly via updating high value payment channels.

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1) A great deal of on-chain txn volume occurs between popular Bitcoin services. It could be reduced if they only settled periodically.

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MTGOX (Magic The Gathering Online eXchange) is open for business on @openbazaar at ob://@_mtgox/store pic.twitter.com/I2U10Qqs4u

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.@fluffyponyza says we need a model for CONOP (Cost of Node Option) - overlaps my argument that we need a node spec. https://t.co/4XYdmZr0mW

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Great talk by @fluffyponyza on challenges of building a max block size algo that won’t increase cost to run a node. pic.twitter.com/JCh9EaOWDH

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naval Four sovereigns in history: tribe, king, corporate state, networked individual. All still here, unevenly distributed, and in conflict.

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RT @OnChainScaling: The conference has started. If you have not registered you can use this link for today https://t.co/Awd269dZ8E

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The extremely wealthy would only need to put a small fraction of their investments into BTC to send it to the moon. https://t.co/gPZkpDJ9b5

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RT @jonmatonis: My bet for the smart contract ecosystem is on @SDLerner: Lessons from the DAO Incident https://t.co/e9RYZlLPuy @RSKsmart

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qz World currencies are tanking on Brexit, but bitcoin is surging qz.com/715681

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https://t.co/DkfqFjbjiM is pretty nifty - it made it easy to find a few “satoshi addresses.”
https://t.co/9NboJ04vj1
https://t.co/2baBiVXbKK

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@kristovatlas Have you checked out blockchainSQL? Seems to work pretty well; I haven’t been able to break it. blockchainsql.io/8Nou50

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I tell ya, that pound is far too volatile to be used as a currency! /s https://t.co/qvGqP0EWmx

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@bitcoin3000 Time is definitely a key component; every day without a successful attack adds a little more psychological security.

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@oditorium I think hype + fact that Ethereum’s track record was yet unblemished resulted in too much trust in the smart contract code.

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santisiri @lopp today investor and corporate contracts are also written in a dark language known only to experienced lawyers.

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4) Trustless blockchain + untrusted code = ?

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3) Thus, either smart contract investors are limited to a handful of techies (pointless) or investors must trust reviews from these people.

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2) But there’s a problem: a smart contract’s terms are the byte code + EVM behavior. Likely fewer than 1,000 people globally can review it.

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1) It’s easy to snark that “anyone investing in a smart contract must read the terms first” & thus investors deserve to lose money to flaws.

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The world’s first Cypherpunk hedge fund. https://t.co/z80exsFIxs

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As expected, the “White Hat” DAO counterattack has triggered another cycle of attacks. https://t.co/J1htE0PdGE

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@masonic_tweets Ooh ooh, I know this one: it’s for scalability, right?

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@AustenAllred Last I checked, quite a few people ascribe to the Keynesian theory that inflation is desirable. pic.twitter.com/wPqaQGjqKv

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@kristovatlas I didn’t even know about Authy OneTouch; I guess none of the services I use support it…

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Google Prompt is simplifying 2 factor authentication. I just set it up - it’s a breeze! https://t.co/qvGFemCBIB

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@alansilbert I wish it had worked for all the wars of aggression :-/

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Unveiling of Solidity exploits will surely slow down development as projects reallocate more resources to security. https://t.co/Dde46N1OIl

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@alansilbert Deadlocked government is my favorite kind of government.

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RT @wrmead: NYT reports on the rolling catastrophe that is America’s occupational licensing regime:
https://t.co/YGXU5x9pbK

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@badslinky $1.5M probably can’t even buy a single supercomputing cluster! ;-)

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@bradheath @jgarzik Aren’t /most/ Americans armed? Using that logic, no-knock warrants are always reasonable.

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ryaneshea Irreversible truth exists in the real world. It’s called reality. And a universe of possibility awaits once we have digital irreversibility.

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A blockchain can only be as immutable as its community wants it to be. Meatspace consensus trumps machine consensus.

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RT @jerrybrito: How to improve North Carolina’s digital currency bill https://t.co/meumj7pFCr

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@barrysilbert @LRB It’s entertaining but unfortunately hard to take any of the content as factual given the fallout.

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Ethereum will keep operating regardless of a soft / hard / no fork. Only difference: we’ll have a better idea of what Ethereum actually is.

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@twobitidiot Jargon is just an old-fashioned form of compression: necessary for twitter :-D

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@oditorium @twobitidiot State is a pretty general term for “every piece of data comprising a system” so it should work.

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@twobitidiot How about: a tamper evident database comprised of historical state changes.

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@SDLerner I think what he meant was that the coinbase of block 9 was spent to create the transaction. Amateur phrasing error.

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Craig Wright claimed to have met with Ross Ulbricht. Also claims that only 100K BTC are his. https://t.co/zFzlEDzOl5 https://t.co/q3fNYTXDQp

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Several interesting claims & 1 dumb remark by the author. https://t.co/zFzlEDzOl5 https://t.co/JQNbsXeqKP

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“Submissions that are mostly about some other cryptocurrency belong elsewhere, unless they are schadenfreude.” - /r/bitcoin

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Improvements:
1) @DefDist has you covered with Ghost Gunner
2) Only takes a few clicks to set up a bitcoin wallet
https://t.co/aAKt9U1Dan

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TuurDemeester $ETH falling like a rock vs. Bitcoin: -48% in 48 hours… pic.twitter.com/TAwx5dgtkz

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Impossible to predict which would cause greater loss of confidence in Ethereum: forking or not. Other blockchains have tried both & tanked.

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@jgarzik @JohnCollins “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!”

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@grillmaestro A search of my tweet archive shows that I haven’t tweeted at @WCPSS … odd. https://t.co/wJfMgAK3Wl

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@grillmaestro Oh my, it appears that @WCPSS blocked me. I wonder if I hurt their feelings at some point.

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@christi68920324 With the existing consensus algorithm. You can read more here: en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Softfork

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@christi68920324 Just discussions so far. The difference between forks is that soft forks are backwards compatible while hard forks aren’t.

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BTC->USD at -2% today. $GBTC at +9%. $GTBTC premium at 97% over NAV. Do I hear 100%? Any takers?

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@cryptotraveler No, but if you read Vitalik’s thoughts on consensus then it shouldn’t be surprising: https://t.co/bU9V9CgYZ7

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@cryptotraveler Not “some guy,” but rather the network validators. It’s still a form of distributed consensus.

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@cryptotraveler But did Ethereum ever actually promise fungibility and immutability in the first place?

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@colbydillion Maybe; the fundamental difference is peoples value of machine versus social consensus.

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@Papirys1 Unfortunately not. We were not notified of this meeting and had no chance to air any of our grievances with the bill.

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Best case for Bitcoin: Ethereum doesn’t hard fork to recover funds and doesn’t soft fork to freeze funds, so attacker dumps ETH for BTC.

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@el33th4xor Sounds like an opportunity for smart contract security reviewers and insurance providers :-)

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@gacrux_nz @oleganza Recall that Ethereum has already hard forked in the past. It will hard fork again in the future.

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@gacrux_nz @oleganza I don’t think it promised that. It seems a lot of people are finally realizing ETH & BTC have diff security models.

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@oditorium @prestonjbyrne @Steven_McKie @rbtkhn Yep; if I held ETH, I wouldn’t want to hand over that much to an attacker to dump on market.

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@prestonjbyrne @Steven_McKie @rbtkhn Correct. If Ethereum community comes to a consensus that this is the preferred state, so it shall be.

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@GitKilbert No one knows, but no crypto system has the ability to peg a stable value relative to any other asset.

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@rbtkhn It’s possible to change the contract to allow people to withdraw their ETH: https://t.co/H5n53Xe4UR

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@JopHartog Depends upon your perspective - V has argued for years that root of consensus is social. ETH holders should know what they bought

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@cannamellia It’s not negative - it’s a different model. Both have pros & cons.

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@JopHartog I’d be willing to wager BTC that the plan will be enacted as described.

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Ethereum has never and will never have Bitcoin’s security model. Expecting it to perform like BTC is setting yourself up for disappointment.

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@colbydillion Trust & value would be affected regardless of if DAO holders got their funds back.

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@JopHartog The plan for enabling DAO holders to retrieve their funds has already been published.

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@WhalePanda If you mean the later buyers, not sure of the details. Pretty sure the original expectation was they couldn’t get premium back.

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This may be Ethereum’s first Goxxing, but unlike Gox, all funds are accounted for and will be returned in a timely fashion.

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@TuurDemeester Will ETH holders flee to the safety of BTC?

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MrChrisEllis “theDAO will be winded down completely and transformed into a simple contract where you can only withdraw” pic.twitter.com/NAUkHO4u7O

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jgarzik Snarking about intervention by community is misplaced: BTC saw heavy intervention early in life too.

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If The DAO attacker “gets away with it” then this will turn into a test of Ethereum’s privacy and fungibility.

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@flyosity @BIUK_Tech It might be the end of The DAO, but definitely not the end of Ethereum.

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@RyanRadloff More people are using smart wallets that won’t create low fee transactions that get stuck.

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The result of deploying a large attack surface. How the devs handle this crisis is critical. https://t.co/02uoRtT1Xi

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@oleganza Vitalik’s view is that the root of all consensus is social and he has a point. Similar coordination happens during Bitcoin crises.

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@alansilbert Skyrocketing - Bitcoin is failing its way upmarket every day! https://t.co/Ds97SwmFwC

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@alex Due to full blocks it is more competitive to get transactions confirmed. I wrote an article about fees & UX: https://t.co/jUCX9qAD0a

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mikebelshe Blockchain fees up 3x YoY. (fees-per-block / tx-per-block * daily BTC price) pic.twitter.com/O1HFpkQzX6

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We appear to have surpassed 50% adoption of dynamically calculated bitcoin transaction fees last month. pic.twitter.com/2TnRQIqDhs

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Child Pays for Parent has been merged into @bitcoincoreorg https://t.co/WETwg7vyXB

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@juscamarena I’d expect it to be higher as well, assuming there still aren’t off-chain networks that are reliable & easy to use.

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@deadalnix If you aren’t making transactions, the transaction fees are irrelevant! ;-)

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If BTC->USD reaches $10,000, will the average transaction fee be over $3? There’s only one way to find out: HODL! https://t.co/cLm84QLja6

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Predicting the future is hard; hope you bought the dip… https://t.co/zCrB4eAH8w

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@kristovatlas @ryaneshea Where are my blaster pistols, Silicon Valley!?!?

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@socrates1024 You’d have to ask @TradeBlock, but I doubt “Total Value” is “Unique Value”

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@socrates1024 Total value doesn’t have as much meaning anyway since we don’t know how many coins are lost.

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@socrates1024 A better comparison is likely to the daily txn volume which also includes value that’s spent multiple times.

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@seweso *shrugs* anyone who claims to be able to tell real usage from attack transactions is just guessing.

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@killerstorm I mean an economic effect because the value in unconfirmed txns is essentially frozen - it’s not safe to spend unconfirmeds.

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3) These txns paid 20 sat / byte, well below where the current “floor” appears to be. Is someone abusing @YourBTCC’s BlockPriority service?

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1) Something funky happening on the blockchain? Lots of clusters just in a 10 min period. gappleto97.github.io/visualizer/ pic.twitter.com/DwICuB26U3

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@BTCoinInformer Looks like we’re coming up on 24 hours for some of the oldest ones.

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@josephjpeters So… no effects? Will we never reach a critical threshold because users will simply stop sending transactions?

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1.68% of all BTC value is unconfirmed - about 10% of daily txn volume. At what point does this have a ripple effect? pic.twitter.com/cOpzScx7cb

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“Bitcoin fees are like a 7c toll bridge, but half the drivers are throwing a quarter as they drive past.” https://t.co/MhAMDKvHzc

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@prestonjbyrne It’s amazing how so many people have the ability to predict the futures of alternate timelines.

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@ajtowns Ideally this would always be the case, but I’m quite sure many txns are automated / not presented to a human for a fee decision.

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RT @BitGo: Proud of BitGo saving people real money with Dynamic Fraud Filters. https://t.co/5NVYRk73vZ

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.@SenBillRabon @SenatorBobRucho @jerrytillman: next time invite companies most impacted by regulation: startups. https://t.co/YfxzrLdBvd

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A web site FAQ of exemptions can be changed on a whim: it is insufficient protection for startups. https://t.co/tAhQ6AU5R9

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Sounds like nothing has changed since we last looked at it, meaning there are many concerns. https://t.co/YfxzrLdBvd https://t.co/okDpmACDpU

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@bedehomender Miners collect whatever transactions are paying the highest fees.

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@el33th4xor I guess it could ratchet down if enough users stop using Bitcoin :-P

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6) As a result, it seems that an increasing exchange rate is another factor that pushes low value transactions off of the network.

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5) Thus it appears that if blocks remain full, the fee rates remain the same in terms of satoshis per byte regardless of exchange rate.

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4) This creates a fee rate standoff: there’s a first mover disadvantage to lowering txn fee rates to compensate for increased exchange rate.

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3) If the exchange rate spikes & a wallet decides to lower the fee rate it pays, those wallet users will now suffer from delayed confirms.

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2) As the BTC / fiat exchange rates go up and down, fee estimate algos don’t take them into account because they are irrelevant to miners.

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