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Get away with what though? Do you believe Gavin was a willing dupe using the CSW narrative to push bigger blocks? Honestly before watching the video it was something I hadn't even considered. I was certain Gavin was simply naive. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

Gavin's endorsement of CSW really is one of the strangest things in Bitcoin's history. Barely Sociable's Satoshi reveal touches on it a bit. I also think it is pretty telling that Greg hasn't publicly commented (that I'm aware of) on the video despite still refuting CSW nonsense on an extremely regular basis. As someone with a ton of respect for Greg, I too would love to hear his thoughts.

Bitcoin needed to bootstrap. Without reward subsidies halving there would be little incentive to invest early. See Grin: https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/GRINUSDT/?exchange=POLON...

Apple must have sunk some serious cash into the touch bar. I can't believe it is still a thing.

Easy to miss the point that the power would be lost if it wasn't used.

Some counter points to consider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvFqEofdAZ0

More nuanced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTelx_iGajE

The energy consumption of the next closest altcoin is almost an order of magnitude less even with ASICs. After that, you'll find the security model of almost every altcoin to be total garbage (low energy consumption).

I'll shutdown my bitcoin mining operation if you shutdown your AC. I find 21c living to be incredibly wasteful and a luxury only offered to those blessed to be born in the first world.

This type of argument goes nowhere fast.

There isn't a person on earth mining bitcoin with GPUs.

I agree. The IRS should simply mandate that forked coins have a purchase price of 0 USD. When sold, the tax event occurs and the seller simply pays the short term or long term realized gain.

The podcast has changed a lot since it first started almost a decade ago. Podcasts were far from mainstream and the Fleshlight was one of the biggest sponsors. The things that didn't change were the long form conversations and insane number of hours poured into the show. Joe had a long time to build an audience and he put the hours in to get better (3000+ hours if I had to take a guess).

It also helps that he actually wants his guests to change his mind on subjects if they can rationally argue their position.

LTSB. A huge chunk of bloat is disabled/missing by default.

The price consolidates over long periods of time to establish an equilibrium with demand. The network then shocks the supply side by halving newly created coins every 4 years. The price starts to move and then human nature takes over and runs the price well past previous highs. During this run, new adopters form the base to support the inevitable decline. Repeat until the market learns to price this in. Third time's a charm? We'll find out soon.

I know sim racing is somewhat of a niche industry but the demand for high end VR is absolutely there:

NoVRNoBuy was pretty much the only regular comment you would see when Codemaster's was hyping Dirt Rally 2.0

So much so that this is the changelog from Assetto Corsa's latest release:

Assetto Corsa Competizione - Early Access v0.2 - Fixed "No VR no buy" ... [1]

There are about 100 threads on Dirt Rally 2.0 echoing the same [2]

This is a community that spends $500 on a steering wheel and $500-$1000 pedals are always out of stock [3][4]

That doesn't even include the $1000 direct drive wheels [5][6] or the handbrakes, shifters, triple mount displays, and $500-1000 dollar rigs [7] I won't even get into the motion rigs...

[1] https://steamcommunity.com/games/805550/announcements/detail...

[2] https://steamcommunity.com/app/690790/discussions/0/17354661...

[3] https://heusinkveld.com/heusinkveld-march-stock-update/?v=75...

[4] https://www.protosimtech.com/

[5] https://www.fanatec.com/us-en/wheel-bases/podium-wheel-base-...

[6] https://augurysimulations.com/products/

[7] https://sim-lab.eu/product/p1-chassis/

I hope you're right. I suspect HTC is far worse off than Oculus and will follow them down the rabbit hole in search of mass market appeal. If Facebook spent FAR less than 2 billion on Oculus I doubt they would even still be around.

I'm of the opinion that VR only appeals to the high end PC gamer with disposable income. Perhaps I'm wrong and a market at the bottom exists, developers can earn a living, and the high-end can eventually reap the rewards.

The market for a high end HMD is pretty much anyone that already has no problem spending $1,000 on a video card. That is a lot of us but it isn't big enough for a company like Facebook or HTC. My fear is pushing crap at $500 instead of gold at $900 will leave a stigma on VR that will take another decade or more to wash off.

The reverb actually looks great but the tracking is a flop.

A lot of us have been dreaming about quality VR for 20+ years. The original Oculus team was a group of those folks. A lot has changed over there in 3 years and people fear it may be another 20 years if this mass market plan fails.

John Carmack and his friends made it clear that they have no interest in the PC being a first class VR platform when they tossed Brendan Iribe to the curb. The Rift-s is a big fuck you to all of the hardcore early adopters that made the Rift a reality.

I skipped gen-1 thinking gen-2 was right around the corner; unfortunately, three long years later the future truly looks like a "race to the bottom." VR is starting to feel like a cheap trick instead of something that promised the future of gaming - a toy that just collects dust on the shelf after playing a handful of crap mobile games.

The state of the industry from my perspective:

1. The VR industry seems to think PC gaming is dead

2. Oculus hasn't released better HMD in three years:

- Worse inside out tracking despite the need to be tethered to a PC anyway

- A downgraded refresh rate of 80hz after claiming 120hz was the sweet spot

- A single panel and a downgrade from OLED to LCD with no ability for IPD adjustment

- Is outsourcing work from Lenovo instead of doing in-house RND

- Scrapped headphones despite saying it was a critical feature of the OG rift

- Rumored to have a slightly worse FOV than the OG Rift's already small FOV

- Attempting to roll their own walled garden store

- Owned by Facebook

3. HTC hasn't released a marginally better headset in three years:

- Lenses are garbage despite the better display

- Future headsets are adopting inside out tracking despite it having worse performance than lighthouse

- Owned by HTC

- Terrible support

- Attempting to roll their own walled garden store

4. Pimax doesn't seem to have the manufacturing or support chops to deliver despite knowing exactly what the hardcore PC gamer wants

5. Valve can't seem to release anything - ever.

What a shit show.

Great interview with Mark about the start and demise of MtGox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cUBFXf678o

notabug.io isn't owned by Reddit.

Don't worry. They'll just roll the chain back.

When you flip the chart upside down, it sunk 300% over 2 years!

The lead developer of Grin (Rust Mimblewimble implementation) is anonymous.

The origin of OWAS and the CryptoNote protocol is also interesting :) https://moneromonitor.com/episodes/2017-12-05-Episode-016.ht...

Verilog/HDL has obvious advantages to C/C++ in the emulation world that seems to escape too many people in this never ending debate. Are both using some blackbox magic? Yes, but if we could compare the HDL size to byuu's code base the mystical advantages would start to become more transparent. Byuu, by his own estimation, spent "40% of his life" developing Higan...

I'm not dismissing the incredible work of Byuu. I'm simply suggesting it is far easier to get cycle accuracy and correctness in an FPGA than through software emulation. Kevtris probably spent less than a year in his spare time to pull off nearly identical results with his FPGA. He also hasn't gone back to work through the known issues because of his work on the MegaSG.

Byuu's work in emulation and ROM preservation should be commended but his FPGA dismissal seems rooted in envy. After spending 14 years developing Higan, I can sympathize. The fact is, the SNES chips are well understood (partly through the work of Byuu). The SuperNT FPGA code from Kevtris mimics almost every perceptible quirk of these chips in gameplay and I'm sure MiSTer will get to the same point if enough talent is drawn to the project. The list of known timing/graphical issues for the SuperNT is less than 20 from some of the most fanatical users: https://github.com/SmokeMonsterPacks/Super-NT-Jailbreak/issu...

Edit: only 10 of the known issues are confirmed and graphical/timing related.

Podcast with the author: http://swordandscale.com/sword-and-scale-episode-70/

I'm not surprised this guy is closing up shop. GPU mining is an altcoin game and hasn't been profitable for bitcoin since 2013.

Greg Maxwell has suggested that quite a few implementations of SSS are broken: "FWIW, virtually every SSS thing I've seen out there is just wrong in at least some less serious way. In general I've found secret sharing to be part of a pretextual security practice that seldom helps users against realistic threats, and the thoughtlessness of using it is usually reflected in the implementation." - https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/72dfy1/armory_walle...

Here is one seriously broken implementation he discovered: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2199659.0

Inflation.