I read the title as "Why are psychotics bearish on bitcoin?"
And then I thought, yep... sounds about right. Herp derp.
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shit, i noticed the word was psychics.. didn't know we're crazy enough to talk about what psychics think about bitcoin.
physicists, if you look throughout history, can be narrow-minded people who are entrenched in their old ways of thinking. the great ones usually come along and challenge the convention, like an einstein or newton. all of the best theoretical physicists are usually artistic-minded people too. einstein plays musical instruments, and i think sean carroll does as well.
The thread is about psychics, not physicists...
I've been trying to figure out myself how a virus could be hidden in open source code. It would have to be some very well crafted logic error that would occur only under certain conditions and that every coder would be unable to detect when simply reviewing the code. It could also perhaps be something hidden in the blockchain and currently encrypted, but once the key is revealed, it will be decrypted and the virus will be readable.
It's most likely nonsense of course, but I wonder if you could create a virus specifically designed to affect the operation of miners somehow, to screw with the blockchain; though I suppose it would have to affect a substantial portion of them to have any real effect.
I think that the people who invented bitcoin, already tought about that.. with criptography theres no really a virus that can do that. It will just take millenias triying to get some free bticoins
physicists, if you look throughout history, can be narrow-minded people who are entrenched in their old ways of thinking. the great ones usually come along and challenge the convention, like an einstein or newton. all of the best theoretical physicists are usually artistic-minded people too. einstein plays musical instruments, and i think sean carroll does as well.
The thread is about psychics, not physicists...
I've been trying to figure out myself how a virus could be hidden in open source code. It would have to be some very well crafted logic error that would occur only under certain conditions and that every coder would be unable to detect when simply reviewing the code. It could also perhaps be something hidden in the blockchain and currently encrypted, but once the key is revealed, it will be decrypted and the virus will be readable.
It's most likely nonsense of course, but I wonder if you could create a virus (external, not hidden in the source code) specifically designed to affect the operation of miners somehow, to screw with the blockchain; though I suppose it would have to infect a substantial portion of them to have any real effect.
A much more pertinent question is - why didn't psychics buy every single bitcoin in 2009?
Because psychics are skeptical in all new things, they think they know everything, and everytime they encounter with some new and innovating topic, they try to stop it.
physicists, if you look throughout history, can be narrow-minded people who are entrenched in their old ways of thinking. the great ones usually come along and challenge the convention, like an einstein or newton. all of the best theoretical physicists are usually artistic-minded people too. einstein plays musical instruments, and i think sean carroll does as well.
Psychics make living on everything illogical, mystical, and unprovable. Bitcoin is a promise of converting every aspect of our life to provably fair, realistic and logical. If I'd be a psychic, I'd be actively trying to destroy bitcoin before it destroys my job 
PS However if I'd be a good psychic, I'd see the futility of the attempt and go grab some coins lower...
PS However if I'd be a good psychic, I'd see the futility of the attempt and go grab some coins lower...
NEWS FLASH: someone bought sushi today: IN JAPAN.
Panic selling!!!!reports coming in that the scare was caused; as this person (buying sushi for lunch), used bitcoin to purchase it.
prepare for a crash.
What are you stupid OP?
NEWS FLASH: someone bought sushi today: IN JAPAN.
Panic selling!!!!
NEWS FLASH: someone bought sushi today: IN JAPAN.
The psychic predicted something will happen in Japan?
With that level of accuracy and specificity I am wondering why we have not all sold our bitcoin after reading this.
With that level of accuracy and specificity I am wondering why we have not all sold our bitcoin after reading this.
The first two quotes are so wrong it hurts my head.
I've been trying to figure out myself how a virus could be hidden in open source code. It would have to be some very well crafted logic error that would occur only under certain conditions and that every coder would be unable to detect when simply reviewing the code. It could also perhaps be something hidden in the blockchain and currently encrypted, but once the key is revealed, it will be decrypted and the virus will be readable.
algorithm != source code
Yeah, source code is A implementation of the algorithm.
I've been trying to figure out myself how a virus could be hidden in open source code. It would have to be some very well crafted logic error that would occur only under certain conditions and that every coder would be unable to detect when simply reviewing the code. It could also perhaps be something hidden in the blockchain and currently encrypted, but once the key is revealed, it will be decrypted and the virus will be revealed.
This is one of the reasons Bitcoin is not Turing complete.
I've been trying to figure out myself how a virus could be hidden in open source code. It would have to be some very well crafted logic error that would occur only under certain conditions and that every coder would be unable to detect when simply reviewing the code. It could also perhaps be something hidden in the blockchain and currently encrypted, but once the key is revealed, it will be decrypted and the virus will be readable.
algorithm != source code
I've been trying to figure out myself how a virus could be hidden in open source code. It would have to be some very well crafted logic error that would occur only under certain conditions and that every coder would be unable to detect when simply reviewing the code. It could also perhaps be something hidden in the blockchain and currently encrypted, but once the key is revealed, it will be decrypted and the virus will be readable.
"A virus that affects the algorithm?" Right 
Psychics are not known for their basic logic skills (they only need to be slightly smarter than the people they sell their "services" to anyway which is not too hard).
But I know I'm still looking for that virus in the rules of chess that will allow me to win every game. One of tera's friends said the creator put it there and that I would find it.
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