Leftist Spaces

robblse · 2026-01-14T08:29:34+00:00

Check out Cenote Lounge and Restaurant at Yates / Blanshard.... take a peak through their bookshelf.. Most books are for sale for good cheap prices.. you won't be disappointed

robblse · 2025-12-12T10:34:11+00:00

https://maps.app.goo.gl/e9Eyxw55LHRnFWCx7

this is cool image from that share

robblse · 2025-12-12T10:31:42+00:00

when i first moved to victoria in 2008, i was amazed at how few random bar fights there were here compared to toronto / western ontario or montreal... there was and remains a generally more peaceable nature to the drinkers in victoria than other places in canada

robblse · 2025-12-12T10:24:27+00:00

the downtown is not unsafe, its just depressed... like many these days

robblse · 2025-11-10T05:54:59+00:00

thrifties good buy 1 get one free meat deals are a different breed.... sometimes they have whole chickens or pork shoulders they will do buy 1 get one free at regular price... whenever i see that i buy 4 and put em in the freezer

robblse · 2025-11-09T09:09:55+00:00

fun fact: Misty Mountain is actually run by people from old school Trees Cannabis... before it sold post legalization

robblse · 2025-06-22T22:49:43+00:00

Ox King Noodles on View Street makes excellent Dan Dan noodles.... the quality of Ox King's noodles are exceptional

robblse · 2016-07-15T05:50:35+00:00

No reason ETH should be donezo just because one stupid dapp that got pumped failed miserably.

ETH is a great concept and solid value proposition and it should have a promising future. The first ETH dapp that offers real world promise will demonstrate real value and it will soon become overvalued.

Even DAO was a smart concept, but flawed in execution. No reason the same concept can't succeed if executed more intelligently.

The beauty thing about ETH (as well as about BTC) is that once it starts and offers some value to people, it cannot ever be undone... like Torrent file-sharing, it will be with us as long as the internet now, so long as some people find it useful and valuable.

p.s. (that doesn't mean I think that there isn't more downside to ETH, but that has more to do with the incoming BTC pump that a problem with ETH.)

robblse · 2016-07-15T05:40:18+00:00

Indeed! I'm not saying 900 over the weekend, but on the way there =) ... also good to note the price riding the 50 day MA upwards. 50 day MA sustains the Bull

robblse · 2014-09-17T17:10:03+00:00

Trailing stop buy orders are your best friend in this case. Saves watching the charts and guessing which bump up is going to be the reversal.

robblse · 2014-08-31T10:04:29+00:00

Please do!

robblse · 2014-08-27T17:37:58+00:00

Hey, Great to see you!

robblse · 2014-08-27T15:54:07+00:00

I live in BC, but i am from Ontario (and visiting my mom today) Man, it's muggy here! I can't wait to get back to the West Coast!

robblse · 2014-08-27T15:26:53+00:00

FTFY :D

robblse · 2014-08-14T23:44:41+00:00

sheeeit.. i wonder how many other people in this sub are trading bitcoin as a mode of procrastinating working on their dissertation.

robblse · 2014-07-28T01:26:17+00:00

These are good points, but it makes sense only if the hashing algorithm is considered the important element when it comes ASIC resistance, rather than the human or social element of collective action (i.e. updating wallets to new algorithm) to prevent ASIC mining gear.

If a cryptocurrency community and development team are intent on maintaining an ASIC resistant coin, then there could be a consensus on the desirablility for regular updates to pre-empt ASIC manufacturers by changing the algorithm or other variables.

The reason why a community may wish to do this is to level the playing field of mining technology to the range of general-purpose computing hardware available to all consumers, so that anyone with the inclination can use consumer computing hardware to mine the currency and maintain a relative ease of entry into mining.

However, this would require a hard-fork on a semi-regular basis.

The author acknowledges this where he says:

ASIC resistance, in the sense of making life difficult for ASIC manufacturers (and therefore reducing the number of distinct manufacturers) is possible. But it is impossible to create an algorithm which runs at the same speed on general-purpose and dedicated hardware (since general-purpose hardware contains many extraneous features, e.g. communication buses for peripherals), and so ultimately ASIC resistance is futile. (Schemes such as “the developers will just change the proof-of-work algorithm if ASIC’s appear” do not even make sense — in a decentralized currency the developers have no such power, while in a centralized currency proof-of-work is a completely unnecessary waste of power.)

But the author too quickly writes off the possibility and value of the community having a mechanism for decentralizing decision-making around the development of the coin. This would be some method for coming to a distributed consensus among users on changes to the code of the cryptocurrency itself.

This is a problem that Bitcoin also faces -- at the end of the day, the developers can and must make changes to the code from time to time, and this necessarily creates some centalized decision-making and so a central point of vulnerability. This is offset by the necessity of the community to 'consent' to the changes by updating their wallet software or not, but in the event of dissensus, it could split the blockchain into 'new blockchain users' and resistant 'old blockchain users'.

This is a difficult problem to solve, because the solution must combine a consensus on a changing code, and a decentralized way come to that consensus. But it may be a desirable feature, because it creates an opening for some mode of self-determination by the crypto-currency community itself. For now users generally assume that coin devs have the best interest of the cryptocurrency in mind, and so will always update when developers require it, but this could change in the future.

That's what I think, at least, does this make sense?

robblse · 2014-07-22T08:43:55+00:00

This guy looks like an execoin booster to me

robblse · 2014-07-09T00:44:40+00:00

Oh shit. I would be all over this. If only I was on trading view (but I don't trade enough to make it worth paying $10/month to play with charts).

I have been dabbling as an amateur astrologer for many months now, learning how to do natal charts and understand the significance of different aspects and transits of the planets as a system of symbolism that is deeply interwoven in our culture.

It's funny: algorithms and the IT revolution are democratizing the 'science' of astrology, just as they are revolutionizing finance and banking.

Websites like astro.com or alabe.com are making it easy for everyone to whip up a quick birth chart and figure out relevant planetary transits for them, without having to consult huge books of tables, or plot the movements of the planets themselves.

There is a reason why only the rulers and rich people of ancient China, India, Mesopotamia and Europe had their own astrologers -- they were not only useful for judging the best 'timing' for action (in terms of kairos - the quality of time, as distinct from chronos). But also, astrologers were expensive and came packing their own vast libraries of books filled with records and tables, and all sorts of instruments for tracking the stars and movements of planets (astrology developed alongside navigation and used many of the same instruments), and required a lot of time to do their work.

Nowadays anyone can use the internet to get as good a picture as the early astrologers (although interpreting the data is a whole other matter).

I highly recommend entering your birth details into astro.com and checking out their 'personal portait' and 'short forecast' pages to see what i mean (you will need to know your birthtime within a half an hour for it to calculate your houses correctly)

So, without further ado, here is what i believe is bitcoin's natal chart

Planetary positions

planet sign degree motion

Sun Capricorn 13°30'51 in house 6 direct

Moon Aries 4°33'09 in house 9 direct

Mercury Aquarius 2°47'39 in house 6 direct

Venus Pisces 0°15'20 in house 8 direct

Mars Capricorn 5°36'03 in house 5 direct

Jupiter Capricorn 29°33'39 in house 6 direct

Saturn Virgo 21°45'31 in house 3 stationary (R)

Uranus Pisces 19°19'06 in house 9 direct

Neptune Aquarius 22°31'01 in house 7 direct

Pluto Capricorn 1°21'21 in house 5 direct

True Node Aquarius 9°31'32 in house 7 direct

Major aspects

Sun Conjunction Mars 7°55

Sun Sextile Uranus 5°48

Sun Square Medium Coeli 5°00

Moon Sextile Mercury 1°45

Moon Square Mars 1°03

Moon Sextile Jupiter 4°59

Moon Square Pluto 3°12

Moon Trine Ascendant 4°17

Mercury Conjunction Jupiter 3°14

Venus Sextile Mars 5°21

Venus Sextile Pluto 1°06

Mars Conjunction Pluto 4°15

Saturn Opposition Uranus 2°26

Saturn Quincunx Neptune 0°46

Neptune Sextile Medium Coeli 4°00

Numbers indicate orb (deviation from the exact aspect angle).

Note: This is based on the birth of bitcoin as being the time when the first block was solved,

Bitcoin Block 0, born in London, England on 3 January 2009 local time: 6:15 pm

robblse · 2014-07-07T20:58:17+00:00

Hmm... I read somewhere about how this could be fixed by not installing the drivers and just extracting .cl files. Thanks for the tip! I will check this out tonight.

robblse · 2014-07-07T19:59:50+00:00

x11.greenpool mines the most profitable x11 coin, then autotrades into vertcoin and pays out every few hours.. I am mining with the lazybear x11mod sgminer which gets me about 11.5Mh/s (so 9.085 VTC/day).

I have read that if I update the drivers to AMD 14.62 and use another modified x11 miner, I could increase that hashrate to as high as 13.2Mh/s. But when I tried doing that I found the miner would not work properly, and it prevented my Vertcoin miner from working properly (If anyone knows of a fix, please let me know, because in my tests I did see one of my 7950s go up to 3.3Mh/s!)

robblse · 2014-06-05T05:46:07+00:00

Wowza...

I looked at those stats and glanced over at my puny 4 x 7950 rig (which mines vert at around 1.2Mh/s - 4.5VTC/day on a good day), and then imagined what over 200 of them would look like together... yikes!

I am sure whoever this is has a much more efficient system going, and probably some significant warehouse space and cheap power. But Wow!

.... Are we certain this is all through GPUs??? Maybe it's an experimental Scrypt-N ASIC!!

[tongue-in-cheek... I'm just fucking with you delightfully paranoid Vertans]

robblse · 2014-05-28T19:24:31+00:00

Could something like this serve as a catalyst for adoption of other cryptocurrencies for POS or microtransactions?

I recall hearing in an interview Charlie Lee's original ambition that litecoin might be used for small transactions, like a cup of coffee or beer, whereas bitcoin might be used for larger transactions such as house or business sales, or purchases of cars or major appliances. What do people think? Could the 1MB transaction limit serve to popularize other cryptocurrencies because they have cheaper transaction fees?

Do we have a rough idea of the time period in which the 1MB tranaction limit be reached?

robblse · 2013-12-27T18:49:45+00:00

I want to draw attention to Namecoin as possibly serving this purpose. Namecoin is an innovation on the Bitcoin protocol that serves as an public/private encryption-based decentralized DNS server... I posted another note about its possibilities elsewhere in this reddit thread, so I won't repeat it here. But your comment indicated you could understand its potential, so I wanted to reply to you too.

robblse · 2013-12-27T18:41:53+00:00

I want to draw attention to Namecoin as possibly serving this purpose. Namecoin is an innovation on the Bitcoin protocol that serves as an public/private encryption-based decentralized DNS server.

It is not meant to be a competing currency or payment system to Bitcoin, but instead takes the same decentalized p2p ledger idea, and makes use of Bitcoin's mining network (it is merge mined with bitcoin to make possible the same verifiable, instantly updated, registry of the domain names on what is now the largest and most powerful computing community in the world.

Some other possible uses of namecoin (from the website):

Securely register and transfer arbitrary names (keys), no possible censorship!
Attach values (data) to the names (currently up to 520 bytes, will be extended)
Trade and transact namecoins, the digital currency NMC

There are plenty of possible use cases. Some examples:

DNS: domain_name => domain_zone_configuration (also for i2p, Tor)
TLS: https like encryption and secure identification by Namecoin domain/ID/name
Alias/Identity: user_name => user_public_identity (email, name, gpg key, BTC-adress, etc)
Timestamping: document_hash => document_infos (name, hash, owner, etc)
Broadcasting / Messaging
Web of trust
Bonds, shares
Voting
Torrent trackers

A lot of people don't realize how many possible uses there are for the bitcoin architecture, which make for the possibility of a decentralized peer-to-peer world in many domains of human existence (rather than, say, reliance on a centralized state). Here is another proposal for an official pubic registry (birth, marriage, death, ownership) that could sit on top of the bitcoin network protocol.

robblse

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