1 2017-11-09 07:24:03 <wumpus> cluelessperson: I doubt it, also don't think there's anything software can do to achieve that, at least if you mean a worldwide EMP by a solar flare
 2 2017-11-09 07:40:15 <ossifrage> wumpus, do those kinds of solar events last long enough to effect the entire planet?
 3 2017-11-09 07:47:36 <wumpus> I'm not sure. Solar mass ejections are potentially huge. But it'd probably not affect the entire planet homogeneously.
 4 2017-11-09 11:51:42 <wxss> I think we'd have other things to worry about if it did
 5 2017-11-09 12:01:33 <wumpus> sure, though building some kind of global economy again can't be that far down the list
 6 2017-11-09 12:30:45 <luke-jr> but if ~everyone loses their keys, there's probably not much value in keeping Bitcoin running as-is
 7 2017-11-09 12:31:13 <luke-jr> (I suppose this is where paper keys would shine)
 8 2017-11-09 12:34:01 <wumpus> eh yes good point
 9 2017-11-09 12:42:53 <wxss> wumpus: rumor has is that nChain and Craig Wright are patenting an interplanetary supercomputer for 10^65 arithmetic and licensing it to Bcash. So the post-EMP society should be able to bootstrap the economy with Bcash.
10 2017-11-09 12:44:27 <wxss> *10^65 _bit_ number arithmetic
11 2017-11-09 12:44:45 <wumpus> whehehe, yes that sounds like exactly the kind of hyped language he'd use
12 2017-11-09 12:46:14 <wumpus> in the IPO brochure :-)
13 2017-11-09 12:50:24 <wxss> https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/799xlz/csw_many_wonder_why_secp256k1_was_used_in/dp0azeb/?st=j9sgz37g&sh=255e88f6
14 2017-11-09 12:50:25 <wxss> ^ it's what his latest claim required in order to be mathematically possible, as andytoshi casually proved to him on reddit the other day ;)  it was even 10^78 bit lol
15 2017-11-09 14:05:04 <wumpus> heh
16 2017-11-09 22:54:05 <keymone> a possibly stupid question - what happens when miner generates a block with "incorrect" timestamp? like in far future or in the past?