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copumpkin: well, doesn't save the issuers :)
dakid: after reading the qualifications
copumpkin: it's the law
copumpkin: it's the reason most people can't invest in a hedge fund
copumpkin: and I think other countries have similar laws
copumpkin: so a lot of what you thought were legit shares might not be, if they were issued by people in the US
copumpkin: dakid: US issuers aren't supposed to be able to solicit investment from anyone but accredited investors, and accredited means you have a lot of money or make a lot of money :)
dakid: copumpkin: accredited? I had a few shares spread around, nothing huge though
dakid: so the elephant in the room.... GLBSE.... if it is required to shut down by the FSA, what happens to the shares of legitimate mining coop's?
BTC-Mining: Yes, I keep saying this MPOE-PR keeps giving a bad name to his fine exchange.
pigeons: well that's barnum pr
BTC-Mining: I trade on MPEx, pretty sure all trades are legit.
pigeons: thre goes mircea_popescu trading with himself again. except when he wears that black dress he actually thinks he's trading with someone else
boonies4u: that's not the prom
mircea_popescu: course back then the fee was 20
mircea_popescu: 330 total last month actually
boonies4u: you just think 30 btc would go to more than just bills and dividends
boonies4u: oh good luck with that
mircea_popescu: mm, you know it's reported monthly, there's a thread in btctalk
boonies4u: is it all on the market?
boonies4u: I didn't know how much of mpex was traded
mircea_popescu: what did you think lol
boonies4u: to fighting the evil scammer cartels?
boonies4u: is that where the fee to join mpex goes?
dub: think of intersango, nefario, theymos.. all in the same place, know each other irl, all shady as fuck like some gang of limey grifters
dub: I support the bad guy cartel theory
mircea_popescu: well, not the end of the world.
mircea_popescu: we disagree on that.
mircea_popescu: it's just a matter of, the bad guys have a little cartel going and they're defending each other with empty words.
BTC-Mining: If real investors needs to have the scams pointed out, then they're not really investors...
mircea_popescu: THEN real investors will figure things out.
mircea_popescu: scams need to be called out as scams.
mircea_popescu: BTC-Mining mpex owns a market. some idiots keep insisting in diluting that market with obvious scams. it's her job to point this out.
BTC-Mining: Not attack others, if others are bad, real investors will come to the right place.
BTC-Mining: Not very professional. That PR person should defend MPEx when attacked and give info and answers about it.
teek: some of the others, wow.
mircea_popescu: ahahah line of the day
teek: quite a shit pile we have turned this into guys
mircea_popescu: you don't close a contract by offering people free bonbons unless you're selling cheap shoes for the mass market.
mircea_popescu: really, it's about the following fact : vapid idiots aren't investors. investors that are investors follow principles.
BTC-Mining: Not because the PR helps.
BTC-Mining: I think it's more about people who can go over the talk and the fee because of the great issues on MPEx than anything else.
mircea_popescu: "hey, this guy is doing everything wrong and comes up on top all the time... hmm.. maybe I AM WRONG ?!?!"
mircea_popescu: ever stopped to think about that ?
mircea_popescu: BTC-Mining experience seems to show i do.
BTC-Mining: You don't attract investors by giving a 360 degrees "FUCK YOU! TOLD YOU SO!" all around all the time.
mircea_popescu: sad fact of the matter is, things don't work w/o someone laying down the book ocasionally.
mircea_popescu: BTC-Mining i can certainly see that.
jcpham: i think i am confused
sgornick: Oh .. .ha .. that has happened like half a dozen times now.
BTC-Mining: I think people are not fan of your bully like talk either Mircea =P
sgornick: jcpham: Is that directed to me?
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is too full of people with absurd ideas about themselves.
sgornick: > let's talk about that since you are here
sgornick: > jcpham: i'm sorry i'm thinging of the bond thing
mircea_popescu: BTC-Mining ya well, i'm really sorry I can't practically go "o, you're that cocky bullshitter talking back to my pr ? Fuck you, apologize, pay double or get lost".
jcpham: let's talk about that since you are here
jcpham: i'm sorry i'm thinging of the bond thing
BTC-Mining: It's your PR person mircea. People hate it. It's a troll.
jcpham: sgornick's thing
jcpham: is that the distributed thing
mircea_popescu: the only one thing i regret is that this btc being anon
BTC-Mining: That's why most go through brokers conntected the system doing electronic transactions.
jcpham: name a place where it is free to trade securities
dub: three chicks take turns eating each others dookie, vomiting it back out into their open assholes, then eating it again
Luceo: $500k to join an exchange? :P
mircea_popescu: Luceo that day the fee will prolly be 500 btc.
Luceo: mircea_popescu: Some day that 50 BTC will be $50k :(
dub: swap.avi looks pretty cool too
jcpham: used to grow on trees
mircea_popescu: cost you what, like 500 bux ? not the end of the world.
jcpham: i wish i would have now though
mod6: rg: ahh, yeah, it wasnt nearly as good as the original. :/
jcpham: i never bothered to read the instructions
jcpham: anyways i'm just trolling
rg: if it was higher than a 5.5 on imdb
jcpham: see that works
rg: but wants to see
rg: lets all figure out a movie that rg hasnt seen
rg: i dont like the bad karma in here
mircea_popescu: dub jcpham try jurov's thing, coinbr.com
jcpham: let's take 25 years back in ui design
dub: what teh fuck
jcpham: ok so tablets are pointless
rg: typing is faster than clicking
dub: how am I supposed to gpg with one hand
jcpham: i need mpex to be point and click friendly
rg: people *still* dont want to use mpex
mircea_popescu: rg actually... they can't use it even if they like it.
jcpham: oh a mad dash to crash the market will work
kakobrekla: is the lol part of the quote
dub: <nefario> im building the future of bitcoin lol
jcpham: but it really needs to be syndicated more
jcpham: anyways maybe i should watch the simpsons
rg: DIFFERENT THINGS
jcpham: i wonder why they haven't
rg: performing their art
rg: and sometimes they have musical artists
jcpham: fail people watch network tv
jcpham: network television, fox?