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benkay: bitdaytrade-esque failure and Jesse’s enthusiastic support of the well known and universally reviled Jared Kenna scammerx. There are some others out there, and they pop up and down like flies.xi
benkay: Even if one were to roll their own index : BTC-e is a rather dubious venture, still fondly remembered for their involvement in NovaCoin, the original altchain scamcoin and spotty reports of selective scamming. Bitstamp has two thumbs down from Matic for reasons I don’t fully grasp but then again I don’t really need to in that circumstance. I wouldn’t trust Kraken to hold as much as my spit, especially after their recent
ThickAsThieves: "As a fairly early Bitcoin adopter and institutional miner, the choice for mining hardware comes down to innovation. Who is going to have the experience and best technology going forward to keep me ahead of the curve? The fact that BFL has a proven chip design, combined with their innovations in form factor and node size means that they will be hard to beat moving forward."
mircea_popescu: also, you can readily guess that shot is in europe : women smile at naked girl walking down the street.
nubbins`: [Former Liberal cabinet minister David] Dingwall was defending his right to a hefty severance package after stepping down from a six-figure salary as head of the Canadian Mint. His departure, which some say was forced, came after revelations surfaced about ... questionable expense claims"
nubbins`: the bizarre part of all this is that you turned down an offer of 25btc
mircea_popescu: so let's all simmer down and take mp at his word.
ThickAsThieves: Under that plan, Cyprus must privatize its ports, telecoms and electricity companies to raise up to 1.4 billion and pay down debt by 2018. Centre and left wing parties rejected the privatization scheme.
mircea_popescu: better spend the 30% left of those savings and anything you can borrow to retain counsel now, before the freeze orders start raining down.
MisterE: btc-e down again :/
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: All reasons why civ security bots will bow down to people with compasses, maps, and lasers
mircea_popescu: and the thing is going down in flames faster than people can ditch it.
decimation: I think this has been linked before: http://pando.com/2014/01/23/the-techtopus-how-silicon-valleys-most-celebrated-ceos-conspired-to-drive-down-100000-tech-engineers-wages/
mircea_popescu: like you know, a rock falling down a cliff isn't a car.
moiety: no i can't see them migrating like geese their way door-to-door down a street though
nubbins`: burn down a church? here's a synthesizer!
nubbins`: had a good lel at that after i calmed down
asciilifeform: well, no one is likely to 'want' it before sun down.
ThickAsThieves: http://www.moneyfactory.gov/ is down! I guess USD is done for.
MisterE: shit, btc-e is down
mircea_popescu: "Load failed, retry after 5 seconds. Probably Reason BitcoinWisdom is temporary down Domain is not bitcoinwisdom.com Network issue"
Luke-Jr: the only way to know MtGox was going down like this, is if you had evidence, or you were behind it
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of things you didn't know. but the fact that i said mtgox is going down, you knew.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: We know, that is why I file down aluminum cans during downtime.
MisterE: the font page is down but internal links still work
mircea_popescu: once you try to particularize it it breaks down
mircea_popescu: The system not only pays poor people, it employs lots and lots of almost poor people. I'm not saying this is a good thing, or a desirable thing, I am simply stating a fact. Some of these are direct government jobs (e.g. staff down at the SSI office) and some are pretend private sector jobs. If you're a psychiatrist at an inner city clinic, you may think you're an independent contractor, but you're really working for Th
mircea_popescu: Prometh with Codeine will no longer taste like ghettofab syrupy purple, it will taste like how all cough syrups should taste, like goat anus. They aren’t meant to fucking mix with Sprite and enjoyed after a long night of fucking your bitches and collecting taxpayer-funded benefits; they are meant to be choked down because you’ll do anything to get rid of that fucking cough.
nubbins`: what this boils down to is that a well-educated populace is a populace that abuses high quality drugs
nubbins`: calms kids down because it stimulates the part of their brain that makes them sit still
mike_c: ^ bitcoinpete drives down neo stock
mike_c: don't back down!
nubbins`: i gave up compiling earlier versions, decided i had a vested interest in getting this to work, buckled down
thickasthieves: the story of where this reached isn't done, and more than gox will go down for acting on it's insolvency
benkay: weight one end so as it hangs down super deep
Diablo-D3: prices have gone down
duduqa: asciilifeform: do you envision the possibility of bitpay and coinbase being shut down, as well as second market's BIT, bitcointalk and localbitcoins.com etc vanishing from america?
ThickAsThieves: take them suits down a notch
nubbins`: oops, wasn't scrolled down
azi`: they were stealing large sums of money but everything was fine until the FBI closed them down which caused a panic of withdrawals after reopening
ThickAsThieves: god forbid a mom can walk down a street safely
mooninite: MtGox Update 3: I found it, my usb with 700k bitcoins, It had fell down the side of the sofa at starbucks, withdrawals to resume soonish.
mike_c: looking at slides like coindesk's makes me mad for some reason. those stupid charts with "here's why btc went up" and "here's why it went down". they should post that on bitcointalk and be done with it.
Bugpowder: Wouldn't want to bring down my influence.
Bugpowder: mircea_popescu: DOUBLE DOWN!
BingoBoingo: Oh, look what happened when I was passed out http://slashdot.org/story/14/02/26/1539250/mt-gox-shuts-down-collapse-should-come-as-no-surprise
mircea_popescu: all the guy ever does is derp about in the conference freakshow, you'd expect he has at least the basics of that profession down pat.
Duffer1: the blockchain is down!1234
Duffer1: just imagine if blockchain.info goes down
wao-ender: "Database seems down. Sorry about that. We've been notified about the problem. Please try again later.
bit14: havelock has been down for over 6 hours now, does this happen often?
bit14: ->just that it's down
mircea_popescu: it can live off caffeine. it can break down polystyrene
mircea_popescu: this thing is valuable because it can break down pretty much anything
nubbins`: never nailed it down, was easier to just install gcc-4.6 and use that
asciilifeform: channelling herr naggum: 'It is like going to a library full of books that took 50 man-years to produce each, inventing a way to cut down the costs to a few man-months per book by copying and randomly improving on other books, and then wondering why nobody thinks your library full of these cheaper books is an inspiration to future authors.' ☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: and did all of this shit really go down, or was it a dream.
ozbot: Twitter / bobmcmillan: "Having Mt. Gox shut down is ...
BingoBoingo: I took most of my balance out of there. They are cutting down on their offerings a lot. No serious concerns yet, but be careful.
mircea_popescu: black is white, up is down, obama vorvarts etc.
mircea_popescu: y find easy money too seductive, and S. 190 goes down in flames before a horde of political activists chanting that easy money is sound, and opposing it is racist, nazi, ignorant, and generally hateful, the recent S. 190 debate on limiting portfolios (bond issue supporting dud mortgages) by government sponsored enterprises being a perfect reprise of the debates on limiting the issue of new assignats in the 1790s.
nubbins`: [14:13:29] <nubbins`> down to only two errors when executing jam on osx, related to duplicate symbols in libfparser
jborkl_: I was on RTBTC trading when they locked it - it was exactly 8:00 on the dot my time - roughly 15 minutes later they took down the site (if you tried to trade it said trading disabled)
mike_c: love those days. bitcoincharts down yet?
ThickAsThieves: btc-e is down
azi`: full tilt poker when it went down
jurov: heh thill is down
Mallstromm: but I can understand some noob would just send them the money. But people that has been around for months? How come they have been caught with their pants down?
MisterE: KRS-One: not going down like expected
cerelenius: and i broke down who is settling in btc
cerelenius: i already explained bitcoin has 2 sources of demand 1) speculative and 2) settlement, break down what settlement means and you get mostly black market activities and maybe 5% of little bits and pieces
mjr_: anything when you sell enough, goes down in value
mjr_: i can walk down the street and buy products for bitocin
cerelenius: mjr you can walk down the street and sell your dollars for products
cerelenius: you can walk down the street and get rid of all of them
cerelenius: misterE; they can only write down a tiny % of it before they are insolvent.
MisterE: banks claim writeoffs for written down debt
mjr_: not like handed down by moses
cerelenius: if you lend me btc at interest, the crop price will go down
greenspan_fan: if those people are toast, development might slow down
cerelenius: mircea_popescu: why do you think the foundation gets taken down?
davout: oh, mtgox is down
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan i'm down.
benkay: settle down
Bugpowder: Couldn't see the shut down coming
mircea_popescu: if anything ima take the website down eventually.
the20year: did the buildabetterburgers take down gox?
jurov: oh i forgot mpoe is down :(
Diablo-D3: top 5 stories on hn, with a sixth further down are mtgox
gx: which the gox guy just stepped down
greenspan_fan: meanwhile, every exchange is down 20% while the dude's launching some kind of btc venture fund
Bugpowder: A bunch were rapidly chained down to addresses of a few 1000 BTC each then they sat for a while
nubbins`: havelock goes down for an hour and the bet resolves as yes
Duffer1: ken having his head so far up his own ass he doesn't know up from down isn't the problem it's those terrible trolls pankkake and crumbs, payed by MP to slander ActM
ThickAsThieves: burn down the buildings and vanish?
Jere_Jones: Rich? Eh. The depth on Havelock is so thin that I'd wipe out the entire orderbook down to 1 satoshi. So it isn't like I can actually cash out.
diametric: its popescu's all the way down
pankkake: also crypto-trade is down
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 lemme write it down for you then.
mircea_popescu: the other guy pretends to mishear "sa te ghetzalesc in gusa ?" which'd be... you want me to cum down your throat ?