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Duffer1: all provided by at&
t, comcast, or time warner
mircea_popescu: well conversely, i don'
t see the us as much of a point of interest anyway, it's on its last legs as is.
Duffer1: i don'
t see that happening in america, major monopolies are protected state to state
mircea_popescu: any isp is free to issue you whatever contract they want, and you don'
t have to take it.
pankkake: I wasn'
t aware regulation prevented stealing
jamespeerless: yeah guess as long as they don'
t have any way to make money off of it, it won'
t happen
mircea_popescu: as long as those big corps don'
t actually have big btc, they aren'
t big corps
jamespeerless: doesn'
t this lend itself to a couple big corps from releasing their own widely adopted forks.. similar to os x and the 5000 flavors of linux?
mircea_popescu: 1. bitcoin was released as a prototype. that means something specific, and what it means doesn'
t include "to be used for any actual purpose". prototypes are there to test.
mircea_popescu: however, wallets made by those versions won'
t see a significant chunk of actual bitcoins... likely ever.
jamespeerless: micea_popescu: continuing discussion from yesterday.. since you have a new address per user per bet, don'
t you end up with a ton of addresses with a tiny amount of coin in them? what do you do with them once the bet is over?
pankkake: didn'
t save a revocation stuff either?
mircea_popescu: well i ain'
t changing that, but you should start your own troll school./
Vexual: you can'
t force nayone to use gpg, but you can sign your kids up for a jungle war easily enough
Namworld: Nah, didn'
t want to paste that.
BingoBoingo: It may have been prudent to write a contract before starting these things limiting your responsibility so you aren'
t pursuing this Sisyphean task until death?
dub: the look on their face when they find out you weren'
t joking when you said 'cosmic rays'
dub: <snackman> but i don'
t know from who i got it
cazalla: i don'
t know if any of you played EQ but Curt Schilling was a regular on fohguild forums
mircea_popescu: it was stretched past its usability into insanity by a desperate desire and need for stability. bitcoin doesn'
t offer much of that,
Kleeck_: Don'
t they have a compensation program?
mike_c: transactions aren'
t instantaneous you know ;)
Kleeck_: I could walk into my datacenter and snap a bunch of awesome pictures. It doesn'
t mean I'm mining a damn thing.
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves`: Who doesn'
t spread their coins over at least 7 places?
snackman: even mike_c didn'
t send his promised coins
jamespeerless: hm I guess I don'
t understand "wallets" enough then.. i thought an address was an address
mircea_popescu: (as most wallets don'
t have any way to associate their payment system to their users)
jamespeerless: why can'
t they send from web wallets if you did a single address per bet option
mircea_popescu: you can but you don'
t want to, because this way people can send from webwallets or w/e
jamespeerless: mircea_popescu: can'
t you read the from address in the transaction block?
mircea_popescu: yesrly. kako and i have ~35% + w/e didn'
t sell of the 30% put on sale.
mircea_popescu: i'm just saying, talking to random peeps on irc isn'
t stressing me, it's mildly enjoyable.
mircea_popescu: use your noggin for thinking : if my return from hanging out here were actually negative, i wouldn'
t or else i'd have you sent off.
Duffer1: ya that doesn'
t sounds creepy dude
mircea_popescu: snackman well you're poor and so can'
t afford the context.
snackman: mircea_popescu: who doesn'
t have a dorky haircut in the picture?
mircea_popescu: mike_c yes, if you don'
t need to read more than 20 a month.
mircea_popescu: jamespeerless the recipients aren'
t the problem. it's about 60 bytes per
Duffer1: i don'
t believe they would have to lie to keep your money, there must be something i'm missing
turbo_ac100: Namworld, I can'
t get my S.BBET and S.BBET redeemed. That's still possible right?
mike_c: cmon snack, fess up. you've place more bets haven'
t you :)
mike_c: seriously, if it is such an important amount of money why didn'
t you do a little research first? doesn'
t that seem wrong to you at all?
snackman: truffles: they weren'
t, they were FAQs, and i never agreed to them, also this particular clause was *surprising*, therefore not applicable for yet another reason
mircea_popescu: so if you have 1k btc that weren'
t moved for 3 years, you get about 1mn times the priority of a 1btc that was moved yest.
jamespeerless: does bitbet have a minimum bet? seems like they'd lose money on transaction fees if I don'
t bet much?
snackman: mircea_popescu: nah, i don'
t think that
mircea_popescu: i was thinking... this guy's theory is that i simultaneously invented the thing and also don'
t know what it is ?!
snackman: well, mircea_popescu, sorry but i can'
t get it out of my head: *why* do you not want to pay me my 10btc back. please just explain it to me in a calm and rational way
Duffer1: 7c IPOing soon, won'
t get anything done for a year (while btc price triples in the meantime) sounds like another VTX
Duffer1: i didn'
t even look, i read the email then deleted it when i read the 3rd quarter 2014 part
benkay: BingoBoingo: his help desk dorks don'
t have enough btc to short and move the price anywhere
BingoBoingo: benkay: Still doesn'
t preclude getting in the WoT
mircea_popescu: inb4 he ends up with 7k of mtgox usd he can'
t actually get sent to his acct and we get a forbes bitcointalk thread
mircea_popescu: jurov` if he can'
t readily buy bitcoin how would he sell it ?
mike_c: bitbars are "rare", so the price of one doesn'
t mean much. market cap of all them is only $600k
jurov`: don'
t forget to get experts of unrelated company involved under nda
mircea_popescu: we will make a statement about the statement which we can'
t make for legal reasons at a later point which is very sorry to please understand death in the family my new car crashed
damagebritain: oh I'm not it looks like it just crashed and isn'
t hashing yet?
mike_c: wouldn'
t want to be accused of being a shill and "associate" of jurov :)
BingoBoingo: damagebritain: Seriously though read moar. Don'
t invest because this rando told you to.
BingoBoingo: damagebritain: Assuming you aren'
t on MPEX and don'
t have 30 BTC to register with... mike_c
dub: don'
t discount the Ability-to-sell-shity-gear-to-retards-hand-over-fist factor
damagebritain: Have you seen the reports of their immersion cooled blades? I know it isn'
t next gen but that is cool
mircea_popescu: pankkake if that nonsense doesn'
t wake up forum mods to the insanity that selfmod threads are, i dunno what will. maybe bitch at them.
mircea_popescu: jurov` yeah i dunno what's going on there, but don'
t end up railroading some noob into buying complex financial instruments he doesn'
t understand.
jurov`: Just got email from @fortune.com. Dude can'
t figure out mpoe options and asking for help :)
jborkl: isn'
t that just -otc and the forum
pankkake: havelock clearly hasn'
t done their job
pankkake: but I don'
t think I want to anymore
pankkake: I haven'
t understood what 7C is yet
mircea_popescu: but yeah, wait until bentley figures out that there's these dudes who routinely pay 500k for a car and don'
t even expect it to fly.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, I don'
t see why not? The only authority in Bitcoin is signed contracts.
BingoBoingo: What is happening nao reminds me of when we passed silver dangling just below that target. Except now there isn'
t an Usagi swearing it won'
t happen.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo if he expects a drop then holding the bitcoin isn'
t particularly wise.
mircea_popescu: think of mpex as the nyse, which is what it is. for most purposes you won'
t acquire a seat in the pit.
mike_c: mircea_popescu: sometimes they take the reserve off if it isn'
t met