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benkay: hey mike
_c where did you get that line about liquid markets and the theft of capital?
benkay: mircea
_popescu: orders of magnitude you say? does this apply to intelligence? o.O
mircea_popescu: mike
_c nah, wasn't part of directx back in like... a decade ago at least
mircea_popescu: but mircea
_popescu is shorter than the original block.
artifexd: Just as much as you could claim it is mircea
_popescu
artifexd: mircea
_popescu how does doubling the block size quadruple the work needed to get equal security? If a certain lock on a certain box provides XX amount of security, how does increasing the size of the box make the lock worth less?
Neil: mircea
_popescu: It'd be the end of bitbet with fees that high.
Neil: mircea
_popescu: No way in 2016... I don't see blocks with 12.5 BTC fees, and certainly not at 1MB
Neil: mircea
_popescu: More than I thought... I keep a record of it all
jcpham: mircea
_popescu it's over 9000 I just checked
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell Chris
_Sabian i wouldn't be too worried about it. 2013 made bitcoin, it's a cut deal.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike
_c he has good points on the topic. then people wonder why he wasn't ever a topic of study by acaemia. which academia, the one that subsits on ex hedge fund manager alumni bequests ?
ThickAsThieves: Chris
_Sabian
_:TAT - any chance you will restart XBOND? // No chance whatsoever
ThickAsThieves: [22:54] <mike
_c> A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise. /// hadnt read that one, i like it.
dignork: mircea
_popescu: я русский бы выучил только за то, что им разговаривал Ленин. :(
MAKABEakira: mircea
_popescu, experian will have a whole new report to sell
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Less Bitcoin's weaknesses then its necessary inefficiencies
MAKABEakira: mircea
_popescu, show staff wd log in on behalf of users most likely
MAKABEakira: mircea
_popescu, wp. i didn't consider that at all
MAKABEakira: mircea
_popescu, i'll update you after i due dilly on this plan a bit.
MAKABEakira: mircea
_popescu, we are pretty visible, kinda hard to run from the romanian a-team if we burn y'all
MAKABEakira: mircea
_popescu, we have a prod team who can has assigned a staff for that if it is externalizable
MAKABEakira: mircea
_popescu, we wont do it if we cannot. i didn't even consider this idea till you brought up bitbet, but i like the prospects.
MAKABEakira: mircea
_popescu, live TV project needs live TV timeframes
MAKABEakira: mircea
_popescu does the bet stand even w/out gox in the pix
MAKABEakira: mircea
_popescu, is hreniuc a common surname in RO
joecool: mircea
_popescu: i never can tell if you're serious or trolling most of the time, imma roll with it though
MAKABEakira: mircea
_popescu, i am not up to speed on bitbet. are they buy|sell|trold?
moiety: mircea
_popescu: how to prove a publisher knew something was illegal when they advertised it though?
B007: mircea
_popescu: your paywall on your blog is lel. and easy to get past
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Maybe they need intel people for their intel department?
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Ponzis buying ads on the forum openly is no new news.
joecool: !rate mircea
_popescu 1 seems legit
mircea_popescu: mike
_c put that in perspective. the bezzle is the bezzle. people who are authorised to handle the imaginary portion of the monetary base may do X Y Z types of things. people who are not, however, may not.
Plaxant: mircea
_popescu I don't know
mircea_popescu: mike
_c yeah, they weren't on the list of people who are allowed to make moneyz.
thestringpuller: mircea
_popescu: MPOE will still pay dividends from new sign up fees no?
joecool: mircea
_popescu: skimmers are a bigger threat if you can duplicate the magstripe, but most non-US countries figured that out and went chip and pin
joecool: mircea
_popescu: not like a CC carries any sort of personal info other than name and address which are often already public record
joecool: mircea
_popescu: it's fairly easily reversible, just claim the charges were fraud
joecool: mircea
_popescu: cc over the phone is less bad in my opinion
dexX7: hey guise what do you think about a blockchain postcard service? users submit a message which is then posted via op
_return. i bet some devs would love the idea! :D
diametric: mike
_c: you'll note that to deploy that successfully, and not make the browser shit red warnings everywhere, you'll need a forged cert.
Neil: mircea
_popescu: What happens to MPEX if you're run over by a bus?
Neil: mircea
_popescu: Visit kako, place the bet in person over a beer of course
Neil: mircea
_popescu: So you have no intention of improving the address thing, even if it starts to be taken advantage of?
Neil: mike
_c: Also the odds on both sides are somewhat random; it's not as if you can fix them given subsequent bettors
Neil: mike
_c: coz you think you know better I suspect.
Neil: mircea
_popescu: Great. I'd have thought (apart from signatures) the site it automated, including transaction generation. I guess someone corrected it?
mircea_popescu: chetty
_ tons of single guys with delusions of leadership, self-importance and whatever else makes maybe a ton of twitter accounts
Neil: mircea
_popescu: I don't remember you taking a 1% fee on such cancellations before on Bitbet.
moiety: or ʍǝɯ mircea
_popescu!