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mike_c: ok. lemme ask this then. if you thought you could get a 20
% return on coinbr in a year, would you invest 10 btc?
TheNewDeal: the return is sitting at ~9
% over a 5 month period
assbot: BitBet - 1BTC >= $10,000 USD :: 75 B (15
%) on Yes, 415.18 B (85
%) on No | closing in 5 months 22 hours | weight: 42`696 (100`000 to 1)
TheNewDeal: to me, a healthy return over one year (in BTC) would be 10
% assbot: BitBet - Cardano to Ship in 2014 :: 1.08 B (96
%) on Yes, 0.05 B (4
%) on No | closing in 6 months 1 week| weight: 85`913 (100`000 to 1)
mircea_popescu: by the way, re the intel thing and atari : in 1983, game consoles sold like 3bn dollars' worth (in 1983 dollars, like ten trillion today). by 1985, it was 100 mn (9x
% drop)
davout: kakobrekla: "yes but 99.99
% of the time its used by machines, so lets optimize for that." <<< if you follow this logic, all APIs would be better off using some binary protocol instead of JSON :D
kakobrekla: yes but 99.99
% of the time its used by machines, so lets optimize for that.
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 715369.85 Est. Next Diff: 429352.57 in 441 blocks (#36288) Est.
% Change: -39.98
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 715369.85 Est. Next Diff: 432963.19 in 457 blocks (#36288) Est.
% Change: -39.48
assbot: Current MPIF account balance on Just-Dice: 171.88204254 BTC; +0.03342066 BTC (+0.0194
%) since last check 7h 40m 44s ago.
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 715369.85 Est. Next Diff: 434630.21 in 476 blocks (#36288) Est.
% Change: -39.24
assbot: Current MPIF account balance on Just-Dice: 171.84862188 BTC; +0.45077444 BTC (+0.2630
%) since last check 2h 17m 56s ago.
mircea_popescu: alternatively, bitpay gets sold for $50k to facebook, which moves up 25
% that month
assbot: Current MPIF account balance on Just-Dice: 171.39784744 BTC; +0.37267627 BTC (+0.2179
%) since last check 1d 9h 3m 49s ago.
mircea_popescu: people were derping about how romania will be 90
% gypsy by 20something in 1990.
BingoBoingo: 2.5 ish is stil close to 10
% of their last fundraising round
dignork: punkman: this proposition does not solve anything really. gigahash will run his private servers to solve the second puzzle, happily keeping 99
% of hashing power.
assbot: BitBet - Silk Road Coin Auction Extravaganza :: 1.39 B (58
%) on Yes, 0.99 B (42
%) on No | closing in 1 week 1 day| weight: 92`453 (100`000 to 1)
punkman: another tidbit: 52.3
% of bets picked the winning side, with total gain of 2644 BTC
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 715369.85 Est. Next Diff: 430092.04 in 660 blocks (#36288) Est.
% Change: -39.88
assbot: Current MPIF account balance on Just-Dice: 171.02517117 BTC; +0.16054045 BTC (+0.0940
%) since last check 11h 38m 47s ago.
assbot: BitBet - FIFA World Cup 2014: goal in under 10 mins :: 0.19 B (57
%) on Yes, 0.14 B (43
%) on No | closed 13 hours 27 minutes ago
mircea_popescu: - Bill wanted 25
% of all the upside on the full $25 million in shares for the next ten years.
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 715369.85 Est. Next Diff: 430638.11 in 667 blocks (#36288) Est.
% Change: -39.80
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mircea_popescu: they used to be 10
% earlier this year. then again they used to be 100
% a coupla years ago
mircea_popescu: on top of that there's some... maybe 1-2
% by now, amateurs that get to jerkoff to the thought that they're "just as much a part of bitcoin AS ANYONE"
Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu, in the meantime i read that they are planning to get 50
% back to frankfurt in a matter of seven years or so
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin difficulty to fall in 2014 :: 1.3 B (62
%) on Yes, 0.81 B (38
%) on No | closing in 6 months 1 day| weight: 91`228 (100`000 to 1)
TheNewDeal: so does that 51
% have to occur over a week time period?
assbot: Current MPIF account balance on Just-Dice: 170.86463072 BTC; -0.23519938 BTC (-0.1375
%) since last check 1d 2h 59m 48s ago.
mike_c: i spend too much time trying to figure out which 50
% of advertising works.
adrrr: For example on this bet : 0.29 B (67
%) on Yes, 0.14 B (33
%) on No
assbot: BitBet - FIFA World Cup 2014: goal in under 10 mins :: 0.29 B (67
%) on Yes, 0.14 B (33
%) on No | closing in 3 weeks 6 hours | weight: 78`570 (100`000 to 1)
assbot: BitBet - FIFA World Cup 2014: goal in under 10 mins :: 0.29 B (67
%) on Yes, 0.14 B (33
%) on No | closing in 3 weeks 7 hours | weight: 78`609 (100`000 to 1)
mircea_popescu: yeah, it's been through the years the most popular scam. "deposit lump sum, we'll pay you a few
%s of it a few times. annuity ftw!"
mircea_popescu: early bank paper (banknotes) stoood to gold in a very similar relation. "deposit your gold, we'll pay 5976597985
%. in gold. or maybe paper"
mircea_popescu: it's cheaper to pay a few
% and pretend like you've paid than to not pay at all.
mircea_popescu: all the "everyone made ROI hand over fist with a 60
% btc loss" crowd will be well served.
mircea_popescu: (stuff like "deposit your bitcoin with for 50
% per annum!!1" small print "repayable in either bitcoin or fiat at our option")
los_pantalones: this video says "99
% electicity saved - Extremely efficient cooling"
mircea_popescu: "also bitcoin was under 5 in spite of us secretly doing 140
% of network hash on our 6k bfl miners self-delivered early by about 17 months"
mircea_popescu: o yeah, and of the ~50bn spent on reconstruction (1
% of total, or 10x the benefits) pretty much nothing of any use was built.
Apocalyptic: <mircea_popescu> a uni program that doesn't shed 50
% is dubious on its face << pretty much
mircea_popescu: a uni program that doesn't shed 50
% is dubious on its face
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> Mats_cd03:95
% of my time has been consumed by reading ncurses docs. drives me mad <<< ahaha heard this before << at least ncurses has docs... unlike gnome
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03:95
% of my time has been consumed by reading ncurses docs. drives me mad <<< ahaha heard this before
Mats_cd03: 95
% of my time has been consumed by reading ncurses docs. drives me mad
BingoBoingo: For a while ~50
% of the hashrate was out of the game.
mircea_popescu: because now they are actually going against sanity, much like the "havelock users" that somehow "bought" the re-ipo, briefly at 200
% averages