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mpexbot: mircea_popescu: Asks: ['12133 @ 0.00069049', '10000 @ 0.0007008', '3910 @ 0.00070089', '23100 @ 0.00070285', '1250 @ 0.00070788']
mpexbot: mircea_popescu: S.MPOE Bids: ['5422 @ 0.00068649', '4896 @ 0.00068262', '9165 @ 0.00067807', '22800 @ 0.00067644', '32500 @ 0.00067461']
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: I am interested in the question of virile fucktopias because I am interested in "the science of the possible." that is, "the is" vs. the idiot "the ought" that most scholarship tends to be about.
thestringpuller: look at you mircea_popescu droppin' some love wisdom and shit on deez homies
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: maybe the very definition of being an aristocrat is that you don't feel compelled to plug the other guys.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: perhaps you're not. but the fellows behind the tinted windows, are.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the ancients were a different kind of animal from us. they had notions of aristocracy/future-oriented behavour. vs. the tinted window crowd, for whom "I plug the other guy -> get double the gold" is the order of the day.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: point. but I'm not certain it would scale.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: stable shared thrones is probably why Red China outlasted the USSR. but China is a bureaucratic clusterfuck rather than the virile fucktopia you envision.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: let's re-phrase the question a bit: who would you personally be content to share your throne with?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you seem to think that the power game has one level (sexual/personal charisma.) But it really has two: the charismatic men rise to the top, and the winner ends up being the fellow who is quicker on the draw.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and what, you would let the successful generals live? so they can take your throne?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: well yes.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: Rome needs you
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: seems like you were born a few 1000 years too late...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fast-forward a decade. you run a kingdom. do you care to spend all of your time personally quashing revolts?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so why is the life (and death) of MtGox a subject of interest to you?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to run with the analogy, you should wonder why most of the non-rats are ignoring the Italian restaurant in favour of the garbage dump.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no alternative, if you're a rat. and right now most BTC users are more or less that.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what, exactly, is the practical alternative to Gox right now? OTC, where one has to actually deal with humans? BTC-e, where BTC consistently traces <50USD vs. gox?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nah, the worst reputation is just some random address you can send BTC or wire USD to from which nothing comes out again. MtGox is still a league above the rest, considering that this is what the rest is by default.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: at any rate, why are we burying MtGox again? who exactly is a serious contender for its throne?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is more like, you do the 100,000th girl and your cock falls off from exceeding its MTBF.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the damn thing is still online and trading, for one
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as far as I can tell, its shirt is still on. and the operator is laughing all the way to the (fiat) bank.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if speed doesn't matter, why does anyone complain about "goxlag" ?
Scrat: mircea_popescu: you will eat your hat if this turns into the next google
Diablo-D3: WHO THE FUCK THOUGHT THREADS WAS _EVER_ SUCH A GOOD IDEA
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: so, blocks are going to keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger, right?
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: btw something Im interested in
thestringpuller: as mircea_popescu indicated
mod6: ok so the buyer puts in the expiry time, depending if they want weekly or monthy or next forward month: "The expiration date is ________ (GMT) "
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: you made an exchange though that you now own
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there are a great many interesting hard problems, and life is short.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you, on the other hand, have plenty of motivation to try, possibly.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: I might, if I lacked anything else to do. Personally I'm not sitting on a stable of slaves waiting to be Sokobanned.
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: but a lot of people have already built mining farms in their basements
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: it probably would be
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: here's a starting point: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.52.41
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: yes, and cpus are the highest economy of scale
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: the thing is, average people can buy ram
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: yes but I still eat away at that
Diablo-D3: give up? if difficulty is linked to -M, your asics _stop working_
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: shush for a sec
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: hurr
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: basically
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: theres been other committers
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the slaves need a certain minimum IQ, for Sokoban.
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: the ltc devs
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: I'm rather surprised you have not built SlaveCoin yet.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu is actually jabba the hutt
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: exactly. slavegirls don't scale quite as well as ASICs.
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: there will be a spec, yes.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the scenario I envision has BTC playing the role of gold bullion, that is relevant despite only being used in relatively few places.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: without ionosphere bounce (shortwave, <30MHz) or something like MBC you will have a very short usable distance.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: I think the quoted bandwidth takes the frequency of usable ion trails into account.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: a few kb/sec. will suffice in the hypothetical Dark Internet-less Future and its transaction volume
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one thought: this could even be done for profit. Say, transmit the normal blockchain with a few hours of lag, but those who paid a transaction fee get broadcast in real time.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: what do you use instead of pdfs?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: like satellite comms, but without having to launch satellites.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_burst_communications
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: possibly relevant to your future "Bitcoin over shortwave" station: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a207831.pdf ☟︎
thestringpuller: So mircea_popescu you have some splaining to do
thestringpuller: ;;eightball is mircea_popescu getting laid?
taub: FabianB_: lol who's giving that analysis
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu question about bitbet, would you guys allow for franchising?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu how have you been?
mircea_popescu: Mircea_Popescu @ericschmidt For every softie that thinks "every person counts" there's ten hardies that disagree. #NewWorldWar
error4733: pgp http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1c7v6z/buttercoin_open_source_highperformance_bitcoin/
mpexbot: mircea_popescu: S.BBET 1 day: average: 0.00175 high: 0.00175 low: 0.00175 volume: 80000 btc: 140.0 7 day: average: 0.00173464 high: 0.00199999 low: 0.00079521 volume: 110792 btc: 192.18398032 30 day: average: 0.00181392 high: 0.00201401 low: 0.00050015 volume: 187840 btc: 340.72766482
mod6: book depth looks strong down to $70: http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD_depth.html
mjr___: http://blockchain.info/charts/my-wallet-n-users?showDataPoints=false&show_header=true&daysAverageString=1&timespan=&scale=1&address=
mod6: mjr___: haha, that'd be awesome
Diablo-D3: mjr___: its why Im a fan of sea of rolled cores over unrolled cores
Diablo-D3: mjr___: I dont see the point in decreasing latency in that
Diablo-D3: mjr___: in context of what?
Guest96001: What reddit post_?
Bugpowder: reddit likes it! http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1c9zbb/anatomy_of_two_bitcoin_bubbles/
gribble: mircea_popescu was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 7 hours, 5 minutes, and 1 second ago: <mircea_popescu> he delivered a link to mtgox_db.exe, which obviously.
thestringpuller: ;;seen mircea_popescu
ThickAsThieves: mircea_popescu, would you ever host a passthru on mpex?
mircea_popescu: he delivered a link to mtgox_db.exe, which obviously.
wao: I considering buying shares >_>
kakobrekla: urlpls mircea_popescu
orkaa: mircea_popescu: what's up with adria richards? who won the prize?
orkaa: mircea_popescu: i'd hate to do it myself
Diablo-D3: actually, theres a gundam thats _moon_ powered
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: man, whats with otakus anyhow
pizzaman1337: mircea_popescu: yeah, there seem to be some unhappy people here: https://btc-e.com/news/136
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i love that so many contracts have been sold/written/bought etc that the interest is up sky high
thestringpuller: stop buying this time when mircea_popescu tells you to
dub: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1c7cm8/my_girlfriend_just_left_me_over_bitcoins/
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: look it up
topace: mircea_popescu: im looking into ddos protection for havelock.. any recommendations ?
mircea_popescu: https://twitter.com/Mircea_Popescu/status/322791894411251712
thestringpuller: so mircea_popescu should we not trust your 100,000 btc empire because tiberiusiv has said you are a scammer and claims to have proof of your malice?
thestringpuller: no proof of mircea_popescu malice
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: what do you mean about keiser?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: what do you mean by padding?
pigeons: although they have pulled a mircea_popescu and rolled back before ;)