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mircea_popescu: if you can'
t kill your girlfriend with it, it's virtual. also known as rule of thumb.
smickles: i don'
t see anything virtual about that
smickles: i don'
t think bitcoin is a virtual currency anyway
smickles: pay me back first, but srsly, don'
t ErebusBat: So I can'
t really use OT for anything today?
mircea_popescu: im not gonna be the first taking 15yo's to be thrown off rocks, but i can'
t deny sparta had a point somewhere in there.
pigeons: well to be fair, it wasn'
t the act of intending to comply with regulations that brought the regulators down on them
Luceo: If the legal system wasn'
t in the 1900s, and unable to work with Bitcoin, and with small financial services providers, then we wouldn'
t have these issues
ErebusBat: ^^^ I don'
t nessecarily disagree, but taken out of context that is a very bad thing to have in a news clipping (or courtroom)
Luceo: And the big governments don'
t tend to get that far
teek: DeaDTerra: so then you don'
t know the situation
mircea_popescu: genjix aren'
t there some coins you folks stole with bitcoinica taht need to be dispensed ?
ErebusBat: genjix: If ther eis govt intervention it doesn'
t matter one lick if nefario was legit or not
mircea_popescu: taking a positive look on things, this chan passed 100 users now, so can'
t be all bad.
smickles: mircea_popescu: i hadn'
t heard that they sold yet
jcpham: if no one was given any notice, it isn'
t good
mircea_popescu: the ideea is you prepare for contingencies so you don'
t have to cuff it.
ErebusBat: mircea_popescu: I don'
t get the point of that thread. GLBSE closed down because of pressure from goat?
copumpkin: usagi: don'
t panic, the records of what you own are still intact, I'm sure, and you can settle your ownership with the asset issuers
mircea_popescu: well if that helps anything, strateman, taaki & co haven'
t "gone anywhere" either. they're still around
smickles: BurtW: it wen'
t offline, says it'll have info on saturday
DeaDTerra: He doesn'
t seem to be going anywhere, though he can'
t comment on anything until Sunday (probably legal reasons).
DeaDTerra: I got a answer from Nefario. He can'
t comment on the downtime until Sunday.
Bugpowder: GLBSE is offline For those worried about their bitcoin, please calm yourselves there has been no hack and your coins are safe and all accounted for. I apologize for the lack of notice and the downtime, but there isn'
t much choice. We will update our users on Saturday.
FledNanders: rg: I can'
t get my funds... I consider that lost.
rg: you didn'
t lose anything
asa1024: I'm so owned but oh well shit happens I didn'
t lose much
jcpham: if it wasn'
t a bank run it's about to be
smickles: rg: why doesn'
t running bitcoin-qt thru a socks proxy to my vps work very well?
copumpkin: I don'
t think it's really possible to make any legal calls here :) your guesses would be more educated if you were a lawyer
copumpkin: and now people are holding the occurrences where he didn'
t step in against him
imsaguy2: safe harbor doesn'
t apply if the creation itself is illegal
rg: i liked it when i didn'
t have to do anything
rg: he's like a pirateat40 who doesn'
t scam you
smickles: mind if I ask why you can'
t hold onto it?
jcpham: if you can'
t trust a guy named nefario, who can you trust?
mircea_popescu: "At the moment, we don'
t see the virtual currency market as a good
BTC-Mining: I mean, you don'
t manage a fund just for the fun of it...
mircea_popescu: not even sure its a problem. this isn;'
t the thing should be done "for fun"
mircea_popescu: it's not black in the sense it doesn'
t allow listing of shit. it's black i nthe sense it really doesn'
t care who calls himself "government"
mircea_popescu: <BTC-Mining> GLBSE will move toward more MPEx like standards, << this can'
t hurt anything
BTC-Mining: smickles, american regulations don'
t matter much if it's a UK market and regulated as per UK laws... americans on GLBSE would be trading on a foreign market.
smickles: what countries don'
t have securities regulations?
smickles: you don'
t know the regs in 'merica
smickles: rdponticelli: you know what smickles means, don'
t you?
BTC-Mining: Only reason I don'
t run funds by the way is that would interfere with my personal portfolio and I don'
t want to keep track to not cross-trade.
smickles: SS? well, !pl won'
t work for ss
mircea_popescu: i don'
t understand. how can it trade at 1.25 if you have wall at 1.26 ?!
rdponticelli: And who obviously doesn'
t know about the buyback...
smickles: kakobrekla: i think i get it, but I wouldn'
t say I'm confident in my understanding.
smickles: 650ish shares of _treasury_ stock (the stuff that doesn'
t get bought back b/c it's already in company hands)
BTC-Mining: I don'
t have much ethics I guess then. I buy my own issue when I see orders too low.
mircea_popescu: lol peopel didn'
t really invest a lot in the good stuff, did they.
mircea_popescu: "unlike the evil bitcoin people, who aren'
t invested, even tho they work for it and can spend it"
mircea_popescu: you know most people with a degree don'
t verbalise what they read
mircea_popescu: [Local Rules : Anyone can post in this thread, even people who are confused over their gender, can'
t do basic math, view failure as doing well and in general lack any idea of how to run a business]
mircea_popescu: if they can;
t find the email / irc in the faq im too beelitist for them.
OneEyed: mircea_popescu: I just realized that on your post, you don'
t answer the "how does one list on mpex". Shouldn'
t you at least give an email to use to propose you a new asset for MPEX?
OneEyed: mircea_popescu: I haven'
t read it before
GamblingMan: Now I can'
t even get a crap recommendation...
GamblingMan: I guess he doesn'
t like giving investment advice now?
OneEyed: GamblingMan: I won'
t, you told me it was a bad deal :)
mircea_popescu: GamblingMan your input wasn'
t really solicited in the matter.
mircea_popescu: GamblingMan suppose it doesn'
t want to send them w/o a fee.
GamblingMan: Strange that a site like Satoshi Dice can'
t figure out how to send transactions with no fees... That is beginner BTC stuff.
OneEyed: GamblingMan: one doesn'
t always get what he wants
OneEyed: copumpkin: don'
t they know the random numbers in advance?
copumpkin: GamblingMan: nope, but isn'
t it verifiable on the blockchain? they don'
t provide their own randomness
jcpham: mpex isn'
t a scam as far as i know
GamblingMan: Not sure why I thought it wasn'
t a scam, being listed on the Mpex
OneEyed: Ok, so eating a big plate of French fries makes you more efficient while you're digesting than eating a salad, right? Can'
t believe this :)
midnightmagic: GamblingMan: Didn'
t you read what the channel founder said? Free-for-all in here.. lol
OneEyed: Smoovious: didn'
t mean you wouldn'
t have done a good job