14000+ entries in 1.069s
mircea_popescu: there's approximately 0
% chances of sevastopol falling this year.
cazalla: it'll be an awesome win if it does remain under 10
% Neil: I don't think we'll ever see a 25
% (perhaps even 20
%) difficulty rise again.
Neil: cazalla: I tend to agree it'll be above 10
%, but not a lot above
ozbot: Greek Bank Issues Bond at 5
%. Really - MoneyBeat - WSJ
ozbot: 4.250 billion | Next Diff in 1109 blocks | Estimated Change: 9.8846
% in 6d 22h 12m 27s
ozbot: BitBet - BTC difficulty to increase by less than 10
% mircea_popescu: they may add a say 30
% surcharge for any us exports just for fun tho.
ninjashogun: Duffer1 - it' snot 'mine'. It's a feature suggestion for the cardano v2 or v3. it's still the cardano. 95
% would be the same, including the basic invention that they described.
ninjashogun: I disagree, I think firefox running javascript is one of the simplest things to develop and target 100
% of PC's with. Also it would work on some tablets, which have no USB subcomponent at all, but do have copy and paste and wifi connections.
ninjashogun: However, the current version transfers files in the plain over the USB protocol. it is 100
% vulnerable to a USB mitm - which could probably be made so small that it almost fits in a usb drive.
ninjashogun: You can convince yourself of this fact by being nearly 100
% sure that more than $190B in wealth would be created if 10,000 qualified engineering and bioscience etc grad student founders were funded at $200K each for 100 years. It's not a lottery - it's just some unusual percentages.
ninjashogun: asciilifeform, given my high-risk profile what APR would you (personally) extend me on between $7K-$22.5K (amount I take depends on APR) with no collateral except a registered Delaware C-Corp I'm currently full owner of (100
%) going to 90
% after an investment clears that I've committed to - the company has intellectual property including a patent that is pending and trademark that has been assigned, as well the equipment I
ninjashogun: mircea_popescu, let me put it to you like this. If ughlol were farther along, and actually already convinced 10 engineers at his university to be 'cofounders' for equity totalling 5
%, 95
% to him (which would show GREAT founder skill) and got some traction. HIs company would still probably die, and those 10 people would leave. Because he is in India.
ninjashogun: Facebook could be called: "A myspace based on a radical idea. You can ONLY register if you have a .edu account! They have literally just blown myspace out of the water by getting AT MOST 0.5
% as many users, because at most 0.5
% - one in one two hundred - people in the world uses an active .edu account."
ozbot: 4.250 billion | Next Diff in 1319 blocks | Estimated Change: 12.0150
% in 8d 1h 25m 20s
ozbot: 4.250 billion | Next Diff in 1379 blocks | Estimated Change: 10.1200
% in 8d 14h 30m 21s
Duffer1: hirethestache money sent to any of those addresses in that list will probably be credited to your CB account, but i'm not 100
% on that, by trying to dumb it down for the average person they make it way more complicated...
benderp: 50
% of the land is covered with asphalt, and 40
% with retarded californian lean-to's in the style of something elsewhere that actually matters
ThickAsThieves: regulating that no miner may have more than XX
% of the network power is not an absurd notion
ThickAsThieves: obviously there is more to gain, but you can still lose 100
% ozbot: 4.250 billion | Next Diff in 1456 blocks | Estimated Change: 8.4784
% in 9d 5h 55m 19s
ThickAsThieves: interesting, if not obvious, stat I heard: 85
% of new businesses in the US are started by immigrants or their children
mircea_popescu: yeah, basically if period increases settle around 8
% then it'll be all covered.
ozbot: 4.250 billion | Next Diff in 1624 blocks | Estimated Change: 8.5522
% in 10d 7h 25m 37s
ozbot: 4.250 billion | Next Diff in 1652 blocks | Estimated Change: 8.2775
% in 10d 12h 8m 41s
ozbot: 4.250 billion | Next Diff in 1656 blocks | Estimated Change: 8.3701
% in 10d 12h 45m 45s
nubbins`: about 30
% of it was me exiting my position
ozbot: 4.250 billion | Next Diff in 1782 blocks | Estimated Change: 0.6603
% in 12d 6h 49m 59s
mircea_popescu: then i quit it in 2008, at the time it was in power. it looks like it will make... about 3
% next electoral cycle.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, for self-c0k stroking purposes : i was one in the "secret circle" of romanian national liberal party, which went from making 3
% in an alliance to making its own government by the time i left romania.
Diablo-D3: $100 billion is about 1
% of treasury bonds.
Neil: Yeah it'll take time, but it'll happen. I'm 100
% sure.
Neil: The last 2 weeks are the first time in a long time at least 50
% of the time I open blockchain.info it shows a block over 1hr old.
ozbot: 4.250 billion | Next Diff in 1800 blocks | Estimated Change: 4.0162
% in 11d 23h 55m 0s
ozbot: BitBet - BTC difficulty to increase by less than 10
% mircea_popescu: this should be vig-profitable, whatever it's supposed to make, 8
% or what was it.
mircea_popescu: A total of 215,273 homicides were studied, 77
% of which involved male victims and 23
% female victims. Although women comprise more than half the U.S. population, they committed only 14.7
% of the homicides noted during the study interval.
ozbot: 4.250 billion | Next Diff in 1845 blocks | Estimated Change: 10.5056
% in 11d 11h 7m 10s
BingoBoingo: Of course, the Queen being 40
% of East Saint's revenue and somehow managing to at the same time be a bigger shithole than East Saint
ughlol: To me, even if it helps 1
%, its a success.
ughlol: thinking that it can't help 100
% of the rape victims
benkay: stop lending them money at 0
% and letting them lend it to the usg at 2 or whatever
ThickAsThieves: An interest rate of ~22
%/year (0.38
%/week) based on EUR/BTC value at time of issue (eg. ~€0.0032 / bond / week.
dexX7: "For the purposes of the examples below we have used a price of €85.00 EUR/BTC. An interest rate of ~22
%/year (0.38
%/week) based on EUR/BTC value at time of issue (eg. ~€0.0032 / bond / week)." ... "100,000 bonds"
mircea_popescu: bitcoin has managed to maintain the time needed to get 2k blocks within one to three weeks in spite of infinite
% growth of hash power.
mircea_popescu: if a company got 10mn coupons, each person got 0.0001
% etc.
mircea_popescu: if a company got 10 coupons, every one guy got 10
% of it.
Neil: Actually 2
% is also low; probably 3-4
% is better.
Neil: In a parallel universe with no risk you see, I mighta been interested in investing in some of your ventures. Though the terms are clear, it's also the problem, as a) a 30BTC fine to "play" means there's gotta be something worth playing for, and b) I worry about you getting run over by a bus, for example, because c) it's all really quite opaque and I rate b) as ~2
% annually, which is quite a JTD risk.
ozbot: 4.250 billion | Next Diff in 1964 blocks | Estimated Change: 29.2943
% in 9d 15h 15m 43s
ozbot: 4.250 billion | Next Diff in 2014 blocks | Estimated Change: -14.4080
% in 15d 23h 56m 54s
Neil: One of the inputs to that address used for the payout was 4368 BTC; which is like 40
% of bitbet volume at that time...
mircea_popescu: alcohol that'll kill a pacific islander = 0.1
% of the dose well tolerated by a caucasian
benkay: i have no idea what exactly the dropoff is, but 75
% protein for an extended period of time is fukken dangerous.
benkay: 75
% protein is a recipe for gout
Neil: "BTC difficulty to increase by less than 10
% 6.00000000 BTC on No" << wow, that's almost reckless
ozbot: 3.816 billion | Next Diff in 81 blocks | Estimated Change: 10.8910
% in 0d 11h 56m 42s
ozbot: 3.816 billion | Next Diff in 91 blocks | Estimated Change: 10.7103
% in 0d 13h 28m 27s
cazalla: and then NEOBEO comes and takes the remaining 90
% Neil: My history is over 10
% Neil: Confirmed total: 12,479 BTC on bitbet's site. I'm well over 5
% of that.
Neil: The amount of hardware to come online to get 30
% increases every 10 days is just nuts
cazalla: 10
% this cycle is a bit of a lull, fingers crossed for 30
%+ next
cazalla: it'll be a close one re: the under 10
% bet
cazalla: didn't think it would stay under 10
% the20year2: Compared to say offering just 4
% to the seller's agent, which would result in just $2k to them
the20year2: So, with say a $100k property @ 3
% selling agent comission they're gonna get $1500, with the $2500 bonus they end up getting $4k
the20year2: And for most new agents, the cut is 50/50 , so they only get half of the 3
% the20year2: If I have control what I do is usually 2
% to the listing agent and then 3
% + $2500 for the selling/buyer's agent
Chris_Sabian_: september to december was ~ 1000
%, december to now was down ~50
%, september to now ~550
%.
the20year2: It comes down to waiting for BTC price increase, or increase NAV of properties by 30
%, 40
%, 50
% in a few months
the20year2: We've utilized, or have in contract about 50
% of the given capital
mircea_popescu: out of that 1
% i'll have to justify someone sitting with eyes glued to your thing
mircea_popescu: well, consider the business caseas first and foremost. bitbet takes 1
%