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mircea_popescu: not like you have to read the fishwrappers.
mircea_popescu: mike_c how is osama a terrorist and obama a peace prize winner ?
mircea_popescu: if only bitfinex was worth twoi shits, and the planned price movement caught on, and all the alt-articles they tabled could have been published. aww what a glorious day could have been.
mircea_popescu: sleep tight.
mircea_popescu: "chief scientist of a fraudulent foundation run by some people we've still, somehow, magically, not gotten around to investigating. hurr."
mircea_popescu: how famous and important he could have been.
mircea_popescu: ah if only satoshi had the foresight to not piss all over the face of usg!
mircea_popescu: but now, suddenlyt, somehow, not any longer.
mircea_popescu recalls how excited they were over this, a year ago. almost looked like it's a thing that matters, to hear them talk.
mircea_popescu: and no word about teh found satoshi, hm ?
mircea_popescu: what else is a media good for!
mircea_popescu: this being 4chan's what, 4th ? 5th ? alignment to boring ?
mircea_popescu: !up BananaLotus
mircea_popescu: do not ask whom the fiat sovereigns fleece, my friend... for they fleece you.
mircea_popescu: well, not me, but yes, everyone who "had no alternative".
mircea_popescu: there's truly no curing human idiocy. butcher them and lay em out in the sun is the only cure.
mircea_popescu: and even today, there's people with dollars in us banks etc.
mircea_popescu: the thing is... even after that cyprus thing, there were still peopel thick enough to keep money in greek banks.
mircea_popescu: not like they ever told the truth.
mircea_popescu: "decrease social costs", ie, lose less votes.
mircea_popescu: punkman and they're derping about for a few weeks while people can get a few hundreds out so the poor people can slowly leech their accounts during the interval.
mircea_popescu: http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x4A0363951AFA090B6C221787E2F23DB84A63EC22 << doesn't seem to exist brg444
mircea_popescu: meaning that if you had a 1mn euro loan, and a 1mn euro bank deposit, you just lost enough to buy twelve houses.
mircea_popescu: oh. yeah, but quickly diminshing returns. something like 86-88% is probably right.
mircea_popescu: balance 849k euro, available 128k euro
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/time-for-europe-to-repeal-the-us-backed-aml-crap/
mircea_popescu: punkman yeah iut was ?
mircea_popescu: they're still negotiating it, obviously, which is why the rule. but i doubt it'll be under 70%.
mircea_popescu: what did cypriots get hit with, 84% ?
mircea_popescu: writing's on the wall, you'll get "stabilized".
mircea_popescu: o.O
mircea_popescu: how else ?
mircea_popescu: brg444 see the chapter called "first steps"
mircea_popescu: !h
mircea_popescu: "Connections are made over clearnet even when using a proxy or onlynet=tor, which leaks connections on the P2P network with the real location of the node. Knowledge of this traffic along with uptime metrics from bitnodes.io can allow observers to easily correlate the location and identity of persons running Shitcoin-XT nodes."
mircea_popescu: http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-August/010379.html << pretty fucking hysterical, how dumb these schmucks are.
mircea_popescu: kudos to the shitdev team!
mircea_popescu: so shitcoin-xt is built to run on windows 10 natively i gather ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c http://trilema.com/2015/so-the-broomstick-fired/ << your memo.
mircea_popescu: seems it does each about 50% of the time.
mircea_popescu: mike_c which way would it correlate ? up or down ?
mircea_popescu: brg444 getting a new one, pretty much.
mircea_popescu: brg444 was not, i don't think anyone seriously read that thing.
mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/3hh3pz/i_asstoshi_original_creator_of_buttcoin_have/ << not bad lulz.
mircea_popescu: !up brg444
mircea_popescu: ;;bc,stats
mircea_popescu: reddit forked math ?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile "5 points 86% upvoted" ... how does this work ?
mircea_popescu: lol hanbot
mircea_popescu: but yes, incredibly flaky execution, that's fo sho.
mircea_popescu: some actual users must have put orders in.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform unlike http://trilema.com/2012/icbitse-the-bucket-shop/ et al, they didn't have the presence of mind to actually stop new orders.
mircea_popescu: yes, provided the population is cockroaches. they expect no negative effects past you know, being more braindamaged than before.w
mircea_popescu: running out of options.
mircea_popescu: derp. google, learn to serve trilema.
mircea_popescu: ;;google this is what desperation looks like.
mircea_popescu: and i don't expect them to pay, either.
mircea_popescu: yes. they got shook to the tune of 5-10mn for their sins.
mircea_popescu: see ?
mircea_popescu: doh.
mircea_popescu: it's not "a tumor"
mircea_popescu: that never happens naturally. you gotta do it, much like "bullet shaped hole in head" is proof someone was shot.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it is, yes.
mircea_popescu: with the caveat that i run my investigations with people hanging by butcher hooks.
mircea_popescu: unless the sec particularly wants me to run an investigation into IT.,
mircea_popescu: and i expect a sec investigation into bitfinex post haste.
mircea_popescu: so that maybe others panic.
mircea_popescu: so as to get the fraudulent price signal out
mircea_popescu: yes.
mircea_popescu: so they fix the "exchange" to not serve bids anymore.
mircea_popescu: when the price goes 10 / 7 it is because the people selling the fake btc do no wish to run their meagre offering into the bids of 10
mircea_popescu: normally the price goes 10 / 11
mircea_popescu: no. you understand what this means ?
mircea_popescu: crossed wire.
mircea_popescu: it's an alrogithm
mircea_popescu: heh.
mircea_popescu: heh.
mircea_popescu: ;;ticker
mircea_popescu: lol speaking of bitfines, anyone rememeber "picostocks/100th" anymore ?
mircea_popescu: they'd get better roi by buying adwords or something, but hey.
mircea_popescu: for all i care the dept of hernia can keep on doing this 300k donation programme to people who've took an obvious shot at 10:1 leverage untill they fall over.
mircea_popescu: right.
mircea_popescu: who's gonna pay, gavin ?
mircea_popescu: but that aside, there still is the issue of settlement on the fake btc they sold < 200.
mircea_popescu: i dunno who actually possessed of the least bitcoin interest would still use it after this.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck will still use it after this... god knows they were making up most of the volume anyway.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo basically, their bitfinex broom fired. the once it gets to fire.
mircea_popescu: exciting
mircea_popescu still can't wait to see how the bitfinex settlement's gonna work
mircea_popescu: let teh poor ppls enjoy.
mircea_popescu: it's all they got to show for a lot of expenditure.
mircea_popescu: absent another ww they can sit neutral around, they're so fucked zimbabwe looks promising.
mircea_popescu: the peak of it, at any rate.
mircea_popescu: here "r&d" is xapo.
mircea_popescu: maybe there. not here.
mircea_popescu: quite.
mircea_popescu: no r&d ? no secondary education.
mircea_popescu: except, of course, for the obvious : TAKE FACEBOOK PICTUREWS NEXT TO IT!
mircea_popescu: i would be much surprised if there's an argentinian who even knows what to do wit hone.
mircea_popescu: quite exactly.