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kncminer_is_a_sc: KNCMINER IS
A SCAM! 5 month late house burning hardware is Useless now, useless. Refund me you gotterdammerung scammers!
undata: mircea_popescu: what makes you like Argentina? Things like wealth taxes don't convey
a sense of respect for private property, though I can see how that'd be irrelevant to BTC wealth
mircea_popescu: "Many people spent
a big chunk of their lives investing in this dream and it didn't pan out quite as we wish."
decimation: "The Byzantines had good spies, but no intelligence bureaucracy at all. Officials involved in the management of espionage performed these functions along with other duties. They never had
a bureaucratic hierarchy of intelligence and never thought to create one. "
decimation: yeah I agree. how can
a factory that can produce chips which rival intel's lithography 'lose money'?
undata: just streaming commands to some canvas wrapper via
a websocket
decimation: asciilifeform: it seems like
a good idea on the surface, but in practice 90% of the web will be broken
decimation: asciilifeform: did you see that the new emacs has
a web-browser mode builtin?
decimation: transactions are definitely stored in
a Db * object, which appears to be the bdb C++ interface
decimation: that bitcoin-0.1 turd definitely depends on db_cxx.h, which seems to be bdb, but that isn't
a full answer
decimation: like, as
a flat text file or something?
mircea_popescu: AdamIRAway anyway, i think i get the basic idea. it's not bad or anything. get in the wot so bitcoin people have
a direct point of contact and other than that, time will tell.
AdamIRAway: Our Compliance Specialist has
a lot of experience in compliance obviously, and through her we have engaged Baker & McKenzie for specialised legal advice as required.
AdamIRAway: Thirdly. Nobody hired
a "couple of software dudes and
a clueless legal chick", as you described...
AdamIRAway: Secondly, we aren't using any software from Admiral Markets or MMDX, not
a single line of code, I don't know what systems they've used previously. Our systems have been developed in-house over the past 15 months.
mircea_popescu: now my thinking is that you couldn't have spent very long making
a dedicated platform, seeing how this just happened this year, so you're either reusing one or the other. i somehow doubt it's admiral's platform, so prolly im guessing mmdx's ?
mircea_popescu: yes. the context is like so : an old time forex broker with
a kind-of mlm-y past that used to do metals and everything got together with
a guy that had
a company that was going to trade debt advertised then suddenly disappeared. they hired
a coupla software dudes (you and the Przelozny) and
a very clueless legal chick with no practice. in this context, i'm trying to figure out exactly how did said debt trading platform
AdamIRAway: Lasanka Perera is
a friend of mine, and co-founder of Independent Reserve.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: But in future world
a shoebox full
a benjies buys what?
A single tomatoe?
mircea_popescu: cazalla if you have
a clue how to go through the aussie corp register, it's company code: 34149069910
mircea_popescu: "MMADX hopes to turn profitable in 2015. According to the presentation, its projected earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization for fiscal 2016 and 2017 are
A$23.2 million and
A$34.2 million, respectively. At that time, or before, the company could undertake an initial public offering, the presentation states."
AdamIRAway: 7. And again, this only applies to Australians. Because we are an open market exchange (not
a brokerage), we are not obligated to charge 10 % GST on transactions, like other brokerages in the region do.
gabriel_laddel: "to develop
a platform that *we believe* is secure, robust and stable..."
AdamIRAway: 5. Australians can make BPAY Deposits (it's an Australian thing), but we convert this to USD at around 2.5 % better than most banks will. International clients can do
a SWIFT transfer direct into our USD account. The other Australian exchange trades AUD/XBT, but we chose USD to provide greater liquidity.
AdamIRAway: 3. We have
a very rich API. I realise other exchanges have this also, but not so in Australia.
AdamIRAway: 2. Rather than launch something quickly, we developed an enterprise level trading system over
a period of twelve months and followed best practice in software development to develop
a platform that we believe is secure, robust and stable. My own background as well as that of our CTO is in enterprise software development, and previously worked for many financial institutions in Australia.
AdamIRAway: 1. Rather than rely on
a technology/IT focused team (which is my own background), we brought onboard
a lot of the executive team and investors with FX Markets, Investment Banking and Finance background, which I think has helped in many of the decisions we have made, and connections that we have made, and gives better overall balance and credibility to what we do.
AdamIRAway: I realise some other exchanges do some of these things, but some of the ways I think that Independent Reserve is ahead of
a lot of our competition is...
AdamIRAway: mircea_popescu... there's
a number of things we do right, particularly compared with others in the Australia-Pacific region.
mircea_popescu: everyone OTHER than ms has
a year to either discontinue their business or fix it.
AdamIR: kakobrekla - just having
a look what it's all about.
AdamIR: mircea_popescu - I joined #bitcoin-otc. Will have
a look in more detail later, thanks.
undata: << "Our government and our businesses are in
a daily fight against hackers," Pawlenty said. "It's getting increasingly concerning, and it needs to be met with action by Congress." >>
mircea_popescu: this was the mechanism of the previous hard fork : .8 miners included tx rejected by the network, moved on
a different chain.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> if 0.9 says "this txn sucks!" but an 0.6 miner included it, this takes us right to
a hard fork << yep
bounce: ``In August 2012 we first announced that we would downrank sites for which we received
a large number of valid DMCA notices.'' -- they get flooded with bot-generated "DMCA notices". what do they do to make sure they're "valid"? looking at youtube, not that much.
ben_vulpes: i'd probably say "oh nine", but i should write "
a 0.9..."
ben_vulpes: if 0.9 says "this txn sucks!" but an 0.6 miner included it, this takes us right to
a hard fork
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Nothing I said contradicts that conclusion. At $900k/BTC
a lot of things become possibilities
BingoBoingo: Why can't
a datacenter be protected similarly?
mircea_popescu: anyway, guy's prose is rather florid, but there IS
a news bit in there.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know ther's really no diff the site makes. if commentary went to
a special page you had to click for then i see it
cazalla: mike_c, which pete linked to but it's
a commentary and as news alone, i don't think anyone cares what someone said regarding bitcoin so it could only be commentary on qntra
mike_c: nothing wrong with this in
a commentary, but I would also like to be able to read the un-slanted version.
mike_c: all communication has
a slant.
a news article should strive to have less than
a blogger.
mike_c: or, to rephrase.
a news article shouldn't have as much of
a slant as
a blog post.
mike_c: should the news have as much of
a slant as
a blog post?
ben_vulpes: does anyone in la serenissima have
a copy of the bitcoin repository of june 2012 vintage?
assbot: Y Combinator: The American Idol of Venture Capital | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski
xanthyos: <@xanthyos> AND SB SAW MY PENIS, WHICH IS LIKE
A GRANDMOTHER TO ME, SINCE MINE DIED
mircea_popescu: "I am Ratna, 47 years, still having good figure, which is
a result of satisfying fucking with different people during last 15 year. In my first 32 year I took only one cock in my cunt whereas in next 15 year I must have taken at least 3000 cocks in my body. This all because of my only son."
kakobrekla: even if you have
a netpipe straight down its sill easy to undercut it
kakobrekla: for more effect you could just modify
a 'jokerbox' to 'shitbox'
dr_love: I know
a few people who I look up to, who have bad taste in art. I always wondered if there's
a correlation of some sort
BingoBoingo: morgan-freeman_: How is your shit better than the shit I can by by the truckload at the farm down the road for
a few dollars
a ton?
kakobrekla: letting
a room from its owner at that time. According to Blaauw, Kamphuis seized on the image of the bunker as
a marketing tool to attract Russian and Chinese clients who wanted
a secure place to host their websites. “It’s time to put an end to the fairy tale,” Blaauw says.
kakobrekla: “It was all Photoshop,” says Guido Blaauw, general manager of the bunker’s current tenant,
a company called Bunkerinfra Datacenters, which plans to turn the site into
a data facility for corporate and government clients. The building was full of junk when Bunkerinfra started renovations two years ago. “It took us three months to clean it out,” Blaauw says. Kamphuis lived there for
a few years in the early 2000s, sub
kakobrekla: apparently
a legit company bought this fake company bunker.
kakobrekla: >At the end of
a tree-lined driveway in the small Dutch town of Goes sits
a hulking gray bunker,
a communications center built by the Dutch military in 1955. Its 60 rooms are mostly bare save for
a few relics, including
a cinderblock-size phone and
a giant board that used to record nuclear attack alert levels across Europe. There’s no sign of the high-tech nerve center depicted on the CyberBunker website: no racks of supersecur
morgan-freeman_: well, I don't know but there is only
a horse manure as
a choice.. once I saw an elephant shit on one site, but no bitcoins
kakobrekla: limits of control is
a metaphysical art movie.
Diablo-D3: this was big news
a few years back