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mircea_popescu: what i am saying is that you can never have something meanginful to say about
a culture from outside of it.
TimSwanson: Okay, so "
a-non had an interesting couple of points
TimSwanson: Look, you sound
a lot like any other religious leader who says "you cannot understand the movement unless you're part of it"
mircea_popescu: so you can do it discreetly if ego wound avoidance is such
a priority.
mircea_popescu: my actual argument is that you're captive in
a mostly meanginless structure, and that it's
a shame, basically.
TimSwanson: I have
a big network in the real world outside caves
mircea_popescu: you aren't yet enough of
a something to be insultable im affraid.
TimSwanson: I don't have to be
a Bitcoin Taliban to understand how it works
mircea_popescu: i left
a comment on an article that pingbacked my article,
TimSwanson: Then on the right side there is
a "scroll bar", go down to the bottom
mircea_popescu: this is readily reducible to the problem of "i have
a very high wot score". it's not the number. it's the identity.
mircea_popescu: i don't think you understand how this works. things need
a source to exist.
RagnarDanneskjol: I can make
a living camping and foraging, does not make it
a real job
mircea_popescu: Great Chain of Numbers:
A Guide to Smart Contracts, Smart Property and Trustless Asset Management
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol arguably i make
a living blogging these days, so who's to know anymore.
mircea_popescu: and as to the earlier point : there is no such thing as "legal ones" re bitcoin companies. there's bitcoin companies, and then there's fiat companies that try to make
a buck off bitcoin
mircea_popescu: looky : i've been fran kto you. now, can i get
a frank answer to what exactly it is you do, for
a living ?
TimSwanson: I do
a lot work with Bitcoin startups, legal ones
TimSwanson: You said I was
a "environmental scholar"
TheNewDeal: I have
a bone to pick with this statement "This is
a mistake that we see in full force today in which the quantity of money available has shrunk due to theft, scams, purposeful burning, accidental destruction, etc."
mircea_popescu: you may generously represent yourself as equal to all people, myself included. this however is false : i am
a major player in
a major revolution. you are practically nobody, or if we're charitable
a minor player in
a lengthy tradition, if we are again charitable and consider the us derpage somehow related to european academia as
a human thought adventure.
TimSwanson: i have to go in
a bit, but can chat for
a few moments
turbo_ac100: Yeah. I had
a WOT rating here from kakobrekla. And I had
a super-secure password. Only one is left.
assbot: How to airgap.
A practical guide. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
bitcointrader_: yout payout like
a CFD. It's not fully eliminating cp risk but if you deposit 50% with escrow is covers
a substantial amount. Just have an auto stop loss in place
jborkl: Very good idea, and it will piss
a bunch of people off
mircea_popescu: jborkl this suggests
a ready expansion to Jason's bot. it could hold propositions for voting, like
a gpg-poll thing.
TheNewDeal: omg absolute riduloustardedness "This is
a mistake that we see in full force today in which the quantity of money available has shrunk due to theft, scams, purposeful burning, accidental destruction, etc."
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal guy has
a tenuous grasp on facts. which, for an outsider, i guess is laudable.
mircea_popescu: left the guy
a comment to come here, not approved yet, but anyway, if he shows up someone voice him
jborkl: Most meaningless PR I can throw
a dart
mircea_popescu: someone should go for Individual Person Guy as
a name.
jdanks: i'm
a mechanical engineer turned internet of things engineer
jdanks: I've created PGP keys for stuff before not knowing what I was doing. I love all your posts mircea. you are
a good man, standing up to bad peoples and finding who's trully trustworthy (:
ben_vulpes: mjr_: weren't you at bitpay for
a while?
mjr_:
a bunch of good guys work there
mircea_popescu:
a okay, i see. so apparently
a guy i actually know took over that outfit. (no, not erik)
☟︎ mjr_: they said we know you have
a lot of projects
mjr_: so, felt
a little one dimensional
mjr_: and have
a few projects
mjr_: i worked on locks, since i knew
a little about hedging
mircea_popescu: mjr_ but kakobrekla has
a good q, what happened at coinapult ?
mircea_popescu: then not
a peep for about
a year. so someone with some sort of competence took over. but mjr_ ain't telling who.
mircea_popescu: then about six months or so later some people involved had
a very public breakup replete with tardstalk scam tag requests, much in the manner the bitcoin magazine takeover worked
mjr_: yeah bitcoinica was
a fuckup
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes nah, lots of history there. bitfinex was
a coupla twerps that took the leaked bitcoinica codebase and started
a new bitcoinica, back in 2012ish ? early 2013 ? (that code was in the wild because after the nth breach, amir taaki of bitcoin consultancy fame "open sourced" it by releasing it without rights)
☟︎ mjr_: only been 2 weeks, but i like the guys i work with, i have
a lot of autonomy
mircea_popescu: the problem was (and am starting to suspect remains) your mistaken notion that you have
a lot to give and relatively little to take.
mjr_:
a game where i could put things into the world using bitcoin
mircea_popescu: no dude, you got negrated for attempting
a powerplay with me.
gribble: You rated user xmj on Tue Jun 3 08:54:01 2014, with
a rating of -1, and supplied these additional notes: meets my definition of marauding idiocy..
assbot: This Is The Bitcoin Empire. This Is The New Yasa | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski
mjr_: but i just think that it is funny, i think the "bitlicense" is
a penalty for people who don't use the blockchain
mjr_: kind of
a silly question i suppose
mjr_: feel
a little better
gribble: davout was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 3 days, 10 hours, 7 minutes, and 37 seconds ago: <davout> i'll add
a mention about assymetric crypto
xmj: note to self: mjr_ is
a candidate for goldfish memory
mjr_: one of the US exchanges? with
a proctology exam for free?
mjr_: can't give back an order id on
a trade
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski omfg you gave me
a moment of pause cause i thought your line's assbot's
mjr_: i expected to be made fun of
a bit more
xmj: godovo: take it with
a tablespoon of salt.
mjr_: there is an arragement of neurons in
a certain configuration in some physical space
mjr_: and there is
a better way
mjr_: sounds like
a good CHANGE
mjr_: so get rid of
a stupid features
mircea_popescu: and
a welcome one at that. fucking ip addresses nuttery.
mjr_: in other words,
a change
mircea_popescu: and if one day they include
a weather service in some client, that'll be about as much change.
xmj: i have an option to have
a girlfriend
mjr_: if the market thinks that is
a good idea :)
mjr_: it is still
a valid form of recording data
mjr_: that if i send
a multisig tx to someone, they will in return send me 1,000,000 bitcoin