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mike_c: ;;later tell jurov re: the games tend to go in one direction. current game was looking like it was about to tip heavy death and did
a 180.
http://bit.ly/1pJopUe punkman: 100 billion total, 1% inflation
a year
mircea_popescu: they have such
a no idea wtf they're doing i can't even be bothered to try and short the things
punkman: "The Foundation received
a loan of $3,000,000 from Stripe which was subsequently repaid with 2% of the stellars. "
mircea_popescu: yc used to be all about "give us
a chunk of equity for free."
punkman: "Stellar was developed by the Stellar Development Foundation,
a non-profit created by Stripe CEO Patrick Collison and Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb plus $3 million in initial funding from Stripe."
assbot: Mt. Gox, Ripple Founder Unveils Stellar,
a New Digital Currency Project - MoneyBeat - WSJ
princessnell: ha, small world. i was
a super fangirl in college, couldn't miss an episode.
pete_dushenski: though much like trilema, it took me about
a year to wrap my noodle around it
assbot: Y Combinator: The American Idol of Venture Capital | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski
BigBitz: I don't even have
a Bugatti toy car.
mircea_popescu: the difference between an infinite series and
a finite series is marked. the difference between that last and
a constant is not.
fluffypony: yeah that's the other approach is to give it
a fixed value instead of
a % of supply
fluffypony: so the block reward will still taper down to that minsubsidy, but you'll never have
a scenario where miner fees > block reward
fluffypony: I do think
a minimum subsidy at around the 0.4% - 1.5% mark is
a better approach
mircea_popescu: anyone here have
a positive view of teh demmurage notion ? fluffypony ? or who's the altcoin heretique du jour ?
ThickAsThieves: I have
a dream that one day this coin will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that Altcoins are created equal and can be used to purchase MPEx stocks."
mircea_popescu: why is it so appealing. because standing in front of
a bunch of people and telling them to get fucked is scary.
mircea_popescu: this is what anonymity already is. not
a matter of what we want.
ThickAsThieves: right, but like i said, i'm envisioning some future where
a new key is like being birn yesterday
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves not like you can't make
a new key any time you want.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves but the requirement for you to have
a face in the forum does not equate to
a requirement for you to have
a face in the treasury
ThickAsThieves: where you can make
a network that knows permanent record of all tx, and can now add identity network
mircea_popescu: as
a general principle supporting any deanonimization measures is uncanonical.
mircea_popescu: well this has been the objection since day one, vessenes is just using it as
a piggybank
mircea_popescu: they posted
a 77k investment income, which is probably
a wrong statement,
mircea_popescu: so basically they started with 5.7k, ended with 6.4k and got
a total of 700 btc donated counted at an average of 900, so most of them early 2013.
mircea_popescu: notably, they got 70k in donations and 10x that from the "be
a member and scam people" swindle.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves now maybe my accounting's unfit for
a goose, but how exactly do you go from 100k in assets to 4.5mn in assets when your net exercise is like 100k ?
t_a_t: "You see, what Matonis doesn’t want anyone to know is that while he is saying to expect smoother trading Exante has been in
a non-stop dumping of Bitcoin via Bermuda."
chetty: <t_a_t> "14 days Matonis. 14 days Foundation. Come clean with what your executive directors// plural??
thickasthieves: <+mircea_popescu> reddit is not
a race. /// it's
a picture of the finish line
thickasthieves: <+ben_vulpes> riding my bike all over town (what american child can ride
a bike around their town?!) /// more than would like to admit
punkman: oh and this is like 1 reply per day, it's gonna take
a while
gribble: Error: "reputation" is not
a valid command.
BingoBoingo: Well,
a CA is pretty much the definition of
a pre-approved stooge
HeySteve: BingoBoingo, I like that idea. want to use the blockchain myself as
a kind of public dice roll
Vexual: is there, like
a cool workspace with an old streetfighter machine so I can remeber all my old combos while depositing?
BingoBoingo: HeySteve: WoL actions happen as
a result of blockchain events
HeySteve: someone should make
a Terry Pratchett game and call it Ankh-MMORPG
DreadKnight: BingoBoingo, doing
a bit of coding overall, what are you up to?
DreadKnight: ben_vulpes, you nickname? not fond of MMORPGs as well, even got
a bit insulted you thought I was making one, lol
HeySteve: my grandparents could recall all the cards played in
a game of bridge. they'd review it afterwards, my grandfather criticizing granny's play
HeySteve: it's like if you could gamble on
a choose your own adventure story
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes i was expecting
a lot more obvious drunkedness tbh. but sober ? maybe you should write
a book. << book? what book. "hey. tits? they're worth 0.1 btc now, which i'll hold for you indefinitely. let's tits. tits everyone? great."
HeySteve: dunno if you caught it in the logs, but I'm working on
a new kind of gambling
HeySteve: my connection is
a yo-yo again so not worth the trouble to auth
dub: my meaning is prozac et al is usually prescribed when the doctor cbf and isnt
a real doctor
dub: how the fuck this makes into
a weblogsite I've heard of escapes
BingoBoingo: xanthyos: I also have
a sneaky pete's jacket I won't need much longer
BingoBoingo: xanthyos: I'd part with
a whole time outfit for the right price
xanthyos: through the Mr.
A conversion tool
danielpbarron: BingoBoingo, at first I wanted to give it time to let others spade it out; eventually I decided I'd go for the wow factor of having
a really old account that never ascended; plus I was mostly interested with the Mall, which is easier to use if you aren't focused on optimizing runs
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i was expecting
a lot more obvious drunkedness tbh. but sober ? maybe you should write
a book.
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: How comfortable do you feel that we can put
a price on my ascending before next rollover?
gribble: Error: 'girl' is not
a valid integer.
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> moving the goalposts on me boss this is not how you run
a business << Check my tweets to Ben Lawsky I am running
a charity
ben_vulpes: aight give me
a hash i'll see what i can do
ben_vulpes: moving the goalposts on me boss this is not how you run
a business
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Roll up screens? What is
a hard vs. soft screen?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if it includes the woman that'll make
a vulpe vulpes then by all means. BUT NONE OF THAT NO FACE BULLSHEIT.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Are you really contacting your bouncer on
a phone of some sort?
mircea_popescu:
A rapturous young fellatrix one day was at work on five pricks. With an unholy cry she whipped out her glass eye: "Tell the boys I can now take on six."
ben_vulpes: hey mircea_popescu how much for
a two-fer?
mircea_popescu:
A nasty old drunk in Carmel thinks it funny to piss in the well. He says, "Some don't favor that unusual flavor, but I don't drink the stuff -- what the hell!"
FoOdies5: although trying to explain the concept to
a pompous prick does seem like
a lost cause
FoOdies5: wait that's only west from
a chinaman's perspective
BingoBoingo: FoOdies5: I'm sorry, I'm just
a pasty white victim of violence in the Middle West.