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punkman: asciilifeform: finally read anathem, wasn't such
a backbreaker. maybe the big scrolling html made it go down easier than having to turn 900 pages by hand
Pierre_Rochard: nubbins`:
a 0% LTV is not
a wise idea, nor is never taking an airplane to minimize risk of death
nubbins`: the assumption that blowing your savings on
a speculative investment when you have large pre-existing financial committments isn't
a good idea
ThickAsThieves: "Just
a USMS auction price discovery update: I contacted the USDOJ Office of General Counsel regarding my FOIA request submitted back on the 6th of July... and they stated I should see information in early August. They also stated they had
a flood of requests for information on that auction."
☟︎ bitcoinpete: "On Thursday, Mark J. Mazur, the Treasury Department’s assistant secretary for tax policy, made the case that any new laws targeting inversions – transactions that allow American companies to reincorporate abroad – should be backdated to May 2014, potentially affecting
a number of multibillion-dollar deals."
bitcoinpete: "Mr. Schneiderman, the state’s top law enforcer, contended that Barclays favored high-frequency traders over other investors in its dark pool, known as Barclays LX. He contended Barclays falsified marketing materials, inaccurately portraying the concentration of high-frequency traders in the market, and he said the bank misrepresented
a service that purported to protect investors from predatory trading behavior."
xmj: you're
a counterparty risk to the bank and someone else is
a counterparty risk to you
nubbins`: paying off debts before putting money into high-risk investment: "
a little extreme"
Pierre_Rochard: kakobrekla: so everyone should pay off their mortgage / student loans / credit cards / car loans before buying bitcoins? Seems
a little extreme and just poor balance sheet management imho
kakobrekla: <Pierre_Rochard> bitcoinpete: or borrow the money to buy the car and use the cash to buy btc << I like this form of indirect leverage. Who else would finance bitcoins < 5% APR (0% if you get
a good deal)? < as i was saying, if you are in position where you need to borrow to gamble/invest in btc, you should not do it.
fluffypony: xmj yeah - I don't have
a problem with an over-engineered template that gets reused by someone competent
xmj: i've noticed there is no difference in setting up
a server from scratch either
a) manually or b) with salt. b) is reproducible, documented and reusable.
Pierre_Rochard: bitcoinpete: or borrow the money to buy the car and use the cash to buy btc << I like this form of indirect leverage. Who else would finance bitcoins < 5% APR (0% if you get
a good deal)?
fluffypony: and end up taking 3 weeks to do
a 1 day job
fluffypony: yeah look, if I paid
a competent sysadmin freelancer that'll cost me $50/hour, and I can guarantee they'll over-engineer things despite my asking for something simple
xmj: i figured it'd be
a sign of (costly) honesty to put the margin % there too.
nubbins`: he says he's made enough money off those prints so far that he was able to buy
a new car :0
nubbins`: he did
a series of prints last year depicting
a map of the city cut up into different neighbourhoods, with the name of each written on top (it's
a thing people do)
mike_c: i'm probably the only idiot in here, but in case there is one other: "3 indicates
a "pay-to-script-hash" address that contains
a hash (one way fingerprint) of
a script that can be used for multiple things including address obfuscation and multi-signature requirements."
thestringpuller: "game recognize game and you lookin' kinda unfamiliar" translated: "we know one when we see one and you look like
a scammer"
mike_c: i know, right? confidence men don't gain your confidence by not having
a beer with you.
bitcoinpete: mike_c: if you weren't in the wot, i'd swear your quark support was
a scam
mike_c: duffer1 must have spent time in
a datacenter. that cable routing is tight.
mike_c: i like how therealaltcoin.org has
a shopping cart button in the header :)
bitcoinpete: pankkake: i've met anthony irl twice and we've talked on the phone before. but it's been... quite
a while
pigeons: wow really they are already trying to damage control the 1% of the press they get that isn't positive? and from
a bitcoinpete (no offense lol) blog post?
bitcoinpete: at least enough to get
a phone call from ethereum fearless leader anthony di iorio
gribble: You rated user BingoBoingo on Thu May 22 17:57:19 2014, with
a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: spinozan, blogger.
bitcoinpete: fluffypony: show those derps
a 5000 BTC bounty for making 1.0 work and then we might be talking
ThickAsThieves: guys I have this problem that only
a smart contract can solve!
bitcoinpete: BingoBoingo: Pascal had an application... Busses have an application... Pretty sure Doge had an application even if it wasn't
a pretty one << i like this
bitcoinpete: his intentions seem innocent enough and i'm sure he's "having fun" but ethereum is still
a fucking joke
bitcoinpete: kid's being played like
a flute by
a bunch of dopey tards
cazalla: you may as well write
a list of who isn't jewish, it'll be shorter
pankkake: natalie portman is
a jew? I always knew something was off with her
bitcoinpete: Rassah: There aren't
a lot of smart people in bitcoinland... I have
a feeling Bitcoin Pete isn't one either, but is regurgitating things other smart people are saying in his blogs.
A beneficial service I guess << hooray for stupid yet useful jooz!
bitcoinpete: BingoBoingo: Well, pete's
a jew and there are
a lot of smart members of the tribe << einstein, maimonides, spinoza, natalie portman, etc.
dub: ThickAsThieves: I thought you called
a break up
Pierre_Rochard: BigBitz: Ok, in the future I will qualify it as “huh. Not seeing any news that could be having
a secondary effect because while the price doesn’t revolve around the news, this could be one of the rare news-driven price shifts”. That way there won’t be any confusion.
dub:
a friend broke his femure in pamplona (not running the bulls, trying to scale balconies the night before), hospitals there are scary
ThickAsThieves: <+dub> i've
a perverse need to test newphones waterproofyness /// maybe you should go to running of the bulls
ThickAsThieves: <+Rassah> In summary, they had an idea they thought was awesome, they wanted to spend
a year working on this awesome idea of theirs, without having to worry about jobs or income, so they marketed their idea to bitcoiners who like dumping money into altcoins... Sounds like they weren't dumb at all about this :) //// So, they are about equal to every other altcoin with dream, where's
ThickAsThieves: <+BingoBoingo> My current beef with Etherium is that despite all of their protests they are selling equity in
a something. /// worse, they are selling
a painting of
a duck to dogs, they don't yet realize it can't fly or quack, but it at least fills their bellies
ThickAsThieves: <+Rassah> Also, as is most important in any crptocurrency (even moreso than its "features") Etherium has
a team of good developers with
a specific goals, who want to work to develop it no matter the price. /// til they get bored
trixisowned: when in reality they just added their address to the list of miners, and take
a percentage of each block as if they were actually hashing
jurov: he got you
a voice here :D
jurov: ;;rate trixisowned 1 b-
a voice. and luke said he's
a troll.
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benkay: <BingoBoingo> mike_c: Situation has been remedied. Key in question was not sold so much as held by each of us in trust of
a higher powah. // this is the highest endorsement of the wot i've yet seen
fluffypony: every time I need
a transfer to move quickly this happens
Rassah: Except I actually know them, who they are, what they do, what kind of
a person they are, etc much more than
a nick on an IRC chat
fluffypony: Rassah: you are spot on, in
a sense - the WoT is
a digital representation of the real life business networks that are often found amongst the Freemasons, the Jews, or even among an old boy's club for
a particular school
dub:
a number of 'trusted' fold in and out of the wot met pirate if you'll recall
Rassah: There are
a lot of people in wot that have never met in person
Rassah: The other "wot" is people who actually know each other in person, and can vouch for each other. It's WOT, witout
a digital record
Rassah: mircea_popescu: Most people I know are not in the wot. Sorry, but there is
a whole separate "wot" out there that's not quite as... digital...
mircea_popescu: Rassah: I thought he was? Etherium is run by
a large group of people, including finance guys << none of which in the wot ? catperson, puhlease.
mircea_popescu: decimation: web 2.0 is so poorly designed that this barely exists, instead of being
a first class featue << muff said.
dub: i've
a perverse need to test newphones waterproofyness
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know making
a hit is not as trivial as it sounds.
Rassah: mircea_popescu: It sounded like you doubted my faith in bitcoin. Frankly I am offended. The statement I made was lolzy and derpy beause it is essentially saying that bitcoin will become so valuable that it will be valueless, which is
a logical contradiction, and yet I have heard that statement countless times over the years
BingoBoingo: Huh, I'm only running
a .21 according to this machine
Rassah: By the way, does anyone have
a better (lolsier) reason for why bitcoin will never work than "Bitcoin is deflationary, and will keep going up in price as people hoard it, until it becomes wortless?"
HANDSofSTEEL: then that will be
a good start for early investors
assbot:
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dub: got
a buddy who was basically high 24/7 on the job
BingoBoingo: So, last friday I'm at the bar and my friends point out
a dude with
a Bitcoin T-shirt. Suggest I start
a conversation. I point out that in the best case they are
a stranger, and in the worst case they are some petty scammer I blogged about.
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Rejected tx's happen on
a scale.
Rassah: Look at NMC as
a fluctuating cost at
a domain registry, not as an alt coin.
Rassah: I don't keep NMC as mone, stre of value, or
a transaction mechanism. I keep it as "
a cost to register and renew
a domain name"
BingoBoingo: Rassah: Being
a plus that can be mined on top of BTC with little opportunity cost is
a handicap.
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Because what do the Big BTC pools that merge namecoin do? Almost uniformly they dump it. Now... there's enough NMC out there that
a sufficiently well monetized party could stabilize the market, but doing so would be expensive and bloody
Rassah: decimation: K... Point is, regardless of what ether is ultimately worth, if they do come up with
a system that's as usable as they hope it will be, you could think of ether is jet fuel needed to run it. It won't be money, and, privately, the ether guys don't seem to want etherium to be money either. Just coins you plunk into the system to keep it rnning