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nubbins`: thestringpuller: last office
i worked in used lotus notes ;D
Namworld: Software to access IRC channels.
I suppose you're using the webchat?
mircea_popescu: (for instance
i don't write out ReutersEmily every time
i name you,
i just type out re)
Namworld: He doesn't speak much at all usually.
I doubt he'll talk to the press when he refuses to say anything to anyone.
ReutersEmily:
i also am trying to find out - why did he (Jon Montroll) go to hang out with Danny Brewster after that happened, and how did that whole thing get resolved?
ReutersEmily: hdbuck it's a fun beat but
i don't think it's good for my blood pressure
ozbot: Twitter / FlitterOnFraud: @mircea_popescu
I wonder whether ...
mircea_popescu: when
i originally picked a date for the secret conference, it was mostly tied to when this particular walkway of cherries would likely be in bloom.
nubbins`:
i went outside yesterday without a jacket
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Honestly by 2015
I imagine this will be the norm
ReutersEmily: oh didn't see your handle till after
i tweeted hold on
i'll do another one
Namworld: No need. What
I mean is, someone comes in here and ask questions, they'll probably get an answer, wether from the press or just a random stranger. Who the person actually is doesn't matter.
khersonus: Namworld:
I felt the need to ask, so
I asked. Does it matter that
I asked?
nubbins`:
i have to say, things are interesting around here lately
ReutersEmily: Huh
I wonder how
I would go about proving
I'm from Reuters - happy to offer proof if you want
ReutersEmily: khersonus
I wanted to talk to mircea_popescu about the SEC letter
khersonus: normally
I just read the logs, but this was worth hopping on for
khersonus: Reuters on IRC?
I can't decide if this is the future or the past, but
I like it.
LordPutin:
i called them once and Dave from fbi answered
ReutersEmily:
i called one yesterday and got a recording and a menu
mircea_popescu: until the securities and exchange comission of panama figures out how to work with me,
i guess this shitshow'll continue.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
i buy that just about as much as any other flying pigs scenario.
ReutersEmily: because
i want to know what you think about some of the new businesses popping up there
ReutersEmily: yeah
i would want to come as press. altho since we have people far closer to Romania than
I am here in NYC perhaps one of my colleagues would go instead
mircea_popescu: pizzaman1337 well
i imagine she wants to come as press rather than vip
Namworld:
I'm sorry,
I'm probably just interupting and distracting from your questions to Mircea.
ReutersEmily: so...perhaps you don't want to discuss it here but
i would love to know what you think of the new cyprus-based 'bank'
ReutersEmily:
I can understand how you could verify BTC holdings but not quite how you could verify the share holdings
ReutersEmily: like,
i can see how you would be able to verify the btc holdings
mircea_popescu: ReutersEmily the advantage of being here.
i gain about 15 iq points when surrounded by these folks.
Apocalyptic: anyway
I contacted that guy just for the lulz, if he was willing to pay for such a platform
mircea_popescu: so now based on this you can send me messages that only
i can decrypt, and
i can respond in kind.
Apocalyptic: <mircea_popescu> not enough scamcoins on it ? //
I guess so
mircea_popescu: you don't have to run research it, just say no if you don't an'
i'll explain. it's not really too complicated.
mircea_popescu: so if you want actual losses
i'd guess ten to a hundred million.
mircea_popescu: to date
i would guess about 20 to 30k different individuals have lost to unscrupulous operators somewhere between half a million and two million bitcoin
mircea_popescu:
i spend hundreds of my own btc to create evidentiary trails
mircea_popescu:
i have an entyire department dedicated to researching and outing scams
ReutersEmily:
I'm just trying to figure out how the SEC would argue it has jurisdiction
mircea_popescu: x.eur is a settled euro future handled by bitcoin-central's davout, so
i suppose you could use that.
mircea_popescu: no,
i am saying their debate as to whethet to come out and say its not in their yeard or not ended up in fishtails last tiem they tried to come to a declaration.
mircea_popescu: as
i was pointing out to someone from
i don't remember where yesterday,
ReutersEmily: yeah it is really cool from my perspective (
i cover SEC enforcement, etc) to get to see how they operate like that
mircea_popescu: "
i read it and shared it with everyone
i knew.
i think it was fantastic.
i was going to congratulate you on it yesterday but
i figured you were too busy."
ReutersEmily: So
I see you posted the SEC letter on your site
ReutersEmily: what if
i have an idea for a startup, can
i register with you before my company is really up and running in order to get some funding for my idea?
mircea_popescu:
i'm not sure what you mean by " private placement " but probably.
ReutersEmily:
I am completely unfamiliar with the etiquette in here
mircea_popescu:
i would say moore's law officially solved the problem of slashdotting, permanently.
mircea_popescu: so
i can't really believe it, but after being on everywhere trilema ain't been down.
nubbins`: TBF
i was buying btc and pushing them into SR as fast as
i could, and pascale said "maybe we should sit on a few k's"
mircea_popescu:
i spent about a year with ppl going "wait so you bought at 15 ? but it's not even half that now! you got duped mp!"
nubbins`: avg price for the ones
i still have was around $22
nubbins`:
i spent most of the early ones
nubbins`: first one
i ever bought was $11
Namworld:
I wish
I had bought more at 5ish.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`
i like bothering people with that figure :D
i imagine all the assholes buying 10k for a pizza are long gone so nobody can bother me.
mircea_popescu: unless it's a naked karpeles dancing in the streets of tokio for nickels
i ain't interested.
Namworld: mircea, no,
I'm not coding for noobs.
I just give an advice about not trusting anything just because it looks good because code can't be audited.
chetty:
I need to do some mac and eep win, to make eulora clients soonish
chetty: benkay:
I haven't time for scfi reading much in a while, anyway real life seems to have caught up, the newspaper is mostly scifi
Izzy_: hm
i can't type into my console
benkay: ha
i was sticking something in the fridge, BingoBoingo.
cazalla:
i could've had hundreds instead of the plebeian amount
i now own
Izzy_: do
i need windows?
cazalla: the rush is that
i only appreciate now what
i wish
i appcreciated 2 years ago
cazalla:
i don't but
i just wish
i had the dosh now incase it goes back up in the interim
Izzy_: could someone explain how
i get gpg?
benkay:
i thought him either a fool if honest, or a sly fox if amping the hysteria.
cazalla:
i'm not knocking off the old man
cazalla: he's kind enough to give my brother and
I a windfall
benkay: oh,
I see. you're going to off your father.