mircea_popescu: dude what a loser list ahahaha. epic.

mircea_popescu: ahahaha the byrne fuckwit is actually a blockchain "bitcoin legal expert" pick of the month club ?

mircea_popescu: ah, it'd be a grand thing to watch unravel.

mircea_popescu: "After all, this is a dude with a lot of industry exposure and investments as it is. He could basically build a closed-loop bitcoin ecosystem himself via his roles as both investor (BitAngels, LA Bitcoin Accelerator) and executive at companies ranging from mining (KNCMiner), ATM hardware (Robocoin), payment processing (GoCoin), consumer wallet (ExpressCoin), and bitcoin exchange (Mt. Gox?). "

mircea_popescu: the problem is that he apparently did a shitty job of it.

mircea_popescu: bounce that'd be a problem for the judge taking the bribe. i see no problem for him in that.

mircea_popescu: he's here trying to establish a noob as "early investor" ? orly ? gtfo.

mircea_popescu: "I didn’t want to touch this story with a ten-foot pole because 1) I’ve met and have had only positive experiences with Pierce, 2) he is one of the most well-connected and important early investors in the Bitcoin industry, and 3) even if I hated him and he was a nobody, I’m still licking my wounds from the Gox and BTC Foundation battles I waged in February/March. The last thing I want to do is comment on a new p

mircea_popescu: anyway, apparently the two bit idiot character still exists and still posts. notwithstanding that nobody reads that pulp, either. now get a load of this :

mircea_popescu: and as to why now rather than earlier : nobody gives a shit about the foundation. nobod yreads what they do. nobody cares.

mircea_popescu: preferably on a video blog lol.

mircea_popescu: "I’m not even gay.”< ok, gets even better, we don't even need an investigative journalist anymore. any hot twinks with a desire to majorly troll want to go hit on pierce and report the results ?

mircea_popescu: kinda puts in a sore light the desperation of all these thought leaders in their own dreams, if that's what their godfather looks like.

mircea_popescu: kid actor, then part of a wow gold trading gang is what i knew.

mircea_popescu: rithm wait a second mr backhand jab. wtf would make me look less like a saint!

mircea_popescu: Let’s be clear here: Brock Pierce considers his previous work with IGE to have been a positive contribution to virtual currencies as a whole and he holds the delusion that his work in the field was instrumental to paving the way for Bitcoin. He wishes to be “The Godfather of Bitcoin”... It means what you think it means, especially in Hollywood.

mircea_popescu: hardly a verdict. let's call it... a proposed verdict.

mircea_popescu: on a cursory examination of a moderate pile of documentary evidence, such is my best guess.

mircea_popescu: so the murdering piece naphex pasted earlier has a lot of dubious fare in it, but also some gems.

mircea_popescu: the order without other modification. Although "proposed orders" are common in many situations, one does not typically request that documents be sealed by appending the request to another order in the Central District of California. This is at least partly because appending a request to seal to another order does not create a docket entry of an "Order to Seal" that the Clerk, journalists, and other interested parties c

mircea_popescu: >[The complaint was filed June 11, 2007, and was sealed over three months later, on September 17, 2007. Until that time it had been publicly available. It was sealed with one sentence near the end of a "proposed order" granting a motion to strike certain portions of the complaint. The order was apparently written by attorneys for Brock Pierce and presented to the judge, who scratched out the word "proposed" and signed

mircea_popescu: i click on a button, nothing fucking happens

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla what's a preferist

mircea_popescu: yet they failed to ping me. what appears a lowly web scrapper (the addl.es thing) however did.

mircea_popescu: awww left him a comment and i think it got et.

mircea_popescu: looks like a fucking cactus

mircea_popescu: is there a... turkish version anywhere ? portuguese ? something

mircea_popescu: wait, is the topless brunette ~singing~ as part of a strange softcore porn + music deal you people had going in the 70s ?!

mircea_popescu: ahahahaha it's a derp song ?

mircea_popescu: bounce well, consider the problem theoretically. if f(x) tracks f(y) then is a sample of f(x)s more likely or less likely to match a sample of f(y) than the disparate elements ?

mircea_popescu: "It is almost as if someone (a quite wealthy and powerful someone) has material interests that diverge with those of the Obama administration, and hence converge with those of Putin. Alongside the emerging China-Russia axis, keeping tabs on just how close to Russia Germany is willing to get, is easily the most notable story in the entire Ukraine conflict."

mircea_popescu: Naphex unless otherwise specified, it's a word.

mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bravetheworld here you go : http://trilema.com/2014/the-idea-that-bitcoin-is-a-sovereign/

mircea_popescu: ;;later tell benkay now i have to make bitcoinpete into a megabrand. we're gonna sell garbage trucks, satellites, and pallets of bottled peri-air << is that air from the perineum ?

mircea_popescu: it's amusing, all the fucking pretense of "success" these people put up. from winklevoss and brock pierce all the way down, they all pretend like they got dough meanwhile can't pay for a cup of coffee in cash.

mircea_popescu: Naphex congrats, a winner is you :D

mircea_popescu: if anyone feels like a little visual challenge.

mircea_popescu: ok, we shall be having a little fun in a short while, so. stay tuned!

mircea_popescu: entire fucking country consists of three people translating german newspapers and the rest trying to make a commedia del'arte version of what they understood of it.

mircea_popescu: we'd all love this situation where there's a way to avoid all risk. nevertheless, that's a counterfactual. irl, adults have to pick a poison at all times.

mircea_popescu: or else you can be a fiat registered corp

mircea_popescu: you can be a bitcoin registered corp

mircea_popescu: decimation not a bad write-up;

mircea_popescu: "Being of thought and freedom. Working on my financial future through proper investments in BTC, and working on becoming a poker master."

mircea_popescu: so amazon now has a patent on the concept of the white wall