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bounce: depends on what you think is "charity". plenty of the oh-so-selfless white influence hasn't done the continent
a bit of good
mrwdunne: I think people prefer to live for longer though. Definitely go and do some charity in Africa though - its
a great experience
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: in all seriousness, there are
a number of really good programs out here that are always looking for help - I think I linked to these guys the other day, but in case not:
http://www.jukani.co.za fluffypony: mircea_popescu: the Congo's
a tough haul for
a white guy
bounce: probably more effective to start
a militia/hire
a bunch of trigger happy goons/whatever and do some "long pig hunting" on poachers
fluffypony: but they're pretty stupid because you pay them to be
a volunteer worker
fluffypony: seriously tho, there are
a bunch of programs
bounce: can't trust
a thing that guy claims, he's clearly on shroomz
bounce: great opportunity to catch up with the reading. *is
a bit swamped*
bounce: isn't there
a private jet thing for this sort of situation yet?
fluffypony: (not quite that bad, but it's
a little wild-westish)
ThickAsThieves: as an interesting aside, my lawyer,
a former US Attorney, has expressed interest in coming here tp pick your brain MP
ThickAsThieves: The verdict is in, unless i'm ready to move to Romania, and/or MPEx blocks US customers, and/or I register as
a broker/dealer with SEC, I must decline the MPIF mgr position due to legal concerns. Even then, it'd take
a combination of those to have any remote chance of safety. :(
mircea_popescu: decimation: re: amazon, I've heard it's
a tough life working there << but it's
a large corp. of course they'd be managing the fuck out of all cost, neh ? afaik google is pretty much the only giant still trying to play the startup, otherwise even apple is bezos-ing it away.
mircea_popescu: numerisTrade anyway, definitely
a better bet than godaddy, which is unequivocally atrocious. maybe enom if you have
a direct contract with them.
ozbot: Namecheap goes off the deep end. Anyone know
a decent domain registrar ? pe Trilema - Un blog de Mir
mircea_popescu: they were really great, but recently did
a dumbass websiute redesign breaking everything. i bitched about it, they fixed some things, what can i say. nothing good endures
mircea_popescu: the idea being that it'll have its first report before the 5th, and that'll allow
a nav, and then it can trade.
mrstickball: so its
a weird combination of great plan, bad idea
mrstickball: turns out, there's
a new crypto-security that is based out of Grove City
fluffypony: it's ridiculous, daddy is smart and started
a company, and then basically gave his sons companies and shitloads of money
fluffypony: so then they buy stupidly, and if
a company gets folded into your division/company you're fucked trying to integrate staff that don't want to be there
fluffypony: they got lucky early on with
a couple of smart acquisitions
mircea_popescu: fluffypony well if you flail it around fast enough you could generate enough plasma to cut
a steak...
fluffypony: Naphex:
a sledgehammer is an amazing tool, but you try cutting
a medium-rare steak with it
pankkake: I wonder what
a bankkake would be…
mircea_popescu: Naphex last numbers i've seen, about 85bn try to move through triangular transfers
a year worldwide.
jurov:
A asks his bank to reverse payment.. what will you (E) do?
jurov:
A then sends fiat to E, B exchanges them for bitcoins and vanishes without giving
A anything
jurov: recently there was this type of scam around:
A buys from B something, B gives to
A his exchange E's bank account
mrwdunne: Nefario was
a scammer, essentially
mircea_popescu: fuck, even nefario had
a "perfect" regulatory environment for an exchange
mircea_popescu:
a perfect chair that's not been sat into is no sort of advantage. those things will count in five years.
mrwdunne: ThickAsThieves I agree, to significant buyers it is not an issue. However it is
a significant advantage to significant amounts of smaller buyers.
mrwdunne: Offering free, instant bank transfers however is
a reason to move en-masse. Being the only may not directly be the selling point, however that is
a very valid advantage
fluffypony: mrwdunne: every entrepreneur pitching
a business says that their product is
a special and unique snowflake the likes of which have not been seen from the beginning of time until now, no nor shall be seen again...that's not
a compelling reason for customers to move en-masse to your exchange
mircea_popescu: noob founders try to pitch onlyness to vcs all the time, innocent of the plain obvious fact that it's
a disqualifier.
ThickAsThieves: you think youll get
a flood of people on
a new exchange?
mrwdunne: Naphex: yes, we are selling in stages, at each stage we will sell the shares for more. Whatever we have left we will use to provide liquidity. However I think we will see
a flood of people from the UK when we launch. Especially as the bank transfers are instant
fluffypony: and we'll call it
a "consulting service" for startups
ThickAsThieves: all we need is some handsome pictures of everyone in
a suit or bitcoin t-shirt
fluffypony: ;;rate Naphex 1 knows his shiznat regarding infrastructure, architecture, and deployment. is probably
a better developer than me to boot.
ThickAsThieves: it's
a slow time of day here, so the more you're around the more you can float your questions and answer them
ThickAsThieves: MichalisBTC I'd recommend registering your name with nickserv, then signing up for the Bitcoin Web of Trust. These are some of the verification methods we live by and
a great way to build your rep while establishing an identity.
MichalisBTC: with our security design for the perimeter the worst thing that can happen to one of our satellite nodes is go out of service. But with
a DDoS they cannot penetrate further than that.
MichalisBTC: We are in Cyprus, low corporate tax attracts
a lot of FX companies, who wish now to integrate bitcoin. Some list it already as CFDs, but they cannot clear bitcoin. We do the hard work for them, they are in control of the wallets. We are just the passthrough, offering
a service.
punkman: MichalisBTC: why "as
a service"? why not license the software that provices the convenient API for the blockchain?
MichalisBTC: for blockchain as
a service we plan to use oauth, so yes
Naphex: not
a full verifying node yes?
MichalisBTC: We are not holding any funds for "Blockchain as
a Service" and the only input in the system is the bitcoin netowork.
Naphex:
A. Send bitcoins from master, customer, hot wallets.
MichalisBTC: FX companies that need to offer bitcoin clearing without us being in control of their bitcoin. Anyone who wishes to built
a bitcoin app. We do the heavy lifting for them.
Naphex: ThickAsThieves: run
a full-node cluster, and get whatever data you need from there. use full nodes for payments, and multi-sig cold wallets for storage
MichalisBTC: i guess there are
a number of ways to do this, we went with Java and bitcoinJ was of great help.
MichalisBTC: The space we are entering with "Blockchain as
a Service" is kind of competing with blockchain.info, some features overlap. his advise on that was that indeed we need more of these type of SaaS to help the eco-system...
fluffypony: so is he
a technical advisor in terms of checking your architecture and designs, or is he an advisor to the funding process/business proposal?
MichalisBTC: Really nice guy btw. We had
a one hour skype video call and went over our designs.
A few days ago we asked him if we appoint him as our advisor for the funding process and he was kind enough to accept.
MichalisBTC: Yes, we approached Mike because all our previous work was on bitcoinJ. BitcoinJ was designed to be
a mobile client rather
a backend server.However, the tools of the library are helpful and because we code in Java we decided to give it
a shot. We broke it appart and used what was good for our purposes but as some point we wanted advise on how to proceed, so we thought to pass our plans
MichalisBTC: we are working on
a new project, it's Blockchain as
a Service. It's
a friendly RESTful API that allows creating bitcoin apps...to put it in single sentence. with
a lot of automations and event type notifications.
ThickAsThieves: MichalisBTC do you have
a link for details on your plan?
ThickAsThieves: "On the business front, Android fans are more apt to show
a strong interest in Evernote (16.65X), LinkedIn (6.90X), venture capital (5.44X), and corporate finance (3.85X). The only business topics to feature prominently for iOS fans are TechCrunch (13.55X) and Bitcoin (7.93X)."
MrWDunne: It does mean for
a while there were more bitcoins in circulation than actually existed. But when did it all start?
pankkake: but that was
a while ago. so those bitcoins were already out, priced. yet people were still seing pretty numbers of bitcoins that were not there
Naphex: will switch it with
a good graph pretty soon, the data plant should be ready by monday
Naphex: fluffypony: there is
a slider down, you squeeze it
MrWDunne: Starbucks apparently holds
a large amount of BTC
fluffypony: Naphex: that graph on the front page, it's not possible to zoom in right? wanted to see if you guys saw
a dip from the China thing as well
fluffypony: he has
a point though - if the 200k coins they magically "found" form part of the assets sold off to pay creditors, customers will proportionally get less as they have to share with other creditors
random_cat slaps jurov about
a bit with
a wet puppy
davout: thestringpuller: reading fine print is
a good thing, why not rate it as such? :D
fluffypony: thestringpuller: new idea for
a Bug Bounty program?
fluffypony: someone needs to tell MaidSafe and this "Dark Market" crap that they're reinventing the wheel; Tahoe-LAFS over I2P already has
a web client and is
a distributed data store etc.
bitcoinpete: "The MAIDSAFE project specifically and these types of crowdsales broadly have
a great future ahead, but it’s
a bit like launching
a boat – careful thought, diligent planning and rigorous construction must all come together or the whole thing sinks." <<such derp
bitcoinpete: so ltb head adam levine tried writing about maidsafe for techcrunch and they pulled his article cuz it had
a tip widget
bitcoinpete: fluffypony: saw that article about the mt gox coins flowing into maidsafe. that thing is more crooked than
a chicago politician
fluffypony: can you search the WoT for
a specific gpg key id?
HeySteve: I'm more interested in the malware and where the coins are going, I wonder if they preserved
a specimen (sort of thing)