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mircea_popescu: point being, mpex is, currently, > 50% of "bitcoin business". like it or not, it's a fact.
mircea_popescu: enough to make me 600 btc in the month bitpay made a loss.
mircea_popescu: coinbase made the round, which i guess gains it a little space. NOT that much.
mircea_popescu: but if you absolutely must see bitpay die before you wake up, it can be arranged.
mircea_popescu: the one large merchant left in bitcoin so far is mpex.
mircea_popescu: people here don't "have concerns". people here are going to skin the fork as proposed so far, no argument there. gavin can start reading or press ahead, either way.
mircea_popescu: what's next, start assaulting women because "nobody told me how to seduce any woman" ?
mircea_popescu: sometimes we don't get what we want. that doesn't mean our wants now have a wild card and nothing else matters anymore. this isn't school.
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr anyway, inasmuch as everyone actually wants bitcoin to prevail, divergence of opinion isn't much of a problem. however, the conservative rather than the progressive approach must be observed. change doesn't happen just for the sake of changing things. this isn't a fad or an ipad gizmo. if consensus can't be reached for whatever reason, whoever doesn't like it leaves and starts over, rather than pretending the o
mircea_popescu: Blazedout419 hey, my question to you is, did you actually pay 14k for that guy's wooden thing, as represented ? or was it more like a sweetheart sort of deal for advertising sake, like the sillycon valley does ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla hey is there going to be a party on the log's 1mn th line ?
mircea_popescu: including the actual bitcoin foundation is the correct move there. mod6 ben_vulpes are in charge.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ;;sell 1000 "Gavin Scamcoins" @ 750 BTC Future delivery. Larger amounts will get you an even better deal. Smaller amounts may be considered.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ;;sell 1000 "Gavin Scamcoins" @ 750 Bitcoin Future delivery. Larger amounts will get you an even better deal. Smaller amounts may be considered.
mircea_popescu: same shit's happening here. gavin is lying, and you're falling for it.
mircea_popescu: yeah, you did. you were promised one thing, got another thing, they told you "it's just as good, pretend like you got the original". and you did. becauser you believed them, that delivery's imminent and errything.
mircea_popescu: i will just remind you that you actually believed the bfl scammers, and stained your own beard lieing about THAT delivery.
mircea_popescu: and what lies gavin is sprouting to an eager ear... his problem.
mircea_popescu: there is no "community" agreement. reddit isn;'t the community.
mircea_popescu: ;;sell 1000 "Gavin Scamcoins" @ 750 Bitcoin Future delivery. Larger amounts will get you an even better deal. Smaller amounts may be considered.
mircea_popescu: ;;sell 1000 "Gavin Scamcoins" @750 Bitcoin Future delivery. Larger amounts will get you an even better deal. Smaller amounts may be considered.
mircea_popescu: ;;sell 1000 Gavin Scamcoins @750 Bitcoin Future delivery. Larger amounts will get you an even better deal. Smaller amounts may be considered.
mircea_popescu: as far as hardforking goes." << the downside of a hardfork is that every user that buys into the gavin scam will be left without a bitcoin node.
mircea_popescu: "Downsides of a hardfork are simply that all nodes who do not go along with the upgrade are left without a functioning Bitcoin node, and susceptible to fraud (double spending, etc). This means a mandatory update of every node in the wild, which could require hardware upgrades as well. Miners are not in any special position to decide a hardfork, and are at the mercy of the bitcoin users (mainly merchants and exchanges)
mircea_popescu: One night, Charles Manners (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) appeared in the regal box at the theatre on the same night that Peg was attending the show with her girls. Some wags in the gallery began shouting at her “Oy Peg! Who slept with you last night, Peg?” Peg gave them an imperious look, threw a dramatic glance at the Lord Lieutenant and in a scolding tone, said: “Manners, you dogs!”
mircea_popescu: "Question: Why would I go to the fucking dumpy ass trailer park called Lake Havasu when I am currently living in Carefree and 10 minutes from Scottsdale?" lol i was waiting for this.
mircea_popescu: the type of plague that destroys the medical community, that guy.
mircea_popescu: right about at the time they tarred and feathered that asinine idiot who said they should wash hands
☟︎ mircea_popescu: genders don't preserve through the eons, they bleed. the french soldier of 1800 wasn't a soldier in 1750. he was a peasant.
mircea_popescu: old men pretending to be teaching the young'uns "trigonometry" who thought pi = 3.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that he'd have a complex story as to how earthworms cause trees to flower
mircea_popescu: if gavin were a blacksmith, he probably would have passed for a good one. if this guy were an actual lumberjack, he'd probably have counted for a fine lumberjack.
mircea_popescu: fifty or five hundred years ago, that wasn't a crowd. it was sole individuals, and the idiots were still a crowd.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i mean it deeper than that. i mean, actual quacks passing for professionals. see, since the internet there's a line being drawn : sure both gavin and wood dude pass to a certain crowd as idiots for the genuine article. but there exists a thinking crowd that sees through it.
mircea_popescu: how many idiotic "artisans" filled each corner of england ?
mircea_popescu: the funny thing (to me) here is, gotany idea how much of this shit floated before there was an internet ?
mircea_popescu: he can still prove it to you, but only secretly and if oyu agree.
mircea_popescu: "I can and will still prove to you that Nubbins is full of shit and on a smear campaign, i am now just choosing to do so directly with the people who matter, not every tom dick and harry that thinks they know a darn thing about woodworking"
mircea_popescu: it's like a diamond, depends which way the light falls.
mircea_popescu: very common problem people have on the internet, the "everyone is as stupid as me / everyone's a goat the same gender and age as me" issue.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: a) do not make too tiny cuts that wouldn't have survived mechanically b) clean the fucking piece.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` at this point, expecting a "well of course SOME PARTS were done with a laser but that's not what we were talking about" pivot for the entire "you're a bad person for hurting my feelings and i'm putting together a lynch party" talk
mircea_popescu: He did the BTC from memory << ok that's pretty good lol
mircea_popescu: this one is just as plausible. all you need is to be stupid.
mircea_popescu: you know, the fucking exchanges send like an email on everything now?
mircea_popescu: so if they're willing to commit to the same level, they'll get the same result.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the "ukrainian government" still exists right ?
mircea_popescu: this is fine, the us wants to be humiliated on this front too, let it be humiliated on this front too.
mircea_popescu: but yes, im sure gavin "talked" to everyone handled by the same office.
mircea_popescu: "Edit: On IRC, Gavin explained he already talked to most (all?) big merchant processors and exchanges, and they were all onboard." derp.
mircea_popescu: da finally came out and said, here's how the president is linked to the whole thing.
mircea_popescu: they created a "joint comission" with iran. it didn't get anywhere.
mircea_popescu: teheran was behind it. first investigation said so. presidency (same fambly since forever) tabled it.
mircea_popescu: davout here's the story : big bombing here in the 70s, at the jewish center. dozens of victims.