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mircea_popescu: davout: it occurs to me that there's a rather trivial way to split gavincoins from bitcoins other than randomly attempting a double-spend, simply include some coinbase-tainted coins in your tx after the fork has occurred << this is true but it only works after you got some split.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: fluffypony is that the derp that was hanging out here, aiming for publicity ?
mircea_popescu: was this the phantom one man "corporation" he funneled the donations through ?
mircea_popescu: " I think Theymos has done an awesome service for the community in turning the forum into something of an institution rather than not just pocking hte funds."
mircea_popescu: derp. it seems to me "exchanges" rarely survive a straight year.
mircea_popescu: "It seems to me the bitcoin exchanges and companies like Bitpay will have a large say in how this goes forward. "
mircea_popescu: and be heard because i was there to make the points, and the name calling.
mircea_popescu: let then better men make the same better points without the name calling,
mircea_popescu: "And now in practical terms : there once existed this thing called NeoBee. It pretended to be a Bitcoin business, but inasmuch as its purported CEO was not in #bitcoin-assets, it never stood a chance. This is a point oft neglected, but by far the best predictor of success or failure in the Bitcoin space : that channel is where the industry meets. If a purported business is not well represented in there, it is not well
mircea_popescu: it'll be the lulz of all time if d.bpay is the first derp to bite it.
mircea_popescu: kinda, yeah. fucking impossible to make poetrywork in nonflexional languages.
mircea_popescu: in romanian it's actually oyu know, like a poem, with rhyme and errything
mircea_popescu: i butchered it as far as everything but the imagery is concerned.
mircea_popescu: (ballerina kills herself after her novelist husband dies)
mircea_popescu: tbh pleb funerals prolly beat fancypants funerals. tho maybe that doesn't hold in fake-usia
mircea_popescu: is this because reddit is too young to have given much thought to funerals etc ?
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news, im kinda blown away that the point that an eulogy's job is to illustrate how great the deceased was and how worthless the world by comparison is somehow controversial.
mircea_popescu: "How much did the Bitcoin Bowl cost? Was it really worth sacrificing nine of your best and brightest?" << heh. once you put it like that, it burns.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah but i mean... so it's great, less shit to worry about, someone else;s doing it.
mircea_popescu: "Lets not forget the real paid shills on /r/bitcoin as well. The fuckwits who were paid to spread the usage of 'bit' as a unit. I wonder how much BitPay spent on that one." << that's a kinda funny one. yet another place where derps diverge from mp, derps fail & get burned, derps dun learn.
mircea_popescu: of course, all this wasn't exactly exceptional in 2002 or w/e.
mircea_popescu: i thought it was that other derp that got put away for something pedo related
mircea_popescu: any substance to this "Tony "I Like Underage Girls" Gallippi" angle something awful's pushing ?
mircea_popescu: maybe qntra should pay dividends in social media crap.
mircea_popescu: cazalla dude did you people get more reddit comments/votes today than sharesd ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla prolly should get rid of absolute px specification in favour of %s
mircea_popescu: i guess my very heavy "not a whore, not a woman" bias is showing.
mircea_popescu: she does a splendid eleanor of aquitanie and generally dowager roles,
mircea_popescu: kinda so-so, that one. to have and have not, the big sleep, stuff like that rather.
mircea_popescu: hanbot i wonder how many of these milktoothed experts of letters and matters even understands what the sockwashing reference is.
mircea_popescu: "I think the bigger issue is that Bitpay doesn't have a long term business model. Even assuming that Bitcoin adoption grows, transfer of Bitcoin to fiat is a programmable function. People will immediately cut out the middle man if it becomes less expensive, and its a bit of a race to the bottom as people compete in the space for the best rates, quickest conversion and most apis."
mircea_popescu: BitPay will soon be dead. They probably make $1000 per month revenue and burn around $500K.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Basically they fired the guy who blew $1.5Million and only 5 Transactions (probably sub $10) to show for it.
mircea_popescu: "An as yet unknown1 individual or group has taken up the mantle of DPR and launched the next iteration of the Silk Road marketplace, but this time around it's not accessible via Tor."