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Apocalyptic: <ATH5> "There was
a weakness in the system, and the bitcoins disappeared" << Karpeles live
wbaw: you could close betting while you reach
a decision
mircea_popescu: every business will make
a choice as you can't have all three.
mircea_popescu: but you're in no way at risk. if people bet after the fact hey just get charged
a small fine
wbaw: i'm not saying it's
a scam, just you should act
a bit faster to protect your customers
mircea_popescu: Bitcoin suddenly opened the gate. It is
a poisonous offering. You are grossly unequipped to interact straight with the refuse of Western society. Accepting investors with fortunes under
a million dollars or whatever the limit was placed for US citizens may make sense. Accepting investors with fortunes under any arbitrary value and simultaneously wits under any arbitrary threshold is not
a sound business plan but
a stra
ozbot: Strategic superiority,
a saga pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
cazalla: didn't you know bitbet was
a scam wbaw?
mircea_popescu: dood, i'm sure it's good enough,
a mod needs to get to it.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile :
A talking parrot has helped Indian police crack an intriguing murder mystery and led the cops to arrest the killer.
wbaw: you take
a 1% fee from returned bets, says on your site
wbaw: same when i pay for
a bet at
a bookmaker
wbaw: when i pay for
a burger at mcdonalds they usually give me one
mircea_popescu:
a huge company made out of
a lot of small, smelly, dingy little outifits.
mircea_popescu: huge companies they are everywhere, but still, much in the way mcdonalds is
a huge company :
wbaw: you've never visited
a real bookmaker?
wbaw: mircea_popescu, they keep
a record of all the bets
wbaw: there are 5 or 6 within
a short walk, but i think william hill is the only one that takes random bets like this
wbaw: then i go to
a shop with more staff
wbaw: then i get my payout
a few minutes later
wbaw: mircea_popescu, i walk into
a shop, place
a bet, get fixed odds &
a betting receipt
wbaw: how official does it need to be if their company lawyer announcing it outside
a court isn't enough?
wbaw: and he has
a shop around the corner from me
wbaw: at least its
a warning not to use the site again & stick with reputable bookmakers
mircea_popescu: o hey, us attorney general just jumped out of
a window.
wbaw: jurov, could you bet on
a football match after the result is known?
wbaw: bet is still open, what
a joke
wbaw: TOKYO—
A lawyer for Mt. Gox announced at
a news conference at the Tokyo District Court that the embattled bitcoin exchange was filing for bankruptcy protection and that Mt. Gox had outstanding debt of about ¥6.5 billion ($63.6 million).
Apocalyptic: <jurov> and even if, what is the fair btc price here? // hard to find
a definitive answer here, but you can still can pick
a reasonable one
kakobrekla: mods close the bets when it needs to be, you can leave them
a message on bitbet comments
jurov: that has potential to create
a mess
dexX7: what's the context? was there any statement about
a potential fiat bailout?
Apocalyptic: hum that could set
a precedent about btc liabilities during liquidations
anddam: well, math would be exact, but when you're using
a computer you're using an approximation
benkay`: i will come harp at you over rounding errors of less than
a satoshi anddam
davout: mircea_popescu: thanks! i'll have
a look
benkay`: if you look sideways at the TATINVESTMENTS logo you can see
a WTF
anddam: actually there are
a few on btctalk but the tone of threads is childish more often than not
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell duffer1 hey, you have
a compatriot here : anddam
benkay`: bitcointalk *has*
a search bar, mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: i don't mean the newest scamcoin, i get it, Reggie Middleton is
a random noob who figures that he's special and doesn't need to first spend his six months reading here.
mircea_popescu: i guess it has resolved
a lot of financial and mental hymens
chetty: <mircea_popescu> "i shouldn't still be
a virgin, kinda the point of bitcoin!! <<<< it isn't?????
mircea_popescu: "i shouldn't still be
a virgin, kinda the point of bitcoin!!1"
mircea_popescu: "When using only an HD wallet design, you can regenerate the wallet (and all of the addresses) at any time using
a seed which can be presented as
a mnemonic string of words, without reducing the amount of entrophy like brain wallets do."
mircea_popescu: benkay re the assass feed : trilema has
a 15 minute rss delay built in for that very reason. maybe you should implement something like it.
mircea_popescu: dignork i use local logs for that purpose. log website only does daybased, and i suppose global search may be
a little cpu intensive as
a publicly exposed service.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo : perhaps
a good alternative is to buy
a chinese and
a usg and use them in paralel.
mircea_popescu: people have this amazing facility, guy goes out with girl, its their first time, it feels like the first time. kids have been fucking for
a while now, it's anything but novel in any sense.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it is foolish to consider diddled cpus without having
a picture of the actual possibilities in mind. <<< now how does this follow ?!
mircea_popescu: you're supposed to listen to it. there's
a fucking difference.
mircea_popescu: there's
a lot of things you didn't know. but the fact that i said mtgox is going down, you knew.
KRS-One: Its getting late here. Have
a great day-
KRS-One: I go to the strip club once
a week. You would be suprised what you can get there being
a regular.
MagicalFag: just got
a $
a: ban on ##mtgox-chat, such fun
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo midnightmagic is an old time miner with
a very naive set of strongly held notions.
mircea_popescu: diametric: the latest trend is that Mark is under
a gag order << you happen to be familiar with the trials and tribulations of the public opinion during any of the large eastern european ponzi collapses ?
mircea_popescu: isn;t this the guy who didn't have the time to either
a) get with the program or b) read the indicated article detailing the unsuccessful attempts of the last nitwit who thought he's too good to do what he's told on the grounds of well... he's special ?
bloctoc_: is there
a way to verify mpex has possession of coins?
BingoBoingo: ##mtgox-statement pissing me off beyond my vodka budget for
a Thursday
bloctoc_: I don't know but it's in the bitcoin-assets archives
a couple of days after the transaction
bloctoc_: I've been looking at the price, seems good but one would have to sell bitbet to do such
a thing
BingoBoingo: I'm going to sleep soon and hope I keep logging that channel, but backup is necessary, because that is
a lulz goldmine
KRS-One: i would take the girl on the right, but i like blondes...the girl on the left has
a fat pussy
BingoBoingo: Remember ##mtgoc-statement is
a total lolz factory ripe for pikinz
KRS-One: if you zoom in real close on the pubes of the girls in that pic you can get
a good crotch shot
benkay: no no there is
a thing as too soon
BingoBoingo: Remember, disorderlynes is
a moral imperative
Luke-Jr: BingoBoingo: please do not slander me; there is
a person by that name present
BingoBoingo: OMG Luke-Jr called me
a kike <Luke-Jr> BitcoinKike: lack of transparency including proof of reserves
dignork: asciilifeform: is there any way to grep/search in log.bitcoin-assets.com ? I mean like
a month range. I can hack together some crawler, but maybe there is on already.
BingoBoingo: Introducing noise as
a reciever isn't too new
BingoBoingo: The way to appear clean though is to cage the important machines and subcribe to Cable's sports package and have
a lot of CRT TV's
BingoBoingo: What I want to know is now that MOPS based OpenRISC is very mature why can't I get
a 4 ghz laptop with one of those.