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markov: so you guys think karpeles lost keys rather then
a hack?
markov: eastern europe also has
a reputation for cc hacking/fraud
mircea_popescu: jurov amusingly, romania had
a published (but not public) policy of allowing open immigration for israelis should they need it
dexX7_: sounds like
a solid plan
markov: its quite
a shame that i have nearly 300 goxBTC
mircea_popescu: dexX7_ you know, p e singer made
a few millions that way
mircea_popescu: pay 1 btc or less on
a lark, i can see. like you'd buy
a lottery ticket
mircea_popescu: discerning the grain from the chaff is
a full time professional endeavour
markov: bitcoinbuilder is run by founder of dreamhost -- he has
a positive reputation -- if that means anything
mircea_popescu: dexX7_ because their accounting was
a complete mess, and because they never followed the an0 spec, things that'd be normally deductions have no scriptural basis.
mircea_popescu: dexX7_ part of it was lost to the usg, as
a result of karpeles signing false documents
cazalla: i don't own enough so the removal of 750k would at least push me up
a notch albeit
a small nudge
mark0v: seems like there was
a hack early on, and everything since then has been an attempt to make back coins by speculating
dexX7_: the crisis paper also states
a miss of 55 mio usd
mircea_popescu: you know, i ended up repeating this pretty much twice
a day because nobody reads logs.
jurov: so, you have yor bases covered... but if you started developing retardation treatment drops, i'd be concerned
a bit :D
mircea_popescu: jurov thee's
a lot of stuff. Pharmaceutical preparations for the treatment of pulmonary, inflammatory and infectious diseases ; Management and organization of multi-purpose exhibit showrooms for others ; Electric and electronic video surveillance installations.
mircea_popescu: you can't hold
a trademark on people's legal names against their use thereof.
mircea_popescu: the only thing is the bitcoin trademark, which was IDIOTICALLY assigned to mtgox by people without
a clue
davout: i'm also kinda wondering whether it'll be
a 100% haircut on BTC for everyone, or some lower number
jurov: that would be
a tech feat, fitting so much data there
davout: should get printed out and sold like
a bitcoin almanach
mircea_popescu: it just sits on the bottom of the sea, like 3-4 miles long, half
a mile thick sort of catfish
mircea_popescu: anyway : aircraft easy to spot.
a well designed sub is impossible to spot.
mircea_popescu:
a robot nuclear submarine is perhaps one of the best power projectors available.
benkay: everyone knows i'm only peripherally interested in technology as
a tool to make shitloads of money.
mircea_popescu: benkay you're clearly
a traitor to the holy cause of geekery.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: 30k buys jpm
a senator. it buys
a somali 100k rounds of 7.62x39. it buys you:
a toyota. << this is not exactly correct tho. consider : i have three girls, they kinda like each other. like-like. they share an appartment, we sometimes fuck. the whole shebang costs me maybe 30k
a year. prolly less.
mircea_popescu: kinda curious how the dev thing (as
a cultural construct mind you) will fare.
benkay: ya well there's
a reason there's basically no technical literature on the company site
benkay: i actually may have hammered into the heads of some folks that maybe the 'dev team' is
a joke
benkay: errybody's all "hey benkay benkay what ams
a bitcoin eh?"
benkay: at the bar on the tab of some poor company with
a business model and shit trying to recruit developers and whatnot
mircea_popescu: i guess i ended up self-employed in
a consulting capacity. again.
mircea_popescu:
a coupla hundred different datasets that don't really coallesce.
mircea_popescu: ok. suppose i hire you to do this job. now you have to make 100k posts
a day from supposedly 100k different handles on 1mn forums.
benkay: plus these logs are
a thing for posterity
mircea_popescu: basically the problems of 1) do what you describe and 2) make
a rsa key are homologous.
B007: benkay: implying he hasn't hired
a troll for irc and twitter already
mircea_popescu: and this makes no sense because for the money it'd cost to plant 1mn idiots in 100k forums nobody really reads, the attacker could jhust as well have built
a mining farm
benkay:
a fuck it has an e these days
benkay: also who's making odds on when mp hires
a twittr troll?
mircea_popescu: and you can't send any of the girls to spy on them either cause they get even awkwarder if any girls are within like
a mile ?
mircea_popescu: basically twitter is what i always wanted as
a kid in school :
a chance to spy on the losers conversations.
mircea_popescu: anyway, pulled his chain
a little on twitter, curious what comes of that.
mircea_popescu: he never ever even bought
a record, as they're not sold where he lives
mircea_popescu: i don't think it's even that to be honest, it's more like
a quest to belong.
mircea_popescu: guy is
a little young and naive tho, managed to come off rather impudent.
mircea_popescu: well i'm not arguing more people writing is
a bad thing.
mircea_popescu: "This meeting triggered
a chain reaction of events in which the solicited investors rebuffed Karpeles and his colleagues" vs "Feb 23 12:23:59 <mircea_popescu>may be that they've found
a sucker, but that story'll end if i find him too."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "The Boeing Black phone is manufactured as
a sealed device both with epoxy around the casing and with screws, the heads of which are covered with tamper proof covering to identify attempted disassembly."
the20year1: I was involved in
a decently sized digital currency long before bitcoin, and the IRS just told them to issue 1099c to everyone who participated, the barter clause has been around for 50+ years
decimation: exactly. If you have records and
a tax return to show you paid something, you are not going to be
a target
ThickAsThieves: more likely they sum up the amount of eligible tax deductions unclaimed against likely total of fraud and make sure they are still on winning side and call it
a day
decimation: except if you actually get audited by
a human
ThickAsThieves: the trick about taxation is
a personally believe the IRS' grip on auditing to be
a myth
duduqa: ThickAsThieves: don't you expect
a war against usg before that?
ThickAsThieves: I believe merchant adoption is just
a malformed precursor to the 100% Pure Bitcoin Closed Loop Movement
duduqa: much less
a discussion
duduqa: what about banning
a cryptocurrwhatever
duduqa: all that 6-year old plot, Obama whatching on
a big screen, live...and sheeple swallowed
mike_c: depends what you want. if all you want is for them to send
a letter, it's cheap.
duduqa: I am
a deep believer of bitcoin/crypto's ultimate success
Apocalyptic: <asciilifeform> ThickAsThieves: good luck outbidding the folks who print usd // he has
a point
duduqa: and once we enter another bubble,
a lot more people will put money into bitcoin
duduqa: it is
a whole different deal if only 0.05% embrace
a currency
ozbot: Canada Regulators Look at Ways to Get
a Better Handle on Bitcoin - Canada Real Time - WSJ
duduqa: as disruptive to politics/government/central banks as bitcoin can be, I expect it to be treated and regarded as pedophilia in
a short time
duduqa: asciilifeform: I can also imagine
a scenario in which such firewall happens to take place in the EU, China, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Russia, UAE, South America etc
duduqa: asciilifeform: that's too much of
a honeypot to let go without
a good fight
duduqa: asciilifeform: we are talking about
a huuuuuuuuuuuuuge power, which is being the printer of the world's reserve currency