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mircea_popescu: i dunno that there's something chilling me on bitcoin as much as all these idiots "driving adoption" in their idiotarian ways.
mircea_popescu: Bitcoin tipping sees giant growth: ChangeTip exceeds 10,000 tips in bla bla.
mircea_popescu: and of course diiorio and the rest of that scammer group.
mircea_popescu: dude holy shit already. how much derpage can this one dude sprout.
mircea_popescu: The following people work to set the direction of C4 and the standards against which cryptocurrency professionals are measured:
mircea_popescu: The CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4) establishes cryptocurrency standards that help ensure a balance of openness & privacy, security & usability, and trust & decentralization.
mircea_popescu: seriously, "certified bitcoin professional" ?! professional whats ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the difference between us here is that you seem to include the margin. i say there's no margin included.
mircea_popescu: what's all teh "ironic" trend if not, you know, "i'm meta-er than you ha!"
mircea_popescu: the only reason hipsters have moved on to bikes is that they're meta cars
mircea_popescu: what's more socially acceptable than playing the farmer on facebook ?
mircea_popescu: ask some chick if she wants to get laid ? o but... not meta enough!
mircea_popescu: you're not "supposed to" beat your own kids. you're supposed to... "be better than that". and do it ? indirectly! ha! win.
mircea_popescu: but if you look at it, pretty much all effort goes towards meta.
mircea_popescu: but a state with economic involvement and the custody of the currency is like...
mircea_popescu: this'd work fine in practice for as long as the martian contraption owner didn't also have a cock
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not sure if you've noticed, but the movement is AWAY from direct sense, towards meta.
mircea_popescu: they've got the opportunity to send their kids to college :D
mircea_popescu: this is true tho. numerically : the poor used to have 0.8 opportunity, and the rich 0.75
mircea_popescu: "Perhaps he was handed the story by the CIA, as German journalist Udo Ulfkotte confesses he often was."
mircea_popescu: you people with your retro fashions will be the end of the fucking world
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> pete_dushenski, i can see paying $2,500 for a ship in a game, not as a pre-order mind you. i hope for a game where bitcoin is the ingame currency and players set pricing for resources independent of publisher << it;'s called eve
mircea_popescu: a ? well i guess that's something i learned today then
mircea_popescu: hopefully i'll get a price per head, so i won't have to pay per pound.
mircea_popescu: ima totally gonna go to target to buy beached whales belabouring under the delusion that people laughing them out of bars = "victims of violence"
mircea_popescu: is this target trollbaiting in the hopes someone's going to like, go to their store ?
mircea_popescu: ;;rate thebroker -1 aka digicoins.io. Inept and unreliable smalltimer.
mircea_popescu: random romanian first timer sold some painting for ~1.5mn
mircea_popescu: of course it was going to break the record. all "art" is going through roof.
mircea_popescu: ndata> it wouldn't mount /home for example << prolly home didn't have the right pid.
mircea_popescu: day slightly thus improved, we proceed to the waiting car!
mircea_popescu: arrange meeting for today at 3 with kinda shaky individual, have secretary confirm it today. wake up, check, confirmation comes in the form of "in the immortal words of dude, yes, 1500. he'll wait you."
mircea_popescu: davout: cazalla: i don't even get why they feel the need to talk about bitcoin << virgins also feel a need to talk about the cock.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: I can't believe in 2014 we have GoDaddy leading the way in managed DNSSEC and Facebook leading the way in correct Tor hosting for clearnet sites <<< bwahaaha this IS a fucking point. and it goes on : microsoft leading the way for linux, on it goes.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: that fuckwit infosec "expert" that's helping them irritates me <<< i don't recall an infosec expert of the webz that wasn't a sort of "assigned female at birth genderqueer individual".
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: my more immediate concern is...wtf is happening to s.mpoe << ya srsly.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: So, what's the hypothesis. Hardware breaking and mining farms being more selective about the hardware they keep on? <<< mining moved away from the general public to "specialised experts". this always results in a drop of quality.
mircea_popescu: instead it's "now it's not volatile so not interesting anymore, can't use".
mircea_popescu: decimation: eh, flat makes those famed 'afraid of volatility' types happy <<< yet for every 500 guys that went "o bitcoin i can not use it is too volatile" for 3 years going, you don't hear as many as .5 guys today "o, now i can use it"