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mircea_popescu: twizt there's a bitbet bet about it going under 150
kakobrekla: got a chart from before that?
Duffer1: the world would be a better place if Rod started poking BFL and/or ActM
Rod: This has been interesting, learned a few things to be sure.
Rod: Mircea, I'm gonna set up a wallet and Ill tweet you when it's done. Probably later this week as I am traveling some over the next few days.
mircea_popescu: pankkake you're a good man.
pankkake: it is fast, and it has a lot of usage. I'm uploading around ~600kbs/s all the time
pankkake: that's a thing to now beforehand nowadays. cause you will spend a week downloading 18Gs
Duffer1: ya probably fastest to get set up on blockchain.info for a wallet address, then start bitpay kyc account procedures probably takes a while
pankkake: (but you will spend a week explaining to bitpay what your nonprofit does :p)
Rod: is there a consensus about which is best for a non-profit like us that is not terribly sophisticated?
mircea_popescu: that first link is a decent primer i guess.
mircea_popescu: getting a proper wallet will require some more downloading and reading, which i encourage you to do, but it will take time.
mircea_popescu: go to blockchain.info, you can set one up in like a minute
Rod: no i assuredly need help setting up a wallet
mircea_popescu: Rod so wait, you have a bitcoin wallet then ?
Duffer1: do you know how to/need help with setting a bitcoin wallet?
Rod: i am unfamiliar with this world; i feel like a 70 year old guy looking at the moonshot.
mircea_popescu: going back like a year.
mircea_popescu: sifting through there you can get AT LEAST a subject a day.
mircea_popescu: tell you what, get a bitcoin address up for donations, maybe some of these scrooges will sweeten the pot
Rod: we have a paypal at sirf-online.org.....
mircea_popescu: you're a nonprofit, you can have it there. got a donation address ?
mircea_popescu: Rod so tell you what i'm gonna do. i'll pay you a bitcoin upfront just to show you i mean business.
Rod: a non-profit investigative reporting foundation. We do document driven financial investigative work
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://sirf-online.org/2014/02/21/how-to-effortlessly-earn-a-riskless-90-on-your-bitcoins-through-the-magic-of-binary-options-trading-or-the-nigerian-email-con-tries-wall-street/
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: This beauty http://sirf-online.org/2014/02/21/how-to-effortlessly-earn-a-riskless-90-on-your-bitcoins-through-the-magic-of-binary-options-trading-or-the-nigerian-email-con-tries-wall-street/
mircea_popescu: we have a shitton of the stuff and it needs you desperately.
nubbins`: it's a popular thing here
mircea_popescu: a there you go!
Jere_Jones: The yubikey can hold a static password up to 64 characters long. 200+? 4 yubikeys that you have to use in the right order?
pankkake: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140224132743 that's a shame
mircea_popescu: maybe they can paint a mutt in gold this time
mircea_popescu: why, cause that's how you become part of bitcoin, holding a derpference.
kakobrekla: We believe that CryptoCurrency is the future and the foundation is being set now. We are making a conscious intentional effort to collaborate with other leaders and pioneers such as yourself to bring CryptoCurrency to the people it benefits.
kakobrekla: Please take a few moments to look over our and know that we are humbled to be involved with bitcoin and CryptoCurrency so early. The future is bright.
kakobrekla: We have a very wide range of sponsorships and promotional items to suit any appetite and will over-deliver on all of them. VIP Parties, Special Events and Hackathons have also proven to be beneficial beyond branding and exposure. New York City makes anything possible. We are expecting 1500-2000 attendees.
kakobrekla: >I was hoping you could point me in the right direction. I see that your company is involved with bitcoin. We are hosting the CryptoCurrency Convention in NYC on April 9th. We wanted to reach out to see if a partnership opportunity would be both appropriate and mutually beneficial.
asciilifeform: herr tito, famously: 'Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second.'
kakobrekla: pankkake > It has a similar sound to the English dg in dodge.
pankkake: don't call it a letter!! araaahagahg
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's a Ro keyboard like?
pankkake: and no Ƀ - I only have a <Compose>btc
pankkake: optimized for French but can write a bunch of European characters easily
asciilifeform: reminds me of a cracked copy of ms-vb i saw as a kid, registered to 'ňäáíé'.
asciilifeform: more of a ford, no?
mircea_popescu: check it out... it's basically a skoda.
mircea_popescu: "The plant is a 2-loop Westinghouse pressurized water reactor, with a rated thermal capacity of 1,994 thermal megawatts (MWt) and 696 megawatts-electric"
kakobrekla: so it seems i have a charset incompatible with myself
kakobrekla: here a wiki link i know you hate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr¹ko
kakobrekla: but yes, we have a nuclear pp.
mircea_popescu: what, slovenia has a nuclear plant now ?
mircea_popescu: sure. a ballwhore.
jurov: we should find him a whore
kakobrekla: it was a reply to the humble last line from ascii before that
mircea_popescu: i guess maybe i'm getting a broken version
ThickAsThieves: jurov neo is owned by LMB, which has a wbesite and mentiones shares
BingoBoingo: The predictive power of kakobrekla's soul slander has lead me to submit a bitbet for consideration.
mircea_popescu: now imagine that instead of the two parties, there was a 3rd agent involved on one side.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/our-emperor-deliver-us/ << this is an instructive example, which was litigated in spite of the thing being quite public, and on a hell of a technicality.
mircea_popescu: but as a rule of thumb, it opens up the agent to all sorts of liabilities.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves seems to me you've put yourself in a rather untenable position there, if that's what you're asking.
ThickAsThieves: you dont see a difference between the things my name is on and everyone else's yet?
mircea_popescu: pankkake the lulzy part is the guy has a dota avatar. wtf one could like dota and be that silly.
ThickAsThieves: and Neo is not a scam
mircea_popescu: "small captcha-for-btc transaction". Two months later MP gave him a rating as a "python dev". MP also has a rating from
mircea_popescu: "Now, if you look at his Web of Trust ratings, you'll see that pankkake has a rating from user abc4btc with the note
kakobrekla: i guess my question is at what point would you say "thats too much of a scam for me to administer". would you take over a PPT?
ThickAsThieves: i have a contract with Neo ☟︎
mircea_popescu: S.NSA has a total of 4`737`075 authorised shares outstanding. The total assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009980 BTC. The cash+tangible assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009828 BTC.
ThickAsThieves: i am pankkake, not a CEO
kakobrekla: ThickAsThieves you dont have a problem with so much lulzy claims ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla there was a business cca 2012, different guy
kakobrekla: Experience the investment potential of Bitcoin with none of the risk, agree to purchase a value of bitcoins over a pre-selected period of time and get either your original investment back or a prioritised share of the gains.
mircea_popescu: http://sirf-online.org/2014/02/21/how-to-effortlessly-earn-a-riskless-90-on-your-bitcoins-through-the-magic-of-binary-options-trading-or-the-nigerian-email-con-tries-wall-street/ sort-of lulzy
Vexual: neo-bee.com has an image of a man with a rope standing next to a chair in the middle of a room
pankkake: crumbs sent me a PM quoting Prism. he's definitively Prism
ThickAsThieves: the badoom tss was for 'give him a link'\
mircea_popescu: nubsy should start that sausage blog already so i can give him a link
ThickAsThieves: did you leave him in a trunk or something?
ThickAsThieves: i got into a zone where i was doing well by not thinking, but couldnt keep it up
mircea_popescu: there's a slight difference between stat analysis and entropy measuring, but anyway
asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: if you're a decent player of 'von neumann's mindreader' game, you can safely use your own fingers.
Apocalyptic: do you need random bytes that others do not have a copy of? // now -assets has them, seems about right
asciilifeform: for 8 bytes, toss a coin manually and apply von neumann's debiasing algo.
asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: more importantly, do you need random bytes that others do not have a copy of?
asciilifeform: seems like there was a time when anyone with something to write had decent penmanship.
ThickAsThieves: your sig looks a lot like mine
mircea_popescu: it's a historical document of sorts!
ThickAsThieves: broken cursive seemed to be a big indicator, if i recall
ThickAsThieves: i read a book on graphology once, pretty much says, people who write crazy, are mor elikely to be crazy
pankkake: there has been like three scams in a week
mircea_popescu: "sometimes i imagine i'm in a floating third world bazaar full of people trying to sell socks and pick pockets and not much else"
mircea_popescu: o look, they could have got a mpex seat
mircea_popescu: "So above you see pankkake continue to smear the company ActiveMining (by calling it an investment scam, associating it with the known 'LabCoin scam', saying the CEO is facing jail and accusing me of being a scammer (!)) after Ken publicly refused to pay pankkake's blackmail money demand." ☟︎
Bugpowder: Need to figure out a better JSON parser for Matlab first.
mircea_popescu: we want a high avg iq more than that
mircea_popescu: people going about "adoption" keep forgetting we don't want a large number of idiots,
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is a whole u.s. subculture of astoundingly illiterate folks who will fall for this
ThickAsThieves: bitcoin mag needs an editor with a strong pimp hand