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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo in what parallel universe do the thorns on the cactus prevent tequilla production ?
mircea_popescu: for all it can be directly established, you wiped your 2004-2012 history ?
mircea_popescu: badon 2014 to 2012 is substantially a weaker claim than "since 2004".
mircea_popescu: it's a potential, unless it actualizes you never know how well you did estimating it.
mircea_popescu: im sure some sort of something or the other was big in south and north america. so what of it.
mircea_popescu: maybe you're seeing too much into the natural excesses of first generation chinese new money.
mircea_popescu: anyway, do you have or can you get chinese coins from 100 ad sort of thing ? that'd be more on point for millions of dollars.
mircea_popescu: seems to me that "mature numismatic market" contains some presupositions that won't hold after you flood it with random coins.
mircea_popescu: " I don't mind over paying a little as the wise man baden always says, to get what I like but I have limits & they are based on potential of growth, 10% is better than bank interest but I would rather a potential 50% - 2000%!!!!! (savvy or greedy?!)"
mircea_popescu: davout i can do that, sure. just, hadn't seen you in a while wanted to see if you still move or what.
mircea_popescu: badon you're familiar with the various "physical bitcoin" issues that often sell for whatever, 15k
mircea_popescu: "I try to identify & buy into the hype in the beginning or as it is happening (the pro's would be about 2 steps ahead of me) but not after the initial rush because of the lower potential for price rise."
mircea_popescu: badon ok, so you're getting some traction. murky market as all hell, will prolly be a challenge to stay on top of everything.
mircea_popescu: davout if you're around on the 15th i dun see any reason for it to take more than a few minutes.
mircea_popescu: get in the wot an' talk to nubbins` you'll be like two peas in a pod.
mircea_popescu: actually, what i see : you've got a passion for coins and are throwing software at it. nothing wrong with that.
mircea_popescu: davout wait, wasn't tardstalk run on a newly made software by some one-guy company that got paid half a trillion dollars for that ?
mircea_popescu: badon i mean there's all sorts of kids reading the logs (ie, the "Webinar" lol)
mircea_popescu: im sure the script kiddies in our related webinar will be all over that.
mircea_popescu: ^ there's a lot of coin discussion in the logs, including offers to sell stuff etc.
mircea_popescu: badon listen, get registered in the wot, i'll rate you just for nubbins` pleasure.
mircea_popescu: stuff the w3c has been doing long after everyone stopped paying attention i guess.
mircea_popescu: "The technical foundation of the Semantic Web is given by the standards RDF - Resource Description Framework (for data description), OWL - Web Ontology Language (for giving the RDF terms a formal meaning), and SPARQL - SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (as a query language and protocol)."
mircea_popescu: afaik it copies wikipedia even to the "need donation" point. i really can't discern any structural difference ?
mircea_popescu: so basically you're doing a wikipedia alt-chain, got raped for the one-blockchain reason and are now trying to make it work in a private fantasy world.
mircea_popescu: so the site will work well if a lot of people external to it put a lot of work into doing things in a certain way it prescribes for their benefit ?
mircea_popescu: sort-of like that five dollar bill novelty website or w/e it was where people kept writing on dollars ?
mircea_popescu: well no, if you make an engine and i ask "show me the part that'll make me grok wtf this is" you don't wanna show a leaflet.
mircea_popescu: "The Coin Compendium needs your financial support to remain in operation for the month of December 2014! Other ways you can help: Donate images."
mircea_popescu: badon this chan is the public forum of a new power in the world, ie, the people who have been made immensely rich by bitcoin and are slowly but surely taking over the world.