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mircea_popescu: because that's what counted for
a market back then,
a buncha forum tards being friendly
nubbins`: so... you offered
a cheaper turd to undercut the turd salesmen?
mircea_popescu: pmbs were generally recognised to be dog turds back then about to the degree hearn is recognised as
a dog turd today.
mircea_popescu: very disruptive, especially as nobody readily imagined such
a thing can even exist.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`
a synthetic was
a relatively retarded construction, sadly made necessary by the very opaque manner of conducting "business" employed by the glbse muppets.
Luke-Jr: IIRC, had he shown up, and we made that trade, I'd have made
a profit in the month he was MIA
nubbins`: nevermind that, what's
a "synthetic copy" of an asset?
Luke-Jr: mircea_popescu: we agreed that I'd sell him <n> BTC for <n> USD at
a future date. he never showed until like
a month later demanding I just pay him some amount outright
ozbot: luke-jr is
a scammer - he renegged on
a bitcoin futures contract
ozbot:
A List of Bitcoin "Investments"
nubbins`: the btctalk thread is
a bit light on detail
mircea_popescu: they're different things, the f.pure.synth was
a synthetic copy of puremining, the glbse asset run by rosi manifold or w/e the jew's name was.
copumpkin: B007: he bought me
a bentley for supporting him in the early days
ozbot:
A List of Bitcoin "Investments"
B007: it looks like the ink had
a seizure
nubbins`: this is for
a band t-shirt, in the meantime
mircea_popescu: with
a skin infection or w/e is going on there off to the left.
mircea_popescu: that looks like
a butterfly that snorted coffee grinds thinking they're lsd.
ozbot: Goat:
A Sordid Story of Stupid and Scam
Duffer1: for us proles volatility is
a threat atm, whether its more
a threat than inflation is your choice, all eggs in one basket = bad
punkman1: "Dangers are sum like
a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them."
B007: mircea_popescu: I think you have
a bunch of 14 yr nude selfies now
Duffer1: you can buy
a lambo with btc
nubbins`: honestly, i'm waiting for the day when i show someone
a concept and they just ask me what my fucking problem is before walking away
mircea_popescu: and they thought surrealism was
a 1920s thing. ha! i say.
mircea_popescu: jurov there's
a variety of available attacks if the rng is badly biased.
nubbins`: always looking happy can be
a curse tho, look at dolphins
jurov: wut? you roll them million times and derive
a secret key from the differences from mean?
nubbins`: i'm
a product of my upbringing
nubbins`: once in korea when hiking in the mountains i stumbled across
a small park with 2.5m diameter hula hoops
nubbins`: you know, vexual would make
a pretty good meat-based rng
FabianB: davout is the only one in this chan which kinda represents
a fiat-btc exchange, no?
benkay: that'd be the difference between an investor and
a trader.
nubbins`: there comes
a point where it doesn't really matter what the price is
mod6: we can make
a deal.
mod6: hit me up if you want to do
a trade for
a smaller amt too.
gribble: #19517 Fri Feb 7 20:10:59 2014 mod6 BUY 100000.0 ATC @ 1.5e-06 BTC (Want to buy 100,000 ATC for
a total of 0.15 BTC, must have WoT rating. PM me.)
mircea_popescu: just so with
a patchwork of miners, god help you if you imagine you can buy random odds and ends off ebay at
a nominal profit
mircea_popescu: specifically,
a farm made out of 5000 individual computers all different would cost more to run than to burn down
BingoBoingo: Apparently after I bought Altcoins at 150, the next buyer went at 180. Looks like Altcoin is growing up into
a real, bubbly Altcoin.
Duffer1: that was
a pretty good bit
mircea_popescu: so then i screamed obscenities in
a lengthy single breath of fifty eight minutes
mircea_popescu:
a month later, i couldn't connect to my blog. like at all.
mircea_popescu: for one day, when i went to add
a new pair of tits, the "insert image" button simply redirected me to
a random page of my blog
mircea_popescu: it is
a story of hope, blogging and unbridled enthusiasm, in which I,
a crookeyed optimist, tried to use my five year old heavily modified wordpress installation to post things.
mircea_popescu:
a self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes
herbijudlestoids: just got this sms: NOTICE: your mobile no. has been singled out for
a claim of 800,00GBP from Android Mobile UK contact us on androiduk@live.co.uk for more
herbijudlestoids: mircea_popescu: nope havent...i got
a WoT account and messed with gribble on it already
herbijudlestoids: ThickAsThieves: what im trying to say is, if the reputation ledge is built on the back of wotbook then its just
a social graph.
herbijudlestoids: right now the WoT is based on business transactions, youre proposing something where people just build
a social graph
ThickAsThieves: people would probably eat up
a wotbook right now, could even kill bitcointalk
herbijudlestoids: mircea_popescu: hmmm though ok... "ozwot guy" cant rate users through gribble unless it has
a rating...
herbijudlestoids: i downloaded
a chinese gangster movie but it has no subtitles :(
mircea_popescu: then once enough people actually want to rate someone in ozwot they'll keep bitching at nanotube who will eventually add
a back flow.
mircea_popescu: no reason you want that, really, i know it's
a gateway, woting it is meaningless.
mircea_popescu: it's
a good interface because freenode is ddos resistent
mircea_popescu:
a trusted wot so far wins on practical grounds. not that i think it's
a bad idea
a proper distributed implementation should be made
Diablo-D3: actually, it kind of is
a trivial problem
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not
a trivial problem,
a distributed wot.
herbijudlestoids: kakobrekla: well itd certainly make conversations about why people might try it
a little easier
herbijudlestoids: the message i took away was that theres no real reason to change from the existing WoT, which i assumed wasnt distributed, because ThickAsThieves said he wanted
a more distributedy WoT
herbijudlestoids: Diablo-D3: did i? lol i was in the conversation, was there
a facet of me getting told that i missed
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> yes, but i feel dirty telling people to go to these sites << this is
a problem.
Vexual: i havent seen
a human for
a month