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mircea_popescu: "I myself had over 20 BTC I needed to withdrawal. I requested that I have my withdrawals open, he said he would, then never did. Last night all the mods began to realize it was true….he scammed us.,..even his own admin team. I mean obviously scamming all of you is terrible, but to scam his own team is beyond
a normal scammer. It is someone who is the lowest of the low, the lowest of the scammers who are already so lo
mircea_popescu: for the 2nd rendition in 2018, "i had almost
a whole btc, worth 1/4 mn" ?
mircea_popescu: "Right now, I've got less than 1BTC and I'm dirt poor. Back when bitcoins/litecoins weren't worth anything (< 2 years ago), I had what would now be worth over
a quarter million dollars worth in my wallet. I ended up wasting it on stupid gambling sites / day trading before it was worth much. Worst foresight ever."
mircea_popescu: ally fucking hope this is just life problems for the admin team, but I have no idea. Thanks man for your support. This is
a total fucking disaster though by the looks of it.
ThickAsThieves: You think
a Cryptsy.com Lists Altcoin bet would pass the Halls of Judgement?
mircea_popescu: just get
a vm somewhere, dns webhosting sucks in principle.
ThickAsThieves: goes to show, spending 10 minutes on
a logo is better than spending 4 minutes
mircea_popescu: the discount rate of commitment is
a market variable, roughly analoguous to the risk free rate in an economy
mircea_popescu: in fact, from
a game theory perspective, the total dollar value of your comittment sets his maximum comitment in turn
mircea_popescu: because code = business. at least if you're
a redditard.
mircea_popescu: "It would be neat if
a (formerly) decent darknet market were to release their source code under an open source license. Some platform to build your darknet market on would be nice, rather than starting from scratch."
ozbot: Cantina Market Mega Thread (Up vote for visibility, this is
a self post I receive no karma) : DarkNe
mike_c: but still,
a nice move!
mircea_popescu: just as well i could believe it's
a sign from god and go into the church.
mircea_popescu: doesn't give them license to imagine good things happening are
a marketing event
mircea_popescu: similarly here : if you throw money around at some point good things may happen. just because marketeers imagine they have
a monopoly on money beng thrown around
mircea_popescu: what i mean is : wall street "experts" love to take
a fee if the fund does well.
mircea_popescu: you put lipstick on
a number of cocks, all different colors
pankkake: still 1+ block per sec, I suspect
a lot are lost to stale and orphans
pankkake: bitbet would be
a great tool as insurance against black market closure
mircea_popescu: lol apparently nefario v2.0 was running
a silkroad clone
mircea_popescu: especially if their lives end up improved as
a result.
mircea_popescu: fundamentally speaking, time spent trying to improve the lives of idiots is
a waste.
ozbot: The Bet: BMR and Sheep to die in
a year : SilkRoad
ozbot: The Bet: BMR and Sheep to die in
a year : SilkRoad
nubbins`:
a lovely inking of yifu with "this isn't good for my chi", etc
nubbins`: "if you point
a machine at our large smooth wall, the police will put you in jail"
nubbins`: think about the madness of that for
a moment
nubbins`: recording in
a theatre is
a crime here in canada as of
a few years ago as well
ozbot: AMC Theaters Allegedly Calls FBI to Interrogate
a Google Glass Wearer - Slashdot
nubbins`: that's
a lot of people with 30btc
pankkake: still that's
a lot of users, I hardly believe it
nubbins`: "At my new forum cryptocrypt.org free-speech will be restricted
a bit to enforce rules on being polite and respecting other members. We will have
a very low tolerance for insulting others and more or less being
a nuisance. Scamming and the like will not be tolerated at all. I hope this will be more civil place to talk about crypto and economics. "
nubbins`: so i got
a pm on the forums from goat
mircea_popescu: "let me build
a strawman show you nobody REALLY wants to short pirate"
mircea_popescu: started
a campaign to list it and sucker the average holder.
mircea_popescu: when they were running out of liquidity
a bunch of assholes (goat chief among them, the "bankers" like kludge, jarnett etc,
mircea_popescu: there's
a certain amt of interaction one's stuck with.
pankkake: > To make use of tweens, you must construct
a “tween factory”
mod6: what
a month for s.mpoe!
pankkake: being
a pretty girl isn't such
a gift after all
benkay: as
a result, redheads are undervalued in the sexual marketplace
pankkake: well it's still working it seems, I got
a 50 ATC donation!
mircea_popescu: i'd venture
a guess that they're about 60-70% or so in the red so far, however.
KRS1: So dogge coin is worth throwing
a few bucks at actually?
pankkake: things like reddit have been gamed for
a long time
kakobrekla: well ThickAsThieves you gonna put
a site up displaying thhe logo in all its glory or what
mircea_popescu: you end up with two. there's distinguishably group
A and group B, and group
A is further traceable to convergence
mircea_popescu: but you can trivially notice there's two groups if you take all the sm profiles and do scoring on them. you don't end up with either
a powerlaw or any sort of gauss curve
pankkake: I wonder if those guys were prepared before launch, or they just saw
a thing and decided to do it
pankkake: I don't know. if it had success without organized people behind it, it's
a miracle
mircea_popescu: pankkake you realise there's
a few people pushing it, and manipulating social media to give the impression of traction
mircea_popescu: no but what i mean,
a community is different from
a crowd.
ozbot: (ANN) I will form
a mining company to be traded on (GLBSE) if there is interest
pankkake: OK I'm going to do
a howto mine I guess
pankkake: probably the first altcoin to have
a genuine community
mircea_popescu: "You don’t need to love Dogecoin. But you do need to see what is happening with it right now. We have
a social phenomenon going on, and even if it fails, we will learn
a lesson or two from it"
pankkake: you're going to get
a lot of PMs :|
kakobrekla: i dunno someone posted
a link to
a scan
pankkake: perhaps
a combination of
A and $
mike_c: difficult to monitor, but i would like
a bitbet on bitcoincharts uptime
mircea_popescu: i actually vaguely recall zinging jurov for bothering with the silly alts
a coupla years ago
gribble: Error: "raed" is not
a valid command.
benkay: do you mind holding payment for
a day?
benkay: i imagine she had
a business to run!
mircea_popescu: KRS1 there's
a more subtle problem than the spending bitcoin thing.
benkay: i'm just
a little astonished that one booted
a vm to trade these securities
mircea_popescu: in
a more wtf line of inquiry, check out this bet that just closed :
ozbot: luke-jr is
a scammer - he renegged on
a bitcoin futures contract