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mircea_popescu: which in the grand scheme of things isn't really much at all. they've already fucked the goat in the public market long ago
mircea_popescu: they'd just be a iota more ridiculously pointless than they are today
mircea_popescu: their failure was signalled to them within minutes, and they obeyed that signal in an hour.
mircea_popescu: yeah, it's possible miners won't make the best decision. this was illustrated yesterday, when the atc miners failed to make the best decision.
mircea_popescu: because money doesn't think all that much of code monkeys. and definitely isn't going to start taking their ideas of how to manage things seriously.
mircea_popescu: most bitcoin reads mp way before it remembers who the fuck this gavin schmuck is.
mircea_popescu: i'm all for it, the level of either cluelessness or desperation such a move entails is promising.
mircea_popescu: this is sort-of like wanting to see what happens if/when the soviets finally decide to cross fulda ?
mircea_popescu: i totally wish to read more idiocy from this gavin puppet.
mircea_popescu: so "governments" will prevail, as fucking if there can even be such a thing as a government other than bitcoin ; and bitcoin gotta hide its misshapen form in the dark.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski oyu know, if anyone gave a shit about either gavin or reddit they'd just go there.
mircea_popescu: On 15 June 1961, two months before the construction of the Berlin Wall started, First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party and Staatsrat chairman Walter Ulbricht stated in an international press conference, "Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten!" <<< nobody has any intention to fuck up bitcoin o.O
mircea_popescu: * Adlai must admit that he first misread that headline as "BitBet lands $14.5M ..." << da fuck would bitbet do with 15mn.
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> cazalla BingoBoingo derpndesk.com/bitnet-lands-14-5-million-series-funding-rival-coinbase-bitpay/ << and somehow in spite of all these "investement" nobody is buying the shorts pretty much.
mircea_popescu: i mean... how many east germans joined west germany ? ... all of em ?
mircea_popescu: pretty much everyone leaves the mines. part of why "big government" is so lulzy.
mircea_popescu: "we have yet another version of bitcoin without bitcoin, choose us, because this works!!11"
mircea_popescu: who knows, perhaps it has enough criminals that they become a significant minority in the new world, giving it some claim.
mircea_popescu: it's funny that the us lost the "innovation" war back in 2013, and then lost the finance war. no smart kids, no rich kids,
mircea_popescu: ripple's problem is more like "we enabled some scammers stealing a buncha coins" tho.
mircea_popescu: because we're making the rules, not the fucking other way around, what is this.
mircea_popescu: the usg however, IS inherently incompatible with regulation.
mircea_popescu: try to not do that so you don't ned up like the 62c5186b@gateway/web/freenode/ip.98.197.24.107 retard.
mircea_popescu: just in case it's not obvious already, keeping any balances on bitstamp or sending any bitcoin to bitstamp is beyond retarded.
mircea_popescu: perfect pretext for bitstamp to steal even more coins.
mircea_popescu: "He then tried to pay with PayPal, and we unsuspended the machines. About 6 hours later the payments were disputed with PayPal as unauthorized and we then suspended again." << wow, carding too ?!
mircea_popescu: but i like everything. i suppose i should spell it out huh.
mircea_popescu: "Many people spent a big chunk of their lives investing in this dream and it didn't pan out quite as we wish."
mircea_popescu: clearly in the last place he'd ever be : his own life.
mircea_popescu: you see this picture ? look well at it, for it's what it looks like. sad, tired, incredibly lonely middle age white guy
mircea_popescu: <decimation> yeah spies need bureaucracy like ants need blueprints << lol good one.
mircea_popescu: decimation> everyone knows the real purpose of the intel budget is to employ spouses of high-status usg types <<< only in places which are bored of living.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform decimation i think it quite likely that once nubsy gets on you'll get your book.
mircea_popescu: decimation im pretty certain it had flatfiles early on.
mircea_popescu: satoshi is like costanza when it comes to implementation. pretty much every choice he has made, be it something to eat, something to wear, has been wrong.
mircea_popescu: do not even get me started. they're using qt for fucks sake.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> I doubt it, that would be crazy << o yeah ? THE WALLET FILE WAS UNENCRYPTED.