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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform mining is not intended or designed to be a productive activity generally.
mircea_popescu: which they do, inasmuch as they handling money can't be libertards, and a sliver of libertards believe everyone who's not equally retarded is a fascist
mircea_popescu: there are still people who figure germany had a decent shot in ww2.
asciilifeform: that isn't the point. the point that there are always people at a wake saying the corpse isn't one, until it starts to stink.
KRS|Gotyawallet: anyone have word on cyprus? that was big news a while back and I was wondering if bitcoin was of help to them.
asciilifeform: after A was fired.
asciilifeform: whereupon angleton had N starved in a dungeon for a few years
jurov: what a fancy way to explain velvet revolution
asciilifeform: he whispered in angleton's ear, and to anyone else who'd listen, that the collapse was a sham.
asciilifeform: anyone knows the story of a man called Anatoliy Golitsyn? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know 40 years ago that'd have touched off a space race.
nubbins`: pankkake: i lost on a similar one earlier this year
nubbins`: there was a big stink about a new wireless company not being allowed to open its doors because it was majority foreign-owned, but i'm not sure if there was industry-specific legislation
KRS|Gotyawallet: a lot of it buys 1 bitcoin.
nubbins`: sounds like a bum deal, personall
mircea_popescu: if i wanted my gold arbitrarily transformed into worthless paper i'd be a us citizen.
mircea_popescu: you can do that with five cents and a copy of the pink sheets.
mircea_popescu: it's called the gigavps scam for a reason.
nubbins`: bought back at a "reasonable market rate", no doubt
nubbins`: i mean, they do have like a handful of employees
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was a canada-only btc/cad exchange
pankkake: but how virtex never paid dividends? the exchange was still operating at a loss?
nubbins`: "VirtEx took 4000 btc from an IPO in March ($150K) promising a dividend that they never delivered. Now, only 9 months later, their market reap is worth $3.6M (quite the gestation) and they are exiting the exchange. No dividend, no buyback, simply a promise to exchange currently held shares for "something else". "
pankkake: yeah, that's a government trademark
pankkake: so basically they steal your stuff but give you a paper instead
mircea_popescu: the entire bs is there to give idiots something to do with their time. "learn how to tapdance and then get your coupon for a chance to get an option to dance in front of the tv".
nubbins`: this is going to make it a lot harder for my business to accept btc
nubbins`: nay, what a bunch of dick-noses
mircea_popescu: ;;rate topace -3 Ran a fake exchange, scammed noobs out of thousands of BTC. See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=135035.msg3969507#msg3969507 for an example.
nubbins`: what a bunch of cock suckers
nubbins`: i know right? one guy sneezed a couple times
asciilifeform: i'll give it a shot.
asciilifeform: but he hasn't been answering mail for a while
mircea_popescu: libertards = retards who think there is such a thing as "progress"
mircea_popescu: wait... they actually are. whodda thunk you can run a political movement on the passions of teenagers.
mircea_popescu: "997 was Media-saturated with El Niño spin - the largest El Niño event in recorded history and a non-negotiable consequence of the Greenhouse Effect! California was to be washed away under unceasing deluge as the Earth burned! The whole thing summed to one rainstorm and some backpedaling."
Duffer1: oh it's a horse
pankkake: just a wide smile exposing the gum?
mircea_popescu: that'd have been a 200s thing
pankkake: nor there is a britney spheres :/
mircea_popescu: for a moment i thought there actually is a pron starlet named miley cyprus
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla over lunch i was loling with one mod, because she observed that "well, for many people bitbet is a great proposition because not only it allows them to win, but also it prevents them from spending their btc in the interval.
Duffer1: they talked about it a bit on letstalkbitcoin podcast
mircea_popescu: it was a central park meeting for a few months.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 there was this attempt to make a more concrete localbitcoins, "buttonwood"
mircea_popescu: localbitcoins is more like a brand than like an actual service servicing local markets.
mircea_popescu: hahaha that actually sounds like a fucking pitch.
FabianB: looks like a webwallet to me
Duffer1: looks like a way too complicated localbitcoins
mircea_popescu: it's a case study in how to fuck up, this.
mircea_popescu: worst insult of all, nobody in the actual biz paid him even the equivalent of a bit into cheeseburger.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it first and foremost got a chance because dooglus. it'd have died an ignominable death if almost anyone else'd have tried an exact copy.
mircea_popescu: mikaeldice it's a coin in the well already, and has been since summer 2012.
mircea_popescu: apparently you can't mismanage a property into the shit for 2+ years and then have it survive. who knew!
ozbot: Two years of forum ads: get cheap forum ads for a limited time
kanzure: strike a deal with a physical casino
mikaeldice: I have addressed a couple of small problems that other games haven't, but I'm not at all convinced that it'll stand up to the signal:noise ratio with so many sites out there now. Time will tell eventually
mikaeldice: damn, yet another dice site launched.. mine is going to be just a coin in the wishing well by the time it's done
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell oleganza what's the point of a blog w/o a comment section ?
pankkake: that one is a cryptsy reflink, lel
mircea_popescu: spiel says hollyowood's dogfood, and he has a point. they gotta do something.
asciilifeform: (it was his only claim to glory; he was a truck driver at the time.)
asciilifeform: my partner at one of the places i wurk was hired because he found a remote 0day for... warcraft 2.
pankkake: league of legends (aka LoL. lol) is a bigger thing apparently
mircea_popescu: im surprised sc2 tournaments are still a big thing
pankkake: (and not act like a vile spammer)
mircea_popescu: then it definuitely is a matter of soil/clime
BingoBoingo: Around here though thistles are more of a lawn pest than an agricultural pest.
BingoBoingo: Soil and latitude and probably other things make a difference. It would not have been a long walk this fall to fields where corn tainted soybean fields. I'll grant it though that the soil in the fields and around them may not be soild for any natural definition of the term, but may merely be a nitrogen soaked fascimile
mircea_popescu: the corn did manage to ocasionally pick up a spot, but usualyl driven out within a couple of years
mircea_popescu: i have had the occasion to see this in nature, as romania had for over a decade a lot of ignored agricultural land.
mircea_popescu: it's a relatively successful one, but not very. nothing like cannabis.
BingoBoingo: It is like your chemistry versus food rant. Some places the emphasis is so engrained that minute advances in the chemistry become deafening and people forget that maize is a weed.
mircea_popescu: a
BingoBoingo: Granted much of my information on this subject may be an accident of geography living in a place where news consists of advances turning corn into flamable glorious, often undrinkable booze or corrupt tax auctions http://www.bnd.com/2013/12/13/2958897/prosecutor-moves-to-cut-off-ex.html
BingoBoingo: Well, they don't do paradigmatic change as well as they used to. Many campuses in the Middle West are making great strides in turning corn into ethanol in ways that would make Jack Daniels himself turn white in shock. Try to suppose through these institutions though that there might be a better fuel than ethanol and you are stuck.
mircea_popescu: you can either have teachers fucking students and people being called fucktards left and right a la mit 1950s
BingoBoingo: At the time Z39.50 was standardized SQL implementations were a thing.
BingoBoingo: Available for the taking by any rando university that wants to incorporate a Stanford, Harvard, or Berkley-ness to their name by embeding themselves in an area inextricably will be the task of killing Z39.50
BingoBoingo: In my perhaps ill advised venture into library science as a vocation, most of my classmates and professors embraced taking the offered APIs and broken datastreams as a gift to embrace.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: For the past several decades now, Thompson/Reuters have made a lot of money on this model of information that is at least in principle readily available, but intimidating to encounter in its free form.
mircea_popescu: b0n1 but since you're talking about this, let me point out to you that this is a business model.
b0n1: mikaeldice, thanks for the advice! Do you also know of such a torrent file for stamp and btcchina?
mikaeldice: Also, there might be a BigTable database somewhere, if you search on that
mikaeldice: b0n1, there's a torrent out there somewhere with all of the Gox history up to a certain date. After that it's a matter of querying the API, which will lie sometimes, to get to the current date, and then monitoring the API for future updates
b0n1: also i couldnt get informations about a sierrachart api on their homepage
b0n1: BingoBoingo, do you eventually have a source to that?
BingoBoingo: b0n1: It's an API so regardless of OS a solution probably exists already in Python
b0n1: hey there! is there a good source for historical data of the bitcoin exchanges like gox stamp and btcchina? By good source I mean relatively dense data with small time intervals. On bitcoincharts for example I can only find historical data with time intervals that are bigger than a day for example
BingoBoingo: Well, all is manageable if people stop thinking of BTC as a consumer Point of Sale solution...
pankkake: I don't think any smartphone application is a full node already?
Apocalyptic: it's clear smartphones/any portable device won't be able to hold a full node
KRS|Gotyawallet: Apocalyptic: so the blockchain isnt going to be an issue in the future like that article said? I dont know a lot about it but I'm interested in it and wondered about future growth.
pankkake: yeah, I think - with a bit of hope - that when it happens it won't matter
pankkake: I was a big fan of kitetoa.com when I was young
Apocalyptic: i wouldn't mention a random negative btc article here
BingoBoingo: Baron seems too low. In Bitcoin Baron may be the highest nobel title though because generally the title of a Baron is derived through accomplishment. Higher feudal titles though were generally derived by the whims of kings long dead.
KRS|Gotyawallet: but thats just a mininode where there reports of his manhood from wild soirees in Monaco?
KRS|Gotyawallet: Of the most regal titles, is Mircea Popescu a Duke?
Apocalyptic: guys, does someone have a GPG contract template for a bond ?