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Vexual: its a free market baby, and it's much different to working out how much some fat bastard is willing to pay for a cheap sim card
Vexual: no profit for the year, blaming a broken dick bone and an irrational market
Vexual: not a real doctor greg munchausens might have to top up his new fund from his pocket again
KRS|gotyawallet: this might take a minute for you, but let it ride you might like
KRS|gotyawallet: i have a chance now to convert 225 LTC I found to 8 BTC should I?
KRS|gotyawallet: i found a stash of old coin i think i'm gonna get drunk
Vexual: ain't she a beauty?
gribble: Error: "c" is not a valid command.
mircea_popescu: yeah well, once we get a coin that doesn't change three degrees of magnitude a year, we'll have referential transparency
dub: tux has a gunt
kakobreklaa: like a dead cat
benkay: 1k was a good thing?
gribble: Error: "bc," is not a valid command.
gribble: MtGox lag is 73.293499 seconds. During this time, light travels 0.146879351361 AU. You could have sent a bitcoin ten times between Jupiter and Callisto (0.12567 AU).
nubbins`: huh, kale is a brassica. who knew.
kakobrekla: well have you ever been in a company of veggi only eaters for extended periods of time?
kakobrekla: get a chick for a mate
nubbins`: ugh. my roommate has no sense of smell, and he just dropped a rotten fart.
nubbins`: is there a full version of that horse pic somewhere?
nubbins`: one thing at a time tho, hey
thestringpuller: i should commission a rapper to make an MPEx hip hop track
thestringpuller: see if you can get the sketches into a trilema article ;)
nubbins`: well, suppose we do a pay-as-you-go. you've already got yourself a few concept sketches paid for.
nubbins`: maybe a gold btc logo for the sun
thestringpuller: nubbins` make a btc address and lets start donating
thestringpuller: with a giant bitcoin watermark in the background
thestringpuller: maybe i want a napoleon-esque style portrait of mircea_popescu commissioned
nubbins`: if you're srs and want a more accurate quote, just let me know what size and what you had in mind
nubbins`: something smaller, maybe a couple hundred for oil
nubbins`: ah, i'd have to get back to you on that. ink or watercolor, maybe $2-300. oil, realistically a couple grand
pankkake: 3 blocks in a minute
gribble: MtGox lag is 0.247187 seconds. During this time, light travels 0.000495359980356 AU. You could have sent a bitcoin to the other side of the Earth, along the surface (0.0001339 AU).
gribble: MtGox lag is 5788.684666 seconds. During this time, light travels 11.6004592573 AU. You could have sent a bitcoin from the Sun to Saturn (9.54 AU).
thestringpuller: i could run a better exchange
ozbot: Gox false signal, loop, aka westexaco: Gox runs its servers from a potato
gribble: MtGox lag is 9959748.13382 seconds. During this time, light travels 19959.2237453 AU. You could have sent a bitcoin from the Sun to heliopause (out of the solar system!) (100 AU).
gribble: MtGox lag is 4959.229808 seconds. During this time, light travels 9.93824100893 AU. You could have sent a bitcoin from the Sun to Saturn (9.54 AU).
gribble: MtGox lag is 914965.581336 seconds. During this time, light travels 1833.58078053 AU. You could have sent a bitcoin from the Sun to heliopause (out of the solar system!) (100 AU).
gribble: MtGox lag is 3926249.2314 seconds. During this time, light travels 7868.15949925 AU. You could have sent a bitcoin from the Sun to heliopause (out of the solar system!) (100 AU).
gribble: MtGox lag is 8648.059356 seconds. During this time, light travels 17.3306141209 AU. You could have sent a bitcoin from the Sun to Uranus (19.18 AU).
thestringpuller: twizt: Bugpowder made a shit ton of money
thestringpuller: twizt: during the april crash there was such bad lag, that you could literally send in limit orders at any price between the spread and cross your figners it found a match and executed
KRS|gotyawallet: maybe not theres a lot of greedy fucks buying
gribble: MtGox lag is 1159908.20615 seconds. During this time, light travels 2324.44305814 AU. You could have sent a bitcoin from the Sun to heliopause (out of the solar system!) (100 AU).
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: just imagine, you could give a free t-shirt with your face on it to each new mpex membership
gribble: MtGox lag is 128509.613133 seconds. During this time, light travels 257.531825853 AU. You could have sent a bitcoin from the Sun to heliopause (out of the solar system!) (100 AU).
KRS|gotyawallet: maybe ill just be greedy and write myself a kickass bot
thestringpuller: can you put him in a suit?
thestringpuller: nubbins` i want to commission a painting of my puppy
nubbins`: if you're not sure what to do with your money, you can just become a patron of the arts
thestringpuller: there should be a bitbet against code changes
nubbins`: not a fan, altho i've only given it a listen or two
pankkake: can you be less than a trillionnaire ?
thestringpuller: i'm a billionaire with zimbabwe dollars
mircea_popescu: everyone is a billionaire eventually, but bitcoin people get tyo do it many times a week]
thestringpuller: that should be a good bitbet
thestringpuller: you'll be a billionaire again by christmas
mircea_popescu: you mean i'm not a billionaire again !?
gribble: MtGox lag is 4772.813016 seconds. During this time, light travels 9.56466384499 AU. You could have sent a bitcoin from the Sun to Saturn (9.54 AU).
ThickAsThieves: it's a great album
nubbins`: stumbled upon a reissue today!
nubbins`: okay, so i just bought a sufjan stevens record
Apocalyptic: currently it's a gox loop chart
pankkake: is there a gox lag chart?
thestringpuller: this is a good retreat though
gribble: MtGox lag is 3056.857142 seconds. During this time, light travels 6.12590748629 AU. You could have sent a bitcoin from the Sun to Jupiter (5.2 AU).
KRS|gotyawallet: Gox should just submit a trouble ticket to their support department..duh.
gribble: MtGox lag is 2791.205394 seconds. During this time, light travels 5.59354435768 AU. You could have sent a bitcoin from the Sun to Jupiter (5.2 AU).
dub: idk why its such a surprise every time gox does this
mod6: thestringpuller: this fuck is so uninformed << wasn't it the stephengandel guy who stopped in here a few days ago who wrote that article?
gribble: MtGox lag is 860.583437 seconds. During this time, light travels 1.72459957218 AU. You could have sent a bitcoin from the Sun to Mars (1.52 AU).
Bugpowder: there is a 4k+ sell order going off right now on trading.i286
gribble: A market order to sell 500 bitcoins right now would net 436894.5383 USD and would take the last price down to 872.0000 USD, resulting in an average price of 873.7891 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 41.6458 seconds
gribble: MtGox lag is 532.686634 seconds. During this time, light travels 1.06749805028 AU. You could have sent a bitcoin from the Sun to Earth (1 AU).
pankkake: they must be hosted on a remote satellite
gribble: MtGox lag is 101249.827561 seconds. During this time, light travels 202.903520783 AU. You could have sent a bitcoin from the Sun to heliopause (out of the solar system!) (100 AU).
asciilifeform: for the cost of one microsat, one could bring out a thousand balloons that bob about in the atmosphere for years.
mircea_popescu: nobody wants a btc node in orbit, until it becomes a matter of land based isp's being assholes.
asciilifeform: in any scenario where said node is worthwhile, it becomes a central point of failure unlike any other.
asciilifeform: it is also worth considering why exactly one wants a btc node in orbit.
asciilifeform: with a strict cube, use swing panels; five facing the sun (swing open in response to voltage readings from each, with max being the center of the clover) and one arse end with no panel, for the downlink.
mircea_popescu: it's a seriously fascinating field, this, "given a 10cm cube, construct the best photovoltaic arrangement"
mircea_popescu: inflatable is a pain
asciilifeform: consider a mirrored (on the inside) sphere with controllable slats.
mircea_popescu: i've seen a buncha stuff trying to emulate fern leaves etc
asciilifeform: might be able to get more if you charge a cap and transmit in bursts.
asciilifeform: damn, left out a 0
mircea_popescu: but yes outer space is a harsh mistress
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform depends a lot of what you put on the cube too
mircea_popescu: all io get is a blakc screen
pankkake: must be why satoshi hasn't spent his coins yet, he's waiting to buy a country
asciilifeform: might be cheaper to buy a country.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: 'long term', in the satellite business, traditionally means a decade or so.
asciilifeform: not much room on a breadbox for either serious antennae or photovoltaics, either.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: whats a good long term satrellite solution?
asciilifeform: they're largely a gimmick ('street cred' for engineering students.)
asciilifeform: TomServo: afaik, 'cubesats' go in low orbit and typically croak after a year or two.
nubbins`: well at this point it costs more than 1 cent to make a penny
nubbins`: but then those all go into a jar
nubbins`: result being that i have a half pound of change in my pocket by the end of each day