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cads: numbers will be nice, I think we'll all agree
cads: so far I've heard some rhetoric and no numbers
cads: I'm sure that various hybric bitcoin/traditional vendors have done that in a phase before adding bitcoin support, and I'm willing to hazard it generally the experiment is a positive for most vendors that even considers adding BTC support
thestringpuller: what am I missing
mircea_popescu: so far namecheap is taking btc, i have yet to hear any bitchin'.
emptyeddepended: no, don''t get me wrong. i honor your opinion, but i for myself are super bullish and optimistic
cads: I agree there
cads: this is not a bad thing, don't treat me as if I'm trying to rain on some parade
cads: I'm simply proposing an experiment, and suggesting that my real life experience interviewing various people (people who are _not_, as a rule, very connected to the social network sphere or the blogsphere) suggests that BTC is a point of contention for many people.
emptyeddepended: i see
cads: emptyeddepended: I dunno, there was talk about BTC receiving scrutiny from a US financial regulatory body recently
mircea_popescu: i doubt anyone cares. the recent internet bullshit trying to bother some restaurant resulted in more customers rather than less.
mircea_popescu: i mean sure there's idiots boycotting this or that because they kill bunnies or w/e.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i've yet to comprehend this. i think paying attention to what people say (like on their own shitty blogs) is a waste.
kakobrekla: i doubt that thing is measurable
cads: I have an idea of how a webstore could test what effect bitcoin support has on its conversion rate
cads: I'm wondering if there's any business data available here.
cads: but then a webstore catering to early adopters, techies, and people with an anarchocapitalist bent, I'm sure bitcoin support can be a boon.
mircea_popescu: cads i really have no idea who'd be repelled by bitcoin
emptyeddepended: but i can't supply hard facts though :/
emptyeddepended: do you think so? i'd say it depends on the website. if it's filled with hundreds of shady payment choices, it's not good anyway, but i see no reason to not accept bitcoin. most people don't know about it and the worst reaction which could happen might be "what? bitcoin? isn't that the internet currency? wow.. it really gets attention nowadays"
cads: I'm sure similar questions have been asked in the past by vendors considering adding, for example, a paypal payment option to their webstore
mircea_popescu: funniest shit i read all day : rp butthurt.
mircea_popescu: http://i-like-pancakes.tumblr.com/post/54092895998/what-god-modding-looks-like
kakobrekla: i dun see no skateboards
rulother-tab: Looks like I sold a little early on that one
mircea_popescu: I think it's miss Cartell.
furuknap: "I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; their are 3 main users of Bitcoin. The Money cleaners/tax evaders. Those involved in non-legal activities. The Greedy." I'll pick '"none of the above" for 200, Alex.
Namworld: and I think they have a 3 google ads units per page limit...
Namworld: I refreshed tho, now it's a large unit.
mircea_popescu: i doubt anyone gives a shit about some obscure blogger that knows shit he doesn't understand.
Namworld: The nature of the content or an excess of ad units can be, however, I believe.
Namworld: I'm not quite sure 2 banners, one on each side, is ground to a ban...
mircea_popescu: i've noticed this, miost of the "real truth" sites have horrible ad arrangements.
jimmy2k: I just asked him some stuff about my situation and what moves would be best to do next
jimmy2k: I wont use a lawyer for doing research since i dont think he can help me here much
jimmy2k: so i think this is not dangerous for me. the only thing is really to get my fu... money back
jimmy2k: yes, but the data was posted in the chat too and i can prove that i only logged in after receivinig the data from him
jimmy2k: I told this the police so that i am free of any danger
jimmy2k: after i was in I felt that here is something strange going on and immediately logged of
jimmy2k: yes, because I thought thats a joke or something and just wanted to try it. Also I thought if it would be fraud why should he provide me this info to cause suspision. so i thought i just log in and check. i mean i couldnt do anything without the tans anyway
jimmy2k: you mean whether I logged in?
mircea_popescu: payment, so that I can be sure that I will receive the money on the next day! After that a really strange thing happened! He sent me the login data for his clients online banking account and told me I should just log in and check for a proof! This was completely suspicious to me and I immediately decided to go to the police the next day... Then everything changed...
jimmy2k: last week wednesday i think
Namworld: If I were? The city or the province?
parseval: Eventually I want to get entirely on the APIs, but not all of the sites have APIs with historic data.. that shouldn't be a problem now, so I can implement streaming from the websockets or something to be less dependent on the irc bots
parseval: Yeah, pretty much. I poll the API for BTC-TC and have an irc bot to monitor the bitfunder and bitcoin-assets bot announcements
parseval: I'm importing the assbot history to production now, from now back to feb
parseval: I should fix that into subgroups
parseval: I just mean in total
Namworld: I haven't seen much lately...
asswatch: I don't want to tell mircea_popescu how to do his job or anything, but I think it's time to lay on the hyperbole and aggrandizement for ministry of games. Does anyone have any idea how awesome the game is going to be?
Blastbob: yea i accually read them as full AM shares
assbot: I don't know those people, and they don't look very friendly.
parseval: Yeah, I had some ideas too, but more on the technical side. Not that I particularly need the hot wallet myself, but it was an interesting problem to try to solve.
ryan1894: man i wish avalon would ship
furuknap: Ah, yeah, I think that would make sense. I suggested it to burnside in private a while back, but he gets a lot of suggestions :-)
parseval: I like that insurance idea, furuknap
furuknap: 3) If mining stopped, both the investors and I would make huge amounts of money, so the price would skyrocket and the buy-back price would be impossible for me to pay.
furuknap: 2) I already answered your question several times; I'm more likely to get a higher ROI if I have cash in hand than the average investor because I actually follow the market and invest significant time to stay on top.
furuknap: 1) I'm buying into my own asset. I would have to be an equal idiot to do that, knowing that I would never make my money back, right?
bgupta: furuknap: I'll bite. Which memo would that be?
thestringpuller: I'm being brought up on disciplinary charges!
Smoovious: some of those Muary-quality girls would be pretty lucrative I imagine
thestringpuller: I used bitbet to create a betting racket in my hometown
thestringpuller: <troll> mpoe is the least profitable thing I ever invested in
furuknap: So, you didn't know what it meant. That's fine, I'll just assume your assumption of the answer is funded on about as much insight.
ryan1894: well i use it in the context of making back the principal
furuknap: These days, I work mostly with SharePoint in programming, and my goals is to get the world to improve the user experiences of SharePoint solutions.
furuknap: Generally, I spend less time learning a language than I do understanding the problems I need to solve.
furuknap: In short, I choose the language that makes sense for a task rather than choose tasks based on the languages I know.
furuknap: I'm not as focused on language as I am on design. Programming languages, to paraphrase someone far smarter than me, is to programming as telescopes are to astronomy.
furuknap: By 'It' I mean Perl, not my language.
furuknap: It was nice; the only language I've used that understood what you mean, even though you don't know how to phrase it.
furuknap: I wrote my first programming language in Perl, though, somewhere in the mid-90s.
furuknap: As to why that notation is such, I don't know. It's been years or maybe decades since I did anything useful in Perl.
mircea_popescu: i thought he did perl
mircea_popescu: i've never played it.
Apocalyptic: is havelock actually a registered company ? the fact i don't seem to find any info onsite is indicating it's not
Namworld: I'm not familiar with the weaponry.
Namworld: I guessed, I meant the weapon.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, some random game "X is a game in which players can utilize powerful weapons"
rulother: I ended up making everything back plus some so today kinda worked out for me.
Diablo-D3: every time I sell, prices go up
Diablo-D3: ThickAsThieves: I did it on purpose
ThickAsThieves: i warned you
Diablo-D3: I sold some, and now prices are going back up
ThickAsThieves: this will be a bad week for AM I think
Namworld: I thought these were the same?
furuknap: Even my projections, which I thought were optimistic, started with 350 on August 1.
mircea_popescu: i think it's a few k's.
Diablo-D3: "I once beat a guy within an inch of his life" "meaning ?" "hes not dead."
mircea_popescu: i do ?!
mircea_popescu: "i'm twitter famous" "meaning ?" "not famous"
Namworld: Not sure I like these new changes in v0.9
mircea_popescu: or replace it with a pic in which i'm drilling some chick or something
thestringpuller: I didn't actually see him!
thestringpuller: I was like "WTF How does mircea_popescu type so fast?!?!?!?!?"
jborkl: I don't remember who has the other 3
thestringpuller: so I knew something was fishy