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dub: countrer problem is theres
a lot more retards in the market
mircea_popescu: the btc price i mean. to get 1 btc that way you need
a lot of retards.
BingoBoingo: damagebritain: If you have AM, maybe hold it for
a while and dump it if the share price spikes when their next gen shit comes online, provided they actually have next gen shit.
mircea_popescu: but it's
a mining venture. it's mostly going to go lower.
mircea_popescu: damagebritain probably
a better choice than most alternatives.
pankkake: so, now saying "paragon of retardation" is grounds for getting
a post deleted. mods=fags
jborkl: ah only
a 23,000 btc valuation
mircea_popescu: someone should ipo
a Topless Salesman Catching Brigade.
mircea_popescu: but yeah, wait until bentley figures out that there's these dudes who routinely pay 500k for
a car and don't even expect it to fly.
mircea_popescu: so here's
a random thought : about
a year and
a half ago i bought
a pair of bitcoin engraved cufflinks from
a guy that did
a custom cufflink run
mircea_popescu: fucking artists with their complicated shoes. impossible to get
a hold of.
☟︎ jcpham: this has only been
a thing for about an hour now
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Of course. In daytrading adventures though I was burned in february waiting for
a crash or Flashcrash that never happened. Nao I hedge and bet to hedge, but largely hold things.
mircea_popescu: it proved do be only temporary, they may end up with
a loss.
benkay: stephengandel: this is
a channel of people who expect bitcoin to be the world reserve currency.
mircea_popescu: stephengandel someone sold
a lot of calls short yesterday, right before the drop.
mircea_popescu: stephengandel you can also review the mpex monthly reports to see about how option trading has fared historically.
a count of sold/bought contracts by the bot is provided in each
stephengandel: gotcha. Will give it
a try and let you know how it goes.
kleeck: Hope to soon have
a similar article involving Armandi and Tatti. :D
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo if he expects
a drop then holding the bitcoin isn't particularly wise.
mircea_popescu: "
A 29-year-old suspect surnamed Liu allegedly began operating GBL trading platform on May 27 of this year, according to police in Dongyang City in east China’s Zhejiang Province."
mircea_popescu: think of mpex as the nyse, which is what it is. for most purposes you won't acquire
a seat in the pit.
mircea_popescu: stephengandel if your budged is in the bitcoin range, and your technical sophistication low you are best served by
a bitcoin.
stephengandel: OK. So if I am going to short one bitcoin, or
a fraction of
a bitcoin, it makes more sense for me to go through
a broker than do it with MPeX. Is that right?
mircea_popescu: anywya. there's definitely
a living to be earned doing this sort of hussling.
pankkake: but it's also how you sell it. if you're
a trusted seller, have nice pics, description, it gets higher
mircea_popescu: i'll beat that story :
a major romanian retailer bought ~100 laptops off
a competitor, which the competitor was selling discounted,
pankkake: once I bought
a full pc, I accidentaly broke the motherboard, sold off the parts, got more money :|
mircea_popescu: more like
a tupperware party than an auction, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: i nearly fell over laughing, all the housewives being all business-serious and bidding
a hundred on some lamp
mircea_popescu: in this parallel universe you can have an auction with
a "starting bid" of 1 and
a "reserve" of 10 which means that unless it reaches 10 the item doesn't sell.
mircea_popescu: mike_c they do this thing where they announce
a "starting bid" but it's not the actual starting bid
mircea_popescu: jborkl can you imagine how the nyse would look if they'd get
a call in the matter ?
pankkake: not safe for your brain. yet again we have
a guy who thinks btc "inaccessible" and thus wants altcoins. and another guy who wants to buy
a miner. both never had any bitcoin
jborkl: so, not
a bad deal for that scenario
jborkl: so, it would require
a large investment to make it worth buying for any amount
jborkl: yeah,
a few months ago
mircea_popescu: pankkake i think some of the older people with actual wallets send
a little just out of sheer trollery
mircea_popescu: pankkake you know, i should prolly have pr make
a trhead, MPOE BONDS LOST 3K LAST MONTH~!11 plz donate.
jborkl: I can sum it up for you 1. I can't get my blade to hash 2. I lost ma bitcoin 3. I have
a amazing company (give me bitcoin)
mircea_popescu: it strikes me that maybe not many years later we will look upon the early days with nostalgia, drowned in
a sea of banal crap.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Maybe swap out the motor with one from
a dump truck? Might make the drama more fun to drive.
stephengandel: should be. Sorry just got
a call from an unhappy Wall Street PR guy.
mircea_popescu: stephengandel you know, you write
a lot. i thought the job of the senior editor is more along the lines of throwing out the hard work of all the junior editors.
mircea_popescu: stephengandel depends of what your idea of shorting bitcoins is like. but you can buy puts through
a broker, yes.
kleeck: "But, as with many things in life, you have to just suck it up and do it, which is why I’m here to make
a case for swallowing spooge."
stephengandel: So, $30,000? Can you short bitcoins through
a broker?
mircea_popescu: pankkake this is why you keep
a bottle of nice cognac or tuica or w/e on hand.
pankkake: me neither. it's
a sentimal thing
benkay: that way i can split
a wallet across 3 items of decorate
pankkake: I've been infiltrating
a private silverbug forum
mircea_popescu: anyway, getting back on topic for just
a moment, from what i'm seeing the internet metal bugs are actually beginning to move to crypto.
nubbins`: take
a triple exposure, advance
a half-frame, take
a double, etc
nubbins`: seriously, have you ever taken pictures with
a holga?
mircea_popescu: benkay it's funny that the game requires the playerbase to use
a lot of math, which the developers themselves can't apply.
mircea_popescu: but w/e, i occasionally fly
a mk1 ferrox, just, been kinda busy these motnhs
diametric: mircea_popescu: I have
a friend like that, I don't think he's been in space except to move between hubs and manage his orders.
zboralski: corp robbery with
a freighter was fun too.
zboralski:
a lot of people on k.com don't play anymore.
zboralski: the last time I played I hijacked
a dev account and couldn't figure out how to get out of that Jove system which didn't have any gates.
diametric: but I hear TEST has gone to FW after the moon redistribution or whatever.. I haven't played for over
a year now.
diametric: I do miss being in fleets and having
a massive blob
diametric: zboralski: oh cool, flew
a lot with PL when the HBC was formed
diametric: I think at my most addictive moment I had almost
a dozen accounts going...
diametric: was
a lot of fun, I also played in Goons as well with
a few accounts.
ThickAsThieves: cool, i enjoyed my last trip there, but it was
a looong time ago, as
a touring punk
zboralski: one of the directors of Band of Brothers was
a dev and was cheating by printing tech 2 BPOs
pankkake: you can get banned from
a video game?
mircea_popescu: there are two types of kings in the world : those who have
a collection of various mages, and those who have
a delusionist.
ThickAsThieves: "
A technical expert with management skills, Pakosh is
a serial entrepreneur with
a 30-year record of identifying trends"
nubbins`: brutal color scheme, looks like
a video game forum
nubbins`: if they lose their shirts because of
a price fluctuation, people lose their jobs
nubbins`: the problem is that in any industry, at some point up the chain, you find
a business who simply is not willing to take the risk of accepting btc
pankkake: what kind of industries could be "in
a bitcoin loop" the easiest?
ThickAsThieves:
a useful service would be one that auto bought ccoins you spent i guess
nubbins`: tat, too true, it's
a hard sell tho