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nubbins`: its prolly just
a QR scanning app that interfaces with bc.i API :P
ThickAsThieves: i think he mightve been
a BTC Foundation grant recipient or whatever they call it too
mircea_popescu: uyou ever seen
a nonservice coming out of the us webservice-entrepreneurs dog and pony show that wasn't
a. very banal and b. presented as the new wheel ?
nubbins`: and so i'm wondering why it hasn't been done
a thousand times
nubbins`: but my password is really really cumbersome to enter on
a phone
pankkake: I heard of it, never tried it. the homepage has
a hipster feel, i.e. it probably doesn't work
mircea_popescu: "QUEEN LIZ is
a company with private capital, founded in Constanta, Romania in 1996, having as main activity recruitment and placement of personnel according with Romanian laws."
mircea_popescu: "Win
a USD5000 Casino Holiday to Monaco" i'm like wut, 4 btc ? gtfo. make better prizes.
mircea_popescu: that moment when you transfer
a btc to namecheap and can now afford to renew like
a hundred domains.
ozbot: The anatomy of
a scam. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: put that together with
a no-backsies medium and you're definitely attracting sharks.
mircea_popescu: benkay has
a point, but the matter is significantly complicated by
a large enough population of functionally illiterate people who've been fed for decades on the illusion that someone else is there to protect them
gribble: ThickAsThieves was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 5 hours, 23 minutes, and 32 seconds ago: <ThickAsThieves> can the statue be riding
a unicycle whilst making the claim?
dexX7: totally hurts my illusion of
a happy btc world
dexX7: what happend? did you have anything picostocks listed or is it just
a general sadness about scams?
KRS1: grab
a leet feed..any number of things would work wouldnt it?
dexX7: sounds like
a masterplan
dexX7: every day
a new php lesson?
mircea_popescu: benkay i distinctly recall
a diff will grow 20% or more each week bet on bitbet.
KRS1: benkay i found theres
a price to pay one way or the other
benkay: man at
a 15% markup for converting your btc to cash that's
a rawwww deal
Duffer1: go with the assumption it's
a scam
benkay: if building reserves just makes one
a milky cow, wat the f do?
nubbins`: ah, like the college radio station doesn't sell cds, they "gift" you
a cd if you "donate" $5
saulimus: nubbins`, it's to disguise investing as "donating" because you're
a "fan"
nubbins`: why does
a mining pool have
a fan club?
benkay: hey here's
a stoopid idea: futures on difficulty rate increase rather than difficulty itself
mircea_popescu: i've quite deliberately constructed it so
a lot of triage of facts can be easily done by the users
mircea_popescu:
a suit steams from
a controversy in fact, anchored in the past.
mircea_popescu:
a bet is
a controversy in fact, anchored in the future.
pankkake: imagine, you could have
a fully feeless service as long as enough people die!
pankkake: having leftover btc is
a problem? ;)
pankkake: " LTC/BTC at BTC-e will stay ABOVE 0.03 and BELOW 0.06 " don't see
a similar bet, but the under 0.03 happened already
pankkake: what, you're trying to find
a new way to scam users!?
mircea_popescu: i took it to be
a sly reference at all the non-statements ppl make on the forum
benkay: "pricing options is
a risky business"?
mircea_popescu: lol this just in, courtesy of concerned investor "i must say, your statement suffers from
a lack of comments about your inability to say things and the desire you feel to redeem yourself at
a future date"
mircea_popescu: and atm there's no options listed because as announced im going to cut
a digit.
benkay: you know it's going to be
a rough month for the bot when it stops quoting
benkay: in related, personal news, i have been having trouble sleeping lately because i jammed
a splinter under my thumb after cutting my nails and i can't tell if its infected or i just cut my nails too closely and i don't have health insurance
benkay: He even described
a telephone call in which
a salesperson tried to sell him
a 284 bit encrypted program. When Vasovski asked him what he thought of Julian Assange, he replied that he didn’t know who that was. “At that point I said, ‘you’re trying to sell me
a computer security program and you don’t know who Julian Assange is?’”
benkay: i barfed in my mouth
a little
ThickAsThieves: can the statue be riding
a unicycle whilst making the claim?
mircea_popescu: when we take over there's going to be
a grand bronze statue of The Anonymous Derp in Bitcoin Plaza
mircea_popescu: There are two main difficulties: first, how can
a pair of anonymous participants trade shares without
a trusted party to facilitate the transaction?
Duffer1: what's the site again? it's been
a while since i've looked at it
mod6: its like whack-
a-mole
mircea_popescu: nah, it's not outside threat, it's
a certain worldview. one that deliberately opresses stupidity.
mircea_popescu: scared tyrants aren't particularly dangerous. it's the tyrants that perceive themselves safe,
a la stalin or the voting public in france/us/sweden/etc that are dangerous.
jurov`: again, doesn't
a despot have to do the same?
nubbins`: combine that with the fact that for some reason, admitting you were wrong is
a death blow in politics
benkay: "i stand for giving everyone
a buttcoin!"
benkay: how? i understand the majority of
a group of humans being wrong about things, but how do you get from that to democracy incentivizing people to be wrong?
mircea_popescu: more generally : on any particular question you will always find more people who made
a mistake than people who got it right. this is the very nature of error. if voting decides what's error and what's not then there will be nothing but errors.
mircea_popescu: he has
a point tho. it doesn't HAVE to come with bloodshed.
benkay: slavery's the default state, yo. just because democracy has been here for the past several however long doesn't mean that either
a) it eradicated things that look like what americans would knee-jerk call 'slavery' instantly upon governmental instantiation OR b) it worked well and can be used as
a demonstration of why all other forms of government are bad
benkay: to whom do i send .00001 btc for
a good indexing of all of the content that us and related thugs want me kept from?
benkay: ain't
a cold wallet if someone had access in the past.
mircea_popescu: basically this is
a "bfl will fail to deliver by march" wioth some irrelevant crap tacked on
pankkake: php-cgi is fastcgi too. but on
a router it might make sense to have cgi; less memory usage when the web interface is not used
BingoBoingo: "Looking like the 'August 2012' bubble" <- Does the poster mean that time Pirateat40 dumped
a bunch of coins for fiat and depressed the exchange rate for months?
nubbins`: it's had
a "shared send" thing for
a while now, iirc
dexX7: but saw just that blockchain.info has
a mixer included now
nubbins`: there's
a limit of i think 256 chars
mircea_popescu: (blockchain uses
a hash mechanism to mostly avoid this problem)
dexX7: so where can i find such
a mixer?
dexX7: "Every question is
a transaction with BTC and
a 'signed message(=question)' to the pot-adress." ... signed msg to the pot-address? how does that work?
mircea_popescu: this on the surface seems to be exactly wrong : the sorts of people liable to send btc over to "profit" in such
a scheme would be the exact ones not inclined to sit down and try and figure out anything.
Venat: this dude has
a puzzle and charges for questions he will answer with yes or no
drmandude: does the name brak mean anything to any of you? I got .10 in btc with no information other than "brak" thought i might have won
a bet.
ThickAsThieves: ' The film tells the rags-to-riches-to-rags story of
a young man with
a dream. 17-year-old busboy Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) believes that "everyone is blessed with one special gift." In Eddie's case, the gift is
a 13" penis and boundless sexual energy. '
pankkake: though
a history of failure often does
mircea_popescu: count yourself lucky if they deliver
a box of fans by the 4th of july
pankkake: "I think I'm
a penguin, so I am
a penguin", basically
mircea_popescu: "First things first, I am
a Genderfluid, meaning I consider myself both male and female, but I am
a biological woman. I am in tune with myself and I am
a Black Beta Wolf."
ThickAsThieves: "Mastercoin crossed $1,000,000 USD worth of MSC in trading volume in
a 24 hours period" (citing /u/DJohnston)
ozbot: Mastercoin is
a joke : Bitcoin
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves because if
a bunch of redditards didn't do
a lot of worrying, the ozone layer would still be there
ThickAsThieves: its the same card from my previous sys,
a MOTU 828mkii
nubbins`: lots of people just get
a USB interface with
a bunch of audio ports too
ThickAsThieves: last i check
a majority of audio peeps use firewire sound cards
pankkake: also there's this thing with Chrome,
a bundled Flash, not using the NPAPI