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mircea_popescu: "all the people saying he's
a fucktard are racist and also they didn't check their privilege"
mircea_popescu: no srsly. this is like reading whitehouse sponsored pulp as to why obama is not
a fucktard.
mircea_popescu: "In truth, the best bitcoin can hope for is to be
a second-rate version of gold, if that"
mircea_popescu: "But if, and this is
a big if, your peer-to-peer transaction doesn’t work properly, there is no central clearinghouse to complain to."
mircea_popescu: “Every big idea starts out sounding crazy. But not every crazy-sounding idea ends up being big,” Matthew O’Brien wrote in The Atlantic in
a brilliant takedown of bitcon.
mircea_popescu: Peter Leeds of the Penny Stock newsletter put it to me this way: “In
a matter of months you won’t be hearing about it. It will go the same way of Paris Hilton. People will move on to the next thing.”
ThickAsThieves: my first instinct with mcxnow, before the "IPO" was that it's
a scam, then once the IPO came I did like 3min of research to discover the guy was indeed shady
mircea_popescu: someone asked me what i think of tradehill 2.o so many times i had to write
a fucking article about it
kleeck: At this point if you're not
a cynic you're not paying attention.
mircea_popescu:
a third is to employ
a basementful of gnomes to constantly scan the blockchain
mircea_popescu: i think you overestimate the importance of what anon dork says in
a chatter box by anywhere between 500 and 54677695 degrees of magnitude.
mircea_popescu: i have chatted with
a number of people pissed off at bitbet.
kleeck: I mean, he may have padded the share sales, mircea_popescu, but I was chatting with
a number of people excited about this site and wanting to invest in it.
kleeck: Actually Drawingthesun pretty much called it back
a few weeks at IPO close.
mircea_popescu: o i see. well if
a forum thread says so then that must be it
bitesak: I mean the 11K raised. Do you have
a btc address with some reasonable expectation it is linked to this outfit?
kleeck: Surely looking at nearly 9million isn't
a factor here.
iwilcox: Back when mcx opened people seemed to be treating it like "I don't need ASICs, got me another kind of money-printing machine!" — I suspect some think they have
a foot in
a door or something and won't sell
BigBitz: to me it read like he wanted to overhaul it and bring other people in... again - not exactly
a glowing reference. His previous reigns didn't exactly pan out well...
kleeck: Sounds like you need
a small helpdesk. One to Two level one techs can deal with all that.
BigBitz: scan reading an article and saying "if those reasons are legit" isn't exactly
a glowing reference as to how it performs as an Exchange :)
truffles: This is
a burden of 200 to 400 emails
a day among many requests on IRC and through chat.
bitesak: seems mpex has not been quoting options for
a few days now?
truffles: ure on
a roll with these terms
cazalla: would
a prop bet on the outcome of
a player collapsing and dying on the pitch from natural causes be
a bad bet?
mircea_popescu: people who bet no early stand
a chance to see even 10x their bet.
Venat: whoever wrote the text on the site is
a moron
Venat: the technical engineer uses
a timemachine to be there for you for 3 extra hours
Venat: Nancy lives on 480 acres in the middle of nowhere with horses,
a donkey, dogs, cats, and chickens, and stays connected by satellite.
truffles: wont u need like
a bucket of spit, lube solves this dilemma
gribble:
A market order to sell 195000 bitcoins right now would net 37537295.7322 USD and would take the last price down to 4.0200 USD, resulting in an average price of 192.4990 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 19.0587 seconds
gribble:
A market order to sell 19500 bitcoins right now would net 14570023.6211 USD and would take the last price down to 607.0000 USD, resulting in an average price of 747.1807 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 0.0022 seconds
gribble: (sell <amount> <thing> [at|@] <priceperunit> <otherthing> [<notes>]) -- Logs
a sell order for <amount> units of <thing, at
a price of <price> per unit, in units of <otherthing>. Use the optional <notes> field to put in any special notes. <price> may include an arithmetical expression, and {(mtgox|bitstamp)(ask|bid|last|high|low|avg)} to index price to mtgox ask, bid, last, high, low, (1 more message)
gribble: (sell <amount> <thing> [at|@] <priceperunit> <otherthing> [<notes>]) -- Logs
a sell order for <amount> units of <thing, at
a price of <price> per unit, in units of <otherthing>. Use the optional <notes> field to put in any special notes. <price> may include an arithmetical expression, and {(mtgox|bitstamp)(ask|bid|last|high|low|avg)} to index price to mtgox ask, bid, last, high, low, (1 more message)
Venat: it was more like
a demonstration
truffles: still staring at
a man wearing
a skirt with belly hanging out
truffles: "At first, I was really freaked out. But
a lot of things are said on the Internet, so I stopped being so bothered."
thestringpuller: MPOE seems to hold its value over time given it's over
a year old
pankkake: if the nick wasn't used for
a long time, you can ask freenode to release it
BingoBoingo: Eh, at
a minimum people should at least have GPG keys and all the other requirements for personhood filled.
Tulak_: No one should trust anons running
a service
mike_c: you posted
a picture of your feet just the other day
mike_c: pankkake, we've all seen
a million pictures of you
pankkake: BingoBoingo: oh. well, the thing is, being anonymous has many advantages, even for
a non-scammer
pankkake: well, I'm thinking of making
a loan this next year. but in fiat :D
Tulak_: BingoBoingo, thanks but I'd rather remain
a comatose shadow
Tulak_: pankkake, you are getting mentioned in
a game nobody will ever buy.
BingoBoingo: Tulak_: I might be able to give you
a connection. Do you want to buy
a blurry JPEG of some trees?
kakobrekla: Tulak_ he is some guy who ran play exhcange and was bad at it, he ended up getting
a loan from tah comunitah to which he owes now 1mio or something
pankkake: probably because the ressemblance started when he was
a has-been already
Tulak_: this is tom cruise doing
a sad face :((
Tulak_: need
a decent movie now
BingoBoingo: Thanks mike_c, Tulak_ labcoin is just
a continuation of the ancient BitDayTrade scam
KRS1: the % of fucks who give
a fuck is fuck%
Tulak_: did
a bitbet which had No and Yes at around 0.9 ;)
pankkake: shit, if I want to send that 0.0006969, Armory wants to put in
a fee of 0.005. madness
pankkake: people will do anything for
a few coins
mircea_popescu: pankkake ironically, all teh peeps ranting about how bitbet is
a smalltime this that and the other,
mircea_popescu: actually. that thread was about claiming that bitbet is
a scam because bfl delivered and bitbet resolved the bet WRONGLY!!!
mircea_popescu: pankkake i imagine she got
a buncha people's small cow with springs by that comment.
pankkake: I mean, I am offended, I am
a tech person.
drmandude: so you guys predicted me, the guy that lost money on
a win, to come complain?
BingoBoingo: pankkake: Yeah, curating the odds, hedging on the other side if someone dumps
a large bet that skews things.
pankkake: you probably don't want to bet on anything that doesn't get you at least
a few percents, not worth the risk of losing vs. winning
mircea_popescu: the result of this is that if you bet very late you may end up with like
a <1% loss
mircea_popescu: drmandude the idea here is, that if
a bet runs for say
a month, and you put 1 btc when it opens, some dude betting like 3 weeks later can't get as much as you do of the winnings
drmandude: Sorry I'm
a noob to this. Not trying to make trouble :-)