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mircea_popescu: bubbalicious amusingly, we have the converse advantage : only corp in the world tio be able to announce
a price,
the20year1: Is BTC at current value
a bubble or
a long term thing? I was told by many, many, many people when we hit $250/btc that it would only go higher
the20year1: My life doesn't depend on BTC fluxuations, nor does the business. If BTC outperforms the company, then the investors get less of
a return, if the company outperforms BTC then they're even happier. Regardless for non-cryptos, we'll be outperforming just about everything
mircea_popescu: in that you're
a brave man. see you survive
a coupla years somehow.
firedrops: holy crap I missed rentalstarter entirely.... is it actually
a good investment? didn't bitfunder just shutter?
firedrops: okay ppl. I have
a coinbr account, HIM account, and finally I have 2btc. yes TWO! <--ballin'.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this has been useful in that next time i'm in
a bar going to approach
a chick it'll be all "hey, roundeyes! fancy
a drink ?"
mircea_popescu: so they went to the trouble of making
a us version just for nyah-nyah ? that's comedy.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as it even sports
a us flag, i;m sure it's an equal opportunity fleecer, go ahead.
pankkake: though I shouldn't make it reply without
a question
nubbins`: oh and the mailman just dropped off
a money order from one of the deadbeats, so woo!
nubbins`: i've got
a set of polished stone ones, they weigh
a ton
kakobrekla: was even in the shop looking for
a physical version
nubbins`: ^ at that rate, CFIG's second IPO on monday is gonna be
a tough sell
nubbins`: imsaguy: seriously, you'd be
a great mentor
nubbins`: nah, i do
a big purge every few years
nubbins`: imsaguy: mind if i send you
a PM the next time i need advice on something? you obv know what you're doing
nubbins`: i'm
a coin collector; i collect coins
kakobrekla: the thing is someone from the mods told me that badbear was planning
a ban attack
nubbins`: yeah, no sense selling at
a loss or anything like that
kakobrekla: i pissed the morning piss on garr for
a week and he gets all butthurt and calls his shill to the rescue. the rest is clear.
firedrops: good question, their site won't load... anywho. bitbet for now. unless someone knows
a tradehill alternative?
firedrops: thanks kako,
a bunch of forums ppl say cryptoexchange...
firedrops: basically, does that trilema article system work against
a tradehill alternative?
kakobrekla: bitesak_ he describes
a market maker which defo should help with such setup i described
jurov: <mircea_popescu> jurov the start-up times are
a legitimate problem tho, and so was the fact it took two weeks to sync
a year ago. <<< yes and fixing that was reasonable i don't think they should be riced further to detriment of other stuff.
nubbins`: you'd think that for
a "sell shit for btc" website, they'd, you know, STORE THE PRICE OF ITEMS IN BTC
nubbins`: i got another "you just sold
a bunch of shit for below cost" email from coingig.
kakobrekla: the other is you can make
a maket where people sell or buy their positions from the bets table
kakobrekla: make
a site when one can login, deposit coins and set the output addresses that he wants to follow with bets
kakobrekla: not
a secreat at all, i just told you about one
pankkake: so what kind of services are you thinking of, or is it
a secret? :p
nubbins`: because it was no fun and each morning it was
a struggle to get out of bed and face the day
kakobrekla: im saying this here cause i know theres
a bunch of you people here that can code and do nothing
pankkake: on one bet I had
a "omg who is stupid enough to bet this" moment, clicked stats, and the guy was losing most of his bet, so… :)
pankkake: I guess you could find
a practical enough ratio of missing data
nubbins`: was just wondering if one could reconstruct
a rar using ONLY pars
pankkake: " Long-term value of one bitcoin (10 years) " => someone's doing
a 10 year bet? that's also betting bitbet will be around in 10 years :)
firedrops: newsbin used to unpar them for me. Should be
a single. .RAR in there somewhere.
pankkake:
a long time ago. something isn't working?
joecool: nubbins`: the best was when he loaned money to
a heroin addict :)
nubbins`: KRS-1: i believe there is some sort of escrow-type transaction you can do if you involve
a third party. not sure the details, and then you've gotta trust the escrow as well
nubbins`: of course you're poor, you're
a child
KRS-1: thought there was
a 3 way gpg key that keeps everything locked up until mutual agreement has been made
KRS-1: is this just backed up by ratings? nothing to enforce
a fair trade?
KRS-1: Can someone recommend
a good guide for me so I can trade cash for BTC with someone I don't know? I want to go through some kind of intermediary like escrow.
nubbins`: so, while i'm glad that putting
a ton of btc into casascius coins prevented me from foolishly gambling them on "investments", i'm increasingly wary of their ability to hold their btc value long-term
nubbins`: "Hey, Reddit, Ycombinator, and Metafilter readers! You know what, I'm proud that this article has become
a benchmark, but I've written
a lot of others I like too, some of them more recently than 2004. It would sure be nice if my other articles got some love instead of just this one being linked from
a discussion every week."
nubbins`:
a friend of mine recently started
a CS degree, and posted about that Paranoia game last week
nubbins`: better OS analogy would be "geniune" windows vs.
a pirated version, perhaps
nubbins`: yeah, it actually is. however, correct me if i'm wrong, but if you've got
a virus, your OS is not only the wrong colour, but also consists of different bits
nubbins`: "Suppose your computer is infected with
a worm or virus. You want to disinfect it. What do you do? You boot it up from original write-protected install media. Sure, you have
a copy of the operating system on the drive already, but you can't use that copy - it's the wrong Colour."
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla if you actually saw that one coming you're
a better fx trader than me
mircea_popescu: incidentally, if anyone has
a reddit account be
a sweetheart and put that torrent article up
gribble:
A market order to sell 20000 bitcoins right now would net 5025556.4619 USD and would take the last price down to 210.9971 USD, resulting in an average price of 251.2778 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 0.0017 seconds
gribble: This order would exceed the size of the order book. You would buy 16465.37 bitcoins, for
a total of 6675396989.6532 USD and take the price to 99999999999.0000. | Data vintage: 191.9064 seconds
firedrops: anyone have
a diagnosis for why gox is so high? I haven't touched them in months..
firedrops: just sent the article to
a close friend/cmptr scientist guy.. trying to get him to start his own project... he's too smart to work for ATT.
random_cat_: i participate there.
a claim was made that you had never backed off from 'scammer' to 'maybe not
a scammer' (or perhaps the claim was stronger... that you had reasserted the whole thing was
a fraud)
mircea_popescu: i have no idea wtf tycho is doing these days, haven't used the thing in
a year.
random_cat_: have you recently renewed
a claim of 'scammer' on icbit?
mircea_popescu: bitesak_ well to
a degree their market is
a commodified or at least commodifiable one, so price competition will be
a part.
mircea_popescu: taub
a ok. yeah, it's all
a quest to respect your market basically.
bitesak_: competing on price is not
a good indicator.
taub: they understand
a thing or two about marketing their exchange
mircea_popescu: jurov the start-up times are
a legitimate problem tho, and so was the fact it took two weeks to sync
a year ago.
bitesak: despite the hassle, maybe
a 2fa to login from the start would still allow for convenience in placing and cancelling
bitesak: more speficially, how to steal from
a protected (as in 2fa bitcoin signature for withdrawals) account
bitesak: jurov: are there planned updates to coinbr ? I finally got round to adding the 2fa for withdrawal, but it seems that if I had access to someone elses coinbr acct I could rather easily/quickly buy some in the money options, and sell them at
a slight discount to my main coinbr acct and exercise them. Is this correct?
BingoBoingo: Well, might make sense. Seeing how web wallets are having
a rough time of late.
bitesak: that and maybe
a sizeable amount of bitcoins have left the exchanges in fear of losing access to them. that's what I did
a year ago at least
bitesak: and testing the keys with small amounts is probably
a good idea first
bitesak: there is that site where you can download the page and run it on an offline computer but I am in no position to suggest that is
a wise method
b0n1: yeah I am asking for
a good source to exactly that
b0n1: i think the paperwallet is
a nice idea
b0n1: BingoBoingo, but its too dangerous without
a backup that the drive breaks sometimes