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mircea_popescu: <Kleeck__> What
a perfect position you've created for yourself MP. << this happens to be how business works, incidentally. you do
a narrowly defined, specified thing. you never do "everything", ie, unbounded obligations.
ThickAsThieves: well i had
a number of bets, all of which i was sure i won and i was digging through emails and saw notifications of .00001 deposits on one of my betting addresses
mircea_popescu: that;'s the point, and that's
a giood half of the value and utility of bitbet to the community.
Kleeck__: What
a perfect position you've created for yourself MP. Bitbet = Reality, but it can't reveal how it comes to it's conclusions. :P
mircea_popescu: this is like going "o, the court should show me". dude... you got
a case, show your case. you don't got no case... that's what it is.
mircea_popescu: Ukyo it's true, but it's also damned hard to distinguish who's serious etc. gotta pick some sort of
a fixed criterion.
mircea_popescu: on some substitute source wherein
a lot of other exchanges were counted.
mircea_popescu: if you're half of your household including more girlfriends makes you more or less
a % ?
mircea_popescu: well now we know for
a fact it's not good : the bitcoincharts site doesn't include this bit2c thing
mircea_popescu: saying "take this twenty and give it to your sister" is one thing. saying "well i hear
a certain young lady has seen more things than you'd expect" it's quite another.
thestringpuller: OBAMA: We have been very clear to the Assad regime but also to other players on the ground that
a red line for us is we start seeing
a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized.
mircea_popescu: “President Obama is
a personal friend of mine. He was over to the house yesterday, but the mop broke.”
mircea_popescu: what the fuck, you could pick
a better matching comedian throwing darts
pankkake: I'd just reply with "If you have Labcoin shares (and don't have inside knowledge) you ARE
a fucking idiot. There's no grey area on that."
kakobrekla: How dumb am I? What kind
a person does this?
kakobrekla: >>>So let me get this right. Someone mined 3 BTC and sent it to the Labcoin wallet to cause
a price spike?
nubbins`: or the IRL equivalent of sticking
a sharpie in your ass for
a btc
nubbins`: never realizing that they're unpaid actors in
a reality show called "morons on the internet"
nubbins`: take that as
a compliment or
a slight
thestringpuller: "My bank won't wire transfer to Slovenia (Bitstamp) says that it is
a sanctioned country."
nubbins`: anyway, cold machine with printer/scanner: you wanna decrypt
a message, just print it from your hot machine and do OCR on the cold machine
thestringpuller: with that logic you could make
a poster with public private key that sits next to your bed
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller yeah. who do you think steals
a laptop you got for 180 on ebay ?
nubbins`: y'know,
a printer/scanner combo would be
a great thing for
a cold machine to have.
mircea_popescu: but yeah, the best security is having
a cheap laptop you don't use for anything else. generate
a wallet and some gpg keys.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu what would be the ideal solution for
a lemming storing btc "securely"
mircea_popescu: some other time, two chicks living together, landlord comes to do the same thing with
a young goofy married couple.
nubbins`: i was living in
a rental once, and the landlord was showing some new prospective tenants around
mircea_popescu: "
A lot of holes in the desert, and
a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with
a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about
a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig
a few more holes. You could be there all fuckin' night."
nubbins`: anyway, seems
a lot easier than keeping backups of wallet.dat files in encrypted usb drives in bank vaults
nubbins`: y'know, i'm realizing that this isn't
a terribly complicated topic to discuss
nubbins`: but let's assume that one is intelligent enough to create
a passphrase with
a very high level of entropy
mircea_popescu: if you've never made original contributions to
a scientific field your mind is probably too banal for the brain wallet to be safer than the alternatives.
ozbot: The anatomy of
a disaster pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
nubbins`: seems like they're sitting on
a bunch of mining hardware with very little prospect of roi
mircea_popescu: i don't follow that reasoning too well. but anyway : absent someone with
a screenshot of the proper link, there's no basis to contest the bet.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves other than that i've not yet made
a data feed. waiting for
a company to offer to do this, and convince me that it has
a market above and beyond assbot.
Ukyo: btw, it appears the labcoin address has had
a deposit of some 3.x btc from slush's pool
Duffer1: i don't see how they can hide the coins though, unless they send what's mined through
a mixer... then their stock would crash to zero if they tried that
ThickAsThieves: if they cared to prove anything, theyd hop on
a pool and take some pics of their miners
Ukyo: I've made
a few posts in the threads. I don't see why they can't list the address used for mining up to now unless they plan to hide and keep the coins
Ukyo: thats
a little more than btct's 95,000 30day volume.
nubbins`: Rulother: that design's got
a partridge family kinda vibe, hey?
nubbins`: anyway, it's
a great way to buy silver because there's no way you could lose money
topace: yea but you'd never hand that over at
a store to buy something
nubbins`: pricey for bullion, but essentially
a 1:1 trade for face value
matuszed: it was
a 30% return at 3.0 too
nubbins`: so the cut in pay wasn't
a huge adjustment
nubbins`: she's got
a contract designing art for S.MG's new game
nubbins`: she ended up quitting her job in retail, going to art school, now she does this for
a living too
dexX7: it's
a great thing to do what pleases you
nubbins`: compared to 10+ back when i worked in
a fabric-covered box
nubbins`: i gave up
a lucrative java development job at an insurance company 7 months ago to do this
nubbins`: i'm printing some tees for
a local band later today
kakobrekla: talk to mp if you have
a complaint in regards to bet resolvment
ThickAsThieves: "
A failure to raise 9500 BTC by Saturday 30th November would constitute
a failed IPVO,
AndChat|52500: I'll be quite happy to be dead wrong. Just expressing
a concern.
AndChat|52500: Until "you can't touch B unless your holding
A" becomes the norm.
AndChat|52500: No I'm more interested in seeing how it plays out as I think this could be the start of
a trend.
ThickAsThieves: and those buys are suspected to have been part of
a marketing scheme and then refunded
AndChat|52500: Not
a hard and fast rule, but we all see how fast these offerings can sell out.
ThickAsThieves: the pre-ipvo is meant to be an opportunity for XBOND holders, not
a solicitation to buy XBOND at market
mircea_popescu: "any one who expects
a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine"
mircea_popescu: "There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our coal has run out is
a completely unscientific Utopian dream,
a childish bug-
a-boo. Nature has introduced
a few fool-proof devices into the great majority of elements that constitute the bulk of the world, and they have no energy to give up in the process of disintegration."
benkay: but only in as
a joke about your long-running schtick about "shutting up and doing as one's told by one's betters"
benkay: drink
a bunch of beers with the well-capitalized