mircea_popescu: i hope fractal makes the 0% site so i can make a bet about which bitbet bet will next take up all the fucking chan space on -assets.

mircea_popescu: we should make a bet on fractal's bet site as to whether bitcoin.oz using the same ip as wogwog and fractal makes it the same unit or not.

mircea_popescu: kinda how it goes. people start a game of mudbitcoin, it's fun cause it's so wtf. that last a while, then it wears off, then they lose interest.

mircea_popescu: pankkake supposedly making money spamming is also a fact. tenouous as it may sound.

mircea_popescu: Anduck because he's a junior in psychology and that's what the book of reversal says

mircea_popescu: here's a tip you wannabe you : next time you want to sock, use a different https://www.projecthoneypot.org/ip_79.129.41.134

mircea_popescu: e and thrust them out among the artisans or the farmers. And again, if from these there is born a son with unexpected gold or silver in his composition they shall honor such and bid them go up higher, some to the office of guardian, some to the assistanceship, alleging that there is an oracle that the city shall then be overthrown when the man of iron or brass is its guardian.

mircea_popescu: heir generation, for which reason they are the most precious — but in the helpers, silver, and iron and brass in the farmers and other craftsmen. And, as you are all akin, though for the most part you will breed after your kinds, it may sometimes happen that a golden father would beget a silver son, and that a golden offspring would come from a silver sire, and that the rest would, in like manner, be born of one anot

mircea_popescu: "I farm bits and pieces out to the guys who are much more brilliant than I am. I say, "build me a laser", this. "Design me a molecular analyzer", that. They do, and I just stick 'em together. But, none of them know what the project really is. So..."

mircea_popescu: in the immortal words of jeff goldblum in the fly, "i'm more like a supply chain manager"

mircea_popescu: nope. it's a thing tho, like ebay.

mircea_popescu: there's a good example. the polish government just stole ~100bn dollars worth of private pensions

mircea_popescu: talk to a chinese vibrator manufacturer then

mircea_popescu: nubbins` i can see collecting a few hundred btc for making a hardware wallet if you can convince you know wtf you're doing.

mircea_popescu: it's another for every two bit kid with a modem to be doing the same.

mircea_popescu: nubbins` i think it's a good lesson really.

mircea_popescu: pankkake i made the mistake of querying the mod that did it. here you go : "because wtf is mtgox already! look they've been announcing ltc for like a year. it's a dying dog saying it's going to start eating rabbits, i'm not taking bets on whether it actually does. besides, they're a known group of scammers and liars, what's to keep them from fronting ltc trades? and then obviously even if they did manage to implement t

mircea_popescu: why's this even a bet ?

mircea_popescu: pankkake well to me it reads like a variant of "I will publish the number 15 on my website by end of year".

mircea_popescu: this because reality surprises, which is a good thing overall.

mircea_popescu: this is imo the most important takeaway here : rather than hang your bet on some technicality, just make a new one in which your point of interest is substantially the bet.

mircea_popescu: if indeed that's the case you'd have been much better served by making a "The Bitfury strikes back 400gh/s unit will not exist as the 16 boards together will hash under 400gh/s"

mircea_popescu: nubbins` i hear there's a ~5btc budget.