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Diablo-D3: "nd the average ejaculation produces about
a tablespoon of semen,"
Diablo-D3: she is
a canidate for the paleo diet
dexX7: we're Normal People here and not everybody is
a lawyer or such. sometimes we can understand with less wording. IMHO.
iamnot_: I'm thinking about dividing my shares among multiple BF accounts for extra security against hacking/etc. Does anyone know if tendering shares to
a separate account takes place instantly or will there be
a delay to worry about?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller well... there was
a rash of them, but it abated.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: didn't the idiots emailing you about the fees without reading the faq piss you off just
a lil' bit?
thestringpuller: Ah this good 'ol quote (speaking of scammors): .Shady ROMANIAN character opens up unregistered bitcoin options exchange (complete with HTML from 1993) on his personal website (which also hosts porn) and charges exorbitant fees just to join, while constantly accusing pretty much everyone else in the bitcoin community of being
a scammer, and, along with his (possibly virtual) -PR lackey, acts like
a loudmouthed douchebag . but apperantly scams no
ThickAsThieves: of course you informed me this was
a stupid waste of time
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: All : the avatars here don.t use gravatar, instead look for an avatar.png file in your domain. << When you got
a minute could you direct me
a to
a faq or something explaining that?
thestringpuller: BTCGARDEN should hire
a futures expert and use their capital for something useful
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves were you here back when he came in to like... i dunno, cuss me out as
a pr exercise i guess
ThickAsThieves: dont confuse that with me saying
a day trader cant make money with them
dexX7: well. that indeed could be
a way
dexX7: and preorder selling is just
a speculation and somehow profits from lower diff also
assbot: Things which are alike, in nature, grow to look alike, and the speaking stones have lain
a long time lookin' at the sun.
kleeck: Ha. Yeah. I'm not interested. Maybe the market needs
a true difficulty hedge that is easy to understand. "mining insurance"?
mircea_popescu: there was
a mm
a while back but things diodn't work out so well for him.
mircea_popescu: dexX7 yeah. thing is s.mpoe was over half
a mil btc back when asicminer was worth ~0.
dexX7: well.. like mp said. mpoe has
a market cap of 800k? :p
dexX7: does anyone know how much coins avalon and friedcat made per month or whatever? veery roughly is okay.. just to get
a feeling for the magnitude..
dexX7: smidge:
a company is excluded from the dax if it's weight exceeds 10 % or it's 30d volatility is heigher than 250 %
smidge: thats why i think
a 25% cap would be
a compromise between
a pure mkt cap index with asicminer having 60,70% and
a pure equal weight with 10 securities each having 10%
smidge: its working for real world indices. dax has
a cap at 10% per security, 30 of them in there in total.
mircea_popescu: yes, it's
a compromise, but what are you compromising and on what basis ?
smidge: i know, but its
a compromise
BigBitz: millions is
a bit farfetched, no?
smidge: but i agree that there should be
a max value for the index share, like 25% for asicminer
VanCleef: i dont know but is there
a new ipo yet, i'm bored
kleecksj: Today is going to be
a wild one. I feel it.
mircea_popescu: it'd seem to me this is an explanation not
a hand-weaving.
mircea_popescu: well, as
a matter of fact i can't see such
a contradiction.
Neil_: mircea_popescu: If you can't see the contradiction in the resolution of the two bets, I can't help you. I've written it off. But IMO it's
a black mark against the neutrality of the resolutions. I don't know how they were decided, but IMO the benefit of drama and 1% fees cannot be ruled out.
Neil_: mircea_popescu: So, returning to SDICE, I personally saw contradiction in (someone)'s decision to decide that while the market cap of SDICE went to zero, the share price didn't. I don't see this as black-and-white, and that if you say the share price didn't go to zero, it's inconsistent to claim the market cap did. The third choice of "no meaning" would have been
a more reasonable resolution IMO, but of course would have cost BB
frb: you have no right to be upset over anything done on
a gambling site
frb: it's
a betting site, part of the risk is that the party being betted on makes
a bet :|
mircea_popescu: well if it makes you feel better i didn't have
a bet in there.
Neil_: Yeah the SDICE vs BBET I lost quite
a lot.
mircea_popescu: i mean people made
a lot of hay about bfl delivery in may bet, but... bfl STILL hasn't delivered so.
Neil_: OK cool, glad we're on the same boat. I worried for
a while.
mircea_popescu: if the bet is
a crapshot, the person usually makes nothing but sometimes makes
a bunch.
mircea_popescu: it's simple. whenever someone makes
a bet, the house splits
a dime among yes/no ands puts the lower ammt on the name of the person that proposed the bet.
Neil_: So what is the meaning of house bets exactly? I intially (many moons ago) read it as "that looks like
a good punt". But later I realised it means what you gain out of the initial bet distribution on creation. Or something like that, but it's not very clear.
ThickAsThieves: "It's relatively easy to figure out if steel companies can make
a ton of steel more efficiently than in the past (they can, by
a lot), but we have no idea how to measure the financial value of ideas and the people who come up with them. "
ThickAsThieves: "
A much larger swath of people — about 36 percent of U.S. adults — don't have jobs and aren't looking for work at all. That figure is higher than it's been in decades (and, conversely, the share of adults in the labor force — shown in the graph above — is lower than it's been in decades)."
gribble: Error: "hashrate" is not
a valid command.
dandate2: what exactly is tatinvestments that i would buy
a bond in it?
kidkrypto: i'll make
a mock up of what i mean
dexX7: kidkrypto: there was
a seperate url for the realtime tab of btct
dandate2: looks like i'm buying
a fraction of what i bought on the -pt
kidkrypto: is there
a btct price tracker for ios?
mircea_popescu: granted it's only
a few btc per cycle they lose, but i imagine
a few btc hurt
a lot in scamistan.
smidge: tat i wont get
a new avatar
mircea_popescu: dandate2 on the short term the market is
a nutty machine
kidkrypto: thought that was
a raspi for
a moment
smidge: now post
a cgminer shot of your usb miner and you're off
smidge: namworld you first need
a picture of
a fpga to enable ipo frenzy
VanCleef: we just made
a prince in nigera very happy
dandate2: who the hlel is going to buy
a depository receipt called ThickasThieves
pankkake: cognitive is taking
a beating :/
userioao: well it doesn't help we just got
a photo of fpga plugged into 3g router
dandate2: btcgarden laughing all the way to the bank because they created some 2d photo of what might be
a microchip and put it on their webrsite
dandate2: its daytime in china and late night everywhere else so it is
a little suspicious why there is
a buying frenzy for btcgarden
smidge: i could use
a few percent after this week tbh
random_cat: here is
a bit of trouble i have with bitbet: the nature of the weight evolution is unclear to me.
mircea_popescu: much like spamming is still going 20 years later in spite of the avg spammer making
a loss.
smidge: its because decadent westerners want to make
a profit without caring
mircea_popescu: btcgarden in particular is
a lulzcase, with its blog full of pictures stolen off the internet.
ozbot: The anatomy of
a scam. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: random_cat no excitement whatsoever. there's
a couple of scammer assets being pushed by anons.
random_cat: ok... i see what btc garden is... but why the excitement? avalon is already offering
a superior product (of limited supply)
random_cat: what is '
a lot of isk' mircea_popescu? from my logs, plato and klak1212 were interested in multi 10^9 or 10^10 deals in the past 12 months
mircea_popescu: chiefly because people join all excited, do something for
a few weeks then abandon it.
mircea_popescu: smidge you can take it pretty far. therer's
a dearth of pretty much everything that;s market watching and reporting.
smidge: i will work on it
a few more hours and post
a thread, just wanna check how far i can take this