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mircea_popescu: this because you know, merchant adoption is so important for a coin and all that.
mircea_popescu: i don't think there's been a block with a transaction in it since may.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal well it's got 1.7th perm from now on, plus whatever other people throw at it, so im guessing a 5 to 10 th rate going forward is probably its level
mircea_popescu: fluffypony are you aiming to ask "will blockr.io be shut down integrally or will the atc part somehow magically survive" or do you aim to ask "will atc implement blockchain culling like the btc does"
mircea_popescu: (more likle, the implication is you're from the us, and thus mate once for a lyftyme)
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal well maybe the implication is you only used it on their best friends.
mircea_popescu: more so for the other man part than for the spider web part, god knows how that works.
mircea_popescu: but perhaps the implication is that it'd be icky to use another man's spider web condom
mircea_popescu: "then when it finally went through his face light up "you just gotta know how to work these treknologies"
mircea_popescu: sad that the story fails to include a "he mumbled god dangit while kicking the machine a couple of times"
mircea_popescu: people here have shit like i dunno, laser cutters all over their kitchen. so... you're in good company
mircea_popescu: <Apocalyptic> <X-Rob> I normally just reinvest into hardware. // this strategy is bound to fail << i think he pretty much said he enjoys the tinkering aspect. so from his pov it's perfect, put some money in, letting it run itself out. bitcoin, the very complex and realistic online mmorpg/mud
mircea_popescu: it's like "dudes if you don't make the world friendlier to stupid people i'll stab myself in the eye"
mircea_popescu: the reality in the field is exactly opposite : i can dump porn pics all day and it'll stil be more important for bitcoin than tim swanson';s "books".
mircea_popescu: +r is based on this imbecilic theory that the content matters and the people do not.
mircea_popescu: heck, even the bureaucracy understood it eventually. hence no iraq 51st state
mircea_popescu: people understand it's fucking stupid to undertake administering a shithole.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the thing is, both the chinese and the russians are run by people.
mircea_popescu: as the compatriots said twenty years ago, Azi in Timisoara, Miine'n Ferguson, MO.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal> on bitbet, people always write up a bet about stocks like GOOG will close at above 1200 before jan 1 << so it's like freedom, let them have fun.
mircea_popescu: the article sized comments will continue until it stops with the nitpicks
mircea_popescu: chetty lol ltc is btc's copper ? what, so if all fails you can make yourself some nice ltc pipes ?
mircea_popescu: this silver that can't even keep 1%... what silver is it!
mircea_popescu: mpex was new, plenty of finance people had just for the first time in their life had this new pympex weirdo device and key based trading and etc.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal the common wisdom at the time was that someone butterfingered. either it was meant to be a buy rather than a sell, or too many zeroes or something
mircea_popescu: (there was this event, back in 2012 iirc, when someone sold like 1mn shares in shallow bids, resulting into a temporary 99.9% drop of the price)
mircea_popescu: sounds like btc is nao copying mpex, i recall how pissed ppl were on the first and original sd dump
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c you proly should add pingbacks to your blog somehow.
mircea_popescu: mp lists derps, mpex servers go offline, mpex servers come back online, nobody wants to do series a anymoar. the lyf&tymes.
mircea_popescu: ALL IT TOOK WAS AN ARTICLE ON TRILEMA TWO YEARS AGO TO BUCK THEM
mircea_popescu: punkman even tecvh crunch is now skeptical of ycombinator
mircea_popescu: yeah, it's not like it's some big secret that ripple is broken and why etc.
mircea_popescu: you're not the master of the fucking world on other people's money. suppose you were a plumber and i hired you to build me a toilet on the ceiling. after you explained to me this design i have is idiotic, as long as i'm paying you;d better build it.
mircea_popescu: "Turns out, the post is complete junk. It's about as thoughtful and informative as the Nigerian 411 scam. Let's analyze the post, top-to-bottom."
mircea_popescu: They barely bring in a dollar a week for this site. They can be distracting, they can be frustrating and even annoying at times but they appear because they do bring something in, no matter how little and Mike applies every bit they earn to paying the ever increasing bills this site is faced with on a daily basis."
mircea_popescu: "I know some of this stems from the fact the website contains advertisements. A great debate has taken place internally about those advertisements.