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ThickAsThieves: i'm guesssing it's in a channel chat log somewhere, but not up to digging
mircea_popescu: a ok
mircea_popescu: peterl shareholder's generally. they don't get to have a say in how company is run.
ThickAsThieves: i can find DT's post about getting a job but the OpenCoin specificty is either edited out or I read it elsewhere
mircea_popescu: bluntly put people are so fucking retarded it's lucrative to create a paper copy of a successful asset
ThickAsThieves: I don't recall where DeadTerra mentioned it, at some point in the last couple mos he mentioned he got a job there, I'm trying to find the post to verify
mircea_popescu: all of it was on the exchange. a large part held by the owner.
peterl: activemining is a copy of asicminer?
mircea_popescu: in this case s.dice was split in 100mn shares, and the ipo was 10mn. a month after the ipo sold out erik got the rest of his shares in his acct
mircea_popescu: CheckDavid the contracts on mpex usually call for a specified ipo allocation and locktime
usagi: Just looking for a second opinion
usagi: Well I have my doubts about it but I can't deny the community is in a froth over it
usagi: Anyways I'm working on a few things that will pump BMF, and by the end of the month I expect BMF to be about even since inception compared to other mining assets down 60% since june
peterl: I remember looking at BMF a while ago and saying: most mining assets are losers, why would I want to invest in a collection of all the worst?
mircea_popescu: a title shared with a few others, it's true, but nevertheless.
PirateKitteh: I never bothered with bicointalk much until a few months ago. Many to be found there
mircea_popescu: CheckDavid http://gigaom.com/2013/07/19/someone-just-sold-a-bitcoin-business-for-11-4m-its-a-first-but-the-buyers-anonymous/
mircea_popescu: "x is a scammer just like me! because i say so! because everything smells like shit to the guy with shit on his nose!!!"
MiningBuddy: I literally took a sip of my southern comfort as you said that
PirateKitteh: *pours a drink for miningbuddy, because everyone should have one of those*
mircea_popescu: being a slave is the best way to better oneself.
Diablo-D3: thats a cop out and you know it
peterl: a bunch of shills will come say it's great
Apocalyptic: scam artists locating a house by ip
KRS: i dreamd there was a ufo making people aggressive with a ray, and i had a pack of robot dogs, so i said p1 command, and that was perimiter protection
Namworld: Who's with me to finance a space vessel to leave this rock behind?
usagi: Once upon a time, people gave their lives for freedom.
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Ukyo: anyone interested in buying some btc at a cheaper than market price price for PP ? :)
Namworld: Hmm, I notice there's a 1px border added to ads. It kind of would mess with my round corner banner.
lordshipomokeli: so why should a company keep it's investors happy then?
lordshipomokeli: i feel like i'm missing something.. does stock value any financial influence on a company, after an ipo was raised?
dub: theres an education network round these parts claiming a 2T backbone but 5 to the node seems a little way off
dub: because 5Tb to a server is so common, easy mistake to make
jborkl: a little exlax in it will speed it through the blockchain
Namworld: A buyback has been made!
nubbins`: hey cool, a week-old order book!
nubbins`: i'd rather a plain old http 500 error, tbh
Namworld: "This page (https://btct.co/) is currently offline. However, because the site uses CloudFlare's Always Online™ technology you can continue to surf a snapshot of the site. We will keep checking in the background and, as soon as the site comes back, you will automatically be served the live version."
Namworld: There's a 1.76670766 BTC fee for a forced buyback on the transaction... what a ripoff!
KRS-: I took a hot shit.
mircea_popescu: I would love to do such a thing so if someone wants to talk to me about it, PM me please."
nubbins`: there's a male tv chef named pasquale
mircea_popescu: Jul 17 21:05:39 <mircea_popescu>Pascale is a common Francophone given name, feminine form of the name Pascal, and an Italian masculine given name, ancient form of Pasquale (Paschale).
Namworld: How much extra did Erik pay over 0.0035? There was a small amount
nubbins`: <ThickAsThieves> today i got a pm warning me about my investment in SMG
mircea_popescu: like a poem ?
mircea_popescu: or if not a comment could you say something anyway
mircea_popescu: thicks you got a comment on that ?
mircea_popescu: ASICMINER week dividend will go to a new height. Estimated 0.04 to 0.05
mircea_popescu: this sounds like a hollywood movie.
nubbins`: i bet there were a few lels contained within
nubbins`: a warning pm!
ThickAsThieves: i guess it's only a few btc
mircea_popescu: lol it's a race to 5. asicminer vs minigame
Namworld: I work less and earn more. Not that someone gave it to me on a platter...
Namworld: When you spend on a whim just because of what the electors want now instead of what needs to be done for the long-term, you get into debt wasting money on unimportant stuff or overdoing things.
Apocalyptic: funny thing: today at the movies i saw a Simona Popescu in the credits, it that a common romanian name or is someone of your family working on shitty holywood films mircea ?
mircea_popescu: "There are 700,000 citizens who don't deserve a 55 minute rapid response time, who don't deserve endemic blight and crime, who don't deserve no hope and future and just continued debt over debt and borrowing," he said.
mircea_popescu: During a conference on Friday in which he defended the bankruptcy suit, Orr said that he was aware that there were 20,000 retirees and 97,000 workers who may suffer, but the majority of people in Detroit would benefit.
ThickAsThieves: his position to buy looks a lot different than anyone else
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you're probably exposed as lopng at least for limited intervals running a pt
ThickAsThieves: that also didnt understand that running a PT means i'm a middleman, not necessarily an invetsor
usagi: I got a PM asking me to invest in a security that gambled all it's investments on just-dice
usagi: a troll?
ThickAsThieves: today i got a pm warning me about my investment in SMG
Apocalyptic: you introduce a middle-man
ThickAsThieves: not that mp needs it, but a PT also exposes the underlying asset/business to new audiences
mircea_popescu: yeah. think about it, "so what have you done ? well, i ran x y z pt for a year" is bettert tyhan "well nothing because tghere's nothing that needs doing"
mircea_popescu: the other is that it gives people a chance to qualify in the profession of btc financier
ThickAsThieves: I didn't know it was a "thing" Namworld
Namworld: Well I'll need to make a S.MG-PT, I do it for each MPEx stock.
nubbins`: no, although that'd be a great conversation starter
nubbins`: there's a reason why i operate the studio instead of producing art, this is about as fancy as i get: http://i.imgur.com/feLeauz.jpg
nubbins`: except that's just a digital print, AKA a photocopy
nubbins`: shame i don't have access to a litho studio, or, y'know, talent
ThickAsThieves: oh nice grats on a news site admitting mpex exists!
mircea_popescu: i got a gigaom link
ozbot: Someone just sold a Bitcoin business for $11.4M It’s a first, but the buyer’s anonymous —
mircea_popescu: http://gigaom.com/2013/07/19/someone-just-sold-a-bitcoin-business-for-11-4m-its-a-first-but-the-buyers-anonymous/
nubbins`: what, did he get the shirt and windbreaker in a package deal or something?
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> http://scammer-ianbakewell.com/assets/ianbakewell_sock.jpg << he kinda looks like a dork tbh
nubbins`: truthfully, i'd love to screenprint stock certificates or something, but it's kind of a useless thing for the bitcoin world
nubbins`: me too, my poor little girl had a tooth pulled today :(
ThickAsThieves: problem is that IRL i'm a notorius cat lover
usagi: <Rulother__> He's a classmate of Garr <-- he mustve meant that other guy
Rulother__: He isn't really a person
Rulother__: He's a classmate of Garr
Namworld: https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/q71/944505_10151547371627807_365783252_n.jpg
kakobrekla: cause its a new feature
PeterL_: why do they never give a greason for rejecting bets?
kakobrekla: a bit of trollin i guess
FabianB: usagi: :( sent a transaction from their wallet online app, not apearing anywhere else yet
usagi: Yes blockchain.info is missing a lot of transactions
Rulother__: Are you just trying to find a faster payout processor?
lordshipomokeli: would it be possible to use bitpay as payout processor? i.e., register yourself as merchant and "buy your own stuff".. fast processing for a small premium
lordshipomokeli: so i guess there will be a point at which those start "panic selling"
lordshipomokeli: no sorry.. :) i think many got prior wall takedown in to make a quick buck after
ThickAsThieves: buying a PMB is worse for you than COG or BASIC