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mircea_popescu: i scored you. the difference here is that in order to attack you we'd have to share something. we do not.
mircea_popescu: which is why the stuff yo usay is lulzy to people here, but not to you.
mircea_popescu: you're stuck working with strawmen whether you want to or not.
mircea_popescu: the problem is that you don't klnow me, and by extension bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: you don't get to say how these debates work. again, because bitcoin.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: however, this will positively never happen. bitcoin will just ruin academia as you know it and that's that.
mircea_popescu: so. inasmuch as you wish to continue, on the general expectation that bitcoin will eventually conform to your worldview, you're more than welcome to it.
mircea_popescu: i would know if it were or if it weren't. you, however, wouldn't.
mircea_popescu: now, if you want to talk about my think, and i say you're stupid, this can not be waved aside by you claiming it's an ad hominem.
mircea_popescu: you may generously represent yourself as equal to all people, myself included. this however is false : i am a major player in a major revolution. you are practically nobody, or if we're charitable a minor player in a lengthy tradition, if we are again charitable and consider the us derpage somehow related to european academia as a human thought adventure.
mircea_popescu: ok, let me explain to you why your "ad hominem" approach is broken.
mircea_popescu: they knoe each other, they trust each other, escrow is not the problem.
mircea_popescu: in general, people trade otc as in, otc. major players
mircea_popescu: bitcointrader_ an escrow service does any deal, what difference does it make to it.
mircea_popescu: !reg "Who should be the derpiest" and it gives you an index, then !vote 1224543 herpy and it tallies "herpy" +1
mircea_popescu: jborkl this suggests a ready expansion to Jason's bot. it could hold propositions for voting, like a gpg-poll thing.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal guy has a tenuous grasp on facts. which, for an outsider, i guess is laudable.
mircea_popescu: jborkl "most satoshi-like individual that's not acually satoshi"
mircea_popescu: left the guy a comment to come here, not approved yet, but anyway, if he shows up someone voice him
mircea_popescu: "Worst pr move masquerading as an award", you can give that to the bitcoin foundation for the two bit idiot debacle.
mircea_popescu: someone should go for Individual Person Guy as a name.
mircea_popescu: which'd explai nwhy they've not done anything spectacularly stupid in the last while.
mircea_popescu: a okay, i see. so apparently a guy i actually know took over that outfit. (no, not erik)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you specifically ?! how the hell does some dude in france even know you.
mircea_popescu: well someone's behind there, the people originally involved with bitfinex ain't got the resources required.
mircea_popescu: so you're still in panama. basically what, erik bought bitfinex ?
mircea_popescu: mjr_ but kakobrekla has a good q, what happened at coinapult ?
mircea_popescu: then not a peep for about a year. so someone with some sort of competence took over. but mjr_ ain't telling who.
mircea_popescu: then about six months or so later some people involved had a very public breakup replete with tardstalk scam tag requests, much in the manner the bitcoin magazine takeover worked
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes nah, lots of history there. bitfinex was a coupla twerps that took the leaked bitcoinica codebase and started a new bitcoinica, back in 2012ish ? early 2013 ? (that code was in the wild because after the nth breach, amir taaki of bitcoin consultancy fame "open sourced" it by releasing it without rights)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: not that this worlview isn't common with twentysomething impudent cocklets. but it is universally working to their detriment.
mircea_popescu: the problem was (and am starting to suspect remains) your mistaken notion that you have a lot to give and relatively little to take.
mircea_popescu: no dude, you got negrated for attempting a powerplay with me.