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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.
mircea_popescu: Giancarlo Devasini / J.L. van der Velde / Raphael Nicolle << which are still involved ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski omfg you gave me a moment of pause cause i thought your line's assbot's
mircea_popescu: what are you talking about ? abstractions don't exist they get called stupid all the time
mircea_popescu: yeah, but he was also the only one with the authority to make changes.
mircea_popescu: and a welcome one at that. fucking ip addresses nuttery.
mircea_popescu: and if one day they include a weather service in some client, that'll be about as much change.
mircea_popescu: you can share keys and whatnot with or without bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: notably, you could have used multisig at any point starting in 2009, and plenty of people did.
mircea_popescu: you have an option to do whatever the fuck it is you want to do at all junctures anyway.
mircea_popescu: so, yeah. the market may decide anything it wants for just as long as it stays strictly within what i find paltable. that';s how this thing works.
mircea_popescu: "the market" doesn't decide jack shit. if "the market" decides things, we might as well make coinbase the new fed and welcome wall street on their own terms.