300800+ entries in 2.337s
cads: I have an idea of how
a webstore could test what effect bitcoin support has on its conversion rate
cads: but then
a webstore catering to early adopters, techies, and people with an anarchocapitalist bent, I'm sure bitcoin support can be
a boon.
cads: mircea_popescu: there is
a large fraction of regular people that are instinctively mistrustful of bitcoin - there has been talk of people using it for tax evasion and money laundering, there is bitcoin's use in the silk road that leaves
a bad taste in most people's mouths.
cads: if your customers are techies, there's
a good chance that adding that bitcoin payment button will increase customer conversion rates even in customers that don't use bitcoin
cads: I'm sure similar questions have been asked in the past by vendors considering adding, for example,
a paypal payment option to their webstore
cads: hey has anyone done
a study about the marketing impact that offering bitcoin payments in webstores has on traditional payments?
benkay: scams are much more readily prosecuted when you can distract
a sucker with multi-channel comms
Namworld: and I think they have
a 3 google ads units per page limit...
Namworld: I refreshed tho, now it's
a large unit.
mircea_popescu: i doubt anyone gives
a shit about some obscure blogger that knows shit he doesn't understand.
Namworld: I'm not quite sure 2 banners, one on each side, is ground to
a ban...
mircea_popescu: "Is, and always will be
a scam… You can’t even find
a real answer about bitcoins, even after you dig for hours through hundreds of links. Useless programs, useless dead sites, useless"
mircea_popescu: "We all know Bitcoin is
a sham, it’s
a pyramid scheme"
jimmy2k: I wont use
a lawyer for doing research since i dont think he can help me here much
jimmy2k: yes, because I thought thats
a joke or something and just wanted to try it. Also I thought if it would be fraud why should he provide me this info to cause suspision. so i thought i just log in and check. i mean i couldnt do anything without the tans anyway
mircea_popescu: payment, so that I can be sure that I will receive the money on the next day! After that
a really strange thing happened! He sent me the login data for his clients online banking account and told me I should just log in and check for
a proof! This was completely suspicious to me and I immediately decided to go to the police the next day... Then everything changed...
mircea_popescu: o looky, americans are starting to wise up to the fact the dollar inflation is about 10%
a year.
parseval: Eventually I want to get entirely on the APIs, but not all of the sites have APIs with historic data.. that shouldn't be
a problem now, so I can implement streaming from the websockets or something to be less dependent on the irc bots
parseval: Python's quick to code, at least relative to Java or PHP, and has
a huge set of libraries behind it
ryan1894: how does one make
a site like coinflow?
parseval: there are like
a hundred of them, they make my page's navigation stretch down past the pagefold
parseval: There sure are
a lot of MPEx tickers
asswatch: for the huge launch, though, needs embellishment. It has been at least thoroughly researched or something right? The technology is
a several steps beyond next generation everything?
furuknap: Ah, yeah, I think that would make sense. I suggested it to burnside in private
a while back, but he gets
a lot of suggestions :-)
ThickAsThieves: has
a bigger load of bullshit ever landed on this channel?
furuknap: 2) I already answered your question several times; I'm more likely to get
a higher ROI if I have cash in hand than the average investor because I actually follow the market and invest significant time to stay on top.
bgupta: clause in his prospectus to prevent loss in such
a scenario.)
benkay: what problem spaces are you involved in? that's
a way more interesting topic...
furuknap: Generally, I spend less time learning
a language than I do understanding the problems I need to solve.
furuknap: In short, I choose the language that makes sense for
a task rather than choose tasks based on the languages I know.
Apocalyptic: is havelock actually
a registered company ? the fact i don't seem to find any info onsite is indicating it's not
ThickAsThieves: is that them just taking 200 satoshi and charging you
a penny in the process??
Namworld:
a... NES? Doesn't look like it.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, some random game "X is
a game in which players can utilize powerful weapons"
gribble: Error: "hashrate" is not
a valid command.
furuknap: Nah, mostly the crowd that scream "don't invest in mining contracts/bonds because difficulty will be
a trillion by next Thursday!"
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: bitcoin has
a dev team?
Diablo-D3: "I once beat
a guy within an inch of his life" "meaning ?" "hes not dead."
jborkl: she would be famous then, mp has
a bunch of twitter followers
mircea_popescu: or replace it with
a pic in which i'm drilling some chick or something
Azelphur: Diablo-D3: that sounds like
a special version of Ubuntu that you've fallen in love with.
mircea_popescu: "i was improving the usability for the whole system but then i took
a fork to the eye"
Rulother: I just need
a tiny dip again today and I'll be set
jurov: I got an idea for
a bet: Sentence "Bitcoin development continues with irresistible force toward version 1.0" will appear in significant news source.
ThickAsThieves: [16:47] <eeeCurrency_com> no... is that like that magic 8ball game? That can't be
a serious tool
ThickAsThieves: [16:43] <eeeCurrency_com> This be
a confusing question, but how can i analyse or otherwise find out if bitcoin prices at places like mtgox will be dropping in the next 6, 12, and/or 24 hours ?
ThickAsThieves: whom just signed
a contract today, but has yet to convert his btc to fiat
Namworld: Yes,
a cult of the self I believe.
Namworld: The rich neighborhood... as in became
a fat cat and started to mix with the "elite"
ThickAsThieves: if even *I* won't open
a PT there, you know there's
a problem
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves some guy, came out of nowhere claiming he has an exchange and assets on it
a few months back. the girl told him off.
Namworld: Yeah, but I'm not looking to burn
a hole in my pocket for money to escape.
furuknap: Meanwhile, tytus of 100th fame crashes the market again, by placing
a large ASK order at 80% of market trade.
Namworld: I see asks building up. I was almost scared for
a while with the low orderbook volumes.
furuknap: It's
a bear-trap, sell, sell sell!
mircea_popescu: guy spends
a lifetime wearing
a berret, writing for half the liberal web...
mircea_popescu: you can doubt anything you want. it'll stay the standard long after most governments gave up on the pretense of having
a "ministry of finance"
Namworld: There's no need for
a WoT account beside. I doutb the WoT will retain much importance at all other than for person to person transactions.
mircea_popescu: rather than jsut go "o well i'm
a stanford lecturer, i'm so clever and know shit"
Namworld: But anyone with half
a brain who takes the time to inform himself can see how Bitcoin payments work.
mircea_popescu: because it contradicts
a host of mistaken notions people built for their own convenience, but unfortunately with no reality backing them at all.
mircea_popescu: but in order for the teacher to claim he's teaching anything whatsoever to do with bitcoin, he is legally required to first make
a wot account and come here and say the fuck so.
ThickAsThieves: how does one become qualified then,to build
a bitcoin service
ThickAsThieves: should he now be reqquired to have
a bitcoin Economics class?
mircea_popescu: so basically stanford is fucking up
a number of kids who otherwise had
a chance, maybe.
mircea_popescu: this is bad, because the net result is even more idiots who have to first be beaten into
a pulp, either by mpoe-pr or the market
Namworld: I don't see why all the criticism, that's all. Oh. So you expect we'll see
a fucking thousand Bitcoin crowdfunding website clones being mass produced at Standford? That would be awful...
Namworld: It's
a course project... it's not meant to be deployed outside the class, it's meant to be functional. Learn how to build stuff.
Namworld: Let's see... you should short
a few billions.
Namworld: I'm just saying the project must integrate
a payment method. And they chose to make students integrate Bitcoin instead of something more, erhm... "traditional". It's akin of saying they'd run on Linux instead of saying Windows.
mircea_popescu: beautiful academia, people who have absolutely nothing to do with
a subject teach it.
ozbot: Stanford University startups course: Build
a bitcoin crowdfunding site