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mircea_popescu: the difference between an infinite series and a finite series is marked. the difference between that last and a constant is not.
mircea_popescu: once it's capped might as well make it fixed. 50 btc or w/e
mircea_popescu: anyone here have a positive view of teh demmurage notion ? fluffypony ? or who's the altcoin heretique du jour ?
mircea_popescu: why is it so appealing. because standing in front of a bunch of people and telling them to get fucked is scary.
mircea_popescu: since the us has built this quite insane "valuation by social consensus" thing, people aim to impress others rather than do anything.
mircea_popescu: i think this was best discussed in relation to the perianne chick and my old class mate recently.
mircea_popescu: this is what anonymity already is. not a matter of what we want.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves not like you can't make a new key any time you want.
mircea_popescu: generally people try to resolve through anonimity problems that have their solution elsewhere. because it's cheap.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it's important in some places. specifically, money handling.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves but the requirement for you to have a face in the forum does not equate to a requirement for you to have a face in the treasury
mircea_popescu: as a general principle supporting any deanonimization measures is uncanonical.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves moreover, bitcoin is supposed to be anon.
mircea_popescu: meh, that was on the plate, but eventually fell off. for one thing, addresses change, for the other some people are worried (sensibly or no) that it exposes them to various vulnerabilities.
mircea_popescu: well this has been the objection since day one, vessenes is just using it as a piggybank
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you know if matonis wishes to donate $50 to the foundation he doesn't have to go to all this complex trouble. or you mean it the other way around
mircea_popescu: what the fuck must this moss adams thing be thinking to publish unbalanced tax returns is beyond the mind's boggle.
mircea_popescu: whereas it should include that massive 4mn they got from btc
mircea_popescu: they posted a 77k investment income, which is probably a wrong statement,
mircea_popescu: ipos CLAIM more than that, because ipos don't file for taxes, typically.
mircea_popescu: this is quite well fitting with the history, they were only actually declared persona non grata later on.
mircea_popescu: so basically they started with 5.7k, ended with 6.4k and got a total of 700 btc donated counted at an average of 900, so most of them early 2013.
mircea_popescu: 2013-12-31 00:00:00736.517397097327919.3199999999945763630.729999996727.7899999999995
mircea_popescu: no see, still doesn't work. 2013-01-25 00:00:0017.1517.7216.1217.49 so 100k dollars in january 2013 means
mircea_popescu: notably, they got 70k in donations and 10x that from the "be a member and scam people" swindle.
mircea_popescu: wait my bad. the revenue is actually 800k, expenses 1.4mn.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves now maybe my accounting's unfit for a goose, but how exactly do you go from 100k in assets to 4.5mn in assets when your net exercise is like 100k ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves anyway, the good part isn't the 1.5mn they got and spent, the good part is the final assets, 15btc.
mircea_popescu: ;;rate genericpersona -10 Random muppet with unwarranted political aspirations.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i'm not keeping too close tabs on the whole debacle.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve: I think so, yeah. not sure why Web of Trust hasn't been more widely adopted over CAs << because CAs come with master keys.
mircea_popescu: although, granny can't remember whose carkeys she chose << lmao
mircea_popescu: incredible the lengths to which they go to hide vessenes's multiple fraudulet activities from teh general public.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: book? what book. || "The Secret Redditors Hate : How I Got My Wife And Her BFF To Go Naked On The Internet For Fun And Profit Using Only Tools Avaialble in Any Kitchen In Twenty Minutes For Dummies. Bulleted List THAT YOU ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT BELIEVE."
mircea_popescu: but no, i don't have any vd, and never had. i just fuck the sluts & whores, other people are getting teh vds.
mircea_popescu: o no wait, what i want doesn't matter, HE wants to be the same with me, and that's the controlling factor ?
mircea_popescu: why would i want to be the same with some hiv positive faggot ?