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mircea_popescu: RebeccaBitcoin are you one of those difficuly jewish young women we read about ?
mircea_popescu: RebeccaBitcoin what if you get a perma-nipple-on for me too ?
mircea_popescu: RebeccaBitcoin if you just put it on the server it may take a coupla hours to propagate.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight a complicated topic and that's not a particularly relevant source or frame.
mircea_popescu: which to me seems to grossly underestimate facts, but hey.
mircea_popescu: decimation fun fact : the deadliest strike in the history of the us bodycount ~= the claimed le bodycount for 2012, in that source of yours.
mircea_popescu: but the only two actually over 10 btc bets are also more like 96-97%
mircea_popescu: FabianB yeah ok, 99% not a good example for sure, yes.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete sundays aren't what they used to be anymore.
mircea_popescu: FabianB well thatr's only a point if the odds aren't right. if they're right, doubling the 99% side will yield a doubling of the 1% side.
mircea_popescu: kinda the point of posts like the von flondor one. people tend to stop and consider their situation.
mircea_popescu: in fact, a us agent has better chances of being shot on the job than someone breaking a us law of being sent to jail.
mircea_popescu: much, much more dangerous than the empire is to the world at large.
mircea_popescu: in short : it's dangerous fucking work, working for the dying empire.
mircea_popescu: allow me to blow your mind : a degree of magnitude fewer per capita than US agents.
mircea_popescu: decimation you know how many people die in romania in a year ?
mircea_popescu: obviously at this point you're addressing the wrong market :D
mircea_popescu: from what people have been saying here, they expect it to be a year.
mircea_popescu: jurov incidentally, this reminds me : supposedly people plunked down 5k btc to be locked away in an ethereum address for at least six months, if not more
mircea_popescu: i mean warren isn;'t getting a nomination for instance.
mircea_popescu: FabianB it is possible this is a reflection of the actual odds.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what matters is relative security. who can prevent whom from messing with their shit.
mircea_popescu: you want the prosecutors, you want the FBI, you want the state police, etc.
mircea_popescu: but do this, for your own amusement. compile the list of dead us agents in arizona, new mexico, something, during one year.
mircea_popescu: now, how many people did cia lose there ? "presumably someone misses them"... well... do you ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform one of the casualties was a major part of something awful (ie, where teh libertard community resides. it's a sort of anti-bitcoin, that thing)
mircea_popescu: and that was an embassy. not "accidental death" walking down the street.
mircea_popescu: can you name the people that were butchered in the benghazi pile of lol ?
mircea_popescu: decimation here's a thought : if the number of us agents executed was small, you'd see a lot of publicity over the cases. the reason you don't hear a peep about it is that..
mircea_popescu: it might as well have happened. whatever "the populace" did
mircea_popescu: so you know, the day i can bribe a mexican official to shoot a federal agent for sport...
mircea_popescu: california was and will be happy to continue as a province of mexico city.
mircea_popescu: there's no particular reason the command center of that continent has to be in the far away east coast.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the mexican drug cartels already sprung all the way to arizona.
mircea_popescu: dub it won't be identified or self-identify as "populace"
mircea_popescu: dub i'll bet you us population will be under 200mn by 2050.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform american really has naught to do with it.
mircea_popescu: they call it vegetarian or w/e the hell, but facts are facts.
mircea_popescu: if us bans cotton tomorrow, or oil, or w/e, it'd simply be because it finally became too poor to afford it.
mircea_popescu: banning consumer grade shit usually is accomplished through being poor.
mircea_popescu: there's two conflated points here. you can ban "consumer" grade shit any time. this is fine but irrelevant. bitcoin is not consumer stuff.
mircea_popescu: <dub> remembering the internet does get banned periodically in various locales << in the sense it's banned in antarctica, sure.
mircea_popescu: xmj_ taleb sed so, AndrewJackson even has it in his part message.
mircea_popescu: that spells out "you don't matter" in politician english.
mircea_popescu: it's not merely "more fish in the pond". that's the easy part. "more swimming fishes, that are doing fine in spite of a laundry list of <deffects> you may imagine"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ltc is primarily the politician's captive daughter re "we'll ban bitcoin!"
mircea_popescu: and i guess if it weren't on coindesk. which two are problly synonymous anywaqy.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: 46k-spent-mining-hardware-final-reckoning << that'd have been a much better post if it actually included numbers. you know, paid this, then, made back this much so far etc.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight no, mainly you're turrning yourself into a problem because you keep beating that dead horse discussion while we're talking finance, which is the overriding topic here.
mircea_popescu: jurov you mean the ~20 btc that sold for 21ish average and the book is pretty much back ?
mircea_popescu: benkay well he has a serious problem with a bunch of kids that wish to be made rich by bitcoin through nothing more than just that.
mircea_popescu: but this is a sidepoint anyway, im more interested in the f.* impossible to liquidate thing