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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
mircea_popescu: jurov so it'd take months to sell for more than the average ? this is expected no ?
mircea_popescu: it is sinful to at the same time know and not have announced.
mircea_popescu: the way market works is that if you know what you want to do, you announce it.
mircea_popescu: jurov if you want to sell, why aren't you putting asks up ?
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly : anyone wanna do some alpha testing of a brand new service ?
mircea_popescu: jurov punkman i don't follow the logic here. explain to me like i was 5 ?
mircea_popescu: jurov: that's the point, i expect f.* to be impossible to liquidate, unless there is a leak or "leak" << how do you mean ?
mircea_popescu: basically, if it's not one of the things they misrepresent, it looks like a pig w/o a lipstick.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: so maybe the DERPs would have been better suited to have been run on Havelol by an independent intermediary << hardly, havelol lists 50% and more directly arbitrageable gaps all the time.
mircea_popescu: glbse idiots didn't move to mpex after i ruined the various "mining" crap. but they DID stop doing it on glbse, and that was that.
mircea_popescu: punkman: even if you don't get the believers to trade, you get them to pass up 2.5x discount and maybe consider that keeping their BTC might be better than giving them to random derps. << this is exactly it.
mircea_popescu: now no matter how you dice it, this simply says nobody is doing any buying at all.
mircea_popescu: i got tons of commends and invitations to discuss and socially groom on the topic of eth. meanwhile, the scammers cycled 5k btc or w/e, at 2k, and i got exactly 0 btc at 5k.
mircea_popescu: pigeons: no there is a lot of truth to that << there' sa lot of truth to this : there IS NO OTHER SIDE. it's just words on the web.
mircea_popescu: jurov: and risk having bitcoins frozen on mpex? for years? << generally, bitcoin stays frozen somewhere anyway. who cycles bitcoin ?
mircea_popescu: whether it will or whether it wont fundamentally hinges on whether the vc economy is as relevant for bitcoin as mpoe is. which is a point i can't hardly help i dont think
mircea_popescu: jurov: and if situation gets interesting, mp can pull asks, leaving me unable to add something to other side << i shouldn't be the only person in that market. provided anyone gives a shit about the derps themselves or their general market, enough to actually spend the usd they CLAIM to have received in investment, then that market should easily compete with s.mpoe.
mircea_popescu: and has an adequate risk profile. (note that s.dice DID NOT have an adequate risk profile, and the dividends came at considerable capital risk. that the bitcoin retail investor is clueless enough to shove that under the rug makes little difference)
mircea_popescu: jurov from what i gather you're looking for a product marketable to the retail investor. that'd likely be mpif. it makes about 1% or so.
mircea_popescu: FabianB: isn't on bbet either, often bets with 0.1 on yes and 10 btc on no << that's not so often is it ?
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: there's very little doubt in my mind that if i were in the sort of situation most folk over there enjoy, i'd simply be shooting people. << and yet taleb survives in nyc just fine << yes, he's not in the sort of situation. he's got teh dough.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve well some people keep fillies for their private entertainment.
mircea_popescu: if i happen to have formed a wrong idea it is my god given right as a transcvasimultiultra and so forth to stick to it and nobody can criticize me!
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa this dumbing down of terminology offends me! pegging is when fresh cut ginger is applied prior to twenty or more solid cane swats.
mircea_popescu: FabianB: jurov: or by s.dice you mean popular, high risk, high dividend, short lifetime? << hopefully wol does the better parts of dice.
mircea_popescu: moreover : nothing is painful to the sexually aroused woman.
mircea_popescu: took a while for things to switch because the strapon seems so intuitive.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it is. there's a lumpy thing lodges inside the vagina and a proby thing going upfront.
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa anyway, i appreciate the girl's shaved and trimmed. clearly she'd make a decent fuck toy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why can't it produce a fucking radio set ?