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truffles: has there been
a romanian that was really nice hmm
moxipro-:
a point was surely about to be made
truffles: moxipro r u
a top or
a bottom?
jcpham: yeah
a little heads up before hand
jcpham: pirateat40 said
a was
a vluable member of his network of trust
proximo-: sitting around with his 50eur
a night whores and snorting bolivian coke all day
proximo-: jurov: hes not
a direct thief, hes
a fraudster. and
a clever one. of course he doesnt directly steal.
jurov: proximo-: do you have better evidence than this one case? where mpex client did not actually have anything stolen, just
a trade reversed?
proximo-: mircea_popescu is
a professional fraudster
gribble: You rated user mircea_popescu on Thu Mar 29 06:56:09 2012, giving him
a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: His beard is sexy..
ThickAsThieves: i could come up with
a con argument for 95% of bitcoin invetsments
proximo-: sells worthless assets at
a premium
proximo-: uses his exchange + social engineering skills to run
a classic boiler room scam
proximo-: hes
a con artist plain and simple.
proximo-: all of your other business's barely generate
a profit.
mircea_popescu: well it's also building
a new model caltrop but i forgot to mention.
ThickAsThieves: (Gavin Andresen) I don’t foresee us formally creating
a spec within the next year … actually really at all. There are so many things to work on, I would rather spend time actually developing the code than creating
a spec.
ThickAsThieves: What is your opinion of libbitcoin, and are there plans to create
a formal spec for Bitcoin?
truffles: if u can collude in that way, its not
a perfect system ofc
jcpham: channel could use
a little more trolling
[\]: sorry, when she gets 'logged in', it isn't for
a few minutes
truffles: <thestringpuller> Sounded like PR was talking through mircea_popescu >>> or maybe she logged in for
a few minutes
[\]: except the bastard wouldn't give me
a real account and must use some stupid passthrough
[\]: and then I got
a bunch of almost owrthless crap that pays me money
truffles: art is
a different interpretation of life
peterl: right, but you didn't exactly say "we have
a botomless need for art", it sounds more like "we might need
a picture or two drawn sometime"
mircea_popescu: peterl nah he has
a point, twasn't nearly insisted upon enough
mircea_popescu: anyway. here's what i'm gonna do : i'ma steal this dialogue and post it as
a comment
mircea_popescu: now, avenue
A : i'm an asshole and steal his 2k px poster. I print it and hang it in my bedroom.
peterl: So the art contest is more of
a job application for artists to get work from S.MG?
ThickAsThieves: hell you paid 10btc when they worth more for people to photochop
a rape scene and look at the crap you got
ThickAsThieves: ive had
a number of guys with money and the next big idea come thru my doors wanting freebies and cheapies
ThickAsThieves: i do agree that
a good artist will be inspired to speculate on the right project
mircea_popescu: this is all fine and good, but an artist needs to turn off the tv once in
a while.
mircea_popescu: yeah. organisations sponsored by an alliance of the
A, trying to prevent the B from
A-ing
mircea_popescu: as far as i can see, it's trivial do distinguish C from B. seeing how teh B need me to become
A... no brainer.
mircea_popescu: just, in this case, it's quite clear i can't take it and run. da fuck am i gonna do with
a splashscreen
mircea_popescu: the only reason i'm even contemplating the Bs is this. otherwise i'd just hire
A and piss over everyone
ThickAsThieves: do you know how many if opportunities
a good but not successful artist gets?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves how's it uncertain ? if the game is
a success they'll be the new famous guy.
mircea_popescu: now, your contention is that B will be too pretentious to recognise
a helping hand when one's extended, and only C will contribute
mircea_popescu: B has
a serious problem in that it wants to be
A, in many cases it should be
A, however... it's not
A.
mircea_popescu: now,
A is likely to be already overpaid, as per Peter's principle. my basic management rulebook says "never compete in crowded markets". so, i am not VERY interested in
A.
mircea_popescu: types of people who think they produce art :
A. people with
a history, who get paid well already. B. people with talent but no history. C. idiots who produce garbage.
mircea_popescu: they want to be involved, they sacrifice
a little of their time and make
a drawing.
mircea_popescu: one whole bitcoin adn
a little over
a third of another
mircea_popescu: bitcoin generally needs
a lot of it and i think tio
a large degree the problem is people never saw an open model.
mircea_popescu:
a willingness to be open and give people chances should NEVER be construed as my inability.
ThickAsThieves: mp, were you unable to find
a suitable artist from our previous conversation?
ThickAsThieves: unfortunately it would require
a majority of users to actually coordinate
jcpham: I'm down for
a staged run
Diablo-D3: ThickAsThieves: I dunno, Im
a transformers kind of guy
mjr_: you need
a futures market, settled monthly, so you only have to move actual coins once
a month
ThickAsThieves: i keep
a spreadsheet for myself to make sure i dont sell naked
jborkl: I am saying, -I do not beleive you are, but you have
a idea how easy it could be
ThickAsThieves: i can think of
a number of ways his system could be abused by this practice
ericmuys_: i bet your deposits go into
a cold storage and he just credits your account with "btc points" you can withdraw, only
a portion at
a time
jcpham: i'd like to follow my money on
a ledger
ThickAsThieves: i have to wait for manual withdrawals multiple times
a day
jborkl: you can fractionally bank toilet paper, just hope not too many people have to take
a shit at the same time
ThickAsThieves: it's
a factor with bitcoin, it being as anonymous as it is public
jcpham: website who scam are
a awhole nother topic
jcpham: for every dollar that stays in bitcoin, that's
a 100 that _should never_ exist in
a fractional reserve bank
jborkl: Formerly
a gold day-trader, he began buying Bitcoin two years ago and this March gave up his flat and sold his possessions to begin squatting.
mjr_: its
a currency, not
a person
mjr_: anyway, I think it went ok, up to the Amir part...what
a retard
ThickAsThieves:
http://www.asig.asia/ these guys want me to send
a "fund brochure (if any) for my board of directors and could would like to know about funds inner workings ( eg. ROI, risks, etc)" for ASICM on Havelock
jborkl: Well, at least you look pro in the photo, not like
a idiot in his basement
jborkl: I am just saying, maybe they should have gotten
a few better pics
jborkl: not have to sell your shoes, to get
a bitcoin loan?
jcpham: how many bitcoins before i am
a large investor
jborkl: multi billion market cap with
a couple plastic chairs and no shoes