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mircea_popescu: so now, you'll have to sell risk whether you want to or not. learn to live with it.
mircea_popescu: this is why wow was a gold mine and rift spent 10mn for ~3mn in returns
mircea_popescu: to make money selling content you need huge economies of scale, because content is so expensive to make.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight looky here : in business, one's always selling something. games are business. as such, they can either sell content or risk.
mircea_popescu: the sad irony of all this being that we've been actually looking for a competent sysadmin to run stuff for years.
mircea_popescu: this log is fucking epic. guy that's got himself blacklisted by derping at me can't spell funding and is looking for $500.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason poker championships give out multi milion prizes
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight if there's no randomness involved people won't be likely to play for btc.
mircea_popescu: it leaves nothing up to chance and randomnes << this is a problem.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight next is, well, tell me a little about what you're planning with this game, how's it going etc.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck do you send bitcoin, pray tell, if not by signing with the private key associated with a public key that's an address that has a balance ?
mircea_popescu: Misconceptions (on the bitcoin.it wiki) : Addresses are not wallets nor accounts, and do not carry balances. They only receive funds, and you do not send "from" an address at any time.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i'm probably the only idiot in here, but in case there is one other: "3 indicates a "pay-to-script-hash" address that contains a hash (one way fingerprint) of a script that can be used for multiple things including address obfuscation and multi-signature requirements." << tl;dr : 3addresses are an unnecessary and crufty thing some idiots pretend they've added to bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: fuckwits on the internet tho, just use words like their mommy made them
mircea_popescu: it's stupid-easy to protect from : a) ban facebook. b) don't allow ambiguous reference to expensive resources.
mircea_popescu: "The attack vector is using Facebook notes to flood our site using a known exploit on Facebook and we’ve reached out to friends at Facebook’s Cyber Security team who have determined the IP address of the original person hitting the attack vector and are working with law enforcement actively to track this user down."
mircea_popescu: wait, this wouldn't be the same guy i was lulzing at last month ?
mircea_popescu: "A few nights ago an attacker sent a message via our contact form demanding we send .5 BTC to protect ourselves from a DDOS attack."
mircea_popescu: pigeons: wow really they are already trying to damage control the 1% of the press they get that isn't positive? and from a bitcoinpete (no offense lol) blog post? << the 1% happens to be what matters in this field.
mircea_popescu: pigeons: vitalik sells lots of snake oil besides etherum: emulated quantum computer that runs faster than its von neuman host; proof of stake; "trustless" distributed fiat (schellingcoin); << he's like andreas v2.0 then ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake: why would all scammers be dumb? << it's a self-selecting activity. smart people find better things to do.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: natalie portman is a jew? I always knew something was off with her << only on the mother's side.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo but then again you drink, so how'd you know.
mircea_popescu: BigBitz: Bitcoin markets don't revolve around news. <<< bitcoin is here to make the news, not to follow the news.
mircea_popescu: no, it's how the aml crap works. world's noobliest bayesian filtering implemented by janitors and congressional aides.
mircea_popescu: sugar especially, which is why you want to drink brut or very dry
mircea_popescu: yeah, bisulphites can be a good cause. all sorts of crap they put in wine, sparkling or not, can be it.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves wait, you had the romanian stuff. ever drunk it or just gifted it away ?
mircea_popescu: i got drunk on champagne, there's no hangover for that.
mircea_popescu: the problem here is that the past few days have kinda clearly shown the complete lack of any counterparty. you can't trade without cp.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: <+BingoBoingo> HANDSofSTEEL: If you want to take both sides, BitBet is probably the best tool for that --- good point, need ETH BitBet, that's how we can all short the mofo << well obviously not all.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: he's punting Etherium? << he's new, and behind on teh reads.
mircea_popescu: trixisowned: when in reality they just added their address to the list of miners, and take a percentage of each block as if they were actually hashing << this is pretty major, actually.
mircea_popescu: this is just about how one identifies libertards in the field. they do this paint-by-numbers thing like the soviets of yore.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: /r/buttcoin can't deal with bitcoin opinions that are not the standard /r/bitcoin crap; they expect to fill their bingo cards and it doesn't work << quite.
mircea_popescu: it reads to me like alfred p. doolittle confronted with a restaurant after a lifetime of mcdonalds explaining how them hamburgers were at least nourishing.
mircea_popescu: what's this bizarre hang-up with "actually knowing" people one met on skype and "kept in touch with" on facebook ?
mircea_popescu: jurov aww why. honky tonk galz can't lick each other out no mo ?
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight now you can self-voice. you identify with gribble (same process as you just completed) then pm assbot !up