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bgupta: I set that up ages ago… not sure if it's enabled
bgupta: am I idented?
bgupta: trying to value the shares, as they are starting to climb… faster than I can transfer btc out of mtgox (which is where has been my wallet for the past year.)
the-bucket-shop: I've not looked at numbers for asicminer but I've met people at meet ups that seem to like it alot
bgupta: I perhaps overshared, and for that I apologize, I;m a bit too open that way.
bgupta: so the real reason I can into this channel was to ask what folks think about ASICMINER shares, and the passthrough variants.
Bowjob: by "crashing" i mean volatility
bgupta: I get to onsite awesome folks to NYC to talk to a bunch of geeks
dub: benkay: I had that at ibm, nobody (besides customers) had any clue what I did
benkay: but it's part of my mystique that i show up at the office kind of randomly
bgupta: I get to pick my priorities..
benkay: i get to bill anywhere i am
bgupta: The one thing I do like about it is the flexibility...
benkay: i love it
benkay: i've never seen someone run the shop and still make commits
mircea_popescu: i've done plenty of consulting and it was always fun
benkay: i've seen that happen man
bgupta: benkay: I run a small consulting company.. it's not just me… so most of my time is spent doing business stuff not learning
bgupta: dub what forum would I post it to if I wanted to pursue?
benkay: mircea_popescu: the best part is that everything i get checks for, i also learn new skills that multiply my rate
bgupta: I do consulting which is a brutal business.
bgupta: I do OSS stuff, love that too
bgupta: Yeah sure.. I run a LUG.. which I LOVE.
benkay: i'm tired of hustling
bgupta: if someone flush with btw wanted to take it off my hands I'd be cool.. but that's a side bar..
benkay: i mean
bgupta: point is that if I worked really hard I could sell it for $200,000, or if I worked even harder, I could build a kick ass business with a cool domain name that's easy to type.. I have time for neither atm.
benkay: i infrequently type domains
benkay: doesn't mean i don't think that putting it all on a specific slot on the fucking roulette table is a good idea
benkay: i get it man, i get it
mircea_popescu: i am aware the domain name scam people are really working hard to make their coolaid credible
mircea_popescu: bgupta i simply don't believe the sort of bs
mjr_: i am just saying that domains are valuable, cuz people want them
mjr_: i know
bgupta: yeah.. I've been holding it, because one day when I do a startup, I want a unique domain name to do it with.
mjr_: i'm just saying
mircea_popescu: i bet it will be very valuable in the sense 10 bucks are very valuable.
mjr_: i bet that domain will be very valuable in the future
mjr_: i got btcshares.com
Chaang-Noi: i hold tygrr.com and bitcoins.lc not really worth a whole lot.
mjr_: when i was looking into getting a domain name for my site
mjr_: i meant as part of a budget involving web presence
mircea_popescu: i certainly wouldn't.
bgupta: It's the most valuable thing I own, and it goes up about 7% a year in value
bgupta: realistically if I tried I could probably pocket close to $200,000
bgupta: well I had it appraised for $250,000.. but to sell it, i'd need to put a lot of time into adverttising, and likely need to retain a domain broker.. and then take a huge hit on taxes..
Chaang-Noi: i guess it is reasonable though
bgupta: If it was USD I'd want a bit more, but it is a digital only transaction, so I'm willing to do it for a little less
Chaang-Noi: dub i did that already, traded my car in and got a truck
bgupta: I am willing to sell my premium domain for 4000 btc..
Namworld: Anywaym I'm out. Goodbye
bgupta: don'w know why I keep doing the same type
bgupta: I probably mined close to 10k coins while I had my rigs up.. but only managed to walk away with 500 btw after all was said and done..
bgupta: my pool at the time didn't upgrade and shutdown.. and since I was losing close to 50% at the time (due to the ridiculously low price of btw at the time) I followed them
bgupta: let me see if i can find the deets
bgupta: I had it running was paying way to much for hosting in a real datacenter.. so shut it down last april when they changed the algorithm,,
mjr_: i am debating installing visual studio 2012 on my home computer
mjr_: i thought you already had it running?
mod6: i have basically only accessed mpex over tor since you moved it all over to that early last year
bgupta: In the past no, unfortunately…. now… I have a partner willing to pay electricity if I provide hardware and we split proceeds 50/50.. I think it's a loser for him though.. mircea_popescu yes sorry not reading what I am typing..
mod6: ok, i'll reintroduce those files with needed changes as that approches. that'll be awesome
mjr_: mircea_popescu: also i can host a mirror if you like...it will be pretty tough for them to take out a GAE instance
mircea_popescu: mod6 tor is coming i think.
bgupta: held it fallow for the past year or so… but the recent spike in price got me wondering if spinning up made sense (I decided no since the a sic stuff is imminent)
mjr_: i kinda thought that maybe you could host the website on tor with no order functionality
bgupta: so back when btw rallied from zero to about 10 it caught my attention… and I made a decision to invest in gnu mining gear. by the time I got my gear up and running it had spiked up to to 30+ and then crashed… I ran my rigs at a loss for almost a year, but when the algorithm changed, I decided that investing the wrk to reprogram them was a loser and shut it all down.. I managed to hang onto a minuscule 500 b
mod6: so i'll probably just re-introduce those files if/when that happens so tor may be utililzed
mod6: oh, so the bummer so far is... i maybe shouldn't have done a commit in there and had left those files to be still able to interface with mpex or a proxy in a way thats outward facing... if that ever happens again
mjr_: i think that is really cool
mod6: so, I cleaned up the dir a bit on github, got rid of bitotter_vwap.pl and bitotter_depth.pl and its merged into this now: https://github.com/modsix/bitotter_perl/blob/master/bitotter_market_data.pl
mjr_: i was just looking at the last one, really great job mod6
mjr_: i meant buy a call for each put sold
mjr_: i was going to say that the other possibility is that you can cover the position very easily with another option
mjr_: i am going to do some exploring on a pairs strategy
mjr_: i think i see what mircea was saying
Namworld: AActually in my example earlier, I think it should have been 999 BTC
pizzaman1337: mircea_popescu: I think I understand it all, thanks. I'll have to give it a shot sometime.
mjr_: i know
mjr_: thats why i was wondering the specific collateral requirements
mjr_: i meant you can send them, but i can not display them
mjr_: no i didn't mean you
mjr_: i know you can in colloquy, but not sure about MIRC
mjr_: no worries...to be honest, i think you can just turn off showing joins and parts
mjr_: mircea_popescu: i have to imagine that your bot buys them as part of a hedging strategy
mjr_: to clarify: i meant you could end up with more bitcoins
mjr_: i just don't like the other funding options
Bowjob: maybe I should buy back
Bowjob: Stupid move on my part, I sold 10k LTC
mjr_: but because i can send them to btc-e
mjr_: not because i particularly like them
mjr_: i am actually trying to mine litecoin
mjr_: i know
mod6: na, i need to figure out how to msg the bot directly :/
Bowjob: i'm an owl for now. just observing
Bowjob: mhm, lets just say i'm "interested" not sure yet
Bowjob: and i did put in what i can lose and just write off
Bowjob: i wish i put more
Bowjob: and i put it in bitcoins
Bowjob: thankfully, unlike most of my 20 year old contemporaries, I had this fine idea of saving more than i've been spending
mjr_: i was actually thinking about trying to create a web based class