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mircea_popescu: well tell him to drop by sometime, maybe we make an advertising deal ?
mircea_popescu: HeySteve o wait, were you with the one crypto news site i kinda liked ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake: and of course Goat is on every bitcoin scam apparently << he just pumps them.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Canadian woman who stopped car to help ducks faces life in jail after causing fatal crash - Telegraph << hallellujah.
mircea_popescu: whereas people wanting them long prolly want to stock pick
mircea_popescu: this because logically nobody who wants them short cares which
mircea_popescu: HeySteve too much hassle with future chains. if you want them short you buy f.derp, if you want them long you just get to select d.whatever
mircea_popescu: so in their perspective, this is a disaster of commons sort of situation : a bunch of people work to inflate bubbles, all it takes to ruin theireffort is one guy with a pin
mircea_popescu: HeySteve the downside is that it sinks the hype, which is a very major problem.
mircea_popescu: but daily call logs have at the end : "spam - comcast, netflix, pizzahut" etc
mircea_popescu: HeySteve not really. i don't think the world has spawned yet such an asshole so as to be able to match with me.
mircea_popescu: punkman: they just called 3 times to sell me a new ISP << they call my phone here too. to sell me... comcast and shit.
mircea_popescu: that's the one profession that most selects for lemming qualities. more so than military even
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves never estimate just how lemming-like finance types are/.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve no timing involved. if you sell your corp in the bubble and walk away you shorted the bubble.
mircea_popescu: Namworld: Getting there slowly. << what's your horizon, next year like ?
mircea_popescu: (and i don't mean "were briefly rich during the bubble". i mean "are rich today and were not before that")
mircea_popescu: yes. can you name people that got rich in the dot com bubble ?
mircea_popescu: what do you mean this guy could not care less ? that is not possible ?
mircea_popescu: funny how blinders work, you know ? these people have... finance lawyers. who went to school and lived in a pond
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves by the set of lawsuit threats i would guess they know.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: little to contribute, much to learn - how does that sit with others who have come to that realisation here? << i just try to pretend it's philosophy :D
mircea_popescu: For everyi Series A / seed funding announced by the circlejerk that is either in excess of 1 million USD or for a company valued through such funding over 100 million USD, I will create a synthetic asset on MPEx.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve that they announced a 10mn round. from the article :
mircea_popescu: bitcoin shit is weird by nature, but hedge fund generally means "this pool of money doing exotic shit"
mircea_popescu: dub:heh, -assets doxxes NSA two weeks before snowden << ain't history a wunderbar thing :D
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i don't mind them either, honestly, but a) people found out about gallippi's past, and generally, the thing's coming apart. gotta cut them loose.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves a business model based on tricking people isn't a good match for ipo anyway
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 the guy's own money! he can spend it any old way he wants!
mircea_popescu: HeySteve yes, as mentioned in the article. any corps that make bold claims in the future will go in there.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03: what kind of gullible fuck pays to bang a virgin? << if you pay to fuck in general, why not.
mircea_popescu: of course, coinbase is a piece of shit, but there';s no requirement that next competitor is also a piece of shit
mircea_popescu: coinbase is already moving into that, with no difficulty.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: lol bitcoin-assets will develop irc tools that will give irccloud a run for their money... << will ? seriously ? show me irc tools that can compare.
mircea_popescu: they're trying to leech it, which only works for so long. what's worse, their burn rate is killing them.
mircea_popescu: the success of bitpay has exactly zero to do with the success of bitcoin, is the problem.
mircea_popescu: this, of course, is a very old story : with the exception of mpex listed corps, it is universally true of any other exchange or broad group.
mircea_popescu: so someone with 30mn looking to invest in bitcoin would have been better served by buying bitcoin than participating in the series a.
mircea_popescu: well, more properly put, the reasoning is that they will never make in the course of their business enough money to pay back that round of investment.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: is it still too late to get trackign added? <<< ahahaha no dude, it was too late before, but we've been doing -t for a while so now it's too early
mircea_popescu: she's feeling something she ain't felt since forever. Pain. Pain. It hurts her. It shouldn't hurt her, you know, her pussy should be Bubble Yum by now, but when this cat fucks her it hurts. It hurts just like it did the first time. You see the pain is reminding a fuck machine what it once was like to be a virgin. Hence, 'Like a Virgin'.
mircea_popescu: Mr. Brown: Lemme tell you what 'Like a Virgin' is about. It's all about this cooze who's a regular fuck machine, I'm talking morning, day, night, afternoon, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick. Then one day she meets this John Holmes motherfucker and it's like, whoa baby, I mean this cat is like Charles Bronson in the 'Great Escape', he's digging tunnels. Now, she's gettin' the serious dick action and
mircea_popescu: our colors are wind and that shot of pain urmom felt that one time.