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mircea_popescu: speaking of which, i wonder what % of 4chan pics are steganographically loaded
mircea_popescu: an email can come from any arbitrary address you wish it to.
mircea_popescu: you're gonna tell me there's no privacy in email either ?
mircea_popescu: cause otherwise this discussion is exactlylike email privacy. i have all the email privacy i could want, because gpg
mircea_popescu: anbd what throne lol. a bunch of redditards with ten bitcoin between them that keep downloading the power ranger code ?
mircea_popescu: much in the way the internet has forced the brits into their first secret "trial", something they've not had in about 11 centuries.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the fact that bitcoin is not actually traceable, and all the sophistry of taint can at most produce persuasion is one of the largest points of pressure applied by bitcoin to human society. it may result in the "reasonable doubt" standard being taken out.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: getting caught with bitcoin can never be a forced mistake
mircea_popescu: so you know, getting caught with cash in your possesion can be a forced mistake
mircea_popescu: blockchain.info mixing is a joke. break bitbet mixing.
mircea_popescu: because correspondingly, you are forced by cash to physical interaction
mircea_popescu: or if you get caught with series-fixed bills after a bank robbery
mircea_popescu: anyone capable of busting in can count your cash as well as you can
mircea_popescu: all the cash that exists exists. by this it can be counted
mircea_popescu: justusranvier "Using the global public ledger that allows for multilateral decision making means that retaining financial privacy is, to put it lightly, problematic. It’s possible to achieve, but doing so is a difficult and delicate process where mistakes are easy to make and also permanent." i don't understand this part, at all.
mircea_popescu: well that's kinda how these thons work. not enough time really.
mircea_popescu: if the people involved were smarter, they'd be selling detergent and used cars.
mircea_popescu: this is to the conference circuit roughly what porn is to legitimate acting : the place failures go to die.
mircea_popescu: i don't believe this crap is aptly described as optimism.
mircea_popescu: just go to the hackathon as you go to the bar, not like you go to school. it's a social function.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, what difference does it make anyway ? not like any human being at an accessible pay grade can judge your thing anyway.
mircea_popescu: on one hand it's completely irrelevant who "judges" these things, just like the people running around begging perelman to take their "award" so they may say "o we gave perelman an award, please think we matter" are irrelevant to math
mircea_popescu: people are incredibly arrogant, so a bunch of them getting hurt badly is good news.
mircea_popescu: "vcs", "entrepreneurs", "consulting", "conferences", "startups", "deals", "investing" and so on and so forth till you're bored.
mircea_popescu: byut anyway, the circus is the circus. this is why we call it the circus, this is why we despise it, this is what it does.
mircea_popescu: a collection of three idiots does not become a startup through their declaration to that effect, in my view.
mircea_popescu: Many knowledgeable observers called the whole thing a success. Irvine’s team wound up with three million in BTC after all. Ryan Galt, an investor who blogs as Two-Bit Idiot, noted the “pump-and-dump” that happened but said the number one takeaway was to make sure to get in early when a “hot new coin-related startup announces a crowdsale.” “You better be ready to buy the second it goes live,” he wrote.
mircea_popescu: cause when you go "let's do this thing that'll make our worthless turd look valuable" that's what you're doing.
mircea_popescu: Jacob Farber of Perkins Coie who advises Bit Angels wrote, “It seems pretty clear that there was no intentional market manipulation. The question is whether there was an ‘appearance of market manipulation’, or an ‘unintended market manipulation’.” <<< it's pretty obvious that there was quite intentional, and quite fraudulent, market manipulation.
mircea_popescu: “All issuers selling securities to the public must comply with the registration provisions of the securities laws, including issuers who seek to raise funds using Bitcoin,” said Andrew J. Ceresney, the SEC’s enforcement director in a press release. “We will continue to focus on enforcing our rules and regulations as they apply to digital currencies.”
mircea_popescu: We took advice from the US lawyers via BitAngels and also local lawyers in Scotland,
mircea_popescu: so im fishin' in rift an' shootin' da breeze in -assets. what better lyf is there.
mircea_popescu: course mine wasn't an actual c64, butmoar like a clone48
mircea_popescu: " The performance we've had is astounding, and just because it lags behind the performance of Bitcoin should not take away from that."
mircea_popescu: <dub> but around age 6 I had my book (yes book) of games and c64 << i had one of those too
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> btw i never had the 'wolf & eggs.' too l33t. borrowed from kid next door. << that kicked ass
mircea_popescu: actually, failed isn't even the word. we need something strong like the french rate
mircea_popescu: benkay also known as moral hazard, this, and why someone's gotta put a stop to it
mircea_popescu: for the other, how do you know what he's stashed away ?
mircea_popescu: for one, things don't look suspicious for what they are, but for what they look
mircea_popescu: the time to <derp derp derp> is nigh, if not upon us already
mircea_popescu: apparently the guy is a total gold bug. the ever helpful tardopedia : " His 20 year tenure as head of Forbes magazine coincided with the decline of the publication and the Forbes family empire."