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AndChat567216: It's perhaps discussed already... but why not
a MPEX proxy as TOR hidden service?
ThickAsThieves: ltc has
a use just in that you can play it against btc
bgupta: Bowjob..
a big chunk of BTC miners are gonna be mining LTC so...
bgupta: ok my typing has suffered tonight as I drank
a bottle of manzanilla
bgupta: meh… guessing price is gonna need to consolidate
a bit.. before it can go up again
mircea_popescu: just because your master stripped you naked and beat you with
a whip doesn't mean there's no need for whips in this new state you're making "for freedom".
bgupta: gotcha… ok I have to admit, I think the shit futures/options/derivatives are gonna make
a number of folks very rich, I wish we could leave all that baggage behind is in the fiat world. We don't need wall street and hedge funds and institutional folks to "help us along"
bgupta: mircea: I am looking for
a "stock exchange"
bgupta: fuck it's all
a gamble
mircea_popescu: lol that's not
a problem, the internet was born to kvetch
mircea_popescu: but yes, there's
a large assignment market in it too, otc.
mircea_popescu: "everyone". hm. it's more of
a "everyone that's bitching about it is bitching about it".
bgupta: ok.. that would make trading difficult for me if it was
a trading cost.
bgupta: SO the muse thing that everyone bitches about the 30btc thing.. that's just
a one time thing, no?
Bowjob: theres
a second piano downstairs that i do not care about
bgupta: what does that mean they "blew
a listing"
bgupta: mircea: Is there
a way to buy straight up shares of asicminer, without doing passthrough stuff?
gribble: Error: "gpginfo" is not
a valid command.
gribble: Error: "getinfo" is not
a valid command.
gribble: Error: The command "get" is available in the Dunno, Herald, and Topic plugins. Please specify the plugin whose command you wish to call by using its name as
a command before "get".
bgupta: I perhaps overshared, and for that I apologize, I;m
a bit too open that way.
bgupta: I get to onsite awesome folks to NYC to talk to
a bunch of geeks
mircea_popescu: "Japan needs to face up to reality, and take real steps to correct its mistakes... so as to prevent
a further escalation,"
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
dub: tis potentially
a nice way for someone to cash out $200k of btc too
bgupta: mmm.. to make
a dollar you need to sell
a body, brutal.. no real leverage, no real product.
bgupta: I do consulting which is
a brutal business.
benkay: true of any market of
a reasonable size
dub: its probably worht throwing
a thread up about it
bgupta: Yeah sure.. I run
a LUG.. which I LOVE.
bgupta: if someone flush with btw wanted to take it off my hands I'd be cool.. but that's
a side bar..
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.
mircea_popescu: the way to go is just invent
a name and use that as your tm and 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
mircea_popescu: but
a ny times blog hit is nothing in this discussion.
benkay: not in
a high-competition, high-growth, environment
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.
dub: man up and use it for
a shock site tbh
benkay: capture
a small fraction
bgupta: which means you can't build
a company or
a brand around them
dub: you don't want that for
a brand
bgupta: well we are
a bit different in that we use irc and weirdly named forums for most of our info. we seek out knowledge
mircea_popescu: there's people in btc that can afford 200k for
a domain.
Chaang-Noi: i hold tygrr.com and bitcoins.lc not really worth
a whole lot.
mircea_popescu: no "memorable domain" has
a site worth anything on it.
mjr_: it is hard to get
a one word domain
mjr_: when i was looking into getting
a domain name for my site
mjr_: that is
a scarce resource
mjr_: i meant as part of
a budget involving web presence
mjr_: 200k is not much for
a big company
mircea_popescu: and wth, it boggles that anyone'd pay 200k for
a domain.
bgupta: It's the most valuable thing I own, and it goes up about 7%
a year in value
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: im sure its
a good name but you are going to have to hit the right people to get that much out of it
bgupta: been paying whatever
a year for the standard domain registration..
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
dub: Chaang-Noi: im thinking about turnign some asicminer into
a truck
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,,
bgupta: the loss will be
a day of my time figuring out how to setup the softare
mircea_popescu: if by hardware you mean gpus bgupta it's
a loser for him. and prolly for you too.
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..
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
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)
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: 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_: and retrieving
a dynamic web page at
a different address
mjr_: i meant buy
a call for each put sold
mjr_: and if you are obligated to buy
a lot
mjr_: i am going to do some exploring on
a pairs strategy
pizzaman1337: mircea_popescu: I think I understand it all, thanks. I'll have to give it
a shot sometime.
gribble: Error: "48.5" is not
a valid command.
Namworld: If it goes to
a lower fraction, even more.
Namworld: With
a call, you need to put up 1 BTC collateral so it's always 100% covered
mod6: sorry guys, just
a few more tests..
mjr_: mircea_popescu: i have to imagine that your bot buys them as part of
a hedging strategy
Chaang-Noi: o kinda wan t to just walk away from btc land for
a month come back and see what is going on...
kakobrekla: is that in and out going to be
a casual thing ?
mjr_: that is
a smart idea