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mircea_popescu: it's a case of "definitely reality is like our experience, because totally civilisaiton looks like it could have been built by people sitting in starbucks"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, they don't know wtf they're talking about
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i venture to guess that it is because the temptation to 'go retarded' (e.g. premine, insert 'egalitarian' crapola like demurrage, reward phriends, etc.) is overwhelming. << cattle lacks motivators outside of grass.
mircea_popescu: as if there is more reality to an identity than wot and keys. but anyway.
mircea_popescu: cluelessweek and all the other derps can move on to wonder about "the real identity" of the mystery buyer
mircea_popescu: most likely scenario, you'd just have a "myserious belgian buyer" soaking up 300% of Belgium's GDP each month and that'll be that
mircea_popescu: major stakes are regularly sold and bought in any equity, russia just sold it's satoshi stash of T bills and the same idiotic press isn't harping about how the T is dead
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: it could be near-death << such nonsense. he holds what, at most 9% of supply ? who the shit cares 9% of supply is sold off.
mircea_popescu: and renting instead of buying makes attacks cheaper <<< you had it earlier tho. if it's mined then more gear will mine more ; similarly, if it can be bought it can be rented. fwiw, fee simple is rent anyway. what bought.
mircea_popescu: devteams are the most irrelevant asset of any coin. that's why atc is doing so well, and all the bs coins with 100x to 10kx more dev time spent on them are going nowhere
mircea_popescu: pankkake: yeah, it is both a stupid intention, and an impossible goal asciilifeform Apocalyptic a dumbass core dev team is like a blessing of suck for a coin. not necessarily a good reason to discard the coin, definitely not a good reason to invest in it.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller:It's funny how it's far more productive to do business here than in #bitcoin-otc << it used to be funny, now it'd be shocking if it wasn't :p
mircea_popescu: had a discussion with gmaxwell a few days ago about ring signatures, and he agrees that it could be done in a kludgy way in BTC, but it's an unlikely thing to happen, so Monero will possibly carve out a nice niche among the darknet markets crowd << that's exactly right, it could perhaps be implemented but if it is it'll be a private extension.
mircea_popescu: they have these "going out of business, everything must go" shops
mircea_popescu: <danielpbarron> i wish the miners would get in the WoT and sell directly to individuals like me with cash to send in the mail // some do << like most.
mircea_popescu: chetty: nothing wrong with that, but I always thought bitcoin was a she << i think that's the traditional view. Bitcoinia!
mircea_popescu: so my response to stan and BingoBoingo on trilema is... in moderaiton :D
mircea_popescu: benkay, maybe. tho how do oyu know it's a bull market in the first place ?
mircea_popescu: i gotta hand it to the mpex spook ux department : this setup i got here is eminently usable.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves, have a zinc pill before oyu leave next time
mircea_popescu: apparently i made some ill advised off the cuff comments about horse meat.
mircea_popescu: i guess if anyone asks ima just tell them it's going up because i finally wisened up and leaving timisoara.
mircea_popescu: inb4 whatever noob comes in to ask if it's due to whatever irrelevant press article wherein some experts nobody heard about derp.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic yes, he is one of the precious few antrepreneurs that actually made their own money.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla nao []bot and assbot are triggering each other
mircea_popescu: decimation> well with the quality of those arguments, the author is well on the way to becoming the anti-Moldbug << something tells me the author spent his youth clicking through cat pictures while someone on the phone was tryhing to educate them.
mircea_popescu: <Apocalyptic> it's just that they have realized that trading 500 usd back and forth isn't really worth it << that'll be the day
mircea_popescu: <bitcoinpete> moiety: lol wow, just read that zerlan thing. dood is crazy to spend $500k on a house just so he can make a headline on a weasly local rag. << i think you misunderstand how josh works. he doesn't actually DO the things he claims to have done. he merely claims them.
mircea_popescu: <bitcoinpete> yes, i'm sure it was all circle hype << dudes wanna matter. who's to tell them they won't ?
mircea_popescu: so you know, it won't protect you, but you can have the piece of paper if you wish.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the entire prenup thing is ridiculous in the west because of this "can't be unconscionable" approach to contract law.