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Eduard_Munteanu: Interesting. Mine's systems / control engineering, though I'm mostly a software dude.
mircea_popescu: "As a complete aside: putting a 5mn BTC buywall @ $200 each up in MtGox might actually be the most rational use of a billion dollars currently. You'll end up with 2-3 mn BTC and the price will be permanently in the hundreds. Profit."
Chaang-Noi: sold some btc to buy wife a truck, then made it back in one day with ltc
dub: I think to be safe some millionair would need to buy a proper dev team first
Eduard_Munteanu: But as time passes that may become less of a problem.
Eduard_Munteanu: I do try to scalp a bit though, I don't make a lot compared to the trend, but it's still something.
Eduard_Munteanu: You kinda get a sort of correction, but it's not much to scalp.
Eduard_Munteanu: I'm pondering what price should I leave a sell order at for the night.
mircea_popescu: trying to go through life without a head must be painful.
ThickAsThieves: that was a good read
mircea_popescu: a while back the girl went on some stripper forum to give them free btc
ThickAsThieves: took me a couple days to notice that one
Chaang-Noi: if i used one already id not make a new account for 10 shares and just lose the 5%
mircea_popescu: with like, a red purse, white suit. sent it back home the agape silence could be heard across the ocean.
mircea_popescu: yes im a baller lol
dub: you are a fucking baller
thismustb: i just forgot 40$ in bitcoins about a year ago. then i saw btc is at 36$ now
thismustb: that's a bit steep at current rates
thismustb: hey guys, do you know any MT4 trading platforms that allow leverage and would let you have a live account with not that much money?
dub: might be fun to give it a try but I wouldn't be buying new GPUs at this point unless you plan to pwn n00bs with them on the side
error4733: good way also to understand altcoin, why is good, why is a scam
error4733: but i want try, i think it's a good way to learn BTC
gribble: (ticker [--bid|--ask|--last|--high|--low|--avg] [--currency XXX]) -- Return pretty-printed mtgox ticker. If one of the result options is given, returns only that numeric result (useful for nesting in calculations). If '--currency XXX' option is given, returns ticker for that three-letter currency code. It is up to you to make sure that the three letter code you enter is a valid currency (1 more message)
Namworld: no, was lending to Amazingrando, waiting to have enough for a BFL rig. But Amazingrando never repaid.
BitHub: i'm going to make a long term 100 play
error4733: i hope a crash for a good re entry spot
error4733: in fact yes, but it's a other question
BitHub: i dont know like i said i'm probably being a real n00b
BitHub: for example say i want an asset on BF but i only have a mpex account but i could buy an asset on BF using or leveraging an asset i have on MPEX to buy that asset on BF
Chaang-Noi: you could but it would be a pain in the ass
BitHub: this might sound really n00b but is there a way to exchange between PT's
Chaang-Noi: cool, .65 is a good number
dub: eatign dirt is not a good idea, listeria is a very nasty way to die
dub: firstly there's no vitamin b its a group of vitamins and you get them from lots of places
dub: mircea_popescu: hey if he can scrape a living out of exploiting hippies thats fine. Putting anything you plan to ingest in a home made pottery receptacle is gastric russian roulette
mircea_popescu: as fucking if a. what they did was art and b. you can make money at art w/o an elite
mircea_popescu: "make art a business"
[\\\]: give the girl a raise
dub: be prepared for a slow and painful death shitting yourself inside out from dysentery
dub: srsly though a home made out of who knows what mixture of clay, mud and the feces eskimoboob probably smears all over himself
pigeons: but its a pretty mug
Chaang-Noi: or did i miss out on a meme
[\\\]: and a chunk of beautiful land iceland
[\\\]: its like calling a chunk of frozen tundra greenland
[\\\]: Chaang-Noi: same reason bitcoin has gone up 5% a day for the last several weeks.
Chaang-Noi: ltc is not a btc assets but anyone know why it went up 100% in 1.5 days?
Bugpowder: According to a friend who knows them from way back in poker land
[\\\]: he was just a talking head
dub: error4733: haven't been on there for a while, have they actually got players these days? used to be a ghost town
Bowjob: Ooh. quite a huge buy
dub: a wild libertard appears http://dailyreckoning.com/boycott-bitcoin/
blu3gr1f1on: did you include a mining fee?
blu3gr1f1on: it would make you a sort of magical unicorn, able to determine outcomes of user submitted gobshite bets
ThickAsThieves: is why it always goes up after divs, it's a testament to SDICE's allure
mircea_popescu: maybe somebody was trying to create a sell panic
kakobrekla: critticall did a better job.
Lyspooner: i did something like that, where i just bought a bunch of bitcoins with money
mircea_popescu: you underwrite the marketmaker risk for a possible profit down the road.
Lyspooner: on bitbet, create a long-dated bet with a close to 50-50 outcome, bet both sides of it, take advantage of the early weighting part of the algorithm
maximian: but yeah, a great way to verify income
maximian: mircea_popescu: so evoorhees will actually have to issue a dividend of 6619BTC to cover all 50,000,000 shares?
B0g4r7_: It goes to a newly-generated address in your wallet.
iz: B0g4r7_: so you had 82.308 in a single bitcoin address, and you wanted to spend 56.82.. so 56.82 goes to where you want to spend it, and then 25.48 comes back in change to one of your new randomly generated wallet addresses
mircea_popescu: Bowjob it's like this : you can only spend a WHOLE input.
B0g4r7_: It gets sent to a newly-generated address that then gets placed i your wallet.
Bowjob: whats a balance address
B0g4r7_: Bowjob, the rest got sent to a "balance address".
dub: its a fucking circlejerk
jurov: if avalon is really a fpga's hardcopy, baybe they just used same blob
mircea_popescu: http://bitbet.us/bet/284/primeasic-has-a-miner/ somebody likes prime ?
mircea_popescu: "we're making a bet except if we lose it's really get our money back"
mircea_popescu: B0g4r7 nah, once it's clear a bet ended early they get closed
mircea_popescu: http://bitbet.us/bet/284/primeasic-has-a-miner/
guruvan: what's up in here - been a minute since I've been in
Bowjob: Yifu apparently bet on the BFL march bet and won a fuckton
jurov: :) had to forward it, need to wait a bit
mjr___: your the best jurov thanks a bunch
mjr___: haven't checked blockchain info in a few min
error4733: it's a trap
kakobrekla: its a bubble when u get that.
dub: and the lulzy.. spook dept. that isnt allowed to spy on nz citizens, didn't know he was a citizen
mircea_popescu: illegal surveillance, nz being a puppet state, yeah
dub: judge gave him bail after a bunch of illegal shit about his arrest surfaced
Lyspooner: the announcement caused the share value of letsbuyit.com to jump and dotcom cashed out, making a profit of 1.5 million eur
blu3gr1ffon: in house collections. nice to know a skilled skip tracer
B0g4r7_: Throw in a bail bondsman, a PI, and a debt collection agency and you've got a full house.
B0g4r7_: If I tried at a few different loan places the odds get pretty good.
mircea_popescu: B0g4r7 50-50 you'd get a loan
mircea_popescu: but this is a. less than dividends for most stocks b. much less than mpoe bonds etc.
Namworld: A bit less
mircea_popescu: wait. what ? you're paying 1% a month ?~
Namworld: on a sidenote
mircea_popescu: ya but you'r extrapolating a little out of band
Namworld: or close to half a million dollar at today's prices
Namworld: ASICMINER already sent a first payment?
mircea_popescu: i've not fucked enough chinese girls to have a clue so far.
burnside: not a bad return on ~6 months?
mircea_popescu: i think he paid a little premium
mircea_popescu: a well then there's your answer !
mircea_popescu: now one of the most promising ipos of the year so far has been reduced to a 70 btc opening day.