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mircea_popescu: 1. very dubious character noteworthy mostly for being detained at the border takes exchange down, which nets him
a scammer tag.
mircea_popescu: maybe things are
a lot more fragile than the bull run past week suggests
Ukto: as I said, bots just needed time to resituate after
a selloff
mircea_popescu: i don't own
a mircea_popescu account on icbit.se either, since we're talking
Ukto: seems more of
a statement
Ukto: is that
a question?
mircea_popescu: the catastrophic failure mode is for each issuer to get
a gpg-encypted list of the holder's fingerprints. much like rg got on the delisting of s.bvps
mircea_popescu: Ukto in principle there'd be at the very least
a decoded db dump
Ukto: and I have
a buy receipt
mircea_popescu: that said, i did not hold it directly, i never had
a GLBSE acct.
mod6: these scammers are like wack-
a-mole
gribble: You rated user gigavps on Fri Aug 17 15:27:07 2012, giving him
a rating of 10, and supplied these additional notes: Excellent trust.
mircea_popescu: end result ? nefario explains the idiots present how much of
a scam mpex is.
mircea_popescu: here's
a start : nefario makes "conference". nobody goes, but hey.
gigavps:
a word of waring to all, mircea_popescu doesn't live up to his own contracts
mircea_popescu: so, find something better to do with your time. like, say,
a way to pay back.
Ukto: hmm, this is
a pretty serious accusation
mircea_popescu: he's running out of air with his various lies, so he's pulling
a goat.
mircea_popescu: because it's
a loaded question, and
a poorly loaded one at that.
gigavps: why are you evading
a direct question?
Ukto: I think I just saw
a bomb get dropped
Ukto: sounds like
a big long distance bill
mircea_popescu: no , that can only happen on places where people actually have
a lot of wealth
Diablo-D3: its the end result of
a 20 year military project
jurov: nOgAnOo, are you
a girl?
mircea_popescu: for the record i don't recall when i last paid
a tx fee.
ThickAsThieves: i notice the windows client will sometimes say you need
a larger fee than makes sense
mircea_popescu: it is
a little concerning that mtgox keep bleeding market share.
Bugpowder: I couldn't wire from BofA to gox for
a while
gribble: Error: "tricker" is not
a valid command.
Bicknellski: fuck that took
a good 40 minutes to catch up the thread here
mircea_popescu: hey, one day when
a dollar is worth 1mn bitcoins you'll be happy you saved those.
imsaguy: worth fractions of
a dollar
gribble: Error: "coinlag" is not
a valid command.
splnkr: i tell my friends that too just from
a personal investment standpoint! invest in what you know
mircea_popescu: these muppets are bringing bitcoin to ws about
a year too late.
Diablo-D3: I fucking pgp encrypt it with
a passphrase, and then upload it to multiple VPSes
imsaguy: except its
a 3 hours old quote
pigeons: they have
a quote calculator for storing your bitcoins for you
mircea_popescu:
a chick that was
a cocke fiend wouldn't have as many holes
splnkr: first time i heard about ruby on rails i thought it was
a chick who was
a coke fiend
mircea_popescu: course it can be, bitcoinica was, if you recall,
a bootstrap site coded in ror and hosted on linode.
Diablo-D3: its one of the worst css-in-
a-box kits ever
splnkr: oooooh, bootstrap baby, you'll beget
a billion beautiful sites that do nothing, oooooh
Diablo-D3: I am
a firm believer in the GSD methodology.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the girl is starting
a bitchslap programme on bitcointalk,
pigeons: wow looking at all these partners and startups, i guess all i need is twitter bootstrap and im
a startup
Diablo-D3: but steve jobs left behind
a very competent executive staff
Diablo-D3: I dont agree with them on
a lot of _technical_ issues
Diablo-D3:
a lot of major corporate investors are running this one
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3
a company that large is always goingto have activist shareholders going at it.
Diablo-D3: apple has
a huge fucking investment department
Diablo-D3: they build products, they sell
a service, and they also invest
Diablo-D3: if I understand the business plan, if I meet the founders and drill the shit out of them and they pass, and if the market they're going into is
a logical choice
mircea_popescu: coupla years ago i was living with
a generally good opinion of them and graham
splnkr: well, honestly, the vc game is like that by nature. you can't predict the future. you have to place
a bunch of bets and hope one hits it big
mircea_popescu: if you're sitting on
a few bn, it makes sense to peel the odd million to aggitated kids.
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: ycombinator isnt
a team of dorks
Diablo-D3: theres
a few y combinator VCs that represent VC companies
Diablo-D3: y combinator is
a group of VCs, btw
pigeons: coinbase was giving out .1 btc for account refferals when they started and was gonna implement
a big pyramid scheme but the rising price killed that
pigeons: coinlab is
a former mining pool that overpaid so they could keep users for when they got non bitcoin hashing work that never showed up
pigeons: coinbase is
a gox front end with extra fees and extra problems
mircea_popescu: loads of little things cropping up, like the habit of cancelling trades when price goes up then paying off those who throw
a stink on forum
jcpham: Give us
a call at 855-Lab-Coin or drop us
a line to ask us about:
pigeons: well its been true. exchb was
a good example.
mircea_popescu: if anything;'s
a ghetto i dunno what else it would be.
pigeons: mtgox has quite low margins anyway and coinlab has
a reputation at not understanding how to make money