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mircea_popescu: possibly the most retarded article of the week, yet standard fare in today's "climate change" style of pseudo-ecinomics
mircea_popescu: just in case someone else may get a chuckle out of this :
mircea_popescu: back then scammers got trampled into the ground and they got all butthurt.
mircea_popescu: well in 2010 it was mostly satoshi. hearn hadn't shown up yet,
mircea_popescu: and it's been losing about 1 point per month, roughly tracking the btc value
mircea_popescu: fluffypony you gotta appreciate, back in early 2012 the composition of that forum was significantly different.
mircea_popescu: that's the govt's problem. let it create more jobs or w/e it does.
mircea_popescu: scammers are doing more to end world hunger (and also break up idiotic sexual hang-ups in the 3rd world) than all western charities 100x over
mircea_popescu: pain without humiliation does not work as an educative device.
mircea_popescu: as it is, it simply moves some pizzas from idiot us people to famished third worlders, and persuades even more us idiots that "crypto = scam"
mircea_popescu: if the forum were run by mpoe-pr, then it'd serve the purpose to educate.
mircea_popescu: the great and wise forumtards could not hack through the password "dev"
mircea_popescu: the "dev", so the question of a "hacker" in between does not arise there."
mircea_popescu: "Of course it wasnt hackers. Before that claim was made, there was a password protected "beta test wallet" that was released. Only they had the passwords and there was no announcement of any hacking when teh password was revealed. It was later found that the zip contained nothing but a useless exe file that did nothing. This exe was put there intentionally by teh ones who had the password. The password was revealed by
mircea_popescu: clearly the opinions of nobody on the internet matter a lot.
mircea_popescu: "If you don't believe you can always use Anon escrow service. I think NFD-Coin is doing a good job with this IPO. but its better to pay a small escrow fee and be safe than sorry in my opinion."
mircea_popescu: "Our code has been dismantled, our hope has been crushed, and your coins are gone."
mircea_popescu: fluffypony like if your code was on a mantlepiece, right ?
mircea_popescu: i tell you, the forum is headed to this fucktards and spam scripts bright future
mircea_popescu: but wait, there's more! with every purchase you're entitled to one, slightly used, sliughtly worn, slightly slutty
mircea_popescu: it has to be made by hand in darkness and hidrated with virgin tears!
mircea_popescu: it's the retarded child of a 90s cali valley girl with a
mircea_popescu: we laugh, but i've had the occasion to see first hand people who, on account of all the time they spend devoid of human contact, actually speak like that.
mircea_popescu: i'm kinda rooting for Derp, the most fast and largest biggest secure herpurrency in the world.
mircea_popescu: no, but soon it will be the first cryptoaltcurrency to offer pencils and yard raking.
mircea_popescu: "Quark is a decentralized crypto-currency that allows for the most fast and secure transactions in the world."
mircea_popescu: jurov tbh the locking acct feature is a leftover that i'd rather take out than expand
mircea_popescu: davout yes, but consider has this wide timespan in my understanding.
mircea_popescu: "is it really desirable that i don't actually calculate what i want to buy before i place an order ?"