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mircea_popescu: i think some heretics here do have facebooks but won't admit it because they still wanna be counted as cool
mircea_popescu: so if the fucking secret services can't get their shit together, what am i gonna ask of concert promoters
mircea_popescu: either that or snowden was chief of us intel and i never knew.
mircea_popescu: the comsec practiced by people IN THE BUSINESS is appaling.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't be too happy about you posting admin screenshots if i were your partners
mircea_popescu: we just don't know if you were involved as gofer or shot caller is all.
mircea_popescu: summarize for me in the same format the finances of the atlanta thing some people you may or may not be associated with actually organised, will ye.
mircea_popescu: you can't know what it's going to cost but you can know what you're going to spend, within a blowjob ?
mircea_popescu: and how the heck do you know within 10 dollars what your talent is going to cost ?
mircea_popescu: there's a silently perfect blog somewhere we're all silenty agreeing with im sure.
mircea_popescu: Dimsler well what's your prior experience in the field or why exactly do you think ?
mircea_popescu: Dimsler no it was one concert in atlanta or florida or something
mircea_popescu: DrewHorne that was the other question i was going to ask. prev discussion you had gross income of 1.5mn over $40 tickets and 4k attendance. these numbers are a degree of magnitude off, what gives ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if not, many people, myself included, would love to hear about it
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron if correctly implemented, you should be able to yes.
mircea_popescu: but who were you going to sell to again, as the exit strategy ?
mircea_popescu: bounce: apparently the tweet is right there, in a <p class="js-tweet-text tweet-text"></p> << ahahaha this sort of shit.
mircea_popescu: DrewHorne what's the relation of all this with the Collins-Rector character and his merry harem of gay bois ?
mircea_popescu: to best understand this : a bank that reports its customers to any tax office they want to, if they want it to, and doesn't otherwise would be the embodiment of legal neutrality, in the absolute sense. nevertheless, the legal theory would be presented that it is in fact actgively engaged in criminal activity, and as shoddy as that legal teory may be, it will actually carry in most western courts.
mircea_popescu: so let's not confuse things. bitcoin can be as neutral as you want, for you. for hitler, stalin, pol pot and obama, bitcoin is ~quite~ politically engaged.
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr bitcoin is politically neutral only in some sort of politically meaningless "absolute" sense. otherwise, inasmuch as western socialism holds the ideological view that all non socialist (politically neutral or otherwise) systems of thought are political enemies, bitcoin can only be politically-engaged from their perspective.
mircea_popescu: your friend would maybe be well served to get hooked up with in here.
mircea_popescu: "never interrupt your enemy while he's fucking himself with a pineaple."
mircea_popescu: decimation it's ok, these same people will need jobs ten years from now too.
mircea_popescu: so according to bloomberg, the fact that bitcoin etf already exists is to be ignored, because unless fucktarded white friends of theirs come to help us, we are just a bunch of niggers over here.
mircea_popescu: if a merchant feels they need to ask, they'll ask "are you paying cash ?" or "would you be using cash or a cc ?"
mircea_popescu: poor people (coupon hunter housewife types) and government employees.
mircea_popescu: bounce: since you already cannot live without some bank account and they all charge more or less the same there's no way out of that << i've never had a personal bank accouint actually.
mircea_popescu: except, i don't owe them 30 euros a month currently, so...
mircea_popescu: jurov: bounce find me one bank that slashed fees by 60% << well my bank keeps trying to sell me on this deal whereby if i pay them 30 euros a month fixedx they'll cut their per tx fees to 0 for x txn and to 50% for all the rest.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, something that's been worked at for years'd better be over 100mn or else wtf is going on
mircea_popescu: assbot: BitPay raising $30 million of capital, gives itself a $160 million valuation which is ridiculous | The Cryptocurrency Times << it's only ridiculous if you're some blogger with nary two meatballs to rub together in your stomach.
mircea_popescu: bounce: "did not happen"? << not in central and eastern eu, no.
mircea_popescu: as usual, any attempts to tighten the noose past a certain level do more to chaff the thing
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the clever fellows who presently escape surveillance by eschewing mobile phones, will be collared at last << nbot really. just have procurement contract with select shop, order stuff pay on month's end.
mircea_popescu: merge fanny and freddie with gs and jpm, suddenly you got something
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> other thing, folks will answer 'i've an electromagnetically-shielded wallet! haha' - but see who laughs last. eventually, you won't even be able to walk into a shop unless the door can read your CC << this is a good thing, becayse i don't like this entire in person shopping thing anywayu