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ThickAsThieves: it's totally feasible to pay out a reasonableinterest rate
ThickAsThieves: midway into conversation, he decides to doublt the interest rate
ThickAsThieves: and that it somehow got listed on BTCTC without the required 5 votes everyone else has to get
ThickAsThieves: oh did you guys catch that Garr is issuing a new bond?
ThickAsThieves: he's buying up shares and reposting them at 25 himself
ThickAsThieves: people will just keep reposting the cheaper shares just under his wall at 25
ThickAsThieves: ""BFL could have spent 75 BTC on hookers and blow, but they chose to send it to homeless outreach," King said. "If that was just a PR stunt, I can’t control [that]. What I can control is how I spend that money and use it to spend on people who are less fortunate than I am.""
ThickAsThieves: In fact, it turns out that BDF was actually started by Butterfly Labs' own employees—a fact disclosed nowhere on the BDF site. When Ars reached out to the only e-mail address listed on the site, the response that came back was from Jeff Ownby, the BFL vice president."
ThickAsThieves: "BFL didn’t make that target, and as such, it said it donated 1,000 BTC to the Bitcoin Development Fund (BDF). However, the BDF appears to have been created in May 2013 and provides no documentation that it is, in fact, a bona fide charity or nonprofit organization. Its website lists no actual people, street addresses, or phone numbers.
ThickAsThieves: no way that they will back off. Backing off means that you would open the door against the government. So the way it works is you always have to agree to some minor thing just to make sure that the government doesn’t end up being wrong.”
ThickAsThieves: “The convention of mail fraud, it’s governmental stuff,” he said. “It’s difficult to explain. Governments actually take action against people for different reasons. It’s not crime always. Certain things like mail fraud, money laundering—[they are] standard [ways] to attack someone. When the government attacks you, and if there’s a point where they’re wrong, there’s
ThickAsThieves: "Sonny Chris Vleisides, who pled guilty to one count of mail fraud in 2010 (PDF) for being involved in an international lottery scam, is an executive at BFL. "
ThickAsThieves: i just assumed you abstractly meant makign our own websites was the 3rd
ThickAsThieves: " A lack of trustworthy businesses does not command a need for a trust-bestowing agency. If there are not enough hot women in the room, do you hire someone to determine whether a woman is hot or not?"
ThickAsThieves: does it compromise trust to give the people what they want, even if you know they should not want it?
ThickAsThieves: if theyve been mining with secret units theyd be doing pretty well
ThickAsThieves: oh you know, holding ourselves on pedastals trying not to tip over from the weight of our own heads
ThickAsThieves: "I think TAT, that you're advocating eternal vigilance and complete due diligence on the part of investors and I believe this position is one of fantasy. I don't believe it's reasonable to expect that of anyone unless they make it a full time occupation. This is why organized trust rating services are valuable."
ThickAsThieves: we could also play with the difficulty numbers all these glorious units will impose
ThickAsThieves: so guessing he expects 500,000btc in sales this winter?
ThickAsThieves: okay so these units will cost 3,000 btc and AMC intends to sell 100 of them, in addition to 800 lesser units, in addition to selling bulk chips
ThickAsThieves: "AMC will be partnering with eASIC, an established manufacturer. A review of their past manufacturing experience only indicates expertise in 90nm and 45nm chips, raising some question as to how reliable their estimates will be"
ThickAsThieves: so people want just-dice to turn the investment side into gambling too?
ThickAsThieves: what happens is once any of the services achieves any success
ThickAsThieves: they get so proud of themselves that thy figured something out
ThickAsThieves: there's a growing breed of people-who-think-they-are-deprived-and-or-mpoe-pr on the forums lately
ThickAsThieves: but your excitement does lead to a little cheerleading