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mircea_popescu: mpex has signed contracts, the first step is to read those. then you evaluate the owner, the business, investing is
a process
mircea_popescu: so basically we went up
a whole dollar because somebody wanted 20k of bitcoins to keep on top of the ~50k being dicked around back and forth every given day
jago25_98: mircea_popescu: I guess the question is... if I buy stock... how do I know it's not
a scam. Perhaps I need to read how the normal stock market works first
jago25_98: Where can I get an intro to how bitcoin assets work... feel
a bit skeptical
Namworld: I'll make
a statement once we decide.
Namworld: We have to buy servers, we don't want to keep renting them. So we might not be able to do
a buyback right away.
Namworld: We might relist or do
a buyback.
smickles: "So lets ballpark it to say ~50,000 brand new nuclear reactors constructed and running continually to power nothing but this non-existent alien tech perfect computer for the next 10,000 years .... and it would still only have less than
a 10% chance of brute forcing
a Bitcoin address."
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> :amazed: << i would expect anyone cancelling an order would put
a little in
Ukto: I still havent had
a chance to do much with teh ff7 disc2
gribble: Error: That operation cannot be done in
a channel.
gribble: Error: That operation cannot be done in
a channel.
gribble: (eauth <nick>) -- Initiate authentication for user <nick>. You must have registered
a GPG key with the bot for this to work. You will be given
a link to
a page which contains
a one time password encrypted with your key. Decrypt, and use the 'everify' command with it. Your passphrase will expire in 10 minutes.
assbot: Quest for vision is
a great blessing.
OgNasty: Off to the Laker game. Have
a good night all.
smickles: answer me this: how can
a subset be larger than the whole?
mircea_popescu: i once had sex with this chick that was also
a marine.
Rassah: I'm still
a bit confused as to the reason this even went to the rota
mircea_popescu: markedathome it's
a secret davinci-esque code of hermetic mystery.
dub: I'll promise to take people for
a drive if they knock on my door
dub: think there is room in the marketz for
a 'buy dub
a GT86' sekuritai?
jcpham: i'm sending you
a bill for that
mircea_popescu: guys i have started
a project on ltc-global to get some funding for buying the whole coinurl project and bring it back to live
markedathome: pigeons: just imagine
a richard cheese version
mircea_popescu: thanks to whoever linked that,
a thoroughly entertaining read.
mircea_popescu: "Alright, the contract has been revised, and I'm ready to list the shares. There's
a BTC-TC database error preventing me from viewing the issuing account's portfolio, so as soon as Burnside fixes that the shares will be listed."
pigeons: yer lovin made me as sick as
a dog, so i'm sickin my dog on you
dub: [16:46] <mircea_popescu> if there
a way for
a user to prove he owns
a blockchain address ?
Namworld: Some people claimed with
a blockchain address signing
a message.
mircea_popescu: this guy is kinda noobish, i think detailed explanation would help him
a lot.
mircea_popescu: jcpham it was always the case, but i mostly hold it as
a reserve to protect against rampant idiocy.
mircea_popescu: if there
a way for
a user to prove he owns
a blockchain address ?
dub: its shaped like
a pencil, you hold it up to an eye and slam your face into the desk
Namworld: He should have made
a bond like BTC-BOND
dub: he could print
a free DIY lobotomy tool for anyone that invests
dub: seems to just be
a free printer for Garr
Ukto: its more of
a crowdfunding
Ukto: yeah we had light snow over night liek 2 nights in
a row
pigeons: no you cannot download
a nitrous tank mp
mircea_popescu: if i could download
a tank i wouldn't download boobs...
dub: would you download
a tank?
dub: or dumber than
a box of hammers
mircea_popescu: well,. this is too much excitement for me. anyone care rto recomend
a movie ?
Bugpowder: It could be be
a painful month for MPORB or
a great one.
Bugpowder: Yeah I am short
a fair number of calls
mircea_popescu: all the theoreticians of btc as commodity will have
a serious problem explaining this so far pretty consistent behaviour
Tatsuya: there could still be statistical ways of detecting the probability of
a troll vs not
a troll
smickles: low enough effort that you can't discount the possibility of
a troll
Tatsuya: It's just for when - let's say you have
a bet that's 100 BTC vs 100 BTC. It could be that just one person but in
a 100 BTC 'no' bet and 1000 people put in 0.1 BTC bets. which would be an entirely different betting situation than 100 people betting 0.5 BTC 'yes' and 100 people betting 0.5 BTC 'no'
Tatsuya: mircea_popescu, yup - that! better to gauge the riskyness of the best looking @ sample size - I know you list the individual bets, but tallying is
a pain
smickles: er, i mean to say, you can't really say that
a givin bet was done by
a specific user
mircea_popescu: jurov forum was more
a joke thing. it was never open registration, so it wouldn't make too good
a support venue
smickles: jurov: well, i wasn't making the distinction there, maybe out of my own ignorrance, but i saw
a statement by piuk that those blockchian messags are in txns via OP_DROP
jurov: OK, being "in" and "on" is quite
a difference :)
jcpham: from the same address for
a token amount
smickles: what are you saying it's not proof of? it looks like
a message they put up when decided to sue mpex
mircea_popescu: smickles so basically, it's not
a signature or anything ?
jcpham: If bitcointalk wasn't such
a toxic waste dump I'd suggest someone curate this information ina thread
jurov: lol, there's
a nice public note on blockchain.info.. did not knew this is possible
smickles: and I wonder if i'll be chosen as
a judge or not
jcpham: so it's
a ssimple as someone not follwing the rules
smickles: maybe i shouldn't start discussing details in case i'm chosen as
a judge
mircea_popescu: <topace_> i think
a lot of people foolishly think that the crazy up luck month of december will continue << actually december wasn't much off ev was it ?
jcpham: We have good news we have had
a new shipment come in yesterday and were able to ship it to you.
topace_: i think
a lot of people foolishly think that the crazy up luck month of december will continue
pigeons: anyway, see, if they were
a scam, why even write that in the first place!
Korbman: So the reality is, even at
a TH/s bandwidth shouldn't be an issue?
topace_: yea but the hash string is
a short piece of text
Korbman: when I was
a kid I was happy to have 28.8 ..then we moved up to 56 and damn it was "fast"