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mircea_popescu: <punkman> so come up with something stupid to sell to MIT people, get almost all of that $500k of btc <<
mircea_popescu: <pankkake> I really want to start a movement of anti-web things << join the queue!
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> pankkake: I wouldn't consider WP a lesser evil than Disqus << why not ?!
mircea_popescu: possibly worst sort of biz idea that, devlin advocacy.
mircea_popescu: but if someone judges it unnecessary, well, they're not stuck with the rest.
mircea_popescu: seemsmore reasonable this way. if someone judges it prudent to wait a month, or six or sixty, they can
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves nah, it'll sell after the first report.
mircea_popescu: pankkake mike_c is working on something based on that principle
mircea_popescu: it may, of course, steal from investors (ie, if the player and the casino collude)
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves so as constructed, jd can't steal from players.
mircea_popescu: except if you ask it to show it to you, then it always does.
mircea_popescu: and you can change your hash but server is not allowed to change its
mircea_popescu: but you're saying server has a hash for each guy rather than one for all guys
mircea_popescu: well either i seriously misunderstood this or else you did.
mircea_popescu: cause he is constrained by only having one server secret
mircea_popescu: he'd have to crack yours to make a self-serving secret
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves actually that's a valid approach, mike_c's. i'd just like to explore the provably fair angle, from bettors prespective
mircea_popescu: the provably fair thing will sink fiat gambling, only, they don't know it yet.
mircea_popescu: gambling is bad in that it threatens to empower whoever's doing it.
mircea_popescu: and to judge by the published trendon shavers proceedings... he apparently (inadvertently ?) destroyed some data
mircea_popescu: anyway, everyone has control of the gox db. it was haxt, remember ?
mircea_popescu: BCB you mean who the mysterious buyer was when vorhees had it delisted ?
mircea_popescu: funny thing being... where were all those muppets when btc was 1.2k and mpex was mkt value over 1bn
mircea_popescu: "I got my 0.01 btc investment out of neobee long ago."
mircea_popescu: "Like you say, this has manipulation written all over it. That is the only way to make it work - there is no chance a freely operating system like this would make it past a few weeks before going bankrupt. "
mircea_popescu: getting all the newspapers in a lifetime doesn't take an aggregate of 5 years.
mircea_popescu: this is like the people who spend 5 years to train their dog to get their newspaper.