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mircea_popescu: MrWDunne: Also the actual business plan is a 25 page PDF << i like this part best so far.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla means "that's who she blamed" in slovenlyan right ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform from a mathematical standpoint : the most important quality of markets is that you can't isolate participants.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no but that's always what it is, "dumb x". the mkt isnt dumb
mircea_popescu: yeah. the master model of the preoblem is "cornering X market", such as the 5 i think to date attempts on silver/gold
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform trader experience is that any strategy that starts with "if you had a lot of money" is a loser.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony really they backed off over twitter threats and general discontent
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, the rng of the java thing is particularly atrocious. piuk (blockchaininfo) made some fixes on a fork)
mircea_popescu: but srsly, anyone heard of this major bitcoinjs-lib hole ?
mircea_popescu: the... wait for it... the random number generation code.
mircea_popescu: "To reward the work of the developers, Drake is “offering three bounties of 0.20 BTC each for anyone that finds and fixes (via pull request) any bugs/code issues that potentially cause wallet data loss, a major security bug in the Coinpunk wallet code (coinpunk/models/wallet.js), bitcoinjs-lib, or in the random number generation code”."
mircea_popescu: "After scoring a major grant awarded by the Bitcoin Foundation, Coinpunk’s beta version is finally available. The project, which is being developed by the veteran startup founder Kyle Drake, intends to build the first fully open-source, self-hosted do-it-yourself Bitcoin wallet service that you can run on your own server."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: somehow i seem to have missed this ? did bitcoinjs announce something ?
mircea_popescu: Due in part to this process, we have been notified of a security bug in bitcoinjs-lib (the bitcoin javascript library counterwallet uses) that was internally disclosed to us by the bitcoinjs-lib team yesterday evening. We worked with them on applying a fix, which was made live late last night and this security notice was drafted pending confirmation from the team. However it appears the bug has already been exploited i
mircea_popescu: lol counterparty.co srsly ? "pls to trade your bitcoinz for very valuable xcp"
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: how your software will handle large volumes << that's the funniest thing i read today.
mircea_popescu: going through the londerfull log of this mrwdune dood. did he at least have the sense to locate in Guernsey ?
mircea_popescu: bs auth in-house giga scheme anyway, prolly more broken than a 50yo whore.
mircea_popescu: what the hell useless. have your wizard rewrite the auth scheme
mircea_popescu: fluffypony not sa as in south africa, sa as in something awful
mircea_popescu: come back nubsy we need ourselves drawn as flying dragon princesses
mircea_popescu: omfg our untalented drawer / sausage maker guy is gone! WHERE!
mircea_popescu: HeySteve: this place is becoming a real Dragon's Den, I'm thinking of writing something to that effect << by all means. maybe get nubbins to draw us all as pony dragons.
mircea_popescu: dude the sa crew is actually doing a splendid job raping teh tardtalk forums
mircea_popescu: (as a bonus hint, before retiring a good decade ago, i was doing something like 240/160)
mircea_popescu: so, i stopped by the doc today had my blood pressure measured. anyone care to guess ?
mircea_popescu: "44% of Americans are living with less than $5,887 in savings for a family of four" << fun fact ? most romanians own more than that.
mircea_popescu: also in s.mpif news : juraj whom you know as jurov has accepted to take over pc #5.
mircea_popescu: ima pay 1 btc to taleb and 1 btc to whoever gets him to come here.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is, but moiety will never get to know.
mircea_popescu: i quote, "<chetty> well you be glad to hear we're finally back to active programing on eulora - but right now need to hit the store for weekend supplies of milk and coffee - back in a bit"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i don't trust davout. his girl only rated him a 3.
mircea_popescu: now who was i owing cookies to ? benkay ? kakobrekla ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony you are clearly well qualified to give legal advice :D
mircea_popescu: so they have an agreement, which they can't use to extradite terrorists ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves women have this endless capacity to pleasantly surprise.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you don't bring it up. you go home and say "woman, we're leaving for the congo. pack stockings and tank tops, and read up on slim's guide to cook for bogart"
mircea_popescu: worst that can happen is you end up dead. which will happen anyway.
mircea_popescu: his blondy looks like she's doing lots of animal conservationing :D