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mircea_popescu: mike_c tbh i half figured you moved for a day of hooker privacy.
mircea_popescu: i don't imagine that a)the us legislative process has much impact on us reality ; b) us reality has much impact on online reality ; c) btc has much to do with online gambling
mircea_popescu: or in the words of bogart, the fixations of some people in the us don't amount to a hill of beans in this large btc world.
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose it would seem there's no particular relation.
mircea_popescu: wtf weird country is that. the merchant/customer specify wtf the transaction is
mircea_popescu: since when do banks classify transactions saying it;'s to x or to y ?
mircea_popescu: because the bitcoin poker site was doing great in 2011, and is dead now.
mircea_popescu: it may not be "just poker", but the case of poker seems to go exactly against the theory it benefited.
mircea_popescu: and the one poker site which was doing great in 2011 and 2012 meanwhile died.
mircea_popescu: well... bitcoin didn't exist in 2006. bitcoin gambling even less.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i dunno what sense that makes. so you play blackjack in tokens, and they have a random value each day. this deters you from playing blackjack ?
mircea_popescu: one question lingers. did you lie earlier when you claimed you can't do the article unless it's somehow related to... costa rica (?!) ? one'd have expected your interest to die there, were that factual.
mircea_popescu: but this is all speculation, and not too well grounded.
mircea_popescu: people who gamble wouldn't conceivably be much deterredf by the risk that their payoff is multiplied or divided randomly.
mircea_popescu: other than that, quite impossible to call trends. maybe it's growing.
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose i don't imagine the usg is any sort of actor in this discussion.
mircea_popescu: you're not in any sense qualified to discuss matters of law, are you ?
mircea_popescu: the point being, everyone's welcome to imagine they matter.
mircea_popescu: Nov 29 04:07:23 <firstblockchain>Trying to find people with rentable / purchasable land in Costa Rica who are bitcoin friendly. Want to set up a few solar powered yurts, wire up with some good internet, plant some tubers and coffee and operate from there. Going to be a pain to ship my roaster there from indonesia though... <<< this guy too.
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose i doubt anything useful can be said on the topic of whether bitcoin gambling geographically concentrates like casino gambling.
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose alright, there's 128 btc gambling websites.
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose you're roughly in the position of someone asking how many websites there are on the internet. it's by and large a meaningless measure of nothing in particular.
mircea_popescu: didn't seals die an ignoble death after it lost its db or something ?
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose other than jd and bitbet there's not that many worth the mention.
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose prolly satoshidice, a mpex corp, meanwhile retired.
mircea_popescu: he has like... opinions and shit. about like, laws. and is excited. about like... companies. well, "companies".
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo anyway, dude's now.... an investment adviser.
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose this was a while back, i was still retired back then. mostly i did girls
mircea_popescu: btw, if anyone knows of that schmuck since his days of derping about being amusing,
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo are you like trying to become tucker max or something ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i dare not think they perhaps haven't reported on heartbleed yet, because well...
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose it might have escaped your notice, but bitbet is not a company, it's a mpex corporation.
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose you can tell your editor i said he's doing himself way more favours running stories about me than the reverse.
mircea_popescu: are you licensed to operate an online nuclear powerplant ?
mircea_popescu: the lyf and times of the luddite journalist. 1. find webchat. 2. 500 pages of 500 words each avalanche. 3. profit ? 4. burial.
mircea_popescu: so... waiting for location to get its head out of its ass, realise that the tables have turned and start making offers.
mircea_popescu: bitbet however needs a location like i need a pair of horns. location however does need bitbet, and business generally.
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose it's like this. the way locations normally works is that it doesn't need people, but people need it. and so people make offers to location.