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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.
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre wouldja consider getting a better nick ?
mircea_popescu: well, if it ever is disclosed, you'll be the first to know.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin betting. it really is killing the margins for irl betting.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, that means that the AVERAGE bet is like 1.5 btc,
mircea_popescu: we couldn't possibly have more than 10k diofferent users.
mircea_popescu: incidentallyt, there've been a total of about 10k bets, so that's an upper bound
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose bitcoin is fungible. bitbet did 15k btc in total bets or so
mircea_popescu: it's certainly more than a dozen cause at least a dozen diff people here bugged me abouyt it
mircea_popescu: not really. we don't even bother keeping analytics, so.
mircea_popescu consults his wall markings. two wired, one forbes one bi, one ap etc
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose seriously, someone over at reuters has to eventually figure out how to create a gpg key, reg it with gribble, get in the wot.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla because you see it's a different my when you talk about bitcoin wallets than persons.
mircea_popescu: yeah, is reuters small enough by now you know emily flitter ?
mircea_popescu: say a bet started today ending next month with a 10:1 spread, you bet in 3 weeks on the 10 side.
mircea_popescu: generally happens when people bet very late on a widely dominating side.
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose yes, it's possible. also discussed in the faq.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo btw, for your info it's chi not cha che etc
mircea_popescu: because of bitcoin mining fees however, it's not really worth it to bet under 0.00005 or w/e
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose bets as in propositions get rejected, because not everything can be bet on. see the faq on bitbet, it details it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, spent some time in san jose, originally landed there planing to stay a week, ended up staying like 3 years.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla your bitcoin wallet thanks you for your loyalty.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know it occurs to me it's probably like a particular cognitive skill, being able to follow irc convos. "disentagle a skein of thought" as the expression went.