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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.
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose are you just in love with some native speaker ?
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose you know it's in the reports, there's a special line for advertising
mircea_popescu: artifexd better pull from the feeds tho. kakobrekla what were the feeds again /
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre bounce artifexd mike_c and the rest of the supermath python gurus : maybe write a script that takes a bet and spits out the moving odds as the bets come in ?
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose that'd be part of the great power of bitcoin. you don't need accounts.
mircea_popescu: btclovernick well had you been here asking earlier it could have been perhaps averted
mircea_popescu: well because without bitcoin you don't exist. also because you need it to bet on bitbet.
mircea_popescu: i'm also worth a few million atc, i guess, which is a similar problem. what sort of business opportunity did i see there ?
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose i don't do business per se. i tend to provide critical infrastructure pieces for bitcoin finance is all.
mircea_popescu: at the time we made bitbet, there also existed a "competitor", i forget the exact thing
mircea_popescu: you're missing a lot of history. at the time i made mpex, there existed a "competitor", glbse. it was basically a scam, and has meanwhile died
mircea_popescu: this is supposed to be ostentatious ? since when is russian paper worth anything ?