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smickles: thestringpuller: Yeah, i think that is a good idea if you can keep expenses low enough to attact business
dub: USG has a long history of letting crime continue in their interests
thestringpuller: Didn't a US senator give the DEA a bunch of money to shutdown Silk Road
smickles: man, i should've found a way to scam the funds form my mortgage into btc back in 2008
noagendamarket: they probably wont do anything about scamming till a politician gets ripped off lol
thestringpuller: there is a market for trading bad debt
thestringpuller: if there was a way to "collect" like in the physical world it wouldn't have been as bad
mircea_popescu: i hated that glbse was mostly a vehicle for pushing toxic assets to the naive.
thestringpuller: so mpex is a good place for brokerage
thestringpuller: the 30 btc fee for mpex makes it a lot like NYSE
thestringpuller: it'll be like a post apocalyptic world without the nuclear holocaust
thestringpuller: I have a 25 btc casascius coin so I can redeem it
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: "And yes, I’m saving some Bitcoins in a special wallet precisely to pay for the amusement of fucking interns in the oval office. The cigars are on the house." that made me laugh
mircea_popescu: a rare treat that, too.
thestringpuller: dub: so a bitcoin mafia?
thestringpuller: i think this could all be solved with a BTC repo service
noagendamarket: he didnt run a giant ponzi
thestringpuller: as long as SR exists btc will always have a place on the internet
thestringpuller: btc has made me a lot better with my money in general
thestringpuller: I guess you have to be a skeptical consumer
noagendamarket: scammers will destroy btc before the government gets a chance too
noagendamarket: mybitcoin was a canadian scam LOL
noagendamarket: unless your cousin is a mexican hitman near texas ;P
smickles: everything is a scam because none of the big thefts and scams have had any significant consequences yet
thestringpuller: noagendamarket: why is everything a scam?
thestringpuller: I kinda think the glbse shutdown was a good thing...
noagendamarket: yeah they banned a lot of the chemicals that were causing it
thestringpuller: I wanted to incorporate a btc business in antarctica
noagendamarket: antarctica is a protected wildlife zone :P
dub: id say we'll be well over 3000th in a year
dub: 10mh/w is a vaniall lx150
dub: thestringpuller: so assuming 10mh/w its break even is under a dollar
dub: for GPUs its quite a lot higher with avg power price
thestringpuller: October has been a rough month so far
BTC-Mining: Price moves a lot on small transactions simply by low liquitity volumes.
BTC-Mining: If you'd look at price history, you can see it varies a lot even over the last month
BTC-Mining: qwebirc556225: it's not really a big fall... pretty minor
thestringpuller: noagendamarket: that's because there is no stable investments to put your policy surplus into to make a decent ROI
thestringpuller: also unlicensed insurance is kind of a big no no
BTC-Mining: Except a bit of margin trading on the various bonds
thestringpuller: a btc insurance company is brilliant imho
noagendamarket: the idea of a btc insurance company at this stage is retarded
noagendamarket: so did a lot of people :(
thestringpuller: Usagi is going to have a field day
BTC-Mining: If he claims them at a later date, he'd have no more debt but less dividends owed.
thestringpuller: Are scammer tags reversable? or is it pretty much a done deal?
BTC-Mining: Like for murder, it has to be a malicious intent. If it's accidental and you're at fault, it's not murder but manslaughter
thestringpuller: like for instance someone having all their money under a mattress and the house burns down...
dub: I should start a scam calling service
noagendamarket: I expect there will be a few tags coming soon :(
noagendamarket: smickles are you going to make a forum post about it ?
noagendamarket: *would be funny if copumpkin was a cop the whole time
Azelphur: I always thought he was a cooperative pumpkin
noagendamarket: some of the convicts sent to Australia descended into cannibalism a few times
mircea_popescu: much alike how things go today, actually, you'll be accosted by men with offers of fresh cunt multiple times a week.
BTC-Mining: Slaves. Once upon a time in some very cheerful bedtime stories, European cultures thought Africans were free-to-take laborers just idling there doing nothing waiting for masters.
mircea_popescu: in south africa that's actually a point of pride.
BTC-Mining: You might want to go to the hospital to get it removed, but it kind of shows everyone you forced yourself into a woman
BTC-Mining: Gets the genitals entraped in a nice inward razorsharp teethed tunnel
coingenuity: $610 for a ride cymbal
noagendamarket: she still has a mouth
novusordo: well, unless she's wearing a locked chastity belt and left the key at home
noagendamarket: using bitcoin is like wearing a miniskirt at 12am in a city...you might not get raped but it increases the odds
mircea_popescu: someone said the scammers managed a 51% attack so we were counting people
thestringpuller: That made me a little sad noagendamarket
thestringpuller: that was a quote from the movie Pi
thestringpuller: "The king asks Archimedes to determine if a present he's received is actually solid gold. Unsolved problem at the time. It tortures the great Greek mathematician for weeks - insomnia haunts him and he twists and turns in his bed for nights on end. Finally, his equally exhausted wife - she's forced to share a bed with this genius - convinces him to take a bath to relax. While he's entering the tub, Archimedes not
mircea_popescu: was it a beech ?
BTC-Mining: smickles: wow, a tree? You totally should have.
mircea_popescu: better get a husband.
thestringpuller: need to get me a wife then
smickles: hey, i'm married and have a kid
BTC-Mining: A bot?*
mircea_popescu: no actually, if you actually hanker down and count heads, the scammers aren't a majority. they just seem like it cause they get more press.
noagendamarket: satoshi left because eventually everyone will end up with a scammer tag lol
BTC-Mining: A bit? What kind of bot?
mircea_popescu: even theymos made a good impression in the end with his entire shares thing.
mircea_popescu: pigeons can be trusted to make a pretty decent meal...
smickles: my bot has made 18% in about a week
noagendamarket: scammers have performed a 51% attack :P
smickles: the rocket is a go
BTC-Mining: Yeah, it ended up being a suggestion only panel, not decision making panel.
BTC-Mining: But yeah, if I wanted to keep them/have a proof, it's all there
noagendamarket: lol Jonathan ERyan owens doesnt even have a scammer tag and Nefario does
BTC-Mining: I also seem to have killed a scam accusation against MPEx
mircea_popescu: i tend to recall this ridiculous Ven thing being a bluechip asset.
noagendamarket: Nefario says a lot of things that are out there
BTC-Mining: As far as I know, there never was such a thing. Usagi proposed it and Nefario was considering.
Diablo-D3: nefario and usagi both said a few lies about that
Diablo-D3: usagi said there was going to be a panel and the glbse board signed off on it
dub: wait, you mean usagi isnt a samurai rabbit?
mircea_popescu: but wait. as to the later part : what else was it a panel for ? masturbatory onanism ?
Diablo-D3: you'd think we could get a statement from a professional tentacle deamon on this
Diablo-D3: actually, if usagi is supposed to be a japanese princess
mircea_popescu: well he'd have been a party you know ?
BTC-Mining: but Usagi... is that really a source?
mircea_popescu: well he seemed ok for a while but then turned complete bonkerette.
jesica: She claimed among other things, for example, that Usagi was appointed by Nefario to manage a review panel deciding on what would or would not be allowed on GLBSE."" << i know that claim to be tru and have email logs of the pannel
BTC-Mining: What? She claimed among other things, for example, that Usagi was appointed by Nefario to manage a review panel deciding on what would or would not be allowed on GLBSE.
BTC-Mining: <mircea_popescu> BTC-Mining on one hand that's a gross exaggeration