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mircea_popescu: Gave sensitive personal information to someone you don't know
mircea_popescu: lol i had like 50 btc out of the 1 i had originally made.
mircea_popescu: In the event of recent news reports and the potential repercussions on tacoX's operations and the market, a decision was taken to shut down and keep all your money. We will be closely monitoring the situation and will react accordingly.
mircea_popescu: well there were a few silly people still posting there without trying to scam, but they';re quickly disappearing
mircea_popescu: well i didn't trilema each and every single one of them
mircea_popescu: lmao wait, ognasty thinks neo was an "easily spottable" scam ?
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> plus, no money was lost by pre-orderers when cardano slipped << prolly th bigger factor. not much to hedge.
mircea_popescu: max keiser & stacy herbert were doing the same thing, which is a lot worse.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron letstalkbitcoin are a buncha clueless kids.
mircea_popescu: mgio_ there is recourse re the miner stuff. just, you didn't bother reading about it.
mircea_popescu: the way scammers work these days, they steal a little from a lot of muppets then give them a little of it back in exchange for forum shilling
mircea_popescu: "And the more you scam, the more fanboys you get - it's not that there is no incentive to be honest, it's that there is an incentive to be dishonest." methinks pankkake has it.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron don't forget the part where they fight EVIL FUDSTERS and my socks.
mircea_popescu: <dexx> how can i invest in knowledge? ;) << trilema credits :D
mircea_popescu: had you started reading here instead of derping on the "investor" forum you'd be a millionaire today.
mircea_popescu: <pankkake> can we have decentralized scam victims already so this stops << ahahaha best log of the week today
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> of course now neo was an "easily identifiable scam" << butofcourse :D
mircea_popescu: today, the attitude of tardstalk is quite the opposite
mircea_popescu: pankkake what's strangest to my eyes, really, is that in 2004 the attitude of piratebay was directly obvious to the average net denizen.
mircea_popescu: redirect it all you want, tomorrow any one of you can host it just as well.
mircea_popescu: no but this is the beauty of it. bitbet is... well... public.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` exactly like venezuela, you knoiw ? "we've reduced inequality, everyone has the same amt of toilet paper now"
mircea_popescu: so in this sense, as far as the forum is concerned, having made that bet proposition is good enough.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` indeed. i routinely meet 20somethings who have not actually tried ANYTHING the past decade.
mircea_popescu: this has resulted in a generationful of people who can do nothing but and nothing other than "convincingly" trying.
mircea_popescu: since about the 90s or so, basic us education has been filtering quite perversely : you get an a or a+ for succeeding at the task, usually an a or rarely a b "for effort" by delivering a credible simulacra of having tried, and an f or rarely a c for actually trying and failing.
mircea_popescu: while he does i wanna pontificate on the following theme :
mircea_popescu: "mp arrested for the crime of being mean to forum dwellers and bureaucrats"
mircea_popescu: the incidental that they can't afford food anyway notwithstanding
mircea_popescu: reminds me of the principled 20somethings that are on a diet
mircea_popescu: turned out the guy's budget was maybe .1 or something like that.
mircea_popescu: and there was some derpage about s.mpoe falling on the forum if i recall
mircea_popescu: thus if submitter places a 10btc bet he is in effect going "i'm not tryin' to mooch ya"
mircea_popescu: pLambert bitbet charges 1% of the pool, and puts .1 btc on the new bets.
mircea_popescu: "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing."
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla aha! i wish i remembered what it was supposed to be trading for back in 2012
mircea_popescu: o yeah, which reminds me, how is ven, the revolutionary currency of the internet nefario discovered somewhere ?
mircea_popescu: no secret service, no airforce one, no white house. go check into an 8ball motel.