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mircea_popescu: usagi, your mother has
a stupid yet anonymous son/daughter.
DeaDTerra: To offer Mitt such
a option is
a MAJOR publicity stunt.
nefario: there is
a difference between copyright and trademark
BTC-Mining: mircea, how would you find out what is more or less likely to fail/be
a scam?
nefario: if you want ratings
a ratings agency has to be started, but it's not something I can do
mircea_popescu: Ignatius-otc it's what they call theatre. as in, security theatre. it's
a sort of nefario tsa.
copumpkin: nefario: don't be pissy just cause he has
a better beard than you
nefario: but provides min standards of information about asset for investors to make
a decision
nefario: and
a treasurer who is required to be able to release or move funds
Obsi: Has to be
a smurf-run business.
nefario: there are
a couple of assets that already meet this and need only publish accounts
BTC-Mining: Well, as stupid as it looks, the episode referenced still conveys
a good story. Obviously quite similar stories to Family Guy in general. The humour is different however.
Diablo-D3: so, what, he got them from
a third party distributer who got them straight off the boat from china?
mircea_popescu: It really is quite amazing how very unattractive women in America act like they are hot shit. There is no humility and no gentle nature, just loud and brash behavior that makes you wonder if they’re self-deluded or “faking it until they make it,” even though we all know the only thing they’re making is the end of
a pint of Haagen Daaz. They even have the audacity to repeatedly say “I’m hot” without
a hint of irony. Why
smickles: rdponticelli: it makes sense to buy it at that price if you think there is
a ~1 in 10 chance of him paying back the full amount owed
mircea_popescu: well... it's an announcement for romanians who use
a romanian service
mircea_popescu: sooo... if i ran
a service that took euro via pp/etc and then i started accepting bitcoins and now i actually am dumping pp and only accepting bitcoins
assbot: [MPEX] [B.MPCD.
A] 49692 @ 0.00100618 = 49.9991 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: not
a trickling stream of lukewarm cream, but
a solid frozen chunk."
jcpham: he was pulling some B&E action to repay lender
A rg: [13:25] <reeses> ;;rate Coolio- -10 "<Coolio-> if someone loans you money, that's
a gift"
DiabloD3: [12:44:51] <usagi> There's
a lot of good he could have done with 60,000 btc
DeaDTerra1: Bett on
a bett on
a pirate ponzi, the derivate of the derivative of
a scam :P
rdponticelli: If he lost everything on other ponzi is just
a fool
rdponticelli: If he made
a ponzi of himself and ran with 50kBTC, at least the guy is
a con artist
rg: mpex.php is more than
a few lines
mod6: nothin like
a few more ip's to use
mircea_popescu: it's just my favourite joke for now. i think it may last me
a decade.
rg: and its all been
a miscommunication
rg: they found me in
a meteor
gribble: (title <url>) -- Returns the HTML <title>...</title> of
a URL.
rg: im gonna need to get
a few more boxes there
rg: we're getting
a lot of sketchy orders lately tho
Diablo-D3: you cant default on
a plan that will take years after 3 months
assbot: [GLBSE:NYAN.
A] [Bid: 0.94] [Ask: 1] [Spread: 0.06] [Last: 1] [24hVol: 3] [7dAvg: 1.00238095]
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: the people he trusted with the money as
a safe investment just stole it
Diablo-D3: [10:02:16] <usagi> THEN I annoucned
a motion to move to obsi.hrpt as
a new issue
Chaang-Noi: i thought about doing one, but making it clear it was
a ponzi
Chaang-Noi: now i has need
a job, my savings are pretty much gone
mircea_popescu: ya well, it's what happens when people give
a lot of money to ponzi scammers.
blazing: sorry im just
a bit worried
blazing: yeah. well i think hashking is
a pretty decent guy...hes obviously doing what he can
mircea_popescu: hence the 50 cents to the dollar offer. maybe it's just
a liquidity squeeze.
blazing: deadterra1 any idea why there is
a delay with hk?
DeaDTerra1: Anyone interested in purchasing HK and IMSAguy exposure? I need to get
a hold of some BTC quickly, so I don't want to wait for the withdraw process, pm me :)
assbot: [GLBSE] [NYAN.
A] 3 @ 1 = 3 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: and when you're done making
a fool of yourself, your so called mining operation could still use
a fucking pic of the gear.
mircea_popescu: well... i am planning to have
a chinese translation of the faq.
Diablo-D3: consequently, gpg --armor --output dongs.txt will produce
a file full of dongs.
mircea_popescu: it will create
a file called pubkey.txt with your public key in it.
kakobrekla: he should have
a wiki entry or something
mircea_popescu: you could in principle make
a bet by simple statement, if you have any credit.
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: everyone gets
a giant pillow case filled with drugs, and im always left out
mircea_popescu: but you can't say some broke dude "made
a bet" by saying something on
a forum. you need money to make bets.
Diablo-D3: EB250: except we do hve
a lot of trolls
mircea_popescu: <EB250> PAPASO: why do you need pgp4win? <<< "Trying to be part of
a cryptocurrency without knowing how to use gpg is like trying to be part of the 60s without knowing how to use
a bong."
mircea_popescu: there's
a py script and
a perl script for mpex too, just...
mircea_popescu: but if we have
a process to get you started you stick to that, improve on it once you master it.
mircea_popescu: it basically consists of
a dozen or so kids trying to pretend they're entrepreneurs while living under the poverty line
EB250: "BTCST wasnt
a ponzi it just invested in one
mircea_popescu: i still think it's
a very risky proposition. but yea, if they come out with anything definite it might boom
BTC-Mining: ASIC miner had
a large sale recently, at least relatively to volume, dropped the price quite
a bit.
assbot: Requesting data from GLBSE (might take
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mod6: it needs
a number or somethin
gribble: Error: "pl" is not
a valid command.
maximian: mircea_popescu: it would be interesting to see
a graph of mpex daily volume
dub: now theres
a bunch of zombies running in retarded circles around the hospital