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mircea_popescu: Kevin Thau @kevinthau · 12m @bijan I have the same friend.
mircea_popescu: Bijan Sabet @bijan So I have this friend who wants a motorcycle. But my wife, I mean, his wife doesn't think it's a great idea. Any ideas how to win her over?
mircea_popescu: yeah, srsly, no jurovs were raped in the makes of these epic lolz.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin economy ? like the supermarket! regulatory matters ? like a traffic cop stop!
mircea_popescu: teh peanut gallery will turn evertything into its owne experiences.
mircea_popescu: "Seems like this is the equivalent of a LE officer asking to search your car or house looking for evidence."
mircea_popescu: BCB a mirror so as to prevent deletion of interesting material.
mircea_popescu: tl;dr : "My guess: they lost money on trades while Gox was Goxing people, and now they're passing this loss on to "suspicious" accounts."
mircea_popescu: ttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=524429.msg5814899#msg5814899
mircea_popescu: or for that matter, anyone happen to be the noob in question.
mircea_popescu: sooo... some noob made a post suggesting btc.sx is/was in cahoots with gox and waning against it. that post is now deleted off forum
mircea_popescu: useful effort, tho obviously one'd have to be cautious allocating too much credibility to the underlying datapoints.
mircea_popescu: which just goes to show mtgox is continuing in the same tradition
mircea_popescu: the actual quote from drama timeline as to 2011 hack is "Amusingly, reports about the security such as it was having been breached were trickling in for weeks prior. Tis impossible to evaluate the actual loss with this one, but suffice it to observe that BTC was temporarily trading for 1 cent at the time."
mircea_popescu: and moreover, sed no as to "ram is cheaper than any other chip wtf are you on about"
mircea_popescu: "Most professional users moved away from Mt. Gox months ago, leaving April 2013 or thereabouts. By June 2013, the final nail was in the coffin for US users," said one of bitcoin's core developers, who requested anonymity.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell reutersemily "Shortly after that, a bitcoin exchange known as bitfloor was shuttered after its US bank account was closed because it had not properly registered with regulators." << nah, bitfloor was run by shtylman, who either ran off with the coin or "lost" it.
mircea_popescu: "The whole reason we have such confidence in our company is that from the start we said this has got to be something that plays nicely with the traditional financial world," Ehrsam said in an interview.
mircea_popescu: "Fred Ehrsam, a co-founder of the Bitcoin trading platform Coinbase, said his company took a position early on that it would not fight regulators. Regulators have cited it as an example of how others should behave."
mircea_popescu: by now coming up with bitbet bets is probably the highest paying writing gig on the internet.
mircea_popescu: gotta provide some initial turbulence, gotta reward people going out and crafting bets,
mircea_popescu: in this context torpila means ancient but workable car
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the bug mafia band quoted earlier discusses, in a song about cars, "sau vre-o torpila dunarita, la volan o fata, mai tata"
mircea_popescu: some of the best houses for the history of western thought were tolerance houses.
mircea_popescu: i don't get what the trouble with tolerance is in the first place.
mircea_popescu: next you're going toi tell me you didn't know romania had a warez scene and we can all go to bed.
mircea_popescu: greatly helped along by the fact that every other noun means either cunt, whore or fucking
mircea_popescu: of course romanian has, much like russian, a very rich subtextrual register
mircea_popescu: Namworld is getting trolled into booklet length responses by now i see.
mircea_popescu: radan well, let's see then... hmm... prolly bug mafia for oyu.