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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.
mircea_popescu: so while the difference exists and they themselves can tell it, it may be the case that for the rest of the world a pigeon is a pigeon.
mircea_popescu: Radi777 turkish secret service guy in istanbul volunteered that i'm definitely not turkish, he bets i'm bulgarian.
mircea_popescu: i would like to visit the paralel universe where the arab invasion of egypt didn't happen, and the original tall lanky egyptians still roamed free
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he's talking of an idealised pre-turkish time obv.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's because the composers were drunk.
mircea_popescu: "we used to be great but everyone raped us, for the past millenium. even the romanians"
mircea_popescu: how was that quote, i speak french to my horse, german to my wife and russian to the chickens ?
mircea_popescu: as romanians don't really translate eastern stuff and happily ignore us stuff
mircea_popescu: romanian has a similar, but proprotionalyl reduced advantage.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> nubbins`: another reason to learn russian. you can read virtually any book ever printed, originally in virtually any language, for free, searchable. <<< this.
mircea_popescu: if a blackhole pops up anywhere in the atmosphere we'd likely hear about it.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves> if any one here were involved in Ethereum, they wouldn't be involved in Ethereum << that.
mircea_popescu: ughlol don't overuse it, it's really here for the sec.
mircea_popescu: deadweasel i say it occasionally, works to distinguish adult womenz from the igirl generation.
mircea_popescu: only buchar\est whores and honest hard working cabbage farmers from russe.
mircea_popescu: then you can buy snake island and start your own, ukrainian-free utopia