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mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves just wanted to get it on the record for 2016, when it'll be like the 10k btc pizza.
mircea_popescu: did anyone else notice nubsy sounds just like a girl in a 1950s strict household ?
mircea_popescu: ReutersEmily a bash is an old internet tradition, a collection of striking, funny or just memorable quotes
mircea_popescu: <ReutersEmily> oh gosh i can imagine...that would be the fastest way to turn your car into a convertible, hitting a moose <<< bwagaga
mircea_popescu: if they can't figure out how to take donations at least let them have that satisfaction
mircea_popescu: btw, someone drop a link in #freenode so they know they've been useful.
mircea_popescu: anyway, ima go eat. don't break bitcoin meanwhile pls.
mircea_popescu: i thought it was just about now or something like that.
mircea_popescu: yeah asicminer. when were they delivering the new things again ?
mircea_popescu: so you got burned in gox. coulda just have said that you know :D
mircea_popescu: nubbins` tell you what ? a lot of people who i'd think would know better had btc with pirate.
mircea_popescu: in other words, bitcoin is its own field. having a good fundamental basis in finance is a plus. a big one, perhaps,
mircea_popescu: Namworld well afaik they got burned pretty well in gox.
mircea_popescu: ReutersEmily they're trying, but i think you probably know more in places by now than silbert does
mircea_popescu: anyway ReutersEmily the verification of such things is a fuzzy affair at best. you end up weighting things, who said what who they work with who trusts them and why etc.
mircea_popescu: so you know, who knows what goes on in the narcissist head.
mircea_popescu: the other being that he's ver's sock and just you know... came up with something.
mircea_popescu: but people accepted it as an "well... gotta talk of something"
mircea_popescu: ReutersEmily that stuff was always regarded as dubious
mircea_popescu: unless the price moves sharply against them they'll prolly be ok.
mircea_popescu: radan i never used them. people ocasionally call scam but it doesn't usually seem to be the case.
mircea_popescu: chetty that's a cute one. i recently saw a reference to the beanie babies. conveniently failing to mention that this thing's been going for five years, and dropped precipitously three times at least
mircea_popescu: qualifications for journalism these days. "must be young and like to read"
mircea_popescu: pretty much all the major stories broke here, often days early
mircea_popescu: ReutersEmily if you manage to idle here you'll get the scoops as they happen.
mircea_popescu: i like gribble's precision at any rate. it was x y z and 45 seconds ago.
mircea_popescu: now that guy, who was running glbse, met a bunch of these folks irl.
mircea_popescu: ReutersEmily i've met a few, but as a general rule no.
mircea_popescu: of which i doubt very much is traded on any sort of a daily basis.
mircea_popescu: i would agree. there's about a million btc represented here,
mircea_popescu: ReutersEmily instead of everyone else having to get in, wanting or not.
mircea_popescu: "o x y z won't invest in btc" "dude, it matters not if they do it directly or tyhrough n layers abstracting it from you, it's still what's going on"
mircea_popescu: i was actually explaining this to a guy from wired yesterday
mircea_popescu: nubbins` fuck, i could have said that. who beat me to the punch ?
mircea_popescu: consider for instance the outrageous case of the swiss heinz options traders.
mircea_popescu: ReutersEmily you've followed the cases in the past few years, since it's your beat. would you say in each and every one it was your opinion that the actions as decided by either sec or courts were in fact correct ?
mircea_popescu: dexX7 i do think there's something there myself. just, you know... apparently it also burns.
mircea_popescu: dexX7 perhaps. though the rota project as originally designed proved unworkable. it'd have to be worked on.
mircea_popescu: because i'd likely just start screaming and overturning tables.
mircea_popescu: ReutersEmily i wouldn't want to be in any board where the ceo goes "well icahn just offered me 50mn, what you guys got"
mircea_popescu: unless you want to live in a world of socialised dope care, it'll have to stay illegal.
mircea_popescu: Namworld this is exactly the equivalent of "why regulate psychoactives" debate. because if you can you must, and if it's legal to do amphetamines companies will start mandating their employees do it.
mircea_popescu: ReutersEmily well the better opposite view is that it's really not against the people working at companies' interest to allow that "hard work" to fruit, as opposed to the interest of the actual companies.
mircea_popescu: really if i had to talk to a ws whistleblower, thats what i'd use, or else pgp over email.
mircea_popescu: ReutersEmily the real reason you want a client is that you can then install otr, which is a cryptographically secure plugin allowing you to have private conversations safe from any snoops. and that is good quality safety, not the sort of crud normally peddled.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Namworld ah ? didn't know that. how much you still have out ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` nice example nubsy. it's totally like outlook.
mircea_popescu: there was some unfortunate guy that took out a bond in btc and paid it out early on
mircea_popescu: (for instance i don't write out ReutersEmily every time i name you, i just type out re)
mircea_popescu: ReutersEmily one of the better things you can do is get an irc client and set it up. thgat way you have your own logs, highlights, tab completes etc