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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
mircea_popescu: ReutersEmily well you know, people ocasionally go hang out. but
mircea_popescu: gotta remember, we're on the web. and the web is for spiders.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it's complicated and has a lot to do with spiders.
mircea_popescu: when i originally picked a date for the secret conference, it was mostly tied to when this particular walkway of cherries would likely be in bloom.
mircea_popescu: Namworld it has been for a week. all the cherry trees are pink
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla does assbot support this many lines ? such wow. much amount.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it seems just by the time you're done with your post you can start on another eh.
mircea_popescu: (this software works so that if anyone is mentioned - or has any strings of interest mentioned - they get a signal)
mircea_popescu: until the securities and exchange comission of panama figures out how to work with me, i guess this shitshow'll continue.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i buy that just about as much as any other flying pigs scenario.
mircea_popescu: a guy by the name topace used to, and claims he is no longer because some offshore corp bought it.
mircea_popescu: but this is what passes for "pr" these days, at least at the havelock level of things.
mircea_popescu: obviously this is not what one would read, be that one reasonable or otherwise, and obviously this point is not lost on them.
mircea_popescu: ReutersEmily anyway, if you're positive-constructively inclined, they probably mean "with none of the risk holding your own btc entails, such as you not having a clue and deleting the wallet"
mircea_popescu: recently, it was discovered (here) that they had misworded their contract.
mircea_popescu: well that seems just about the average stupid thing they'd say.
mircea_popescu: resulting in a good 4k btc loss for their "investors".
mircea_popescu: c) that havelock has a history of allowing high rent corporations to just walk away from their obligations, such as they did in the case of virtex,
mircea_popescu: b) that while neobee spends a lot of time executing, it's so far failed to actually come up with a business plan. anyone can buy advertising, and overpay for it.
mircea_popescu: a) that while neobee collected funds (on havelock), they have yet to issue a report. this is eerily reminescent of the bitcoin foundation scam, and does not bode well
mircea_popescu: nothing too highly. to keep this short and sweet, the objections are :
mircea_popescu: the neobee people bought a lot of newspaper space recently, that hat you mean ?