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mircea_popescu: BCB well so then how would we meed in this counterfactual future you propose ?
mircea_popescu: BCB well cause i don't intend to visit the us till they dissolve the homeland security crap and put the people responsible on trial.
mircea_popescu: this, however, is a head of the hydra burried for another two decades.
mircea_popescu: btc will pose some very srious problems to legal systems based on caselaw, perhaps enough so to make them unworkable in practice
mircea_popescu: in which case the judge'd definitely see through the pgp.
mircea_popescu: for what it's worth the opinions i have re likely romanian court reaction would be that should a signature be repudiated you have about 2:3 chances to get the judge to process the pgp part of the text.
mircea_popescu: you can trivially print out gpg signed contracts, sign on the paper, and register them
mircea_popescu: three years later they're still the standard in practice
mircea_popescu: nubbins` but otherwise you can just you know... show him a mpex contract
mircea_popescu: BCB As the wolly-haired Melanasians of Papua, New Guinea once said, (Makes a series of clicking and popping sounds)
mircea_popescu: i should take a bet for when this mpoe-pr = mp thing finally dies.
mircea_popescu: "I don't get it. Why do you insist on making everyone think MPOE-PR is not MP? Why deceive your customers with something so trivial to figure out?
mircea_popescu: contracts with different caps are different contracts.
mircea_popescu: power over the design i have, but over reality i do not.
mircea_popescu: mike_c i guess so. was it actually one party doing it ?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller because you could sell 1trn hashes per contract or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: if there existed a way to physically deliver we wouldn't have this problem at all.
mircea_popescu: options are settled in btc. this is not settled in hashes.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves so i don't cap it. you come to make a contract, have to deposit infinity btc.
mircea_popescu: but it was clear to everyone that 2.9x times previous cover would be a top limit i would imagine
mircea_popescu: there's exactly 0 way he can end up in jail this year.
mircea_popescu: GEORGE: Or we don't even send the check and then when they call, we pretend we're the cleaning service. Heh heh. "Hello? I sorry, no here Kruger."
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla he claims he's no longer involved, quite transparently fraudulently.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` there's no sauch thing as poor wording in a contracxt.
mircea_popescu: as a result their contracts say exactly what they mean : LMB is responsible for any havelock theft etc
mircea_popescu: sheldonthomas they're experts with actual lawyers and everything, not some random clueless kids without an education
mircea_popescu: they figure they're worth something on the grounds they exist.