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mircea_popescu: ya well, i don't personally trust them so i have no use for them on these lines, but in principle what can you do.
mircea_popescu: if they have 1k customers that make 1k transactions each that's 1mn addresses they have to keep track of
mircea_popescu: "Being quiet and studious is broadly unknown in a western culture that prizes “views”, “likes” and the inane extraversion required to generate them." no see, that's attacking people's self esteem.
mircea_popescu: so for all the kids keeping score at home : always carry some safe addresses when travelling.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if you're travelling with no safe addresses and no way to make them you're sol.
mircea_popescu: Hirethestache wait, you think the berkshire bet ends in a week or is this some other bet you're talking asbout
mircea_popescu: this is the perfect anon model, gribble googling. how would google ever figure it out ?
mircea_popescu: no, it can't. cause it doesn't know what gribble clicks.
mircea_popescu: ah, the two weeks, bitcoin's only true measure of time.
mircea_popescu: compare 26-11-13 11:10Yes94`37011.0000000013kEx13.96254379 with 17-01-14 13:22Yes14`48210.0000000014NeT10.32864719
mircea_popescu: Hirethestache if you say you have a cold wallet, you can just use that as a bitbet outbound address
mircea_popescu: Hirethestache you can send from anywhere. just make sure you control the outbound address you specify.
mircea_popescu: like "An Illustrated History of Pompoms, and the BonBons that Whore Them"
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete some history books are filled with pompoms
mircea_popescu: benkay as an experiment i put a privkey in a window at some point in 2012.
mircea_popescu: having a few cents in there for convenience is fine, but don't go overboard
mircea_popescu: (it asks you where should payment be sent if you win. make sure you own that address)
mircea_popescu: or perhaps something along the lines of "Yes well, I once asked a married woman to my hotel room. She said no and yet showed up."
mircea_popescu: 'random botnet-ish requests show vague link to nsa in one blogger's estimation' is what i'd call it
mircea_popescu: "damn these reality check things getting in the way of my delusional substitute for a through process"
mircea_popescu: or rejecting bitfinex, which inexplicably everyone includes atm
mircea_popescu: khersonus but there's some decisions to be made, and they're toxic for me.
mircea_popescu: khersonus so what is the ownership of bitbet going to do, change the brk-a market ?
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 imagine if i also got to select the secret valid nonce for each block, too.
mircea_popescu: khersonus i could, practically. i couldn't, theoretically, becuase THAT would be undue concentration, ie the bad sort of centralisation.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves o hey, the bet is officially a net positive nao. Yes pays: 0.99990488
mircea_popescu: they suffered the just reward for their idiocy, which has nothing to do with bitcoin in any sense, and even less with exchanges, or with owners
mircea_popescu: so... don't tell me about how the people that didn't listen to mpoe-pr and went and lost their btc on glbse somehow "Suffered"
mircea_popescu: while the plebs like to claim that they're "the community", this was never either true or seriously considered by anyone.
mircea_popescu: the problem here would be that bitcoin is a two tier society.
mircea_popescu: benderp well look on the bright side : maybe it falls into the ocean.
mircea_popescu: "It would be so awesome, if the owner of this homepage just takes all the coins. :D it's almost 2 000 000 fucking dollars!!!!"
mircea_popescu: then granpa mp can tell the chitlins all about this magic the gathering thing
mircea_popescu: cadmus2 a. well so it'll be a nice bit of memorabilia, by 2025 people will be all "hmm what's a mtgox"