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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"
mircea_popescu: <freeroute> there isn't a decentralized CC exchange yet AFAIK << there has been, for years. ot, open transactions.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is about to rip buffett a new one. what are you talking about.
mircea_popescu: freeroute and yet this is a solved problem in fiat too.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it protects people from having to bow down to their superiors, which idiots with delusions of independence loathe.
mircea_popescu: were i to decide to split all objects into heavy and light i could fucking tell you whether a breadbox is heavy or light.
mircea_popescu: well then i'd propose you have no idea what you're talking about, if you use a nomenclature that fails to even split the world properly.
mircea_popescu: is the wot centralised or distributed in your nomenclature ?
mircea_popescu: applied mathematics still has to be applied. and i was there when communism fell, and i saw no mathematics anywhere around me.
mircea_popescu: you'll always need people. and that's a good thing, because if you didn't the planet'd be pretty darn barren by now.
mircea_popescu: i understand that there's a very strong desire in the socially-challenged for replacing girlfriends with porn, but that's not how finance works.
mircea_popescu: not because of improper nonsense, such as "it couldn't gyp us".
mircea_popescu: the reason bitbet is trusted is for proper reasons, ie, being run by trustworth people.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as bitbet can resolve bets, it can run off with all btc whether you multisig or not.
mircea_popescu: freeroute you've somehow entirely glossed over what was said.
mircea_popescu: unless the site itself implements it, which it probably does.
mircea_popescu: so what exactly ? if you trust the site to adjudicate, you trust the site to hold the btc. there's nothing meaningful to gain by a separation
mircea_popescu: if you think about it : sites like bitbet require the power to pay winners.
mircea_popescu: freeroute apparently the people who make the calls in bitcoin don't give a shit about particular dead horse tropes.
mircea_popescu: to represent our profound respect and deep use for precious metals.
mircea_popescu: there could be an old crack whore chained to a wall in the bathroom, gilt.
mircea_popescu: lol the golden hooker... that sounds like a decent bitcoiner bar.
mircea_popescu: "Soooo.... I used a site in november called betsofbitco.in or something like that and i made a couple bets. Both have passed their date and still are awaiting decisions for 3 months now. I should be winning these bets but there seems to be nothing happening. Anyone know if that site is a scam"
mircea_popescu: lol reddit discovers bitbet. the first page is like full of bitbet stuff nao
mircea_popescu: "After my gangrape last night the doctors had some bad news :