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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's just an ancient system doing various net stuff
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so was it teh putin that sold all those bonds earlier ?
mircea_popescu: it might, as a private joke of some bored people somewhere
mircea_popescu: in the sense that "this is just the old pcr stuff rehashed"
mircea_popescu: in romanian parlance of the time, the opposition (ie, what the us bipartisanly does) was called.... communism.
mircea_popescu: but yeah, liberal canonically means, no government, no regulation, free market etc.
mircea_popescu: this socialist re-defining of liberal is a purely us thing.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` in the east liberal means you know, right of conservative.
mircea_popescu: then i quit it in 2008, at the time it was in power. it looks like it will make... about 3% next electoral cycle.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, for self-c0k stroking purposes : i was one in the "secret circle" of romanian national liberal party, which went from making 3% in an alliance to making its own government by the time i left romania.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you gotta appreciate, romanian politics 1990-2005 much more interesting than anything anyone's seen i nthe us.
mircea_popescu: BitChrista if you think that'd wear someone down, try being mp for a week :D
mircea_popescu: the situation is roughly similar with "there's more to be made financing silicon valley cca 1960 than financing banking or energy sector stocks".
mircea_popescu: there's more to be made serving bitcoin interest than serving ws interest today, for the young aspiring politician
mircea_popescu: there's about a billion or so worth of bitcoins represented here, and likely more reachable because the logs make popular morning newspapers for many people
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves toffoo is old time, prolly pre-2013 most of it
mircea_popescu: gotta meet politics with finance or else what good is it.
mircea_popescu: BitChrista that's nice. anyway, fyi, this is the place where bitcoin finance is hatched, so, probably worth your time to lurk.
mircea_popescu: In insurance, as elsewhere, the reaction of weak managements to weak operations is often weak accounting. (“It’s difficult for an empty sack to stand upright.”)
mircea_popescu: and also branson, and a number of other people who have little to nothing to do with bitcoin ?
mircea_popescu: BitChrista so are you keeping a list of "Best For Bitcoin" politicos somewhere ?
mircea_popescu: yeah the diff bets are a major part of bitbet, mostly because it's one of the few places where btc holders are well connected to the economy.
mircea_popescu: bitbet is in crazy mode again, doing 50 btc a day and shit.
mircea_popescu: so do you have some particular angle for that market that puts you in a better position than say bitpay ?
mircea_popescu: new bugs fall in and contribute genetic material prolly all the time
mircea_popescu: tho... i don't suppose they actually are isolated you know ?
mircea_popescu: then if you actually sell it down the road, you have a history. if you scrap the thing, whatever. a website.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` thought : whether you do this or not, do the following : make a website follow the generations.
mircea_popescu: aristotle's politics just became second rate in the field of revolutionary. nakamoto's paper easily takes the top spot
mircea_popescu: bitcoin isn't "a currency" nor much of a "medium of exchange" at all. it's a substitute for government is what it is. in all its forms, from actual electoral validation processes to deciding where you eat today, and how much.
mircea_popescu: Neil the thing is, unless bitcoin gets to make the rules we're wasting our time here.
mircea_popescu: blackwhite none of those pieces of crud are arguments. they're just flaming ignorance being stubbornly presented by people who are too haughty to read trilema. all that shit's been debunked there cca 2012.
mircea_popescu: Neil i was curious what your estimated jtd would be, at the time of the 2nd tranche ipo of mpoe. ie, two years ago to the day.
mircea_popescu: MisterE: looks like Stamp is the new king <<< markets centralize.
mircea_popescu: cads i doubt the square of x and -x can count as different problems in this context.
mircea_popescu: VanCleef im just sitting back and enjoying deprived's predicament re cryptoscammocks,. atm
mircea_popescu: this has little to do with failure or success, you know, even a blind dog gets a duck once.
mircea_popescu: uncle buff should know all about it, or at least did, cca early 80s
mircea_popescu: it has a lot of economic goodwill, of the actual varietyt
mircea_popescu: nubbins` most hard cheeses freeze just fine, tho the purists don't want to admit it.
mircea_popescu: the shit i do ain't crazy, it has its own internal logic.
mircea_popescu: i'll probably dedicate my retirement to loling my ass off over fringe repackaging of anglosaxon bs.
mircea_popescu: or for that matter, with fake cache hits for the lulz.
mircea_popescu: it's not even fucking hard to reimplement gpg without caching