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mircea_popescu: i mean some people are just deliberately being stupid, but in many more cases people just don't have the info, at all.
mircea_popescu: kinda why i encourage people to blog and so forth, make good info a little more accessible.
mircea_popescu: 10 secs are, for most people in the civilised world, worth more than the respective satoshis.
mircea_popescu: B007 the point isn't really to make it impossible to get past.
mircea_popescu: which is why you don't see ads for hookers in your favbourite magazine
mircea_popescu: dexX7 it's generally illegal to advertise illegal activities in many jurisdictions
mircea_popescu: "Marc Andreessen favorited your Tweets 11h: Reply to @pmarca If your intel dept didn't stink, you'd know all about BitBet.
http://bitbet.us/ "
mircea_popescu: tho i don't seem to find any proper proof, like signatures.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo well for what it's worth they seem to more or less have moved a bunch of coins in november
mircea_popescu: good, cause on re-read the first verion seemed to me to be making little sense if at all.
mircea_popescu: these considerations sink the entire thing, either way. either way they've lied, which means they can't audit.
mircea_popescu: or else, it is in fact related, and for whatever reason the respective disreputable russian group does not wish to admit to it. so it's more like a front.
mircea_popescu: these facts allow two constructions : either firestartr is simply lying, and has no relation to badoo any more than it has to skype
mircea_popescu: whereas skype, claimed by firestartr, is obviously not theirs to claim.
mircea_popescu: also important, that same group of russian folk run a number of other ventures, which are inexplicably absent from the firestartr claims,
mircea_popescu: specifically, their claim as to be behind badoo is immediately suspect, seeing how a) badoo is not particularly a respectable venture and b) it is run by a certain group of russian folk, well known to be disreputable.
mircea_popescu: this copy fails the form test, and more importantly makes some claims, which would seem to be false.
mircea_popescu: more importantly, the purported auditor does not substantially exist. it consists of a recently registered, domain-by-proxy website, upon which some random copy has been plastered.
mircea_popescu: so, this purported audit is in very poor form, for a myriad of reasons, such as for instance it being published by the audited entity rather than by the auditor.
mircea_popescu: so, bitstamp is this bitcoin exchange. people have been havng their doubts about it for a while. bitstamp came up with this theory whereby it's been audited.
mircea_popescu: someone should tell cary it's a bad idea to CONTINUE signing in the company of such doofusry.
mircea_popescu: seeing how kraken managed to fuck up deposit addresses creating a mess worth 100s of btc, that they lied about.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that aside, i appreciate the humour of jess powell signing statements,
mircea_popescu: or else it's a deceptive front for a well known group of grayhats
mircea_popescu: i am saying that either the firestartr thing is an outright fraud,
mircea_popescu: i would like to know why other stuff like spylog or begun aren't listed there
mircea_popescu: and if they list badoo, which is owned and operated by the russian... shall we not call it online fraud division, but merely refer to it as "Андрей Оганджанянц".
mircea_popescu: a history of fraudulent behaviour, and random cardboard web ventures
mircea_popescu: Badoo is a dating-focused social networking service, founded in 2006, which uses deceptive tactics to attract new users
mircea_popescu: "team". whio ? they have a website which consists of... "we"
mircea_popescu: random website with a domains by proxy registration and a prepackaged css suite slapped in fails to impress.
mircea_popescu: but some actual auditor with an actual track record of auditing.
mircea_popescu: i think perhaps you're unfamiliar with what an audit is ?
mircea_popescu: so coindesk links a pdf published on bitstamp;'s website
mircea_popescu: (this is useful for the fractional reserve business not exactly because it improves cash flow, which it does not, but much moire because it allwos it to "see into the future", as it were, ie to know ahead of time what financial resources it will need down the road)
mircea_popescu: Bunnyh unless they have a fractional reserve problem and then they do rolling window withdrawals
mircea_popescu: bitstamp is like a respectable business and everything
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla is that what they say when an acct is unverified ? or is it what they say when they're out of btc ?
mircea_popescu: but literally it'd be "they go looking for cunts to make fall-in", as in the military thing.
mircea_popescu: His Most Eminent Serenicy, Patrick Byrne, Messiah-CEO of the Bitcoin Realms
mircea_popescu: because privileged upper class british explorer people got bored playing the anthropologist
mircea_popescu: all these kids running around acting as if universal equality is somehow a fait accompli.
mircea_popescu: some people are better than others. intrinsically so. unequivocally so. what of it ?
mircea_popescu: all this aside : nobody has so far explained what the problem is with privilege in the first place.
mircea_popescu: lulzy : as it is downgraded to "one of the world’s leading advocacy groups for the cybercurrency," bitcoin foundation hires jim harper and some pr