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mircea_popescu: but that's at least part of why the "someone will actually manage to spring up somewhere to allow us to trade in confidence" part is in the last mpoe statement.
mircea_popescu: dunno who wants to make a ny exchange, anyway.
mircea_popescu: it's just an "order" to consider proposals.
mircea_popescu: your paycheck is a type
mircea_popescu: the 401k is b*i type.
mircea_popescu: that's why they'll gladly give you "401k" in exchange for your paycheck.
mircea_popescu: the system is desperate to acquire as much as possible of the real portion of the monetary base.
mircea_popescu: for the directly obvious reason that the trilion in question doesn't really exist.
mircea_popescu: a trillion dollars is not much loss for usg ineptitude. a hundred grand is too much gain for real world people,
mircea_popescu: mike_c put that in perspective. the bezzle is the bezzle. people who are authorised to handle the imaginary portion of the monetary base may do X Y Z types of things. people who are not, however, may not.
mircea_popescu: anyway, no, we're not there yet. currently the sec is trying to get its shit together to be able to cooperate with mp.
mircea_popescu: dexX7 aren;t you in the us ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c yeah, they weren't on the list of people who are allowed to make moneyz.
mircea_popescu: why's Plaxant sound familiar to me.
mircea_popescu: easier to "find" satoshi i guess.
mircea_popescu: that's what an investigative finacial journo that's looking to jump out of a window would pursue.
mircea_popescu: so you know, where's the list of washington, dc people who bought tsla pre-release.
mircea_popescu: here are the companies the government supports, here are the people it doesn't support, "rule of law" stuff.
mircea_popescu: basically we're seeing the 1990s of the russian republic all over again.
mircea_popescu: right.
mircea_popescu: if they have the time to freeze 100k worth of options.
mircea_popescu: so what i want to know is, how many accounts that traded on the pre-gaap release were frozen by the sexc
mircea_popescu: that's the link
mircea_popescu: https://www.sec.gov/News/PressRelease/Detail/PressRelease/1365171512848
mircea_popescu: kinda my point.
mircea_popescu: like 20x, a few million
mircea_popescu: quite scandalous, at least to my eye.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, tesla creates random info disparities, nobody cares.
mircea_popescu: but look here : some people bought options, in switzerland. they had their accounts frozen and they were required to... prove!!! they didn't trade on insider info.
mircea_popescu: cause they were too busy confiscating the money of traders who had bought options on berkshire
mircea_popescu: and the sec never investigated
mircea_popescu: most large corps do both gaap and ifra anyway
mircea_popescu: nothing wrong with keeping multiple styles anyway
mircea_popescu: but by all means, try the experiment
mircea_popescu: 10x the effort, hardly any extra benefit delivered
mircea_popescu: the20year2 i'll bet you you'll be giving up on the gaap style within 12 reporting periods
mircea_popescu: the blowjob you might get
mircea_popescu: fiat world security is appalling
mircea_popescu: ^
mircea_popescu: right
mircea_popescu: you can reverse all you want, it;s not really helping much
mircea_popescu: not what i meant. what i meant was, fraudster sells the merchandise to ignorant buyer, gets irreversible payment from him
mircea_popescu: joecool they do triangles.
mircea_popescu: the fact you can reverse it doesn't mean it didn't fail thjo
mircea_popescu: well sure, reversible.
mircea_popescu: joecool why ?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller it got caught pretty quick.
mircea_popescu: it's about as bad as "cc over the phone"
mircea_popescu: they need to cease this id-by-email bs.
mircea_popescu: yes, a year ago.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/o-hai-let-me-verify-your-identity/
mircea_popescu: didja see the thing where they tried to hijack the dns via social engineering ?
mircea_popescu: not so far.
mircea_popescu: mike_c well people try occasionally.
mircea_popescu: whereas small players will have to retain the help of an investment banker, in which case they get auditing as a packaged deal anyway
mircea_popescu: the20year2 this dovetails nicely into your earlier curiosities re listing on mpex w/o an account. itstands to reason that large financial institutions that have their own account can keep their accounting straight ;
mircea_popescu: defo.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is about the conseuqences of having lied.
mircea_popescu: the20year2 bitcoin is not about preventing anyone from lying.
mircea_popescu: artifexd yea
mircea_popescu: that's generally the way it goes, yes.
mircea_popescu: there aren't such organisations yet.
mircea_popescu: not publishing financial results.
mircea_popescu: are. yes.
mircea_popescu: nobody cares what the scammers do.
mircea_popescu: an0 is accepted by the exchange doing 90%+ of all bitcoin financials.
mircea_popescu: right
mircea_popescu: what's so special about the gaap ?
mircea_popescu: that it's the bitcoin standard.
mircea_popescu: nope.
mircea_popescu: the who ?
mircea_popescu: even simplyfied as it is, very few actually use it.
mircea_popescu: the20year2 the bitcoin standard is the an0.
mircea_popescu: if i ever watched tv perhaps that'd sound like a lot more.
mircea_popescu: she's a sorta leah, and as we all know it sucks to be leah
mircea_popescu: well... "writer"
mircea_popescu: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/CandaceBushnell.png omfg look at this troll
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/the-peeconomy/
mircea_popescu: i thought this existed.
mircea_popescu: there's no taper.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla how about linking bitbet bet income/outbound to blockr ?
mircea_popescu: tomorrow it'll be 1name.cx or w/e
mircea_popescu: meh there's in principle 5k "services" like that and no barrier to entry
mircea_popescu: maybe they should hire sony
mircea_popescu: "Line to GET IN the security line is wrapped around the check-in area of the Austin airport. "
mircea_popescu: hahaha
mircea_popescu: no because chicks with college debt and no prospects keep adding it to their blogs
mircea_popescu: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=333851.msg5637500#msg5637500
mircea_popescu: lmao check out this guy
mircea_popescu: web is slowly dieing the death of a thousand idiots.
mircea_popescu: disqus
mircea_popescu: it's like... between cloudflare, what's that fucktardec omments thing
mircea_popescu: yeah
mircea_popescu: jut impersonate cloudflare
mircea_popescu: forged certs are a matter of course
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i suppose goldman sachs' ll run it.
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: "so does this cure it ? " "well... maybe..." "fu."
mircea_popescu: god forbid i ever get cancer, the doctors will have a fucking handful with me
mircea_popescu: i don't buy "sorta" solutions.