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mircea_popescu: Apr 13 11:00:40 <`MBot>[ GLBSE ] [ TRADE ] [ TYGRR-BOT ] [ 2 x 0.99999 = 1.999980 BTC ]
mircea_popescu: well, so did anyone actually bother to track this BTC-GROWTH marvel ?
mircea_popescu: that's what threw me, cause i had no recollection of the entire thing
mircea_popescu: and you know, if you quote a log include a date, a link, something.
mircea_popescu: i think he spends some time as a princess in a special happy place
mircea_popescu: would have assured "investors" "make roi and then some" or what was the expression
mircea_popescu: asicminer went from 5 to .5, so therefore my deadbeat "investment" which went from 1 to .3 in the interval
mircea_popescu: "In retrospect, it's quite funny how some of the folks laughed at those selling ASICMiner to buy into BTC Growth, given that at the end of the day, those who adopted exactly that strategy wound up with roughly 275% as much money in their accounts than those who stuck with the former darling of the mining world."
mircea_popescu: unless they manage to invent some further pathology down the way
mircea_popescu: before you know it he'll be going "i stake my professional reputation !!eleven behind making this thing i read on trilema two weeks ago happen!" like that other douche
mircea_popescu: anyway, if the guy's reading the logs that's not so bad, first step on the road to sanity.
mircea_popescu: <Namworld> Mark will now say it's not him but the hackers who just released the info. He might be the thief and the releaser of info. << hence the "Rational, +EV move" comment earlier.
mircea_popescu: peterl well it's a combination of things. he looks kind-of weird, and behaves like a negligible quantity
mircea_popescu: KRS-One in his position, leaking his pws is actulaly a rational, +ev move
mircea_popescu: see the earlier linked misadventure of dr foreskin on the topic
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i doubt there's much overlap in demographics.
mircea_popescu: let the record reflect that i'm working on a foot long baba ghanoush sub
mircea_popescu: Namworld isn't it interesting how "since then" and "when mp said" coincide huh.
mircea_popescu: and yes they do read the forum, tho they only understand about half
mircea_popescu: "The SEC does not actively monitor this thread, I have two friends that are attorneys for the Commission, and their interns have much better things to do than passive monitoring. "
mircea_popescu: i am fully confident it's ignorance rather than some nefarious anything at work
mircea_popescu: people who think that by imagining something they're now the best to make it, people who think wanting really hard can substitute for being really able
mircea_popescu: well, bitcoin is filled to the brim with unrealistic motherfuckers
mircea_popescu: why. cause they think they know better and don't feel the need to ask.
mircea_popescu: dude, if i could explain to you the why of people doing stupid shit...
mircea_popescu: nah, slush is running a large pool, large miner, he's okay.
mircea_popescu: and the irony here is that the mp of that project is slush
mircea_popescu: as to the wisdom of not taking pre-orders and generally running a business like a business.
mircea_popescu: quoth mpoe-pr "haha forehead and bitcoininv have channeled their butthurt from me to each other
mircea_popescu: that aside, i very much doubt vessy is stepping down to the bitter end.
mircea_popescu: nobody heard of him, nobody cares of him, he is thus therefore throwing the full weight of that pompous nothing into things!!!111
mircea_popescu: i love all the pretense tho, "my personal and professional reputation" apparently is the new stock phrase of the chump.
mircea_popescu: "o i know, brilliant idea : i will try and frontrun mp!11"
mircea_popescu: this is the 80s, back when people using bitcoin i mean email were considered at the very least a little by the guys who generally know everything better
mircea_popescu: "some local computer shop owner yelled at me over the phone when I asked him to email me a price list, telling me that he would never waste his time on email because it took 20 times longer than a phone call"
mircea_popescu: it still requires you to compile a client and run a server does it ?
mircea_popescu: dexX7 what do you mean new ? the guy's been working at it since before my time
mircea_popescu: and by now on their sweat and toil it became generally available
mircea_popescu: in the 2000s it was a business expense for the girfrliendsa working the cams,
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves because they can finally afford mass computers and net
mircea_popescu: people who speak languages with genders end up with fictitious gender partitions like witch/wizard because the teachers are lazy
mircea_popescu: it was all about "projecting your sexuality" upon random unfortunate members of the general public