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mircea_popescu: nice arbitrage op there anyway, the 10k bet shows 3:2, the 1k bet shows 100:1 ?!
mircea_popescu: because "aml", which is to say... didn't care to stick its neck out.
mircea_popescu: it simply means that you can't find a us bank that'' work with you.
mircea_popescu: this is quite relevant for bitcoin. living in an oppressive, totalitarian regime does not mean obama orders your business destroyed
mircea_popescu: This is what oppression often looks like. No one called from Moscow and told this guy to destroy Termen's work. But he didn't care to stick his neck out, and took a proactive approach."
mircea_popescu: This was too much for Termen's boss, who took all of Termen's musical instruments outside and chopped them up with an axe. “Electricity is only good for making electric chairs,” he explained. And that was the end of Termen's university career.
mircea_popescu: "In the late 60's, Termen left spy work and got a university job doing acoustical research. One day a visiting Western journalist ran in to Termen, and unfortunately reported the fact that he was still alive in the New York Times.
mircea_popescu: " @stacyherbert · 3h Great work by #KeiserReport regular @truth_eater. I had NO idea she was working on the story of 21st century!"
mircea_popescu: no srsly, i'm like fucking proud of the forum suddenly.
mircea_popescu: "Yesterday the CEO of Bitcoin got bankrupt, today they found the founder...."
mircea_popescu: from 5 threads hyping the OMG SATOSHI FOUND angle we're now on to "omg media lied".
mircea_popescu: kinda lovely how the spirit oif the discussion has changed.
mircea_popescu: thread to today's notes due to my distinct impression i'm watching signals
mircea_popescu: "i feel the need to add this otherwise lame alt exchange pre-announcement
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves pastits are the guys who attack the pasties to the tits.
mircea_popescu: guy that has no idea how to work cmegroup.com wants to bet on the oil price
mircea_popescu: nor gives a shit about anything but how the story should read for maximal impact in the mouthbreather herd.
mircea_popescu: yeah. a mentor that's never talked to anyone who's not online.
mircea_popescu: "here's what some libertard that's been on the internet all her lyf thinks a guy who's not would say"
mircea_popescu: really badly written, too. "When I first responded to you, I didn't think that it would cause people to reach out to me and voice their opinions. I've never been on the internet in my life and I'm not fully aware of the social circles on the internet, so it was a surprise to receive reactions so quickly."
mircea_popescu: unless you're telling me an unemployable black kid that supplemented his dole payments with robbery somehow went to vassar while in a texas jail.
mircea_popescu: the theory that three's a charm is kind-of giving me goosebumps atm.
mircea_popescu: so today i woke up to the pirate sec deposition, and i had to interrupt my launch because some overqualified stripper went off the deep end in newsweek
mircea_popescu: maybe they, you know, independently audit their own chainz
mircea_popescu: because the us failed to execute him, the entire country is now full of losers who imagine that if they somehow pour drivel which happens to contain references to GM's CEO they somehow gain relevance.
mircea_popescu: "Too funny. Despite the incoherence of his blog post, at least MP has finally stepped up and conceded the incompetence of his former approach to options market making. For finally admitting that and quitting the business of options market making without being adequately prepared, he deserves a positive acknowledgement."
mircea_popescu: "hypothesis on why I think the real Sotoshi was found"
mircea_popescu: dexX7 this may be more or less the time one removes any large btc balances from blockchain
mircea_popescu: some kid just sits and googles forbes, business dorksider etc all day ?
mircea_popescu: so is this coindesk basically a hand aggregator of the retarded press ?
mircea_popescu: i gotta stop reading on this topic jesus god they're offensive.
mircea_popescu: SG: It has not been received well, many people are telling me to “leave Satoshi alone”. But when one starts having a huge impact on the world, one loses his right to anonymity.
mircea_popescu: TC: How has your digging gone over in the BTC community? It seems like an unpopular topic at best.
mircea_popescu: an attempt to make financial transactions easier to mine for interesting data patterns: we need to clear that up before we start relying heavily on Bitcoin in our lives.
mircea_popescu: SG: I think it’s very important to identify Satoshi at this point in Bitcoin’s history. The “agenda” behind Bitcoin, if there is any, cannot stay in the shadow if Bitcoin is to become a mainstream alternative currency, a challenge to the world’s monetary status quo. There has been speculation that Bitcoin may have been created by a government agency (the main employers of cryptographers of mathematicians) in
mircea_popescu: TC: Does it matter? What would it change if it did, in your opinion?
mircea_popescu: pLambert i was merely commenting on the people held up for the role by the media so far.
mircea_popescu: there's also Shinichi Mochizuki, Gavin's wife, Jed McCaleb (judging by kraken... god help us)