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mircea_popescu: "like, i know my wife's husband and he happens to be me"
mircea_popescu: well ok, but "i know" means i know some not i know all in this context neh ?
mircea_popescu: so basically all the aurora crap ACTUALLY WAS strictly intended to win the bitbet bet.
mircea_popescu: anyway this shit is pretty epic, it wasn't that zeek rewards went under, it's just that he can't remember who had 200k btc
mircea_popescu: and i don't think reeses_ is even paying attention anymore.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i just went through the list of names there, which remarkably i had pretty accurate to begin with. crossing out the outright liars, like psychological compulsive sort, and the idiots, you're left with maybe 2-3 names
mircea_popescu: if you note, i said "full length treatment, with notes"
mircea_popescu: seeing how rthis topic is bitcoin, it kind-of trumps any other topic, even if some other topic may offer the illusion of importance.
mircea_popescu: copumpkin the usual benefit. a furthering of human knowledge on a topic.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo for this purpose publishing beats signing.
mircea_popescu: if that does happen, this write-up will be a great thing to have.
mircea_popescu: what, you think i just sprout this shit randomly cause i'm bored on irc
mircea_popescu: copumpkin you're in a very good position because you have the skill and the experience.
mircea_popescu: how about you make a full length treatment of the whole thing, with notes ?
mircea_popescu: which says, don't mess with the stupid, his brain's well rested.
mircea_popescu: copumpkin no, not for both of them. romanian expression is "nu te pune cu prostu' c-are mintea odihnita"
mircea_popescu: it's like you sign up to be a chiropractor, and you end up sent to practice in the loony bin
mircea_popescu: "Pirate: And when I find that information, I will give you the updated information and show you that this was not a Ponzi scam. Just give me time. I promise you."
mircea_popescu: B007 i have cars, sometimes. i had dozens at some point. i jus' don't drive.
mircea_popescu: and if they were taken seriously they'd be just... you know, off to soylent plant
mircea_popescu: e/nasizm thing as some suggest. it's simply that most defendants are too stupid to live
mircea_popescu: this is really the reason prosecutions are so successful in the us. it's not really some sort of nefarious police stat
mircea_popescu: (ie, there's an absolute lowest limit a judge'll allow for self-critting idiocy, otherwise anyone from the inner cities would be doing >9k years)
mircea_popescu: well actually... i think in his case the meth defense cuts in
mircea_popescu: actually... he only came up with chaang noi after his 6 months of laying low for the bst to blow over.
mircea_popescu: he fucking sends email with his name on it, what's not to know.
mircea_popescu: Q: You mean Bitcoin Savings & Trust investment activity?
mircea_popescu: A: Because it wasn't on there. It wasn't on this database or on this website. It was tracked through a - what was that - not Sales Force. I can't remember the name of the website. It was something we just worked out together. And it has a lot of his transactions. This account looks mostly like my stuff.
mircea_popescu: A: I guess Gigavps, but it wasn't on Bitcoin Savings & Trust.
mircea_popescu: A: Just an account used for basically his own lending account. They borrow coins real quickly to make cash transactions and stuff.
mircea_popescu: A: Yes. And he had a separate account that was a hidden account.
mircea_popescu: Q: Meaning for Bitcoin Savings & Trust Investment transactions?
mircea_popescu: Q: Next account, Gigavps, is this a true and accurate reflection of Gigavps' account history with Bitcoin Savings & Trust from on or about April 3rd, 2012 through on or about August 22, 2012 ?
mircea_popescu: whatever you do to your resume it can't end up worse than that exchange expert guy from a while back
mircea_popescu: i wonder if superbowl/whatever advertising sports will eventualyl run out of money so bad they'll add new rules such as "each player must drink twelve shots of vodka before going on the field"
mircea_popescu: but generally speaking, the dice model is the engine that can power a lot of cool applications down the road.
mircea_popescu: tbh i think dices have a future, but as backing for other services. they're currently exposed to the general public becaus e whatever, we're in the pdp and vax days over here.
mircea_popescu: obviously not the dice site's problem, but also kind-of dangerous for the random idiot.
mircea_popescu: this is actually a bit of a problem, people can sit down at their computer drunk as fuck and think hye, gamble my whole wallet on dice!
mircea_popescu: "Allowing drunk patrons to gamble and serving obviously intoxicated patrons are both illegal under Nevada law. Johnston's lawyer says his client's story is bolstered by surveillance video and eyewitness testimony."