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mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin's scam based economy runs on 15-35 year old white men who are very very upset about... The fed? Government regulation? Their crippling inability to purchase mercenary divisions to conquer small countries?"
mircea_popescu: anyway, this guy is sort-of like what max keiser aspires to be
mircea_popescu: benkay this is possible an explanation for the grill thing's fate sure
mircea_popescu: it also is related to gmaxwell's fat girlfriend breaking a segway or was it amir taaki that broke the segway or what the fuck was that
mircea_popescu: anyway, this was somehow related to getting some poor schmucks to take bitcoin for their grill in new york
mircea_popescu: it was later unearthed he had an entire opus written about being a gay whore and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: the most sordid part of all of it being that the guy wanted to organise bitcoin's first conference in thailand
mircea_popescu: butccoin is actually a good entry point for that old drama.
mircea_popescu: and the original bitcoin jesus recommended quite strongly a wallet service called mybitcoin
mircea_popescu: just in case you ever wondered how bitcoin got the early reputation of being a toy for the tards.
mircea_popescu: mentally retarded to the degree he filmed entire episodes of their show with the camera in demo mode
mircea_popescu: he was a bit of a pedo, and ran his own tv show out of some ny studio
mircea_popescu: so there was this guy by the name of bruce wagner, the original bitcoin jesus.
mircea_popescu: am i the only one here old enough to remember all this ancient history ?
mircea_popescu: but this was just at the peak of bruce wagner's thai prostitution stuff
mircea_popescu: ended up publishing really dubious pms from i forget who the fuck
mircea_popescu: also happened to be either posing as or actually an underage fellow
mircea_popescu: for they too young to get the reference : rarity was a notorious troll in 2011
mircea_popescu: and im sure mpoe-pr would love nothing more than the equivalent of civ's "our words are backed by nuclear weapons" pasted in her sigline
mircea_popescu: not like ima send czech vixens to pick up the slaughters or w/e
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 yes, the irony of the situation is that really, there's a lot of work to do
mircea_popescu: but anyway, speaking of glbse, did they extradite mccarthy guy yet ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you know, if i wanted a larger harem i'd enlarge my harem.
mircea_popescu: that group is predicated on the theory of "knowing wtf is going on"
mircea_popescu: by delegating it to the people who knew wtf was going on.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 sure. the dutch managed to regulate dutch trade just fine
mircea_popescu: being a bureaucrat is all about following a fucking script, which is exactly antithetical to the situation they find themselves in.
mircea_popescu: now they're stuck somehow dealing with quite obvious fraud a la mtgox while somehow satisfying the demands of patently insane eastern european dudes with no interest in their internal problems
mircea_popescu: before that some ny state guy is trying to get it licensed and the acct office said it can't,
mircea_popescu: i imagine it's an insane fucking job right about now. in the same day their boss says btc is what mp says it is and some derp senator calls for its banning,
mircea_popescu: water, proably. a more awkward thing i don't remember.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the sec, just like any other us or non us, governmental or non governmental agency needs to get used to the idea that bitcoin is a thing, and they need to work with it.
mircea_popescu: "your honor, clearly we're winning by losing over here, wouldn't you agree"
mircea_popescu: you'd hope people stick with denial for the length of the exercise.
mircea_popescu: ve not been in a court for a while anyway, kinda getting to miss it.
mircea_popescu: fraud is a crime in romania, this wasn't too hard to prove really
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well the hell would it have given them up involuntarily lol