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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
mircea_popescu: it would seem successfully prosecuting fraudsters hardly amounts to much indication of your theory.
mircea_popescu: e victim buyers by e-mail, sending fraudulent certificates of title and other information designed to lure the victims into parting with their money. Sometimes, they pretended to sell cars from non-existent auto dealerships in the United States and even created phony websites for these fictitious dealerships.
mircea_popescu: As alleged in the indictment, the defendants and their co-conspirators saturated Internet marketplace websites, such as eBay.com, Cars.com, AutoTrader.com, and CycleTrader.com, with detailed advertisements for cars, motorcycles, boats, and other high-value items generally priced in the $10,000 to $45,000 range. Unbeknownst to the buyers, however, the merchandise did not exist. The so-called sellers corresponded with th
mircea_popescu: the value of bitcoin is principally this : that an intelligent agent can turn any turdgasm into comedy gold.
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones my question is different. will blocks with a 0 miner fee be accepted as valid ?
mircea_popescu: so apparently a "lnp specialist" is what they call phonewhores
mircea_popescu: what the holy shit is a "LNP Specialist " supposed to be
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what'd happen ? there'd suddenly be a stringent need for regulation
mircea_popescu: rather than leaving the turd floating on a billion dollars.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at least the greeks killed the nobody when done
mircea_popescu: it was just there, any other piece of pulp would have worked the same way
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform meanwhile the retarded woman made like 1bn
mircea_popescu: ok so : knowing that the "on the internet no one knows you're a dog" cartoon is the most reprinted cartoon in the history of the new yorker,