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mircea_popescu: dexX7_ you know, p e singer made a few millions that way
mircea_popescu: pay 1 btc or less on a lark, i can see. like you'd buy a lottery ticket
mircea_popescu: discerning the grain from the chaff is a full time professional endeavour
mircea_popescu: markov yup. and the nyse and the wh.org and everything else.
mircea_popescu: anyone can write any numbers they wish on their website
mircea_popescu: ie, mtgox stole more from coinlab than coinlab stole from mtgox.
mircea_popescu: dexX7_ because their accounting was a complete mess, and because they never followed the an0 spec, things that'd be normally deductions have no scriptural basis.
mircea_popescu: they've been pretty much lieing at every turn since 2011.
mircea_popescu: markov i wouldn't put much stock in anything mtgox/karpeles say or said.
mircea_popescu: part of it was lost to an unclear event which may be some sort of dwolla backstab or else some deal or who the fuck knows
mircea_popescu: (this goes right backl to the earlier discussion re "lawyers")
mircea_popescu: dexX7_ part of it was lost to the usg, as a result of karpeles signing false documents
mircea_popescu: you know, i ended up repeating this pretty much twice a day because nobody reads logs.
mircea_popescu: davout thjat's how it works everywhere, trade harmonisation etc.
mircea_popescu: jurov thee's a lot of stuff. Pharmaceutical preparations for the treatment of pulmonary, inflammatory and infectious diseases ; Management and organization of multi-purpose exhibit showrooms for others ; Electric and electronic video surveillance installations.
mircea_popescu: you can't hold a trademark on people's legal names against their use thereof.
mircea_popescu: which is why strategically competent people called themselves MPEx rather than BTCex
mircea_popescu: and now is up for grabs by whatever ill intended agency.
mircea_popescu: the only thing is the bitcoin trademark, which was IDIOTICALLY assigned to mtgox by people without a clue
mircea_popescu: mtgox can't even cover the btc it owes the bitcoinica liquidators.
mircea_popescu: you know, like neobee's geting in all cypruss newspapers (for an undisclosed cost)
mircea_popescu: i just lumped together all the "pr moves" around their first capital injection
mircea_popescu: jurov they lost about 200k in one go o nthat 1 cent/btc debacle in 2011 if you recall
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the20year1: is it provable/possible that gox has 740k bitcoins 'somewhere'? < that figure includes all their numerous historical losses going back 4 years, converted to bitcoin at the time of loss
mircea_popescu: o look decimation had it before me :D sorry, hadn't read the entire log.
mircea_popescu: of course he's special so he can't really block print, he has to draw.
mircea_popescu: jurov no in this case it's competent self management. i was inches from going "oh go get laid, you're nuts" at him.
mircea_popescu: the tube strength and relative pressure required to not crush it at depth
mircea_popescu: how you gonna launch airbreathing rocket 4 miles underwater ?
mircea_popescu: various us senators make proclamations about how intolerable this is.
mircea_popescu: because the undersubs thought it expedient to cut an eighty mile tall hole in the bedrock supporting it
mircea_popescu: there's all these people on the surface redditing about shit.