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mircea_popescu: joecool well ty, tho it's kinda chearting. mpex never did fiat.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan i take it your wife doesn't ask, just takes ? :D
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder for public benefit, mind enumerating those types ?
mircea_popescu: my head goes "yes, but maybe it goes up locally ?" but how would i know.
mircea_popescu: at the rate we're going i'll prolly publish the bundle in a coupla weeks.
mircea_popescu: when the sec wanted to talk to me i forced them to come here.
mircea_popescu: and get a positive result, you haven't in fact consulted any advisors.
mircea_popescu: and while that is unfortunate, it's nevertheless what it is.
mircea_popescu: i get that this doesn't help you any in the sense of getting you to do what you want to do
mircea_popescu: ninjashogun listen, you're really misbehaving here, albeit perhaps unintentionally. the correct approach is to lurk and read the logs for about half a year. then you'll be in a position to meaningfully engage th dragons here.
mircea_popescu: ninjashogun for the other part of your question, i would say everyone speaking here knows a lot of math.
mircea_popescu: if you manage to insert it into the next round of ycombinator a la sokal, you get a bonus.
mircea_popescu: "Ice-breaking ships help keep Chesapeake Bay waters safe" <<< check out all the global warming.
mircea_popescu: ninjashogun they're also inclined to play, something vc's aren't normally. ATC got started because people were bored and so far cost about 50k or thereabouts.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, i'll bet you're not getting a dime so far.
mircea_popescu: ninjashogun people here are worth well over a billion all together.
mircea_popescu: (some people don't want to do a specific job, but whatever, some people don't want something specific done, but whatever IS done) ?
mircea_popescu: ninjashogun but how do you account for flexibility in either side ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it's okay, Mr Hig Uyse proved that any set of cats can be packed in less than 7 dimensions.
mircea_popescu: ninjashogun specifically, what is the problem you are solving ?
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 it's a start-up, what business plan. they maybe have an idea is all.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan yes, but that doesn't mean any part of qm is inaccessible to matrix.
mircea_popescu: ninjashogun basically everyone's point is that regardless how you personally look at it, mathematic reality is accessible to everyone on their own terms.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla check it out, your shitty chan is about to break 200
mircea_popescu: ninjashogun unless you manage to lay zuck you're not in this game.
mircea_popescu: rather than try and corner the entire market. cornered markets don't grow.
mircea_popescu: a large chunk of the way i designed mpex is so as to empower people to grow their own stuff
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan but srsly, it's legitimate. if you think you can help some people do shit, help them. nothing wrong with that.
mircea_popescu: i just got an email from a friend, it goes "hey can i have like 10-20 bux worth of bitcoin cause im testing this service and i lost all the btc i mined on my laptop back in the day"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves inasmuch as one intends to measure sophistication, bitcoin holdings alone would show on the historical record an insufficient measure.
mircea_popescu: but yes, as the j man says, nothing keeps you from doing brokerage for any market segment you identify and think you can serve.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_ the times are only changing in the sense the us is going under.
mircea_popescu: pankkake pls to 1000 atc to 1CgNLdNUaXFawURSBuX4xBHv53GhGZ3XuC ty
mircea_popescu: leading question #2 : what could the concept of "Accredited investor" mean in bitcoin, and how would one go about meaningfully implementing it ?
mircea_popescu: leading question : how much business is nyse losing by not having a drive-thru presence in most shopping malls ?
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan you have to take into consideration 80+% of that was when btc was < $1
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