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mircea_popescu: decimation hey, in that sense simply living in the us is taking your life in your hands.
mircea_popescu: ;;google Time for Europe to repeal the US-backed AML crap
mircea_popescu: i mnean sure, they can continue talking to the scammers and be scammed till they're happy and had enough.
mircea_popescu: davout so that's what new york may offer to convince me to ok their license bs :
mircea_popescu: you're a businessman not a policeman. let the policemen do their job.
mircea_popescu: because you don't wish to be involved with or responsible of law enforcing.
mircea_popescu: you get the license, the customer applies with the agency. you get the ok, you are legally immune
mircea_popescu: the only sane way to do that would be making a state agency which handles the aml kyc.
mircea_popescu: the us turning into a sort of continent sized syria is however also quite possible.
mircea_popescu: im not sayin' it's unlikely or anything, perfectly possible.
mircea_popescu: decimation that'd be the optimistic view as to the us' future.
mircea_popescu: that's a sailor. people who can sail a boat in some circumstances are sail management technicians or w.e
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids this dovetails neatly into an older saying of mine, re the sailor being required to sail the boat in any wind.
mircea_popescu: it is illusory. and it blinds you to the actual safety in barren lands
mircea_popescu: so this is exactly it : you perceive safety in banality.
mircea_popescu: you're immune from it for a very soft yet very strong reason
mircea_popescu: sure, someone could show up with a 100 btc wallet and beat you into a pulp.
mircea_popescu: any dangers, inconveniences and issues you face, anyone else also faces.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves generally, if you live in a town where people have the right to bear arms, it's better to live in the one where people actually know how to use arms.
mircea_popescu: sooo... anyone with a sharpened stick can make his own buttcoin
mircea_popescu: the asshole's laying out some shit from his case onto a small table
mircea_popescu: guy follows gal in the room, she sprawls herself on bed, "Honey what'd you like ? cunt ? assgole ?"
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids you familiar with the concept that he who can't make a sharpened stick can't make an airplane or anything else ?
mircea_popescu: see Jere_Jones people have a lot of trouble stepping outside of the environment they perceive as familiar and thus imagine safe.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you're the scamspert, do you like cryptsy ?
mircea_popescu: if it's hard when it's easy then it's hard permanently.
mircea_popescu: herbi, how would you like to be my atc daytrader on openex ?
mircea_popescu: They’re not in fact receiving as much as recognition of status or effort, they find themselves in the untenable position of a poor immigrant who is spending all his wages and borrowing at unbearable, immigrant-ghetto rates to buy flowers and wine for some local beauty who barely even registers their desperation or even presence.
mircea_popescu: Add to the very narrow margins and very active competition the burden of regulatory infringement. Money changers are spending as it is now literally immense sums (in Bitcoin terms) to try and mostly comply with obscure and convoluted regulation, which they can’t avoid or ignore because they’re always stuck with one foot in fiat. In exchange for this draining expenditure they are receiving nothing at all, certainly
mircea_popescu: pretty much the only thing one can say about 2014 btc/fiat is "spreads"
mircea_popescu: mod6 that's their curse, nobody with a clue has accounts
mircea_popescu: hey k: Advance Domain Availability Notice:You may be interested in joshzerlan.com, which will be available by auction soon.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla well old timer, was really excited when btc broke 30, posted a story on forum about how he bought btc w/o his partner's knowledge out of their savbings, then sold out and bought a car
mircea_popescu: kind of what we're doing here, for that matter. trying to breed the sort of people that can compete with mpex.
mircea_popescu: it's not hard in a technological sense, that's the easy part (even if it's what the emotion mill people seem to stumble over)
mircea_popescu: sure, just as soon as that other man is willing to eat dog.