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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.
mircea_popescu: and the criterion is attached to the reality rather than the appearance.
mircea_popescu: ie, the appearance and the reality easily cleaves (a word is an engineering term if appearance and reality never cleave)
mircea_popescu: the problem with both of those being that they're not engineering terms.
mircea_popescu: basically you have two unreconciliable "realities", and only one is real.
mircea_popescu: benkay i have my doubts 4k btc found their way to said dubious sr thing.
mircea_popescu: perfect excuse to the "we run off with teh coin" thing. much better than the used up "we were haxed" workhorse.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well... not these folks. but maybe some other folks.
mircea_popescu: then the investors who he did find that didn't heed my "you will be butchered" warning got their fingers caught.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves "because they were saving it so karpeles could offer a "credible" lie as to why his well known fractional reserve scam blew open" ?
mircea_popescu: so you know, instead of having that thing settle somewhere in the desert, it simply got moved in your kitchen.
mircea_popescu: however they contain between .7 X and 2.2 X mercury in themselves.
mircea_popescu: ceteris paribus the halogen lamps reduce this to about .4 X
mircea_popescu: the coal burning power plants release X mercury into atmosphere as part of their working.
mircea_popescu: Puis j’ai mis en route un sèche-linge, deux plaques électriques, et un emerge -u1avDN world, le tout en musique grâce à un ampli à tubes. Comme il faisait un peu noir j’ai allumé les 8 ampoules halogènes qui étaient à ma disposition. Et comme il faisait un peu chaud avec tout ça, j’ai ouvert la porte de mon réfrigérateur.
mircea_popescu: Pour manifester mon soutien à cette initiative trop peu médiatisée, j’ai éteint à 20h30 les deux ampoules à LED qui m’éclairaient.
mircea_popescu: yeah, but inasmuch as you rely in any fashion on blockchain generated numbers