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mircea_popescu: in fact i still suspect the dwolla thing was a backroom deal between the two to strangle competition.
mircea_popescu: punkman the dwolla thing sunk tradehill, but mtgox was not seriously affected then.
mircea_popescu: punkman it's unclear but it was announced in april 2013.
mircea_popescu: every 80 bux in the price is like a million dollars due to all the magnificent leverage of options.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves srsly, if mtgox closes this month those puts will likely hurt.
mircea_popescu: pLambert anyone who missed all those warnings since april ?
mircea_popescu: "They test the system in the report -- and are, as one might expect, immediately hacked the moment the test computer connects with the Russian network."
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> pankkake: No one will remember Doge then. It will be HerpBuxx. Named after teen singer Derp Heiperp <<
mircea_popescu: pankkake after they get big enough and public enough, no force in the world can keep a corporation alligned to its long term interest.
mircea_popescu: the narrative i heard is more along the lines of "oh, yet another one of the schmucks that spend some time here doing nothing to be able to put google on their cv"
mircea_popescu: i think in googleterms "misspelling" is actually less of a stretch than "obscure language word"
mircea_popescu: that sweet day when a misspelling takes over a) the correct spelling ; b) wikipedia
mircea_popescu: i think we packed enough meta in there to mine at least a dozen blocks.
mircea_popescu: so i gather you're the poster child of the confused generation.
mircea_popescu: wow that point re metaphysics is actually incredibly strong
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "other, less meta altcoins" you mean "other, less alt metacoins" or "same, less coin metaalts" ?
mircea_popescu: dude the fiat system works so well, i have no idea why all these people talk about bitcoin threats and whatnot
mircea_popescu: According to a 2013 report from the Treasury Inspector General’s office, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued nearly $4 billion in bogus tax refunds in 2012. The money largely was sent to people who stole Social Security numbers and other information on U.S. citizens, and then filed fraudulent tax returns on those individuals claiming a large refund but at a different address.
mircea_popescu: <pLambert> What about Somalia, I thought they were supposed to be Utopia? <<< they used to be but then kako got snowed in.
mircea_popescu: and it'd be a pretty boneheaded thing to do anyway. russia has had enough cultural revolutionary great leaps forward to last it five centuries.
mircea_popescu: obviously "civilisation" as she means it isn't necessarily a goal
mircea_popescu: or do you just presume we're interchangeable because irc nicks
mircea_popescu: "sure, makea few billions and start buying english football clubs so maybe the kremlin won't off you"
mircea_popescu: im curious what his polonium defense is for free living in russia.
mircea_popescu: you kinda need to pick some criteria and stick to them
mircea_popescu: nubbins` romania is not a bad one, for as long as that lasts.
mircea_popescu: people lend btc for profit all the time what are you talkin'; about.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`> you may need to be sponsored by an employer to get settled, not sure of the ins and outs << drive over, hire a lawyer to start a companby, have the company hire you.
mircea_popescu: so i was just on the phone with this jewish chick i know, and she admitted that in israel the oreos are made out of dead anglosaxon babies.