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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah well that's where things get debated.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they're selling about 100k parts a year by the latest numbers i saw.
mircea_popescu: they send recruiting teams in the poor farmland, give kids laptops take their kidneys.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it's a flattering point, but i very much doubt it.
mircea_popescu: if btc had actual economic adherence in 2012-2013 we'd have been fucked with a capital CK
mircea_popescu: yet again one of our major strengths turns out to have been what clueless noobs imagined is a weakness.
mircea_popescu: well... your calculation sits atop and intends to represent an economic reality. which is very fast chaning.
mircea_popescu: i don't think any current sovereign could survive such depression at all.
mircea_popescu: after pirate we had a 4 month freezeout which was the worst i ever saw, almost killed the s.dice ipo
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids many things. in jan last, there were ~7mn btc. now there's 12mn.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform once the space stabilizes some i expect tontines will actually work great.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids mind that you are calculating something over a very fastly changing curve.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids something like that. depends on how exactly you calculate the reference price.
mircea_popescu: dub notrly, we're mostly just reading the guardian about how fucking exciting it is to be like at the guardian. also diets.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves thick, lucscious, shimmering pink folds of goodness.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's possibly more rng customers than gpg customers imo
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids no approx. 1 bn. it's in the contract.
mircea_popescu: not as high as using the thing as intended, but still.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` dun be telling dub it's a lefty conspiracy, he's been sayin' it since b4 you were boarn, son.
mircea_popescu: yeah they got troubles. i was just making light of it because i'm an asshole in a tropical climate 70 miles away.
mircea_popescu: deadweasel they're more like girls than women, really.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` don't hate, some people have the misfortune of falling on a running millstone
mircea_popescu: "how dares she be sexually adventurous to a greater degree than me!!11"
mircea_popescu: sight unseen maybe, but srsly, freezing rain is no emergency.
mircea_popescu: dude i looked at footage, what the fuck, there's been no snow. you got a little freezing rain.
mircea_popescu: generally people maintain liquidity through planning, it'd be rare that a trade has to be stayed because waiting for confirms.
mircea_popescu: anyway. few people if at all trade on this junkie's routine, of gotta wait for check to clear style.
mircea_popescu: lol bitstamp made some sense, even if kako was gonna kill you once he got his electric chair back
mircea_popescu: also... i suspect a large number of btc people are not-normal sleep patterned.
mircea_popescu: well also yeah, bitcoin doesn't realyl have "financial centers"
mircea_popescu: basically what do you see in the other stuff, the pacific ocean right ?
mircea_popescu: alternatively, australia, japan, china, russia, iran, europe, the us... there might be some slight pattern not visible cause low sample yet.
mircea_popescu: ie, their algorithmia is more akin to a wheelchair than a car
mircea_popescu: (i wouldn't expect any pattern, since most everyone will be trading via pympex or similar, it's trivial to just schedule w/e)
mircea_popescu: actually from there seems people are coding their bots to sorta split orders over ticks huh
mircea_popescu: "I don't see this making a difference. There are lost coins in every currency. A 10K block reward is peanuts. Any anyways, the developers could always modify this in the future if it became a problem."
mircea_popescu: jurov there's a guy that managed to get his assets transferred twice back in the old days (2012), netted like 300 btc from it.
mircea_popescu: making her also say what she means is beyond even what god can accomplish
mircea_popescu: bujt the problem there seems to be that they executed crap, not that they claimed crap