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mircea_popescu: "Also, bets which are not really bets but moreover advertising, advocacy, rambling nonsense and such are unacceptable on BitBet."
mircea_popescu: yeah, until people start doing this, after which there will be a 5% fucking fee.
mircea_popescu: as opposed to the burdened world of fiat, where useless substitutes take four years+ and deliver no actual value.
mircea_popescu: let us rejoice we still live in a time when it's humanly possible, and it doesn't even take a full year
mircea_popescu: tbh making this list, by hand, would be the qualification for being a bitcoin financial analyst. this is the certificate, like in the old days of the guilds,
mircea_popescu: anyway, the true value one receives from completing this monstrous task is attaining a knowledge equal only to the gods themselves.
mircea_popescu: so you'd need to add bitfunder, pre-2012 crap (since may 2011, on the forum) and that'd be about it
mircea_popescu: benkay everything that ever actually traded since april 2012 till today is in that list, except bitfunder stuff cause Ukyo never got with the program.
mircea_popescu: afghanistan gdp is nominally 18bn, of which ~3bn direct us deposits.
mircea_popescu: you know... it occurs to me the us is so utterly out of moneyz, it's actually running short on stuff to pay its allies.
mircea_popescu: "This creation of a new city, piled on top of the massive tribute owed to the Persians, as well as the necessary donative to the army to secure its acceptance of his accession, meant Philip was desperately short of money. To pay for it, he ruthlessly increased levels of taxation, while at the same time he ceased paying subsidies to the tribes north of the Danube that were vital for keeping the peace on the frontiers."
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell RBRubicon dude seriously, fix that connection.
mircea_popescu: pankkake "o i know, we'll rename mpex shit and pretend like we matter". gotta love the kids.
mircea_popescu: in this sense, the clue given is no different from the clue of "we don't like your face very much"
mircea_popescu: now, you know that that's your address, but someone looking in doesn't.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla but suppose you go bet, and put in an address.
mircea_popescu: tomorrow btc goes to 10k. now your share yields .01 BTC a week, thus is worth 1/10 what it was.
mircea_popescu: your share yields .1 BTC a week, and thus is worth w/e .1 * riskfreerate comes to.
mircea_popescu: KRS1 you have 1 btc. you invest it. company trades it for 100 dollars, buys a hooker. the hooker makes 10 dollars a week.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla there is however a guarantee a third party can't establish they're your coins.
mircea_popescu: and some shitty thing run by i forget who. those were the first three.
mircea_popescu: there's also something run by uhhh... what was his name, the weirdo indian guy
mircea_popescu: this is ultimately a problem of btc, of course, but still. financial analysis is what it is.
mircea_popescu: KRS1 the entire thing revolves around the empirical observation that companies which did not spend their ipo funds outperformed companies that did spend them, without exception.
mircea_popescu: benkay im not rly hiring you to do it tho, think of it as mostly volunteer work.
mircea_popescu: #bitcoin-assets : your daily source of insane ways to spend all your free time for great justice.
mircea_popescu: yes dude, and if we don't recall a fucking name we just sit here hashing letters like idjits