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mircea_popescu: allow me to rehash the usual arguments : this bet calls for a 50% increase in deployed hash power within a month.
mircea_popescu: i still don't know how they manage to be so well picked ffs.
mircea_popescu: and for all the talk of displeasure, if one compares the
mircea_popescu: so the guy can ask. course... always a good idea to ask before rather than after lol
mircea_popescu: Namworld i assumed they allow him to sign with the address ?
mircea_popescu: does coinbase actually allocate addresses to users, like a sort of wallet ?
mircea_popescu: zach_ then you could i suppose pester them to credit it, when it shows up. in general however you should not be doing this.
mircea_popescu: no, there is no way to change addresses it sends payouts to. otherwise everyone would cash in on everyone else's bets.
mircea_popescu: this means that it sweeps its btc into a cold wallet, which also means it will be paying from addresses it controls,
mircea_popescu: zach_ because it is likely that coinbase uses some sort of minimal security.
mircea_popescu: if you did not enter an address then coinbase thanks you for your donation.
mircea_popescu: this means, not using shitty services that don't add a fee to txs, and not betting late.
mircea_popescu: if however you send in such a way that your transaction doesn't make it before the bet closes, you're screwed.
mircea_popescu: zach_ as long as you control the destination address, you'll be fine.
mircea_popescu: and the airplane throwing thing is a fascinating exercise in impotence.
mircea_popescu: nobody can win the war on concepts, be they purely theoretical like heliocentrism or quite sordid like psychoactives,
mircea_popescu: there's an infinite number of people still using the airplane.
mircea_popescu: after you're done throwing an infinite number of people out of the airplane
mircea_popescu: anyway, the parachute argument eschews the infinity problem.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves part of the problem is perhaps that you're confusing the internet and the web
mircea_popescu: probably a sort of point to point over wireless is already happening in the major cities
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves how is bitcoin related to the web, sweriously
mircea_popescu: what exactly is the relation of bitcoin to the web, mpoe-pr ?
mircea_popescu: likely bitcoin will use some roundabout means of internet control to impede nonsense.
mircea_popescu: and any government that asserts any sort of infringement on teh republic of bitcoin's sovereignity, such as by purporting to "tax" bitcoins or to "regulate" mining etc is thereby declaring war, and will feel the full wrath and might of said republic.
mircea_popescu: because they were made before the internet forced tech up everyone's throat, by people who believe in legal solutions.
mircea_popescu: there's dog-coin, earth-coin and everything-else coin so far, but no girlfriend-coin
mircea_popescu: hello sir. i am with fortune a business company of the united states and would like to short blong
mircea_popescu: CuWireBeard its one of the original global scam exchange "investments"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform bozocrypt is better because secret sauce.
mircea_popescu: wao-ender incidentally : bitbet is a cat bond escrow by default.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i wonder how many shitty officers are breathing easy now, because they won't get fired because well... they dont' get drunk so it's all ok.
mircea_popescu: "I've never been more embarrassed professionally in my life with a senior member." aka, you should see the junior members.
mircea_popescu: clearly the man is not fit for any job. he is not bland, he is not overlycautious
mircea_popescu: Carey interrupted a monastery tour guide with slurred speech, sulked on a group walk through Red Square and later tried to sing with a band at a Mexican restaurant in Moscow. They refused to let him.
mircea_popescu: who offended russians by drinking ? is this alternate ustard reality or something ?
mircea_popescu: after his alcohol-fueled binge on a two-day visit to Moscow in July that included a late-night meeting with local women and offensive behavior to his Russian hosts.