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mircea_popescu: KRS|Gotyawallet you can't "scam the scammer" because the scammer has enough fucking sense to respect the first rule of investing, which is, don't randomly sent btc.
mircea_popescu: russellthies Jr. Member, 5 posts : "I received an email from Jim on Dec. 3rd, regarding my 1.2 th/s order (541). At that time he told me that they were working on the final "board tweaks" and that if they were late it would be by a week or so."
mircea_popescu: noob makes random thread on btctalk five weeks ago. he's nobody and his thing doesn't exist.
mircea_popescu: KRS|Gotyawallet why do you think this is even a thing ?
mircea_popescu: (of course, in this perspective mega-bitcoin-corporations a la asicminer are small guys too)
mircea_popescu: pankkake i am one who believes every little guy mining is good.
mircea_popescu: it will never happen, they will start shooting deli owners in the street.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you're asking "how much worsening of italian delis would take for mobsters to abandon manhattan"
mircea_popescu: mining has to be "distributed", which means, it must remain unprofitable for large ventures.
mircea_popescu: a tournament market, like typiocally the 1mn starlets waiting tables in hollywood is there to exploit labour.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's a really great way to use the market for a good purpose. in this case, we get the strongest blockchain money can buy.
mircea_popescu: mpoe-pr quoted buffett on the textile market to the forum until she fell over.
mircea_popescu: anyway, people mine because if they don't mine then it's profitable
mircea_popescu: (which adds cosmic perspective to the mpex view of the world, imagine there exists another whole "Ecosystem" out there made principally out of companies whose business model is operating in a not profitable by design market, and those are 90%+ of the revenue)
mircea_popescu: it's intended to approximately break even, which means most people will book a loss.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform mining is not intended or designed to be a productive activity generally.
mircea_popescu: which they do, inasmuch as they handling money can't be libertards, and a sliver of libertards believe everyone who's not equally retarded is a fascist
mircea_popescu: there are still people who figure germany had a decent shot in ww2.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hard angle to sell for all the people that were offered to buy still workjing nuclear subs.
mircea_popescu: KRS|Gotyawallet in the food stamps context ? the stealing of people's money by the usg.
mircea_popescu: are you aware the only reason the us army is not completely exterminated to the last man currently is that the chinese do not WANT to ?
mircea_popescu: sits, waiting, while china spends 20 years developing complete tactical superiority in every field.
mircea_popescu: so you know... this shangri-la you speak of ? where o where is it ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know 40 years ago that'd have touched off a space race.
mircea_popescu: KRS|Gotyawallet the ussoviet govt is running short on cash.
mircea_popescu: seven downward slopes... seven bloodied hopes... seven are your burning fires...
mircea_popescu: if i wanted my gold arbitrarily transformed into worthless paper i'd be a us citizen.
mircea_popescu: you can do that with five cents and a copy of the pink sheets.
mircea_popescu: rather than expect the public to donate thousands of btc to prop up their unwarranted pretensions and delusions.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` poverty and managerial incompetence are always poor excuses. they claimed they were an exchange, and can compete. then they should be an exchange and compete,
mircea_popescu: you know, rather than spending that same time hunting us down.
mircea_popescu: the entire bs is there to give idiots something to do with their time. "learn how to tapdance and then get your coupon for a chance to get an option to dance in front of the tv".
mircea_popescu: looking forward to the inevitable 3rd batch, of course. which will be so very different, of course.
mircea_popescu: ;;everify freenode:#bitcoin-otc:1ca25d63307a4c43316c160f03f3313ca3b609e411b15d2e2ebc05a0
mircea_popescu: "Thus for example the X.IDIFF.DEC traded in January 2013 will settle on MPEx on December the 18th, 2013. Should the network difficulty at that time be 3370182 then each contract will be worth 0.03370182 BTC."
mircea_popescu: alternatively we violate copyrights and wait to be sued.
mircea_popescu: we do have some storage space upon delivery, might as well not be empty.
mircea_popescu: you suppose the material can make it the original content on the cardano ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform don't lose track of all these badly typeset rants, when we burn the old maculature we're going to want new maculature to replace "the history of the world" with.
mircea_popescu: libertards = retards who think there is such a thing as "progress"
mircea_popescu: wait... they actually are. whodda thunk you can run a political movement on the passions of teenagers.
mircea_popescu: it's almost all the libertards of today are too young to have any recollection of 1997
mircea_popescu: "997 was Media-saturated with El Niño spin - the largest El Niño event in recorded history and a non-negotiable consequence of the Greenhouse Effect! California was to be washed away under unceasing deluge as the Earth burned! The whole thing summed to one rainstorm and some backpedaling."
mircea_popescu: this for instance may be the only document on the english web using the otherwise gramatically correct and meaningful phrase
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform baby you are an encyclopedia of all things timecubey