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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
mircea_popescu: for a moment i thought there actually is a pron starlet named miley cyprus
mircea_popescu: so some kid bets 20 bucks on btc being over 1000 in six months, he gets 5 grand out."
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla over lunch i was loling with one mod, because she observed that "well, for many people bitbet is a great proposition because not only it allows them to win, but also it prevents them from spending their btc in the interval.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 there was this attempt to make a more concrete localbitcoins, "buttonwood"
mircea_popescu: i mean, it responded to half year's worth of pressure nicely. but it isn't enough.
mircea_popescu: his experience clearly shows that that market needs someone to put his foot down and keep at it for 5+ years.
mircea_popescu: localbitcoins is more like a brand than like an actual service servicing local markets.
mircea_popescu: yeah i don;'t quite grok what it's supposed to be. thought maybe the owner is here.
mircea_popescu: worst insult of all, nobody in the actual biz paid him even the equivalent of a bit into cheeseburger.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it first and foremost got a chance because dooglus. it'd have died an ignominable death if almost anyone else'd have tried an exact copy.
mircea_popescu: as the othersd say, gotta be great, and more importantly gotta be someone first.
mircea_popescu: mikaeldice it's a coin in the well already, and has been since summer 2012.
mircea_popescu: apparently you can't mismanage a property into the shit for 2+ years and then have it survive. who knew!
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell oleganza what's the point of a blog w/o a comment section ?
mircea_popescu: spiel says hollyowood's dogfood, and he has a point. they gotta do something.
mircea_popescu: the corn did manage to ocasionally pick up a spot, but usualyl driven out within a couple of years
mircea_popescu: both linen and corn had been long used here, and so they exist as wild species.
mircea_popescu: i have had the occasion to see this in nature, as romania had for over a decade a lot of ignored agricultural land.
mircea_popescu: it's a relatively successful one, but not very. nothing like cannabis.
mircea_popescu: matybe, i'ven ot really been following the entire "green technologies" stuff.