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mircea_popescu: yes on this bet is actually a better "investment" than everything they do over btctalk/reddit/etc.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i was thinking, if there's a sudden hickup in the hashing there's going to be such a run to cover the world has never seen
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves what do you get if you win that one, 200ish ?
mircea_popescu: get out of here, ready to ship, so it takes a week if they ship today. too late.
mircea_popescu: zacm was here earlier and on teh grapevine for a coupla weeks yeah
mircea_popescu: at least coinbase has the sense to rape ex-respectable ppl a la gavin
mircea_popescu: funny. any someone is going to even look at that thing now ?
mircea_popescu: dexX7 is that the kslaughter of the famous activemining ?
mircea_popescu: basically it's summed up by george costanza's "a widget for televising opera or whatever"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the only reason that stopped is because the current crop of fanbois are too intellectually lazy to even take that much of a reading plunge
mircea_popescu: financial trade rags bad ; zh latecomer ; claims "we're not gonna be that retarded" ; benefit of doubt ; dissapoint.
mircea_popescu: not like they're zerohedge and people have expectations or anything.
mircea_popescu: anyway, they do have the lemon sale, which is actual news.
mircea_popescu: outright sterile, actually. the only thing a guy that comes out to claim he's the guy that REALLY invented bitcoin could possibly produce is a ream of arguments with all the other guys claiming they did it even before him.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it also reveals this funny "we have no understanding of any of the constraints of the space, therefore we don't understand what competence is or why would you want to build on the results of others"
mircea_popescu: i'm rooting for the guy who was advocating it in korea.
mircea_popescu: "Brock Pierce is the godfather of virtual currency," says David Johnston, CEO of Engine, and another early adopter of the digital currency.
mircea_popescu: "Shortly after his panel on investment opportunities, former child star Brock Pierce (The Mighty Ducks) was engulfed by a throng of admirers."
mircea_popescu: i suppose us housewives hold tupperware parties just for the shred of human contact.
mircea_popescu: if there's not advertisers to make topics acceptable to discuss among strangers, there'd only be silence.
mircea_popescu: yeah i was thinking, what a recipe for disaster this is, get a bunch of very emotionally repressed, sexually insecure protestant type people and lock them up in a can where the usual british problem of "acceptable things to talk about" is resolved by economical interest.
mircea_popescu: all you hear is how people's teeth are. it's like some weird voodoo shit by now
mircea_popescu: i ain't calling no office. they come here and tell me.
mircea_popescu: lmao this quest for anonimity. why would anyone trust this thing if nobody actually will step up and say "yeah, it's me" ?
mircea_popescu: complete fucking abdication from any responsibility, it's disgusting.
mircea_popescu: seriously, promote a disqus based, bullshit black footer site ?
mircea_popescu: i fail to see it. that's the most obsequious piece ever.
mircea_popescu: that was the original point, i thought the theory is that zh is not old media.
mircea_popescu: perhaps it's their fucking job to do their fucking job ?
mircea_popescu: dexX7 the logs kinda answer that question for ya. which is how it should be #2 :)
mircea_popescu: dexX7 o you meant the fortune thing did you. yeah, guy was around here for a coupla days asking questions.
mircea_popescu: if in the end this comes down to, "some starving fucker in england paid someone @zh $200 for a repvertorial" i'm going to piss all over them.
mircea_popescu: you can't tell the shitholes from the fuckholes anymore i swear.
mircea_popescu: wasn't this zerohedge thing supposed to be like, NOT verge/gawker/vice/whatever ?
mircea_popescu: so someone please explain benkay` s link to me please. bitbet has a btc/usd bet that has more volume on it than the entire predictious bullshit put together.