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mircea_popescu: i gotta say these slaughter people got the most mileage out of a garage.
mircea_popescu: somebody should get together all the stuff along these lines starting with tawsix, kludge, harnett etc.
mircea_popescu: i suppose i sohuld lift it to 50 seeing how the glbse v2.0 crop failed, but i was kinda meh.
mircea_popescu: bloctoc it hasn't. it was 0 for a month in spring 2012, then 20 up until glbse folded
mircea_popescu: mpex didn't exist yet, mpoe was trading on its own page. which people like jcpham i think actually remember.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that link is a blast from the past 22 nov 2011. back then the strikers were 1.5 to 2 usd
mircea_popescu: except when they are right they make out hand over fist.
mircea_popescu: well, they are usually wrong, as all option traders are
mircea_popescu: i think this insult might be the end of bitcoin!!11eleventy
mircea_popescu: what a sad fate, to have to revisit the price levels of two weeks ago for six hours.
mircea_popescu: so since mpoe sold calls i take it the drop was but temporary ?
mircea_popescu: bitcoin will continue to move for the foreseeable future.
mircea_popescu: yeah well, once we get a coin that doesn't change three degrees of magnitude a year, we'll have referential transparency
mircea_popescu: everyone is a billionaire eventually, but bitcoin people get tyo do it many times a week]
mircea_popescu: this just in : mtgox server upgraded with wafflemaker!
mircea_popescu: "gox is trading on fake btc. gox proves this every year."
mircea_popescu: when that happens point ot point internet via wifi will be the workhorse and the mostly useless blockchain satellite will be the extended middle finger.
mircea_popescu: nobody wants a btc node in orbit, until it becomes a matter of land based isp's being assholes.
mircea_popescu: you can significantly improve that result by tgurning them
mircea_popescu: it's a seriously fascinating field, this, "given a 10cm cube, construct the best photovoltaic arrangement"
mircea_popescu: i've seen a buncha stuff trying to emulate fern leaves etc
mircea_popescu: some of the more interesting work in mechanical engineering is resolving the "optimal exposure" problem
mircea_popescu: that's about where it is, entry level sattelite is about 10cmc and about 1 watt.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform depends a lot of what you put on the cube too
mircea_popescu: TomServo for the past year or so he's been running around the margins trying to somehow become cool
mircea_popescu: "i'm a shopper, not a mathematician. this is why i can't use cash"
mircea_popescu: as far as i understand, m-of-n creates the m and n on the same m,achine, then distributes them
mircea_popescu: pankkake that just shows how the french youth has decayed.
mircea_popescu: i recall back in 2012 this site which gave you printed sheets m-of-n, as manty as you wanted