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mircea_popescu: it's like 1btc, i thought, except havelock listed it for some reason.
mircea_popescu: someone should ipo a Topless Salesman Catching Brigade.
mircea_popescu: actually... we should probably count our blessings. once the rest of the world figures out there's billionaires hanging out on irc kakobrekla will be spending his days doing nothing but banning salesmen in here.
mircea_popescu: but yeah, wait until bentley figures out that there's these dudes who routinely pay 500k for a car and don't even expect it to fly.
mircea_popescu: by BingoBoingo's 2015 megaparty they'd better be diamond studded and made out of frozen panda tears.
mircea_popescu: this brass has cost me about 2 grams of gold per gram.
mircea_popescu: they cost, i find reviewing my records, 3 btc and 25 cents.
mircea_popescu: so here's a random thought : about a year and a half ago i bought a pair of bitcoin engraved cufflinks from a guy that did a custom cufflink run
mircea_popescu: i need to start doing something where people can help ;/
mircea_popescu: might be able to help you with that will help me gain some valuable
mircea_popescu: throughout my adventure. If you have any openings or any available tasks I
mircea_popescu: "I have alot of respect for you man. I may want to pick your brain
mircea_popescu: is it legal for bitcoin ventures to plan one year in advance even ?
mircea_popescu: fucking artists with their complicated shoes. impossible to get a hold of.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you can see someone sold calls if you look either in the log of this chan (ttp://log.bitcoin-assets.com) or else on the site.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i just remembered that the usagi fellow was all over the many evil people who i was payying to contradict him.
mircea_popescu: dexX7 if the chinese also shoot them, i'll be very impressed.
mircea_popescu: it proved do be only temporary, they may end up with a loss.
mircea_popescu: stephengandel someone sold a lot of calls short yesterday, right before the drop.
mircea_popescu: stephengandel you can also review the mpex monthly reports to see about how option trading has fared historically. a count of sold/bought contracts by the bot is provided in each
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo if he expects a drop then holding the bitcoin isn't particularly wise.
mircea_popescu: "A 29-year-old suspect surnamed Liu allegedly began operating GBL trading platform on May 27 of this year, according to police in Dongyang City in east China’s Zhejiang Province."
mircea_popescu: think of mpex as the nyse, which is what it is. for most purposes you won't acquire a seat in the pit.
mircea_popescu: stephengandel if your budged is in the bitcoin range, and your technical sophistication low you are best served by a bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: anywya. there's definitely a living to be earned doing this sort of hussling.
mircea_popescu: i think the total loot for this grand scheme was around 5k or so.
mircea_popescu: this was done by the actual owner packing the laptops in his own personal car.
mircea_popescu: to return on their own (more permissive) return policy.
mircea_popescu: i'll beat that story : a major romanian retailer bought ~100 laptops off a competitor, which the competitor was selling discounted,
mircea_popescu: pankkake the people filling captchas by hand also provide some convenience for some buyers.
mircea_popescu: more like a tupperware party than an auction, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: i nearly fell over laughing, all the housewives being all business-serious and bidding a hundred on some lamp
mircea_popescu: anyway, i was once with this chick who actually lived off going to no name auctions
mircea_popescu: in this parallel universe you can have an auction with a "starting bid" of 1 and a "reserve" of 10 which means that unless it reaches 10 the item doesn't sell.
mircea_popescu: mike_c they do this thing where they announce a "starting bid" but it's not the actual starting bid
mircea_popescu: jborkl can you imagine how the nyse would look if they'd get a call in the matter ?
mircea_popescu: is this going to be some sort of "all you need is love" thing ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake looky. some people think mpex is inaccesible and so go flock on btctctetc
mircea_popescu: so the value there is 1% of 478 btc minus whatever discount ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake i think some of the older people with actual wallets send a little just out of sheer trollery
mircea_popescu: pankkake you know, i should prolly have pr make a trhead, MPOE BONDS LOST 3K LAST MONTH~!11 plz donate.
mircea_popescu: and like the proverbial soviet geezers we'll go "do you remember how great it was back when it was horribly bad ?"
mircea_popescu: it strikes me that maybe not many years later we will look upon the early days with nostalgia, drowned in a sea of banal crap.
mircea_popescu: ;;everify freenode:#bitcoin-otc:12f6abe25d7cb14f088f737e75749f27e97964533753251ca2eb4ee3
mircea_popescu: stephengandel you know, you write a lot. i thought the job of the senior editor is more along the lines of throwing out the hard work of all the junior editors.