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mircea_popescu: a hambuger or a cheap blowjob in america's inner city highschools.
mircea_popescu: it is probably forcing a point, which is why i say upper bound.
mircea_popescu: it's not inconceivable that the btc still in circulation by the time btc takes over the whole world economy will trade at what would be the equivalent of today's billion dollars.
mircea_popescu: if one single currency is to represent all that value, and especially if that one single currency is bitcoin, where people exhibit a massive tendency to hoard it,
mircea_popescu: Vexual looky : about 20 trn of new wealth is added to the world each year. the asset value of the world, all things told, is probably two to three degrees of magnitude above that.
mircea_popescu: <dub> how to buy a dimebag of crack when the smallest unit is $10????! <<< HOW TO PAY TX FEES ON THAT!!!
mircea_popescu: like the upper bound for cranial capacity is about 3k cc, because there's a finite space between a woman
mircea_popescu: upper bound is like "the highest something will ever conceivably go"
mircea_popescu: global gnp is somewhere in the 20 trn (thousand billion) range.
mircea_popescu: the endgame where bitcoin is the universal backer of all currency and it trades somewhere in the 10mn to 1bn per range actually sees the dollar slightly stronger than it is today.
mircea_popescu: by the time bitcoins go for 1bn each, which is probably their upper bound, each satoshi is ten bux
mircea_popescu: satoshi notation is exactly as precise as dollars and cents.
mircea_popescu: here's a wild thought : by the time bitcoins go for 1 mn dollars each,
mircea_popescu: by niow you could probably make a bfl competitor out of markov chains and php
mircea_popescu: i put it in the alt for the img and it links to their page
mircea_popescu: i thought the definition of bullshit altcoin was "can still gpu them"
mircea_popescu: "every time you say literally but mean metaphorically mtgox kills a large pizza kitten"
mircea_popescu: pankkake i suppose it's the case that my readers DIDN'T USE TO BE autists like you. but not anymore nao. because progress and stuff.
mircea_popescu: i don't think poor was possible since about 1994 or so
mircea_popescu: i'd have died stupid if you weren't here to bitch at me.
mircea_popescu: btw pankkake, for your curiosity : since i finally fixed trilema credits ordering i'm getting about 10x as many orders.
mircea_popescu: there once was a man, his name was magellan, a portuguese skipper, the girls found him cute...
mircea_popescu: "hey guise guess what, my secret key is just like my name lol. but it's all cool because i have a paper wallet."
mircea_popescu: imho the main trunk became spurious somewhere around 4.3.0 or thereabouts. i have no idea who even follows their github anymore.
mircea_popescu: davout "This merchant stuff solves an imaginary problem in a broken way, what's next in the core tree? Discount codes? Loyalty programs?" no, i tihnk you pretty much got it.
mircea_popescu: "Because the HTTPS protocol is pretty terrible" no look, he has a point.
mircea_popescu: it cost cisco its business last month, pretty much, but the practice isn't new.
mircea_popescu: zacm no, just the usg using american companies as governmental agents.
mircea_popescu: that may be technically correct. they might have done exactly that, through the mediation of the us secretary of state.
mircea_popescu: davout "Cloudflare talked a major CA into issuing a certificate for any domain with a cloudflare-generated keypair;"
mircea_popescu: and look at that, somebody tried to rape mpoe bot and failed!
mircea_popescu: (it's kind of a common surname, like smith or brown or something)
mircea_popescu: wao-ender nah, i'm not related to any other popescu you might have heard of
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves gox had been hosting the forum forever.
mircea_popescu: then they donate a kidney to a family member and the result is fulminant transplant rejection
mircea_popescu: you get people with kidneys from one dna line and blood/liver/brain etc from another dna line
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it appears in humans too, usually in cases when homozygotal twins resorb into one single individual
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves this incidentally is true, there exist chymeras
mircea_popescu: on the grounds that "there's no inkling of proof that any other man figured in the life of the claimant"