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mircea_popescu: you should get it and make yourself a biz card reading
mircea_popescu: (recall, i'm the guy that ran bitcoin's premier stock exchange as a subdir for years)
mircea_popescu: i'll probably buy a tesla before i buy domains. seems beyond retarded to me
mircea_popescu: ltc has no central bank. it shall suffar the fate of free markets. boom an' boost.
mircea_popescu: pankkake “I’m thinking of selling 10,000 ActM shares for 0.0019 and buying LC @ 0.0007 for 27,142 shares.”
mircea_popescu: maybe you manage to sell 100k domains for .01 each or so
mircea_popescu: personally i doubt a new tld is worth the money, but hey.
mircea_popescu: lol. that may be a business idea, i recall we discussed it earlier this year
mircea_popescu: there MAY be some use of the blockchain to force distribution of inheritances according to the will of the deceased and without possibility of taxation or other interference
mircea_popescu: provably fair gambling is so far the most notable practical use of the blockchain.
mircea_popescu: Sebastan it's the smoking lounge the nyse wishes it had, basically.
mircea_popescu: well, what was left of their btc anyway, 15% or whatever it was.
mircea_popescu: the unsuccessful case is, of course, the case of the birtcoinica people, who had their btc sent to mtgox,
mircea_popescu: is one case when a forum group organised and got avalon to deliver to them the items ordered by the scammer
mircea_popescu: dexX7 the only successful scam resolution that i know of,
mircea_popescu: thanks god i didn't have a bet with anyone or anything.
mircea_popescu: pankkake people never read restatements. because it's below them to do such humiliating thing.
mircea_popescu: which includes waiting fucking hours to close bets etc.
mircea_popescu: still, you know. contrary to what the forum would have itself think, bitbet is designed to prevent as much of this as possible
mircea_popescu: for one. for the other, i'd have a "but i meant to bet on x3, misclicked bet on x5, bitbet is a scam now" stuff
mircea_popescu: just... not much horse racing in btc. since the demise of the satoshi demon gal.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, a horse race say, should have a win for each horse
mircea_popescu: soccer still sucks, becauyse "draw" is fucking meaningless.
mircea_popescu: mike_c we are looking into perhaps making multi bets, it's not too hard to do, but tbh the mindfuck may be too much for the userbase.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: total noob question here, but are there any traditional assets that are traded simultaneously on, say, NYSE/LSE/TSE? << depositary receipts are used
mircea_popescu: ferent types of string, nine different types of soft plastic, four different types of hard plastic, a piece of carpet-like material, and two tar balls to boot.
mircea_popescu: In 2009, marine biologists with Disney’s Animal Programs in Melbourne Beach, Florida, discovered a green sea turtle that was having trouble digesting food. They found that a piece of plastic had lodged in the turtle’s gastrointestinal tract. When biologists removed the obstruction, the turtle defecated 74 foreign objects in the subsequent month. Among the items documented were four types of latex balloons, five dif
mircea_popescu: so yet another reason for those ppl to import old hardware.