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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.
mircea_popescu: in order to be able to serve queries like google 2bce51603d490da5a76b56a8f36665b26ed9a4cc1da24e5eedf1101a25d96155
mircea_popescu: i wonder how long before google starts running its own blockchain
mircea_popescu: that was a 10k btc loss or thereabouts for the hapless author.
mircea_popescu: well in fairness s.dice got sold once into i don't recall but sometjhing like that, 10% of avg.
mircea_popescu: this is all a discussion of a blockchain fork, not of a software fork
mircea_popescu: it will still resolve, because the slightest randomness will amplify
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you're always on both sides of a fork. by definition.
mircea_popescu: if there's doubt it may linger, but it is possibly the most unstable situation in naturel.
mircea_popescu: so the sinking of the identifiably bad chain will flash.
mircea_popescu: everyone has an incentive to sell the loser RIGHT NOW while the price is still good
mircea_popescu: you have to appreciate the following mechanism : if there's a blockchain fork, the two forks can be sold and bought independently.
mircea_popescu: pankkake nah, that'd make it clear which is the wrong one
mircea_popescu: that's about as unlikely as your favourite gf spontaneously cloning
mircea_popescu: you could parse the blockchain for all addresses seen so far.
mircea_popescu: deadweasel o look, your friend was here. you missed him!