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mircea_popescu: kakobrekla the funniest part to me is the proeminent "paybans for the chatbox"
mircea_popescu: i have no fucking idea what they teach in school these days, but it definitely isn't english.
mircea_popescu: so i gave this chick the task to find the original latin version of the "friends, romans, countrymen" speech.
mircea_popescu: more liek, S.MPOE will be listed on ciphertrade. that's a bold bet, i'd bet on it.
mircea_popescu: this is what seems to be lost on all the forum tards : so you made a webpage. well done, you're now 15. so ?
mircea_popescu: and also something that is hard to do. putting a website up thereupon numbers are displayed is no sort of achievement.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you know, this sort of using repuitable member's naivite... that's how labscam worked with theseven for instance.
mircea_popescu: (tbg the theory where kate/craig = the newest identity of the obsi glbse scammer is one of the better)
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves on the grounds of what verifiable fact ?
mircea_popescu: see, the idea is for a bet to be about more than just the bet itself
mircea_popescu: you can't have a bet that goes "The Pope will say if this bet wins or loses"
mircea_popescu: (otherwise the business model becomes, make 50 forum accounts, herp a lot about some new "exchange", make bitbet bet, profit)
mircea_popescu: this sorts of bets aren't accepted so as not to transform bitbet into a revenue source for the forum scammers.
mircea_popescu: turbo_ac100 hard to make. as it stands, your bet would be satisfied by a ciphertrade.tripod.com webpage including a form where you can type text and that then gets published
mircea_popescu: this thing's shaping up, 13:11 btc so far. what do ye say ?
mircea_popescu: should i link to the trilema article about linking analog intercoms i wonder.
mircea_popescu: "all the people saying he's a fucktard are racist and also they didn't check their privilege"
mircea_popescu: no srsly. this is like reading whitehouse sponsored pulp as to why obama is not a fucktard.
mircea_popescu: "In truth, the best bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that"
mircea_popescu: ANDREW ROSS SORKIN may not be employed. plumb or starve.
mircea_popescu: "But if, and this is a big if, your peer-to-peer transaction doesn’t work properly, there is no central clearinghouse to complain to."
mircea_popescu: further entered into the record that matthre o'brien may never be hired in any white collar capacity.
mircea_popescu: “Every big idea starts out sounding crazy. But not every crazy-sounding idea ends up being big,” Matthew O’Brien wrote in The Atlantic in a brilliant takedown of bitcon.
mircea_popescu: let it be entered into the record that peter leeds of obscure shithole has no future in finance.
mircea_popescu: Peter Leeds of the Penny Stock newsletter put it to me this way: “In a matter of months you won’t be hearing about it. It will go the same way of Paris Hilton. People will move on to the next thing.”
mircea_popescu: srsly, it's not so hard to figure out the guy, one need but read his genius coin solutions,
mircea_popescu: someone asked me what i think of tradehill 2.o so many times i had to write a fucking article about it
mircea_popescu: someone asked me what i think of rs at least each day since the ipo.
mircea_popescu: there's ways. just, nothing at the level of where average redditor's resources are.
mircea_popescu: a third is to employ a basementful of gnomes to constantly scan the blockchain
mircea_popescu: another is to be one of the visible people to whom people come with questions as to credibility of entrepreneurs.
mircea_popescu: kleeck there's multiple ways to know. one is to know all the people who acrually could invest 10k.
mircea_popescu: yes, there are plenty of ways. just, not accessible to the public.
mircea_popescu: i think you overestimate the importance of what anon dork says in a chatter box by anywhere between 500 and 54677695 degrees of magnitude.
mircea_popescu: i have chatted with a number of people pissed off at bitbet.
mircea_popescu: o i see. well if a forum thread says so then that must be it
mircea_popescu: the burnside method, tho it was really pioneered by goat on glbse.
mircea_popescu: he raised 30 btc and self traded for the rest in the hopes of seeming like he's got interest
mircea_popescu: those same people that refuse to take good advice and do all their "investment" on just dice
mircea_popescu: <bitesak> he's returning his worthless mcx coins not the bitcoins he got in exchange for them << this
mircea_popescu: you know you can expand your horizon in the privacy of your own broswer.
mircea_popescu: in that sense bitcoin is great, cheapest finance teaching tool available.
mircea_popescu: shaping up to be bitbet's best month to date or some shit.
mircea_popescu: so you'll end up in june with low weight and people not wanting to bet.
mircea_popescu: also, too early to start that sort of wc bet now, because the interval nov 2013 - june 2014 or w/e it starts is just dead air
mircea_popescu: i suppose if you don't name any person it should be fine