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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
mircea_popescu: pankkake you'll have to write-up the many advantages being anon has for me sometime.
mircea_popescu: people who bet no early stand a chance to see even 10x their bet.
mircea_popescu: something awful got incredibly bothered that their "bitcoin buys nothing irl" winner argument got sunk by "here's tits, here's ass lol"
mircea_popescu: pankkake ironically, all teh peeps ranting about how bitbet is a smalltime this that and the other,
mircea_popescu: i suppose mpoe-pr should give the 10 bitcoin guy the buttcoin picture and make it all even.
mircea_popescu: but that's ok, because while bitbet is still here, the "community" of one is gone,
mircea_popescu: actually. that thread was about claiming that bitbet is a scam because bfl delivered and bitbet resolved the bet WRONGLY!!!
mircea_popescu: pankkake i imagine she got a buncha people's small cow with springs by that comment.
mircea_popescu: drmandude you can easily verify it pays because well... go to an opld bet, click on the payout links
mircea_popescu: the girl makes btctalk reports which i occasionalyl read.
mircea_popescu: the result of this is that if you bet very late you may end up with like a <1% loss
mircea_popescu: drmandude the idea here is, that if a bet runs for say a month, and you put 1 btc when it opens, some dude betting like 3 weeks later can't get as much as you do of the winnings
mircea_popescu: lol hi there. you were mentioned in despatches earlier.
mircea_popescu: well, bitbet takes 1%. if you don't get at least 1% from the winnings pool, you walk out short.
mircea_popescu: wait a minute. the mcxnow was related to the realsolid guy ?
mircea_popescu: way to go john q public, you got more things wrong than there even were on the test!
mircea_popescu: not only i'm overeducated and pretty close to that billion, but it seems it even correlates inversely.