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mircea_popescu: half way into it the poor undergrad camwho doing the write-up is just... mentally exhausted.
mircea_popescu: this is the most retarded write-up of security i saw this year.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves im notoriously bad at this dividend crap. just ask jurov.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i guess this qualifies as an unjustified accelerated dividend and therefore A SCAM
mircea_popescu: FabianB well the bitbet ipo was so that once this 3mn shares sell we get teh rest of our shares allocated.
mircea_popescu: there will be a 1.88896099 BTC charge on next month to make it whole. unless i forget.
mircea_popescu: basically last month i paid the 3mn shares on mpex as if they were the whole 10mn. which they aren't.
mircea_popescu: july Profit : 5.75330454 BTC / 1.72599069 BTC on 04-08-13 ; aug Profit : 2.69851570 BTC / 2.69851526 BTC
mircea_popescu: heh. turns out, FabianB, that last month i fucked up the bitbet divs too.
mircea_popescu: Timing buffered disk reads: 5758 MB in 3.00 seconds = 1919.23 MB/sec
mircea_popescu: but srsly, it'd be more cost effective to buy 1 kilo of coke from the fbi
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the only way it makes sense to be paying 200 btc to advertise on btctalk ius if you're not paying 200 btc.
mircea_popescu: if we're going to discover theymos was faking his auctions cognitive style...
mircea_popescu: there's something amiss here. that thing isn't going to make 200 btc over its lifetime.
mircea_popescu: by now this "we're the first" and the "we're the largest" markers are pretty clear indications of dipshit 20something year old deadpirateroberts-ism.
mircea_popescu: Ukto tried to run something called hashpower after pirate's coin minter scam support thing floundered, and THAT was 2nd generation
mircea_popescu: "CEX.IO is the first and leading commodity exchange in the Bitcoin community. Here you can buy or sell GHashes"
mircea_popescu: on one hand, the govt taking the trouble to peel some of the bottom layers of idiot muppets off btc is great.
mircea_popescu: the irony, of course, is that so far this quite strengthens bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform indeed it was never explained just how the fake ids dpr guy bought were discovered in the mail.
mircea_popescu: me either. i've probably been at it longer than you. i think we will die and it will endure mysterious.
mircea_popescu: okay, when's the last time you updated the software in your girlfriend ?
mircea_popescu: i wonder if there's some underground forum distributing teenage cunt and assorted pills to people on the basis of how many lead developer roles they fail to fill.
mircea_popescu: "All help and contributions in getting Bitwasp completed are very much appreciated as the time of the lead developers is currently very limited."
mircea_popescu: the lower the barriers the better the movie. bring popcorns.
mircea_popescu: "BitWasp is an open source project which aims to lower the barrier for anyone to set up there own secure, anonymous marketplace. "
mircea_popescu: something like that would theoretically qualify, i suppose.
mircea_popescu: the idea is to make objects which depend on no externality. as long as they function, they function securely, and this as a matter of fact rather than convention.
mircea_popescu: and for the other, take lavabit as a convenient example. the theoretical privacy offered by the service depended on a godaddy ssl cert and the owner's resistance to fbi court orders.
mircea_popescu: or "as long as you use gizmo Y, your data will be absolutely destroyed if you fart. no exceptions."
mircea_popescu: such as, "as long as you use gizmo X, there is no way for anyone to listen in to your coversation. no matter what."
mircea_popescu: it's what it is tho, make integrated hardware-and-software products that make absolute guarantees
mircea_popescu: i plan to make a post tomorrow detailing what the plan is,