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mircea_popescu: anyway, being in some random azn country and not a national prolly insulates him
mircea_popescu: lol i guess you could read it that way if you wanted to.
mircea_popescu: why do you think activeminer exists in the first place ?
mircea_popescu: the "exchange" got ot pretend like it exists and it matters.
mircea_popescu: the "random user" got to pretend like "everyone's investing in pirate" as a sell point.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` glbse worked with goat and "the bankers" to fake volumes.
mircea_popescu: secure they can't be. run by experts they are not. what is left ?
mircea_popescu: how would you expect three websites posing as exchanges to differentiate ?
mircea_popescu: that you then can claim that your broken insecure piee of crud is "betteR" than any other random broken insecure piece of crud
mircea_popescu: o look, asicminer beat on dividend and so activeminer surges. LOGC!!
mircea_popescu: someone should invite rms, then feed him parrot stu for breakfast
mircea_popescu: Sep 16 01:12:28 <mircea_popescu>Diablo-D3 because by now not that many people can be bothered to invite him anywhere.
mircea_popescu: well i have no way of knowing wtf you're doing lol. anyway.
mircea_popescu: fact : 50% of people on skype are naked from the waist down.
mircea_popescu: the op takes it as a signal to give the couch audition,
mircea_popescu: this is how ThickAsThieves gets laid all the time. he asks the op what they want,
mircea_popescu: doesn't make much difference, i recall people were like staying up for the bitbet one
mircea_popescu: i am known for two things : being an arrogant mysoginistic asshole pig
mircea_popescu: well, it's a novelty item, but not fundamentally useful.
mircea_popescu: wasting the time of restaurant owners with trying to handle in-store btc payments as if those have a future opr even make sense
mircea_popescu: i think it's the fundamental cluelessness of people missing this obvcious poitn that has everyone trying to push bitcoin on any and all, as if that's a good idea
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the fact that people do is what keeps things moving along smoothly.
mircea_popescu: see, many things that exist today are sueful to you indirectly.
mircea_popescu: other than because its existance keeps governments in check.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` no reason. btc is for rich people who want to keep savings.
mircea_popescu: jurov so centralised store credit on top of bitcoin :)
mircea_popescu: in), you will probably cash into whatever local currency from Bitcoin (be it Unified Standard Dubaloos or Universally Simplified Dosidoes or whatever else) but all that is entirely different a story.
mircea_popescu: For the reasons noted and for many other reasons I am pretty much satisfied that Bitcoin is not nor will it ever be a direct means of payment for retail anything. You may end up paying for a month’s worth of coffee vouchers at your favourite coffee shop via Bitcoin (so shop scrip built on top of Bitcoin), you may end up settling your accounts monthly at the restaurant in Bitcoin (so store credit built on top of Bitco
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla atms are designed to work offline on a reconciliatory basis, it's a complex thing
mircea_popescu: your application could be safe, in which case you're safe.
mircea_popescu: your application could be buggy, in which case you'll get owned, maybe.
mircea_popescu: be it a stick, the net card or some hid, a data feed is a data feed.
mircea_popescu: well so inasmuch as it's some datafeed i fail to see the problem.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` is this some sort of windows specific thing ?
mircea_popescu: i dont know much about trezor, never used it, never considered it.
mircea_popescu: tyhe internet just hums along, so it's psychologically small.
mircea_popescu: it makes you physically insert something, this is psychologically big
mircea_popescu: you only perceive higher risk because it's more visible to you.
mircea_popescu: you're just protecting against something that's more visible to you, hence the shamanism.
mircea_popescu: understand. as long as you're on the internet it's already thus tattooed.
mircea_popescu: seems out of place, we'd think your resistance is inside, or else you wouldn't be doing the deepthroating.
mircea_popescu: your concern however comes while you've got a number of dicks down your throat already
mircea_popescu: it boggles me that you think plugging in a hotwallet is substantially different from plugging in a net card.