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mircea_popescu: am is dieing because a bunch of people who think themsleves rich on paper tried to realise a pizza's worth of that wealth
mircea_popescu: fractal of those five there have to be at least one of each
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you say that to womenz in barz don't you.
mircea_popescu: fractal a degree of magnitude more wasn't enough for mtgox once they stepped on the wrong lines.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, AMethyst is definitely real, just, real in its own way.
mircea_popescu: "two weeks" is this magical future time of myth and legend when people fly and live in submerged cities
mircea_popescu: in the latest development of wow, eve 1Bitcoin members want me to sell them fractions of shares now ;/
mircea_popescu: fractal yeah, but people might WANT to use the same addy just for that. and if they don't... well so fine then
mircea_popescu: VanCleef the main concern is that the 1BN diff bet by next year is about even odds atm
mircea_popescu: and in general, if you review the history... patrick harnett was "controversial" until he met his end.
mircea_popescu: there's no controversy about his participation in that particular bfl attempted scam.
mircea_popescu: when Luke-Jr did this exact thing for bfl, a) bitbet didn't go for it and b) his reputation, such as it was, was permanently ruined.
mircea_popescu: and even if the chips miss their chip performance, a unit maker could have a board with enough chips on it to meet whatever arbitrary performance he wants.
mircea_popescu: but afaik bitfury makes the chips and independent ppl make the boards/units.
mircea_popescu: fractal but ThickAsThieves has a point, there's multiple manufactuers, one could compensate at pcb level.
mircea_popescu: i think he comes by occasionally, but don't recall seeing him recently.
mircea_popescu: so i just asumed it's the same thing this time. i guess ask the guy if you're curious.
mircea_popescu: he had a different bet a few months ago where he actually put 100 btc down on yes, which i had verified then
mircea_popescu: well, it was zeroconf for like 10 btc (you can see this because the yes bet is before the site's own yes/no seed bets)
mircea_popescu: it's mostly his money on the yes anyway, afaik, so what can i tell you.
mircea_popescu: some users get pissed off with the eventual results on occasion, but what can you do.
mircea_popescu: they may be btctalk users, with the reservation that post count is meaningless on its own, and it does not institute credibility.
mircea_popescu: well you don't get to know who specifically arbitrates for obvious reasons. the site does.
mircea_popescu: at any rate you will now have to send them your voting record and tonsilectomy result to approve the order and any future orders.
mircea_popescu: nah, atm there's going to be a six months stretch of wtf amongm the various bureaucrats in the us
mircea_popescu: rather than represent them as any of the numerous things they're not.
mircea_popescu: the one noteworthy thing is that the press correctly identified the group as representatives of bitcoin foundation, which they are, and bitcoin advocates, which they also are
mircea_popescu: their one hope is your one hope, which is to say educating themselves. the exact thing you don't want to do, because everything's the same and everyone's equal or w/e.
mircea_popescu: they aren't a part of the discussion of bitcoin other than as historical accident, nor of bitcoin securities at all.
mircea_popescu: stargazing noobs hoping their irrelevancy may somehow be soothed and their poverty magically alleviated moved from glbse to btct
mircea_popescu: the two populations have nothing in common. people with a clue are already on mpex, and have been, long before btct was even invented.
mircea_popescu: the ceo of airbus does point out when some scam killing people pops up pretending to be airbuz
mircea_popescu: you don't understand what you don't understand, actually.
mircea_popescu: im sorry if reality contradicts your pedestrian equalitarianism. grow up and all that.
mircea_popescu: dexX7 my standpoint is that as long as you're allowed to mortgage park avenue and pay your monopoly debts in parker dollars bitbet is no different, and as long as you aren't allowed the foregoing the entire discussion is moot anyway and croix de lorraine.
mircea_popescu: you know, it's much like politicians : the corrupt ones love it when the public thinks all politicians are corrupt.