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mircea_popescu: which is after 90% of its lifetime.
mircea_popescu: roughly speaking it became improfitable at about 10k weight.
mircea_popescu: you want to make money on the dead horse ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well it's pretty much defunct now, but my point is it being liquid when it closes.
mircea_popescu: how many people need to hedge exposures over hundreds of btc ?
mircea_popescu: the august diff bet is like 130 btc total pot.
mircea_popescu: point in case. ppl know by now
mircea_popescu: http://bitbet.us/bet/495/there-will-be-blood/#c1168
mircea_popescu: and from ewxperuience large bets get covered.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves in principle there's not much keeping you from making any bets you want, two weeks, a week, w/e.
mircea_popescu: lol nasdaq.
mircea_popescu: tsk, it covers. looky :
mircea_popescu: so make em ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves how do you mean ?
mircea_popescu: hedge tools too advanced yet.
mircea_popescu: miners are still struggling with eating using forks
mircea_popescu: i guess one could arb the hash and the diff bets
mircea_popescu: this is like 3:1 for some reason
mircea_popescu: http://bitbet.us/bet/496/btc-network-hashrate-will-exceed-1-000-th-s-before/
mircea_popescu: .d
mircea_popescu: 69mn by end of sept is like 11:!
mircea_popescu: http://bitbet.us/bet/490/btc-network-difficulty-to-top-69-million-by/
mircea_popescu: bout 2:!
mircea_popescu: http://bitbet.us/bet/508/btc-network-difficulty-to-top-500mn-before-xmas/
mircea_popescu: i saw a bet for 500mn by xmas
mircea_popescu: i guess teh pizzas be cheap then.
mircea_popescu: half a mil sounds right.
mircea_popescu: and i said "you'll see in a coupla months" ?
mircea_popescu: who was asking me for evidence they're running fractional reserve two months ago ?
mircea_popescu: Drescher took the paper that was offered him and put it into the toaster, saying: “I wish the toaster to be happy, too.”
mircea_popescu: “I would like to give you this personality test”, said the outsider, “because I want you to be happy.”
mircea_popescu: A disciple of another sect once came to Drescher as he was eating his morning meal.
mircea_popescu: but here, have another one :
mircea_popescu: it's a koan, it doesn't have a moral.
mircea_popescu: there.
mircea_popescu: The machine worked.
mircea_popescu: Knight turned the machine off and on.
mircea_popescu: Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.”
mircea_popescu: A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.
mircea_popescu: lemme find it
mircea_popescu: from quux iirc.
mircea_popescu: it was a quote tho
mircea_popescu: <Rulother> you know you can't just power cycle a machine with no idea what's going on :D ☟︎
mircea_popescu: they want random idiot to bring his friends, random idiots as himself.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it's a marketing tactic.
mircea_popescu: some mamie van doren exploitation
mircea_popescu: "Sisters Penny and Jane Lowe are arrested for hitchhiking and skinny dipping and are sentenced to work on a rural farm for a corrupt agricultural magnate named Tropp."
mircea_popescu: Ozymandias_ wasn't discolsed.
mircea_popescu: this explains eskimo bob.
mircea_popescu: gecko_x2 start importing alcohols for btc
mircea_popescu: a busienss is born.
mircea_popescu: gecko_x2 rthat's a property of all good spirits (ie, not industrially produced crap)
mircea_popescu: http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSPiep73CcCrHxh79sj3NglHrjslKm6t6a-Q8etBLIlD3OdvIjwNw
mircea_popescu: gecko_x2 he's not started drinking professionally yet :D
mircea_popescu: cheap nobrand instant is made out of dead indian baby girls
mircea_popescu: i wonder how long h lasts.
mircea_popescu: this guy's been on a beder for days now.
mircea_popescu: VanCleef ya, kind of famous for it.
mircea_popescu: lolk
mircea_popescu: so if the magic five sell their shares ?!
mircea_popescu: ah
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves so if i buy X seats i could take your asset offline ?
mircea_popescu: i think someone's about to misspell vagina
mircea_popescu: i wonder if any troll registered asicminer yet on the forum
mircea_popescu: cause name ?!
mircea_popescu: Urushiol i thought dead terra ran icething ?
mircea_popescu: any information actually came forth so far ?
mircea_popescu: gotta keep the offensive structured.
mircea_popescu: let's not spoil our perfectly good sexism with racist overtones plz.
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: honey is more women to men i think.
mircea_popescu: sugar or honey. hm.
mircea_popescu: i think sugar is universally more dismissive than baby
mircea_popescu: but hey.
mircea_popescu: i'd have went with "sugar" rather than "baby"
mircea_popescu: uncharacteristically.
mircea_popescu: its work safe
mircea_popescu: http://171.67.24.121/tobacco_web/images/tobacco_ads/targeting_women/womens_lib/large/lib_14.jpg
mircea_popescu: good girls don't wear panties.
mircea_popescu: in 2014, once the bitcoin foundation approves the new bfl protocol.
mircea_popescu: Rulother they will.
mircea_popescu: ok kakobrekla that's win.
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: pinch nipples instead. better for all involved.
mircea_popescu: yea
mircea_popescu: i could think of alternative uses more wasteful.
mircea_popescu: so you gave some developers some dough.
mircea_popescu: how do you waste money on xchat ?
mircea_popescu: what's your last name ?
mircea_popescu: you can change your name for the cost of a sworn affidavit.
mircea_popescu: make a fucking name for yourself. jokes are good for as long as you wear short pants.
mircea_popescu: you need to forget about the entire thieves thing.
mircea_popescu: not like ignorance should defer to experience or anything. kleeck called it!
mircea_popescu: but hey, teh ppl know better.
mircea_popescu: and the sort of problem it will cause.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves if you recall, i explained when they introduiced it why it's a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: neither of these are likely. neither of these is impossible.
mircea_popescu: you can guess there's probably more than 1-2k btc wanting asicminer today. what if it flash dropped 90% ?
mircea_popescu: also, to be always remembered, liquidity is a fickle beast. it appears solid when not needed. take the more obvious case of a casino : if a dice site is making btc, it has investors. what if it's 50k btc under on 100k btc total played ?
mircea_popescu: trying to provide some semblance of balance.