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mircea_popescu: kleeck dude, i spent two months getting people to accept some scammy miner friend of giga's was not in fact 15.
mircea_popescu: Aug 12 22:39:26 <kleeck>I've been trying to keep it on the DL.
mircea_popescu: Aug 12 22:39:21 <ThickAsThieves>i cant help but reach for my tinfoil hat nonetheless
mircea_popescu: ya well... tjhis is the internet. there is no context.
mircea_popescu: well da fuck i took the "someone" seruiously who was it!
mircea_popescu: kleeck aren't you purporting to run some asicminer clone with 0 btc cred ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the buy your own shit fund is really a dubious thing to do.
mircea_popescu: the fact that tjhey do it nevertheless marks them up for idiots, like our friend kleek here.
mircea_popescu: it's not something unknowns should be doing at any rate.
mircea_popescu: like that epic fucktard who wanted asicminer to cover whatever btc he lost by giving it to some unknown that claimed he'll group buy erruptors
mircea_popescu: and send them packing once the inevitable "someone should intervene to prevent us from being stupid" start arising
mircea_popescu: the only thing is to universally bitchslap the idiots who thought they were "investing" once it goes south,
mircea_popescu: it'll have to sift itself back out, it takes a little time.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves there's just a little btc that found its way into the hands of idiots.
mircea_popescu: you read the girl's post on rational investment and commodified markets ?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell dexx7 he was for about a month, but didn't do too much so i let it drop.
mircea_popescu: dub actually i lolled at the "2013 | June | There are now twice as much people hating Mircea Popescu as holding litecoins" stuff
mircea_popescu: what's the worst they're gonna do, make us all see colors ?
mircea_popescu: in this circumstance i couldn't care less what the pill people do.
mircea_popescu: there's the idiotic scammers eating from one end and the idiotic bureaucrats eating from the other.
mircea_popescu: at about the approximate rate at which the various rotten reeds "involved" in bitcoin snap all around.
mircea_popescu: this wasn't much of an issue six months ago. it's becoming a huge issue quite rapidly,
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller the lists just change. there's worse problems for bitcoin atm than a bunch of stoners
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller bitcoin went up 10x and the usg started making moves since then.
mircea_popescu: at this point they could just hire garzik for a croissant. he'd do it just to be involved.
mircea_popescu: what's confirmed failure ? shower pics showing 17 yo azn masturbating in shower ?
mircea_popescu: dub which am ? asicminer ? activemining ? amethyst ? astromunging ?
mircea_popescu: course i'd have ended it with him getting both girls pregnant, but that's me.
mircea_popescu: but as that's not the case... well... "the market is saying".
mircea_popescu: i'd sell about 20mn shares if it actually existed on an actually functioning market where one could do such things.
mircea_popescu: im not much for sci fi games usually so i didn't even know that existed
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves there's a dearth of bloggers covering btc anyway.
mircea_popescu: unlike gold which is randsom and paper which is polirtical
mircea_popescu: i thought he had a pretty decenty point : bitcoin is the most regulated currency in history, because new issuance happens accoerding to strict rules.
mircea_popescu: in the sense that they were discussed here in the last however long, few hours
mircea_popescu: TomServo there was an earlier article about some eager ny da supoena-ing people.
mircea_popescu: there's the people doin bitcoin, there's the people hoping the usg might make them relvant in bitcoin. distinct lists.
mircea_popescu: he ran off with some federal bank investigation, causing an uproar inside