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mircea_popescu: atm i was lolling at the fact that somehow me and the girl are the topic of the fake-asicminer thread.
mircea_popescu: giving shit allows you to string out the idiots and only the idiots for years, as bfl has recently proven but otherwise as it's been documented ot high heavens already.
mircea_popescu: so, giving out "Actual updates" might put you in the worst position ever : get the attention of a lot of people who are mostly sane, and so won't ever let you scam them.
mircea_popescu: false positives are the only major cost of the spammer.
mircea_popescu: it's badly spelled because this way it repells the smart people early.
mircea_popescu: as i've said about fiddy times, it's not badly spelled and badly thought out because nobody in nigeria can be found who can spell
mircea_popescu: scams work on greedy idiots with inferiority complexes.
mircea_popescu: the idea is to discourage the thinking people and emotionally enslave the idiots.
mircea_popescu: it's a matter of some scammers creating a fake asicminer and trying to pump it.
mircea_popescu: much more interesting would be the skamskimo bob's asset report for july
mircea_popescu: it costs about that much to get hard currency out of the country. simple as that.
mircea_popescu: which is counterintuitive. perhaps people are all relieved that the whole thing didn't collapse.
mircea_popescu: but the later part works if you're offline. which makes it useful.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell exocyst if you're looking for explanations as to why the "mining stocks" ie scams have been deflating the past days it has absolutely nothing to do with any wsj article.
mircea_popescu: dexX7 they have a long history of outright lieing in their press releases.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i can't say it shouldn't, obviously. which is the similarity with ThickAsThieves' situation.
mircea_popescu: teh people. will not read, then behave as if that changes reality.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves good luck with that. s.mg trades at 2.5x book for some reason
mircea_popescu: jurov will be tomorrow the earliest, there's some trouble with the blockchain
mircea_popescu: mining will be pushed ot the extreme. in spite of thios not making more blocks a day or more bitcoins a block,
mircea_popescu: but to get back : great if they did manage it, and if they didn't it's still unavoidable.
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin Examiner has been gathering rumors around the web and was informed by an anonymous source about this highly secretive meeting, which is set to occur this Monday or Tuesday" ehehe
mircea_popescu: depends how you want to look at it. on one hand 200 is more than 4 or w/e. on the other, something that happened is more than something that's announced.
mircea_popescu: every week there's something announced/promised/etc. that part
mircea_popescu: (well, minus bfl, which was starting to figure it out towards the end)
mircea_popescu: that's why all the forum scams are so lulzy, in the end. going exactly the wrong way
mircea_popescu: we have a grand tradition of winning through not giving a shit about "people" in btc.
mircea_popescu: tv spots woulsd be the single most stupid use of investment.
mircea_popescu: saulimus less than ipo is still more than nothing, aka fundamental value.
mircea_popescu: <smidge> either way the captcha is a joke / <kakobrekla> so far its prooven beyond expectations << probably tiome to start a bash.assets ?
mircea_popescu: if people were in on all the jokes would there still be lolz to be had ?
mircea_popescu: still. i guess all the people that wondered why i'm rejecting tor for mpex back during the floods have more reasons to scratch their heads.