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mircea_popescu: so the solution is, let's make retarded security theatre
mircea_popescu: normal people can very well buy a cheap 2nd hand laptop off ebay
mircea_popescu: pankkake mostly c. it rests on cal3d and stuiff the atomic blue peeps did
mircea_popescu: many people listen to britney spears, never made her any better.
mircea_popescu: Rulother_ it's more complicated than more people = better tho.
mircea_popescu: afrotec you know you create channels on irc by simply joining them
mircea_popescu: VanCleef thety did it all on about 100k dollars in 2012 iirc
mircea_popescu: and in the particular that nonentities do not get to fulfill fiduciary duties.
mircea_popescu: mkay. what's wrong with that in the general is that it conflates different roles,
mircea_popescu: Rulother_ not rly, in the sense i dunno who he is so i couldn't be bothered to "fuck you"
mircea_popescu: the more people froth about it, the less we give a shit actually.
mircea_popescu: afrotec dude, srsly. nobody gives a rat's ass about the most recent forum scam.
mircea_popescu: prepare yourselves for s.mg client is going to be announced imminently.
mircea_popescu: so boys and girls, i'm sitting here looking at a 500mb zipfile.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i gotta dig up the convo during the bitbet launch i think it was
mircea_popescu: psa : the girl is getting >10 marriage proposals a week by now.
mircea_popescu: <VanCleef> i just sold my house so i can get on the new activemining << this is the new "i'm only 15"
mircea_popescu: i remember when we were lolling in this chan at teh bitcoin gem
mircea_popescu: the people that did it moved on to hyping whatever other scam.
mircea_popescu: kidkrypto but to round out your question : look up bASIC. pretend-fab, was laughed out of town, blew up
mircea_popescu: either they failed to get a 2nd run going or botched it somehow, or whatever the fuck, but teh grapevine is well pissed at them.
mircea_popescu: asicminer ipo'd at .1, it was lauighed out of town. it stayed ~.1 forever
mircea_popescu: so like it or not you'll get a bunch of gimps trying to run the marathon. not much can be done about it.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well it's like this : some people can do something useful. most don't. people nevertheless are hardwired to not simply give up and die, which is a cruel joke of fate.
mircea_popescu: and then there won't be an end of it, once they go strut on their somali scammer forum
mircea_popescu: problem isn't that, problem is that there's so many idiots in btc that they'll probably make decent bank off it
mircea_popescu: and yes, i suspect VanCleef is right. we have a team of scammers working the "investor" angle on the forum.
mircea_popescu: why would something have the same mkt cap as asicminer ?!
mircea_popescu: dexX7 you know, these things seem fascinating new stuff for you because you haven't been following mpex.
mircea_popescu: Ukyo last set of payouts went out ~1 hour ago. i don't see anything pending
mircea_popescu: as imo any other avenue is unworkable for those reason
mircea_popescu: jurov basically i intend to just bridge them through 1BTC corp shares <-> s.mpoe shares
mircea_popescu: is that the first guy to spend 50 bucks has made everyone dirt poor again
mircea_popescu: the problem with 5000 people getting rich offa fiddy bucks