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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
mircea_popescu: i wish more people listened back when i was saying we really DON'T want more noobs.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile all the cretinous americans buying btc for dollars and giving it to scammers are doing btc a huge disservice.
mircea_popescu: and why shouldn't they, because on the internet nobody can be a dog against their will
mircea_popescu: so basically everyone wants to be mpoe on their say so
mircea_popescu: maybe in a decade or two they actually get the jerkwads doing it.
mircea_popescu: and im spending enough in rents a month to buy an apartment here.
mircea_popescu: sort of like a pizzeria will say "people" love pizza. totally more than cock persay.
mircea_popescu: "796 Exchange IPO will sccess before Auguest 3rd 2013"
mircea_popescu: dub cause i dunno wtf sense that film makes if you've not read the book.