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mircea_popescu: based on the actual block frequency and the diff i mean.
mircea_popescu: you know the "network rate" is backwards-interpolated based on the actual nethash right ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves ironically enough a guy vby the name brendio was drafting the same thing about may 2012
mircea_popescu: banks routinely keep mpoe-pr people on staff, to berate idiots over the phone for being idiotic in the hopes they may be pushed to suicide.
mircea_popescu: Chase bank and another bank, have both decided that we as a Bitcoin based business are "Too High Risk" of clients, and have frozen/shut down our accounts. We were NOT given notice, and we were simply told "your funds will be sent to you by check within 30 days". This is not something we were ever warned about, given notice of, or even received the courtesy of a phone call from the bank beforehand.
mircea_popescu: actually it's pretty funny, clueless idiot indignation.
mircea_popescu: well actually he's a fat guy from the midwest who pretends to be a juvenile japanese female with magicval powers, karate expertise
mircea_popescu: was a sight to behold. course like 1k posts were meanwhile deleted
mircea_popescu: usagi : MPOE-PR likes to make quips at me for some reason.
mircea_popescu: inaba drama continues, more twists, more turns. net result +2.
mircea_popescu: you'd be faster in that just because it's actually programmable.
mircea_popescu: * ThickAsThieves has been canned by assbot forever for using Adobe.
mircea_popescu: On Wednesday, Dotcom said that he would have bought back all of Megaupload's servers from the companies that hosted them, but he was unable to because the DoJ had frozen all of the company's assets and refused to release even a portion of them for the purpose.
mircea_popescu: how did they confiscate his btc ? wasn't he a big deal btc investor with like the twinkletwinks or w/e ?
mircea_popescu: the story here is kim guy had ALL his moneys confiscatered so now can't pay leaseweb for servers.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves so wait. kim guy is supposedly into bitcoin, has not a dime left to buy servers ?
mircea_popescu: dude there's a rift straight to hell oppened two houses down
mircea_popescu: brb going outside checking for the fucking rift straight to hell
mircea_popescu: she's super at her job, while delivering nothing whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: "Seems that the well known yet little discussed fact that the majority of people "in Bitcoin" have a mental age of about nine is finally being recognized and exploited commercially."
mircea_popescu: i guess half the us catholic church has jalapeno preorders ?
mircea_popescu: seeing there's so many liberated tweens running around doing bzns and other serious shit
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla except bet refunds suck and the basis is weak and the no scammer tags fits the literasl no ;/
mircea_popescu: because in a village of scammy idiots, running any sort of legitimate business is significantly morer difficult.
mircea_popescu: unforeseen circumstances clause can never cover the "bet subject acts in a deliberately deceitful manner"
mircea_popescu: yeah, that is exactly what i said : vetting of bets is poorly designed, in that it allows things to reference bitcoin people
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves this theory falls apart once you try to apply it to the point at hand.
mircea_popescu: it's funny tjhat the cognitive idiot actually imagined his shit move is going to help his rep.
mircea_popescu: run a bitcointalk bet ? bitcointalk changes the respective behaviour
mircea_popescu: is to not involve anyone else. because if tyou do, sooner or later
mircea_popescu: basically the only way to run a legitimate business in bitcoin
mircea_popescu: "All you people in this thread DO KNOW what 'Corporate Espionage' is right?? That it can carry serious jail time."
mircea_popescu: X.IDIFF.JUN has settled. contract holders received .19339258 per contract.