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mircea_popescu: but your open question is quite acute. i have ~9k of stale capital right now which i can't sanely keep in a bond till i need it.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea what people in the loan business are looking for. from what i gather it's postcount maybe ?
mircea_popescu: neither "can be provided", it's not for sale and its not outsourceable.
mircea_popescu: patrick harnett had (presumably) the experience, but not the backing. it went in the toilet.
mircea_popescu: gigavps had the backing but not the experience. it went in the toilet.
mircea_popescu: bonds are issued by specialists with experience and backing.
mircea_popescu: currently a bunch of nobodies are issuing paper they call bonds. that's not what bonds are.
mircea_popescu: and even to this day in romanian "terrorist" is short for "pig in a poke"
mircea_popescu: came out on TV explaining that "the country is being destabilised" by "terrorists"
mircea_popescu: here's something pretty much nobody else would likely know : when the widely impopular, utterly illegal, russian-sponsored communist regime collapsed in Romania, the respective african tyrant (ceausescu, good friends with idi amin and the zaire guy etc)
mircea_popescu: jcpham i guess further proof that the only business model for that is having a pirate around.
mircea_popescu: everyone's mom is fuckable. by the definition of the term mom
mircea_popescu: apparently bitcointalk is attracting ever more bold scammors.
mircea_popescu: Sure. And some of you buy blocks of shares. Some of you bid on 50 shares @ 2.5 BTC. No. Give me some of that. I have REAL bills to pay, not "investment money" to throw around. Now, given that I'm not a beggar, and that I either work for my money, or take it (which is work, believe me), there's really only one way to get a piece of that action.
mircea_popescu: and because we hope to make some money on the side for the future.
mircea_popescu: i think technically there's like 3 people in Africa somewhere
mircea_popescu: ok you buncha scammor wannabes. which of you is cool enough to have his own posters made ? huh ?
mircea_popescu: i knew this romanian once and she was originally from nigeria.
mircea_popescu: and maybe if we're real close pony is friendbuttship nohomo together...
mircea_popescu: jcpham well he had no choice lol, he knew i can see through his shit ironically enough.
mircea_popescu: jcpham how the fuck are you 99% serious im not pirate is the beef.
mircea_popescu: tbh it's kinda annoying. in the good old days when mpoe was the bitcoin's largest public corp, first to go over 100mn valuation etc it was one thing. but these days am is like what, > 1 mn btcs
mircea_popescu: sorry to burst that bubble, but pirate kinda is surpassed by many multiples.
mircea_popescu: well it's also building a new model caltrop but i forgot to mention.
mircea_popescu: proximo- you get scorn for loaded questions and answers for actual questions. pick your poison.