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mircea_popescu: dub what's wrong with printing at the site you cut the tree ?
mircea_popescu: 100k EuropeCoin (Not launched, yet but statistically there will be a EuropeCoin by the time you read this)
mircea_popescu: in sane world we'd immediately think this is fraud. but to these muppets it's not really it.
mircea_popescu: fiat500 the point would be "being a good person", as per the rules of the mystical space.
mircea_popescu: you can actually even follow cultural markers by people's community age.
mircea_popescu: (look up the older glbse tradition of people "donating" stuff to their public "venture")
mircea_popescu: tjhere's an entire gift economy involved in mucking up dividends for instance.
mircea_popescu: this may be the best argument in favour of my "thirld world shitholer is teh us" thesis.
mircea_popescu: pretty much all the expectations you'd build on a levy-strauss model are amply represented.
mircea_popescu: and they being financially illiterate there's no finance included.
mircea_popescu: for plenty of peeps bitcoin is the world of their dreams and aspirations
mircea_popescu: just take the following simple observation : the us plebs think "being mean" is bad juju
mircea_popescu: it's a mishmash of performance, sacrifice to the gods (and for the record most souls in btc have a very shamanistical relarton to btc, their own "reputation" etc)
mircea_popescu: not quite. i am personally fascinated by the thing from an anthropologic perspective.
mircea_popescu: fiat500 you clearly don't understand the concept of btc dividends.
mircea_popescu: well whoever made the rejected ripple price bet based on ripplewhatever.com as a price signal
mircea_popescu: i wonder if they have a MPOE-PR said our stupiod idea sucks support group
mircea_popescu: basically it's like the costume parties they do for kids birthdays, but for office types.
mircea_popescu: jborkl there's an entire industry doing this. i call it the freakshow.
mircea_popescu: if i had excess intel capacity i could prolly find her pic
mircea_popescu: what i want to know is literally whose girlfriend was whored out. because this deal was closed by sucking cock, and these people don't have slaves/employees/etc.
mircea_popescu: it was just a case of "make some shit to pump, quick, quick, i got these vcs sorta interested"
mircea_popescu: i don't mean nobody qualified. i mean nobody at all, not even the webdevelopers involved.
mircea_popescu: you know for a fact that no more than X txs can ever occur ?
mircea_popescu: so let's for the sake of absurdism admit it ever gets used.
mircea_popescu: come to think about it... ripple is backed by bad accounting.
mircea_popescu: which half is which is left as an exercise to the reader.
mircea_popescu: yeah. this channel is ~half trolls and ~half all the BTC in circulation.
mircea_popescu: perhaps it should be named "evil lizzards from outer space", that list.
mircea_popescu: "yet another butthurt Bitcoin fraudster throws a fit. come one, come all"
mircea_popescu: should have thought through the consequences before rather than deplore them after.
mircea_popescu: obviously enough, a known liar will be publicly despised.
mircea_popescu: May 29 01:30:01 <fiat500>so many shitty neighborhoods didnt get fiber because the community was like "wtf we dont even have a computer at home"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves some people have big cocks. whatever they go into, they stretch.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves just be sure you don't drive with any cash on you in any of the countless counties where the police raids the highways.
mircea_popescu: jurov romania is actually a net contributor to the eu.
mircea_popescu: i re-wrote their principles, they liked it, if they stick to it they'll take over
mircea_popescu: jurov wouldn't be the first time a bunch of kids with no resources and no management fail to accomplish that which they could easily do, with resources and with management.