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mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the thing is you want to somehpw target ppl who already have btc
mircea_popescu: apparently there's a reporter nao.
mircea_popescu: http://www.btcreporter.com/2013/05/18/bitcoins-future-should-be-more-of-the-same/
mircea_popescu: there's no gaining experience outside of doing a lot of work wtf.
mircea_popescu: furuknap things you do for experience aren't worth it by default.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves this is correct. nevertheless advertising for btc merc is very difficult.
mircea_popescu: and that's the list afaik.
mircea_popescu: there is casascius, who's trying his best to parlay his coin thing into some sort of bitcoin relevance, but other than that dubious benefit i doubt he made much actual profit
mircea_popescu: haven't seen him of late either.
mircea_popescu: there was that guy with the bitcoin buttons etc, i bought some, erik bought some, so it was pretty hot stuff for a while. i doubt he made much profit if anything.
mircea_popescu: to date i don't think any btc merchandising did well, in spite of the apparently great siotuation (as there's no ip holder to pay out)
mircea_popescu: impersonal you obviously
mircea_popescu: and so the story goes
mircea_popescu: then you can get upset cause you have to suck my cock to list on mpex
mircea_popescu: there's no money in tshirts. anyone with half a finance clue can tell you this
mircea_popescu: myeah.
mircea_popescu: and then i forget what next
mircea_popescu: he said o no no no wrong wrong
mircea_popescu: the girl made some comments about how his income is collapsing
mircea_popescu: iirc some tshirt maker made an ipo
mircea_popescu: how is that coming along
mircea_popescu: o hey, that asset thing
mircea_popescu: pizzaman1337 mjr_ i think said he was going
mircea_popescu: nospinzy try bitcoin-dev.
mircea_popescu: the bitfury bet now 90 to 150 or some shit
mircea_popescu: no sucking involved.
mircea_popescu: Chaang-Noi it is a good company. just as soon as it's willing to go legitimate it can list.
mircea_popescu: o hey, mpex is going down again ?
mircea_popescu: investments are investments.
mircea_popescu: better than internet stuff.
mircea_popescu: WILLdude you should probably start with a basic textbook, something found at a public library
mircea_popescu: ;;google options finance
mircea_popescu: there it is.
mircea_popescu: http://polimedia.us/trilema/2013/the-cool-kids/
mircea_popescu: has to be new. only noobs are clueless enough to go "you Sir, are a SNIOP." at MPOE-PR
mircea_popescu: a la winklevoss and venesses and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: BitHub nah, it's always freaks & failures that make the loud noises.
mircea_popescu: if we weren;t out here causing trouble how would the bitcoin go up up up ?
mircea_popescu: not sure how well this will scale if more ppl get involved but what the heck.
mircea_popescu: yeah so far.
mircea_popescu: who are you blehg ?
mircea_popescu: haha okay.
mircea_popescu: or how does this get handled ?
mircea_popescu: alrighty, 1 btc. how do we escrow ?
mircea_popescu: you actually want to piss away money on something as stupid as "who is the next idiot who thinks he's as important to bitcoin as bitcoin is to his empty life" ?
mircea_popescu: and im publishing this.
mircea_popescu: you're on.
mircea_popescu: my money's on neil being the next bitcoin ceojesus
mircea_popescu: Neil Strauss
mircea_popescu: brb reading list
mircea_popescu: but i'm not there, you'll ahve to rely my pick
mircea_popescu: KRS-1 ok!
mircea_popescu: whoever's shows up first supernoding all around wins.
mircea_popescu: let's run a #bitcoin-assets pool. everyone pick his horse
mircea_popescu: ;;google famous pickup artist
mircea_popescu: i suppose next some pickup-artist and entrepreneur is going to show up and be all max keiser all over everything.
mircea_popescu: fo real. at least the pietila guy was funny.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin gets more freakshow than tv.
mircea_popescu: no but seriously. a coupla rowers who made some failed website, were part of a failed lolsuit and otherwise what exactly ? guest of a guest ?
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: (they kinda look like the schwarzenegger twins, tbh)
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla 1. not even a 3.14 supernodule ; 2. no tall hot chick.
mircea_popescu: and i have no idea why the winkledoods think anyone asked them.
mircea_popescu: https://twitter.com/Mircea_Popescu/status/335752314696634369
mircea_popescu: this is what bfl does :D
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla box of fandom.
mircea_popescu: im researching greyhawk's list of independent countries.
mircea_popescu: "Operation Atlantis was a project, headed by Werner Stiefel, developed with the intent of establishing a libertarian country on international waters. The operation set out to do this by launching a ferro-cement boat into the Hudson River in December 1971 which was piloted into an area near the Bahamas. After reaching its destination it eventually sank in a hurricane"
mircea_popescu: gee.
mircea_popescu: "Principality of Freedonia is a “new country” project based in Houston, Texas; founded in March of 1992 by the 13 year-old John Alexander Kyle and a group of his friends."
mircea_popescu: lol the forum is chugging right along
mircea_popescu: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=173433.msg2189311#msg2189311
mircea_popescu: so what did you do ?
mircea_popescu: have 6 a year or something.
mircea_popescu: Chaang-Noi maybe when i'm a little older, build a harem get the girls knocked up
mircea_popescu: that aside, they often have a point.
mircea_popescu: WILLdude no parents ever have any clue. if they did they'd not be parents.
mircea_popescu: eventually you figure it out and you have what, 20 years' advantage on everyone else.
mircea_popescu: next week you get more pocket money and you can try again.
mircea_popescu: Chaang-Noi iirc 50 was impressive to him, but honestly, if there is an age where you should be taking risks on your capital it's 12.
mircea_popescu: WILLdude don't worry about it. lose everything every other week. what diff does it make.
mircea_popescu: Chaang-Noi well what's he going to lose, his ferrari /
mircea_popescu: aaanyway, these technicalities aside, i think you're the youngest guy here by a fat margin. good for you.
mircea_popescu: aha. and secondary is the last 8 years ?
mircea_popescu: in this paradigm primary education is everything up to and including high school. secondary education is college/university degree
mircea_popescu: then college/university
mircea_popescu: im mostly familiar with this system whereby kids go to school around 7, complete 4 years or primary, then 4 years of jr high then 4 years of hs
mircea_popescu: don't you have to be 14-15 to start hs ?
mircea_popescu: um
mircea_popescu: you actually in highschool ?
mircea_popescu: so how's school like ?
mircea_popescu: you're an almost 13yo with a history on wikipedia ? teh wow.
mircea_popescu: as far as you know you don't get project cloaks unless the project assigns them.
mircea_popescu: no, not atm.
mircea_popescu: but iirc you used to sign in with a wikipedia/W-D cloak. how'd you get that ?
mircea_popescu: you're twelve ?!
mircea_popescu: ya well in that case don't sweat it.
mircea_popescu: what's illegal !?
mircea_popescu: um
mircea_popescu: i think he's learning.