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mircea_popescu: benkay basically, it's a team of people with various types of licenses, a boss, a compliance officer and some more sdupport roles.
mircea_popescu: i talk to these people. well... they can't get involved.
mircea_popescu: no listen. the year is 2011. i get excited about this new btc thing. i know what it needs to have a chance. i know i need help. i know whose help i need.
mircea_popescu: benkay indefinitely in principle. unless something happens to show me the model is fundamentally flawed, i think it will carry on forever.
mircea_popescu: this because being a financial professional is highly regulated, they'd have to get an ok from their compliance officer,
mircea_popescu: is if you swore on dead saints you will never release their name
mircea_popescu: it's an issue here, i mean : for years the ONLY way you could get anyone with any sort of license to even consider bitcoin
mircea_popescu: not really, no. but anyway. it isn't/never was a matter of "do some research child". in the sense that i answered if asked, but in general stuff is known.
mircea_popescu: if he doesn't trust me that's pretty much of no import. if i don't trust him that's a serious impairment on his future.
mircea_popescu: after all, i'm not proving myself to random unknown noob on the forum
mircea_popescu: you do see why dominant position would ensure one such luxury
mircea_popescu: in other words : none of this is a secret, it's known by people who care to know as it were.
mircea_popescu: the famous court proceedings where i beat back the romanian govt had been amply linked but i guess you never saw that.
mircea_popescu: martha is already named there. she's named on the domain registratiosn too.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile experience happened. at the world's most successful banks
mircea_popescu: "From what I've googled, I understand that scalping helps lower spreads but ultimately, aren't you just betting upon a upward or downward price movement?"
mircea_popescu: Who's behind it? Our team consists of seasoned traders with experience in some of the worlds most successful banks, investment banks and accounting firms.
mircea_popescu: Our model Our platform is designed to allow the trading of bitcoin for bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: except they had one bra and FIVE matching panties in the pack.
mircea_popescu: actually there was this french brand made a fortune by selling bra and panty sets
mircea_popescu: well i dunno wtf that's all about. here you can pay other people's bills
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mircea_popescu: we had gta, except only the cool kids with computers played it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform then you question the wisdom of only allowing people on motorcycles until they show they drive well :D
mircea_popescu: well yes. the divergence between reality and representation and the complacency with the situation. source of all trouble.
mircea_popescu: "i'm too cool to suck cock" "i don't need to learn math" "why should i stop for red lights" etc.
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mircea_popescu: of course +r has the disadvantage that all the noob chicks wanting to go topless mpoe-pr keeps sending over won't be able to get it anymoar.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla if you want +i you probably need to add a whole list of +I first
mircea_popescu: i kinda don't like these "let's do something everything" affairs tbh.