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mircea_popescu: "On your tenth anniversary, you will still be ten years ahead of the rest."
mircea_popescu: sorta like, why bother installing vi ? just make a file called vi and that's it, you have vi now
mircea_popescu: this is how they got involved with bitcoin too. by symlinking the Bitcoin symbol.
mircea_popescu: because wall street is this concept right ? which is accessible to them
mircea_popescu: "is there escrow for very large sums ? cause i could do it".
mircea_popescu: davout ya, so it'll lock it down at reboot. but the attacker installs a logger, then you reboot, put your pw in and then it reboots again.
mircea_popescu: yet in spite of being a bigger target thery've not been hit yet. something here is wrong.
mircea_popescu: mtgox doesn't seem like they have enough of a clue to get proper physical security of their servers in place
mircea_popescu: slush has been fucked over by both linode and ovh so far, as in, insider jobs.
mircea_popescu: like a top new york firm lawyer is an asshole and some tribal witch doctor in nigeria are both assholes
mircea_popescu: pp are assholes and mtgox are assholes, but quite different types of assholes i would say.
mircea_popescu: so the issue here is, paypal CEO actually got asked about bitcoin, actually said he's fascinated with it, ACTUALLY SAID they are considering moving over.
mircea_popescu: yes. one year later and with none of the key people/ideas/etc.
mircea_popescu: i only share bills and fines. i don't share the finer things of life :D
mircea_popescu: i was wearing bitcoin buttons and it sparked a conversation
mircea_popescu: i had sex with two girls up until 2pm because of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you recall, the bet calculation lists the total/his weight backwards
mircea_popescu: nobody cares what "the press" says since about 2006 or so
mircea_popescu: "we've been hacked" = "we're retarded and don't understand anything about computers, the internet or security"
mircea_popescu: stop racistly holding the president's baseless/meaningless generalisations against him!
mircea_popescu: but since userbase minerbase coderbase etc aren't the criteria by which we judge altcoins...
mircea_popescu: i have a completely abstract altchain. nobody mines on it, nobody owns any coins, nobody bothers to read the codebase (which doesn't actually exist in written form anywhere)
mircea_popescu: " Litecoin being as mature as it is makes it hard to join in the fun so let’s start with a new coin that follows Litecoin’s tradition."
mircea_popescu: "Under the thinnest of pretenses, Boston was placed under martial law, with heavily armed troops patrolling the streets, pointing machine guns at civilians who dared so much as to look out their windows."
mircea_popescu: i wonder if it actually is the same dood with a split personality.
mircea_popescu: and they're both equally incapable of reading comprehension.