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mircea_popescu: can't make changes midmonth, especially as they'd be towards a reduction of premiums
mircea_popescu: in no case will this be before the end of the month however.
mircea_popescu: i am considering an algo adjustement. we're doing a bunch of modelling and measuring.
mircea_popescu: The French government announced that starting this week, ketchup will no longer be allowed in any school or university cafeteria
mircea_popescu: but to my eye the rise and the fall are pretty distinct
mircea_popescu: well in as much as there's rebound oscialltions after yeah
mircea_popescu: on the other hand people like bitfloor indeed don't opr at least didn't protect the walletr worth a shiot.
mircea_popescu: they've done about the same thing, been in business for about the same interval etc.
mircea_popescu: but then again i guess people have this too big to fail mentality going.
mircea_popescu: kid got 1 btc from me, paid some debts, went and dropped the rest on s.dice (lost)
mircea_popescu: at this rate by the end of the month all calls will sell for 1btc+ and all puts for over 9000
mircea_popescu: you know slovenia contributed the word slovenly to the english language ?
mircea_popescu: and it's been pretty much the one stalwart keeping the country afloat.
mircea_popescu: it's been run as an absolute fief by the same guy for 25 years now
mircea_popescu: if run by people with a clue it can be a serious strength for the fiat currency.
mircea_popescu: i dunno... i don't think the fed per se is the problem.
mircea_popescu: it paid out on the 8th, if winner had the sense to sell on the 10th or w/e
mircea_popescu: i think this was the only photoshop contest in history with 2.5k usd as top prize
mircea_popescu: someone should write a calculator for the relative frequency of an arbitrary selection of critical pieces of bitcoin infrastructure bering online at the same time
mircea_popescu: just some otaku living the dream of being in japan afaik
mircea_popescu: bitfloor is run by a single perambulatory point of failure who is a smart kid with good tech skills but then does takiesque things to walletsd
mircea_popescu: the russians seem all over the place in a vodka induced frenzy that lasts the week
mircea_popescu: i mean... i kinda like the bitcoin-central ppl for their bank partner thing.
mircea_popescu: i guess the most frustrating thing about mtgox incompetence is just how much worse the competitors are.
mircea_popescu: "Isn't the confirmation only sent to the new email address? I discovered today that I had mistyped my email when I registered, but since no email confirmation was necessary, I didn't notice it until I was unable to log in today."
mircea_popescu: "first, we execute. then, we gather market data and figure wtf to do about it."
mircea_popescu: now I cannot login the account that I own even though I got username and password!! Any support here AT all?"