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mircea_popescu: Namworld i'm aware the bot is in "we've been attacked by aliens" mode.
mircea_popescu: pgp i might be confused, but afaik it was announced as already done
mircea_popescu: Skarr_ no no. you can't make the order at all if not funded.
mircea_popescu: so basically... there's two things here. what are you discussing, the exchanges or the web selfserve brokers ?
mircea_popescu: no exchange will tolerate this. any order placed is firm and executed.
mircea_popescu: gesell most websites (etrade etc) will allow you to place any set of orders you wish.
mircea_popescu: unfortunate for them that the 3-4 people who fit the bill and are in btc can't stand them
mircea_popescu: they desperately need to hire somebody who knows wtf trading is and obey them.
mircea_popescu: basically from what can be seen from the outside they take each order and do a mysql select against the entire book
mircea_popescu: i have raid 1+0 ssd's, they're probably faster than their ram
mircea_popescu: so far what they've done is they've got a 128gbserver to run their shit in ram
mircea_popescu: yeah they've locked btcwithdrawals for unverified accts.
mircea_popescu: is it titled "i am a fractional reserve ask me anything" ?
mircea_popescu: if this isn't a scam toppling over i don't know what is.
mircea_popescu: MJR_ i was explaining a month or two ago how to get a fixing market for btc.
mircea_popescu: Doffx a concerted effort to push local bitcoins would be great i guess.
mircea_popescu: otherwise the merchants will get fucked, not want to try it again
mircea_popescu: so were you looking to buy something or just get heartbroken whenever bot's away ?
mircea_popescu: or was. heh i guess we've been chatting for ten minutes here.
mircea_popescu: jborkl i've had issues with the bot not quoting these past days because it couldn't get the price feed and other data.
mircea_popescu: no dood, i'm not under any attack. site doesn't load 0.o
mircea_popescu: 'd love to get you the url but can't load the site to do so.
mircea_popescu: which pretty much means for as long as gox exists, going forward
mircea_popescu: today, yesterday, for as long as market stays disorderly
mircea_popescu: if you actually want to buy/sell, wait for one of those and do so.
mircea_popescu: if it catches a feed it quotes (it has multiple times today)
mircea_popescu: just, sitting there and hitting f5 on the mpex page is scarcely a good use of tyour time.
mircea_popescu: and for the record i've not lost faith in bitcoin or anything.
mircea_popescu: it's the fact those fuckwits can't keep trading orderly.
mircea_popescu: Guest42002 no dude. i am just trying to illustrate to you kinda how pointless your approach is.
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin mostly consists of retards, MtGox is a piece of shit, nothing useful can be made in this space and if you try people will ask you why is everyone else retarded"