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mircea_popescu: well, most of bitcoin infrastructure was always up usually
mircea_popescu: the facvt that it doesn't answer to you still doesn't mean it's not answering to everyone else.
mircea_popescu: the fact that a site answers to you doens't mean it answers everyone else.
mircea_popescu: and all other exchanges slightly under what they were.
mircea_popescu: buncha kids from the retarded kindergarten got into a boeing, are having fun
mircea_popescu: pgp they have absoluterly no idea what any of the buttons do,.
mircea_popescu: they're trying to create the imprerssion volume is still there.
mircea_popescu: i guess in spite of everything i'm goping to have to make changes to it.
mircea_popescu: up until recejntly selling to the bot was always better
mircea_popescu: jurov yea isn't that interesting ? only forum in the world that had 1mn usd at any point
mircea_popescu: MJR_ depends who's people. people with no competence won't develop it magically.
mircea_popescu: nobody really has a clue what bitcoin code does, and the devs are resisting tooth and nail any attermpt to specify it
mircea_popescu: it is impossible to do, because these are emergent phenomena.
mircea_popescu: remember the recent hard fork ? i wouldn't trust the current codebase.
mircea_popescu: or in other words : ux is for USERS only. there's no suchj thing as vx, visitor experience.
mircea_popescu: that's 1/10 what mtgox charges, for arguably much more service.
mircea_popescu: Scrat you have lost your argument here. so, ux matters. here's the ux :
mircea_popescu: so somebody gave away 13k worth of btc on reddit and therefore crash. this is the public statement ?
mircea_popescu: ZedsterX there's about fiddy billion people claiming they called it by now.
mircea_popescu: bitesak_ yes. still, it's hard to explain to people the investment virtues of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: they have gotten well stung tho, and stinging will continue until people understand that bitcoin is actually useful and actually valuable, not a get rich quick scheme of the week.
mircea_popescu: the fact is this recent price nonsense has been drowning out legitimate bitcoin interest and investment
mircea_popescu: we could say it's seeing more of a "catastrophic event" than normal market conditions.
mircea_popescu: i think some assumptions baked into it originally (2011, that is) melded security with actual pricing at the edge cases.
mircea_popescu: bitesak_ the bot's volatility sense has been utterly overloaded these past few days
mircea_popescu: if this trend continues and in a week they're 20-30% this will all have been well worth it.
mircea_popescu: the good news is that based on 24 jhour data mtgox is down under 50% of volume
mircea_popescu: anyway their lag problem should be resolved tghe other way
mircea_popescu: in my experience it's kinda how this stuff goes. may be wrong.
mircea_popescu: which is nice because i never will. they can come to me on knees and get something or else keep on prattling.
mircea_popescu: they are probably waiting for me to send them gifts and pat them on the head.