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mircea_popescu: at least that's how soldiers got to be called soldiers in the first placer.
mircea_popescu: <Bugpowder> taxes are the purpose of a currency <<< actually if we go by historicval recorxd
mircea_popescu: that'll resolve itself soon enough, and then there's the rest of eternity to bitcoin back and forth
mircea_popescu: now all that aside : currenlt bitcoin is not workable as a token to buy eggs because a large number of idiots mistakenly refuse to recognise its value.
mircea_popescu: but then to reduce that to such a narrow use seems fallacious.
mircea_popescu: i mean saying its purpose is to measure commerce / act as medium of exchange etc is one thing
mircea_popescu: this is like saying "what is the purpose of a car! to drive on new jersey turnpike!"
mircea_popescu: so basically because the usd is an inflationary piece of shit
mircea_popescu: he's certainly the one bitcoiner most likely to go shoot up a school or some shit
mircea_popescu: <dub> the funny here is that Luke-Jr invested in DMC <<<
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i just realised you're a nominal millionaire.
mircea_popescu: it's easy enough for calls - those always give you exactly the btc
mircea_popescu: well if you need 1 contract granularity there's a problem
mircea_popescu: so basically the reason russians are so weak in btc is that for whatever reasons they've decided to move to ltc at some point ?
mircea_popescu: jborkl i dunno, but more fakes are sold than original.
mircea_popescu: in fact the costs of maintaining your metabolic health on junk food are about 2x what you'd pay if you just ate cooked stuff.
mircea_popescu: except tv dinners aren't really just as good as actual food.
mircea_popescu: "by buying tv dinners which are just as good as actual food, i only pay $5 instead of $50!!11"
mircea_popescu: they will basically spend 2x to buy some ersatz of anything just as long as it's niominally cheaper.
mircea_popescu: i think the driving force here is just how poor / desperate americans are.
mircea_popescu: <smickles> "1.0 BTC for 0 O.USD.P086T" << you're kinda misusing that. it's not really intended to do 1 contract at a time. do 1k.
mircea_popescu: <smickles> one could've seen this recent loss coming before anyone else, and not been able to do anything about it << of fucking course. that is the point of it, you have to actually provide the service, as a bondholder.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell thestringpuller yea, the MPCDO stuff tried to.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> mod6 is commanding clit, don't disturb < lmao. o gawd, best comedy show in town this chan.
mircea_popescu: ha! BitBet has resolved ~400 btc worth of bets this month so far.
mircea_popescu: @JessicaKRoy 10m @Mircea_Popescu Is that you in your Twitter background??
mircea_popescu: @Mircea_Popescu 13m @JessicaKRoy Strippers everywhere have been doing this for many many years.
mircea_popescu: stuff to do when you're sick. have toes suckled, play poe, jasmin tea...