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mircea_popescu: unbalanced probably me.
mircea_popescu: im starting to like the guy tbh.
mircea_popescu: bugpowderr ya i thought so.
mircea_popescu: nic erik post
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller say what ?
mircea_popescu: MJR_III or hedge
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/and-another-one-bites-the-dust-mercado-bitcoin/
mircea_popescu: that says their redeem codes were broken and leaked equity.
mircea_popescu: O Mercado Bitcoin sofreu um ataque, que infelizmente foi bem sucedido, em sua implementação de redeem code. Devido à um erro de codificação, foi possível ao atacante gerar novos códigos de crédito, sem que o valor fosse devidamente debitado em seu saldo final. Conseguindo assim, gerar um montante falso de bitcoins dentro do sistema e resgatá-lo em tempo hábil, durante a madrugada.
mircea_popescu: http://pastebin.com/PZfuZM3X
mircea_popescu: looks grim
mircea_popescu: brazil exchange hacked.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile
mircea_popescu: yea
mircea_popescu: this should be taught in hs. "too many knobs ? always pick a value you can't stand"
mircea_popescu: exactly
mircea_popescu: people gotta learn somehow that lipsticked pig is not useful
mircea_popescu: anyway, the guy made retarded, miner-biased assumptions
mircea_popescu: o yeah. that.
mircea_popescu: buncha broken graphs
mircea_popescu: bugpowderr i remember one that sucked ass.
mircea_popescu: it'll be invaluable for your education.
mircea_popescu: we'll tear it apart and laugh at you, but
mircea_popescu: yah what gwillen said. i gather you're competent enough, go make one pgp
mircea_popescu: pgp not really.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, a bad deal.
mircea_popescu: in fairness there's plenty of good reason for that, as in, they're supposedly paying ppl in fiat.
mircea_popescu: 90% haircut.
mircea_popescu: pgp btc equiv of the fiat value of the btc sent at the time it was sent
mircea_popescu: pgp it does make it less valuable yes
mircea_popescu: (the german folks recently, the primeasic earlier etc)
mircea_popescu: o, and all europe has contributed to date is scams
mircea_popescu: this pattern is starting to worry.
mircea_popescu: the only people to demonstrate fuckuppery of incredible level are both american
mircea_popescu: bugpowderr i dunno about that. the only ppl to demonstrate asic hashing are both chinese
mircea_popescu: yes.
mircea_popescu: OneMiner im totally seeing a replay of tom's basic here tbh.
mircea_popescu: bugpowderr they're aptly not listed
mircea_popescu: people keep wandering in concerned to see wtf am i thrashing into the ground
mircea_popescu: i have been using various items on my desk to crack them
mircea_popescu: somebody brought me whole hazelnuts
mircea_popescu: bugpowderr ya but it was a plastic model and they had no glue.
mircea_popescu: i can't see a future where they dig themselves out of the hole.
mircea_popescu: so... 3 ?
mircea_popescu: and of the 5 they're not really getting 100%, and the chips dont work to spec.
mircea_popescu: moreover, fo the 6 they burned one, so 5.
mircea_popescu: chips are made in batches.
mircea_popescu: there's no flux-process chip making
mircea_popescu: this is about the underlying reality.
mircea_popescu: gwillen this isn't about bfl fantasy-labeling of real world items
mircea_popescu: get people to put up equity (which you call pre-orders) to deliver benefits to ppl who put up equity earlier
mircea_popescu: i mean this is literally what a ponzi is ;
mircea_popescu: much like everyone else i guess, but anyway, still pretty fucking fraudulent.
mircea_popescu: to use that money to complete 1st batch.
mircea_popescu: gwillen more importantly than the money, they will have to get people to pre-order 2nd batch units
mircea_popescu: then later "well now we're doing 2X really"
mircea_popescu: you can't just go "we're doing X item with Y resources"
mircea_popescu: but it will cost SOMETHING
mircea_popescu: OneMiner ok, it will cost less. this i agree
mircea_popescu: you can't just make another X
mircea_popescu: from whatever i can foggily remember about managing ops, if you start a project to do X and you do X/2
mircea_popescu: but that's irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: and moreover that people have on the net been cancelling
mircea_popescu: OneMiner my intel says people sent them a lot of btc back when, and that people have not been sending more
mircea_popescu: either i'm the only one with a calculator on my os or else wtf is going on here.
mircea_popescu: ...
mircea_popescu: with what money are they making more ?
mircea_popescu: hm
mircea_popescu: if we go with the theory that they're not just halucianting the entire episode.
mircea_popescu: gwillen but they DID manufacture a finite amount
mircea_popescu: well... where's the other units come from
mircea_popescu: but they will deliver 1000 units to conserve hash
mircea_popescu: now they can only deliver 40 gh
mircea_popescu: they sold 500 units at 80 gh say
mircea_popescu: right but where from ?
mircea_popescu: with throttled units.
mircea_popescu: OneMiner but they ALSO say that if you want delivery now they will deliver your hash
mircea_popescu: ic
mircea_popescu: well... where do i have 400 cows from ?!
mircea_popescu: but i tell you if you want 400 teats with your 100 cows i'll send you 400 cows
mircea_popescu: you order 100 cows from me. i discover the cows i have only carry one teat
mircea_popescu: how does the math of this work ?
mircea_popescu: now they have to throtle units... and yet they can still deliver the same hash ?
mircea_popescu: they took pre-orders. then they made units.
mircea_popescu: there's something i don't understand here.
mircea_popescu: hm
mircea_popescu: "If you'd rather have your units shipped regardless of increased power usage, we will still guarantee your hashrate by shipping you however many units are required to achieve your purchased hashrate."
mircea_popescu: a now it loaded
mircea_popescu: bfl's "your good friend tom with blood sweat and tears" moment ?
mircea_popescu: https://twitter.com/BFL_News independent twitter stream doesn't look promising.
mircea_popescu: so bfl forum is down
mircea_popescu: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153138.msg1698753#msg1698753 << there you go copumpkin. your fractional shares!
mircea_popescu: this shit's so funny
mircea_popescu: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153138.0;all
mircea_popescu: german chocolate sucks
mircea_popescu: everyone crawled out
mircea_popescu: nobody walked out of that.
mircea_popescu: the brits nearly got sunk as a 1st world military power, are you kidding me ?
mircea_popescu: falklands comes to mind.
mircea_popescu: OneMiner nothing ever is too stupid for reality.