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mircea_popescu: i think this is it, we only got so far so i could have my 50mn landmark
mircea_popescu: if i get pissed off and end up whipping innocenty bystander nude girlies it'll be on your collective conscience.
mircea_popescu: she's liek the embodiment of why gingers are alien evil things
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves "Seemingly, but within that basic framework there are many subtle variations only discernible to an acute observer that reflect the many moods, the many shades, the many sides of George Costanza."
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well the one on twitter background is from like 2004
mircea_popescu: bright mind behind the sns real nationalisation earlier this year.
mircea_popescu: At Berenberg Bank in London, chief economist Holger Schmieding said the lesson is that “countries will take a lot of pain to stay in the eurozone. The glue that holds the eurozone together remains strong.”
mircea_popescu: which is why we have the "zero euro tolerance policy" to go witgh the earlier "zero usd tolerance policy"
mircea_popescu: "democracy is the theory that people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard"
mircea_popescu: yahoo recently paid 500mn for a bs service of summarizing newsfeeds.
mircea_popescu: right after ipo s.dice had a string of disasters. first pirate blew up within a week of ipo, froze markets for like a month
mircea_popescu: error4733 a that. hehe yeah, kinda blows a hole in that theory huh
mircea_popescu: Now municipalities can offer their citizens another option in paying for services like permits, utilities, class or event registration, shelter reservations, or even parking tickets.
mircea_popescu: This guidance clarified the rules, and opened the door allowing municipalities to accept Bitcoin. Government entities accepting Bitcoins is a natural evolution, as Bitcoin becomes more popular.
mircea_popescu: and it doesn't take much to puncture scammer "consensus".
mircea_popescu: if scammers take over btc... there's no sort of future.
mircea_popescu: so yeah... i want to ask everyone to be as vocal as time permits about what's what.
mircea_popescu: with a little bit of bad luck we might end up drowned to the point where scammer discourse becomes the central discourse of btc
mircea_popescu: there's a huge influx of scammers looking to fleece them
mircea_popescu: jborkl the main concern really is that with the inflow of new people drawn in by all the media exposure
mircea_popescu: i'm like fucking sysyphus over here, gotta start over educating the crowd
mircea_popescu: and new blood buys btc and then goes and invests it in bitbillions and equivalents
mircea_popescu: Bugpowdeer well here's the thing : if old blood sells s.dice to get btc to sell for usd to get a new car/house/gf
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's like 1-2k more at 31, after which 0.001 ? 0.0008 ?
mircea_popescu: Bugpowdeer ya but conversely, it failed to grow from 200k to 200k.
mircea_popescu: prolly should add the dividends in that calculation but im lazy
mircea_popescu: so basically s.dice has fallen, from 0.0032 per share when btc was 9 usd
mircea_popescu: pgp the budding bitcoin entreprewhatevers still have much more basic issues, such as for instance dealing with their daddy complexes
mircea_popescu: pgp socrate would only approve of it if it were rephrased as aquestion.
mircea_popescu: "unskilled and unaware. how lacking metacognitive skills prevent internet tards from realising just how stupid they really are"
mircea_popescu: i mean... there's a bridge and a hole and a line of people
mircea_popescu: instead using that as a nest egg to compete in the bitfinex/icbit scamspace ?
mircea_popescu: so incidentally, cavirtex raised 5k btc on theory they will get regulated
mircea_popescu: <pgp> my gut tells me that's there's an "undisclosed problem" over at coinbase... << i read someone saying something similar iirc