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mircea_popescu: save it from the evil noms of people ?
mircea_popescu: only the best this side of the river nile.
mircea_popescu: ya, my slavegirls for bitcoin auctions are at noon so all the rich emirs are buying their bitcoin early.
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: true
mircea_popescu: prolly people too edgy to hunker down for friday lockdown
mircea_popescu: i imagine most outstanding option interest will close today actually
mircea_popescu: maybe we get that correction after all.
mircea_popescu: hm
mircea_popescu: bitcoin made front page of drudge report.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder seeling them it seems
mircea_popescu: who's fdas ?
mircea_popescu: <fdas> i want to see retracement and consolidation on good news. <<< this.
mircea_popescu: we're gonna move on a new naming convention after tomorrow
mircea_popescu: bgupta old scheme needed the decimals because when mpoe was born btc was trading at 5 threatening 2
mircea_popescu: bgupta 59
mircea_popescu: for the lolz
mircea_popescu: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/28/hundreds-of-armed-vigilantes-seize-mexican-town-arrest-local-police/ ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i would guess bitbet is maybe around there
mircea_popescu: sdice is 13%, mpoe is 12.whatever
mircea_popescu: bgupta there seems to be something magic about 13%
mircea_popescu: he kinda DOES have a dogtag
mircea_popescu: ;;ident gribble
mircea_popescu: white man speaks languages.
mircea_popescu: Bowjob european tradition.
mircea_popescu: bgupta nanotube controls gribble
mircea_popescu: i am sorry pigeons.
mircea_popescu: ahahaha
mircea_popescu: apparently some sort of game developer.
mircea_popescu: in which usagi shows his mad c++ skills
mircea_popescu: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=158807.msg1691388#msg1691388
mircea_popescu: scam.
mircea_popescu: BTW, I am not an electrical engineer so give me a break on that. I am CEO."
mircea_popescu: "We have to keep our Intellectual Property protected and abide by NDA we have signed with chip manufactures so please understand that there are some things that I can't divulge, but I will try my best to answer any questions that you may have.
mircea_popescu: Bowjob if it's real it'd be good.
mircea_popescu: so basically a lot of owners, no strategist, no capital and so forth.
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: i ddin't realise it's a closed source model
mircea_popescu: pigeons who exactly is doing ripple ?
mircea_popescu: ~6 months ?
mircea_popescu: why isn't this thing empowering the otc to take over!
mircea_popescu: there's some strength in the otc market, and they're doing things mostly pen on paper.
mircea_popescu: yes!
mircea_popescu: !ticker h vtx
mircea_popescu: i drank so much champagne this month ;/
mircea_popescu: 1bn baby
mircea_popescu: bgupta https://twitter.com/Mircea_Popescu/status/317213908769325056 check that
mircea_popescu: it's not exactly an altcoin tho. it's a sort of - as best i can determine - blockchain-y iou management system
mircea_popescu: i dunno.
mircea_popescu: well me either, but i think he does.
mircea_popescu: i don't see it ? am i not looking right ?
mircea_popescu: NEVER a better opportunity could have come their way, this is what ripple is for right ? why's it not doing it!
mircea_popescu: pigeons by the way, i wish to know why isn't ripple whipping the otc btc/usd traders into a huge behemoth of fury that wrests currency exchange from mtgox ?
mircea_popescu: i'm not boring ;/
mircea_popescu: o
mircea_popescu: pigeons screenshot good enough neh ?
mircea_popescu: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=159935.0 win
mircea_popescu: Namworld you're confusing things tho. burnside isn't touching fiat afaik.
mircea_popescu: some people are working with it, some people aren't, but licenses nobody has.
mircea_popescu: this includes mthox, coin*, cavirtex, you name it.
mircea_popescu: bgupta everyone with the notable exception of bitcoin-central is.
mircea_popescu: afaik aethero's thing neh ?
mircea_popescu: kinda sucks being from the uk for this purpose.
mircea_popescu: i'll go down in history as "the only romanian that ever..."
mircea_popescu: haha o hey, i just realised : i got it easy
mircea_popescu: toffoo i guess pretty much everything we do in bitcoin these early days will become revered a century later.
mircea_popescu: but he has a 32kw line installed because he has a pump and whatever other shit
mircea_popescu: no, this would have been mickey m,ouse work for my neighbour, who never went to college
mircea_popescu: say they actually need 20. 20kw is NOT a big deal.
mircea_popescu: the total specified power draw is something like 10kw
mircea_popescu: asics.
mircea_popescu: bgupta this isn't gpu mining.
mircea_popescu: !ticker m ^oix
mircea_popescu: heh i like how the de-facto lot in options is 1k
mircea_popescu: bgupta i like the part where they're hashing. i dislike the part where i suspect they're lieing.
mircea_popescu: it just dun wash
mircea_popescu: toffoo well, suppose you got a hot chick ready and willing and you kept her waiting february to april because you couldn't find a place.
mircea_popescu: not how business is done.
mircea_popescu: that's nonsense news. "sometime in the indefinite future BIG NUMBERS"
mircea_popescu: listen, that's not big news.
mircea_popescu: unless he goes to india or some shit.
mircea_popescu: i'd fire him in such a way he's never hired again by anyone anywhere.
mircea_popescu: if i had an ops manager who had the equivalent of asics waiting in boxes for ~2 months i wouldn't just fire him
mircea_popescu: this doesn't count as worth the mention to me.
mircea_popescu: toffoo lemme know if he answers anything worth the mention then.
mircea_popescu: bgupta that's what i did for ~2 years.
mircea_popescu: that's analytical antisemitism
mircea_popescu: lmao Bowjob
mircea_popescu: ikr ?
mircea_popescu: (at the time nyt joined trilema had been charging for content for > a year. it's really the first publisher on the web to do it)
mircea_popescu: toffoo no. actually there's an artcile mocking the newcomer nyt for their failure
mircea_popescu: it's a gentle reminder that if you read somebody's stuff daily perhaps you should pay a centy
mircea_popescu: toffoo :D
mircea_popescu: Chaang-Noi he just copied http://trilema.com/2013/bitcoin-prices-bitcoin-inflexibility/ one month later :D
mircea_popescu: no in dollars
mircea_popescu: Chaang-Noi prolly 5k-ish
mircea_popescu: they're just symptoms of a generalised attempt to make the world more like "it should be"
mircea_popescu: this is much akin to dementia.
mircea_popescu: bgupta nah, it's that "well meaning" and "polite" idiots are tring to enmesh their _mistaken_ assumptions into the very world they inhabit.
mircea_popescu: Chaang-Noi no i think it's actually THE point.