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mircea_popescu: here's my idea : they have say 10k bank transfer limit.
mircea_popescu: the only catch here is for their service to STAY top notch.
mircea_popescu: yeah, if they play right with the capital they got in ipo
mircea_popescu: this is becoming a pattern. new ipo, goes to 2x, fades then
mircea_popescu: i tell you sir we here at house of mircea have no gore
mircea_popescu: except it'll survive just fine, and own their ass into a fine paste until they submit.
mircea_popescu: and lo and behold how fake and unfair it all is and how it won't survive.
mircea_popescu: because they prefer to promote people who put the time and effort in when it mattered, and already have years' experience recorded.
mircea_popescu: and i bet you in 2015 there will be idiots joining in a la that estonian dood, all indignant that the powers that be in bitcoin don't give two shits for his second rate irl accomplishments
mircea_popescu: few people understand how to play strategically. putting out the cost to register today and expending the effort to trade/think it through will make you the investment banker of tomorrow.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i imagine it will become quite a revenue stream as things develop
mircea_popescu: in a sense i suppose as a new guy it's just as good an assumption as any other.
mircea_popescu: "There is a realistic possibility to me, that S.MPOE is in fact not owned by many actual individuals, rather than by few with multiple forum and bitcoin accounts. So please, consider my offer and be forewarned. I am just a messenger."
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves> i'm playing a drinking game, every time tiberius quotes a % with authority <<< lol
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't pay them 3x if it brought about the end of the world.
mircea_popescu: it's gotten to the point where "omg bfl shipping" => instatroll
mircea_popescu: a well, as long as people are willing to put btc in that people deserve to.
mircea_popescu: next time anyone wants to trust the conference trail scum with a toy worth half a billion dollars,
mircea_popescu: this is reminiscent of tradehill's "the old tradehill site is to blame" response to defrauded customers complaining on tyheir failed relaunch attempt
mircea_popescu: o hey, their site doesn't load in my browser. so much win.
mircea_popescu: it probably gained a lot in zimbabwe dollars or w/e other fake currency out there nobody cares about.