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mircea_popescu: otherwise you could go 100k btc into mpoe bonds, then just buy cheap options and siphon interest away
mircea_popescu: if you look at the book all puts under 50 or so sell for 0.05351801
mircea_popescu: "Given that Krugman is against bitcoin, the thing is certain to succeed."
mircea_popescu: thing is, to make the thing real crazy, futures (the fiat ones) used to be settled 4th friday
mircea_popescu: All options expire on the last minute of the last Friday of their month (UTC times).
mircea_popescu: i guess he's buying it back on the theory that he doesn't want to earn that last .05 at the risk of one full week
mircea_popescu: by early to mid next week. Should be pretty smooth sailing after that."
mircea_popescu: romanian cheese is like the expensive imported french gourmet stuff
mircea_popescu: you can;'t realy compare romanian local cheese to canadian tho
mircea_popescu: the internet still the great social class mixer i see, bringing together those who otherwise would never meet.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile 15k a year in romania gets you two households with their women and children
mircea_popescu: i dunno who still smokes ciggarettes with all the stuff they add
mircea_popescu: it's not very good of course, but it's way better than any industrial crap.
mircea_popescu: you can just plant your own tobacco, costs you about 1 cent per leaf or something
mircea_popescu: you want to survive, you'd better start doing something useful.
mircea_popescu: money has no value if everyone can survive on minimal wage. that's socialism.
mircea_popescu: lots of agricultural tradition, probably the oldest continuously farmed land in europe outside of italy proper.
mircea_popescu: certainly has the world's best champagne, for instance.
mircea_popescu: tiberiusiv about like italians, maybe a little better.
mircea_popescu: tiberiusiv minimum wage ~500 lei / month. comes to 150 bux
mircea_popescu: tiberiusiv let me give you a very good example that just happened recently.
mircea_popescu: tiberiusiv timisoara particularly is conveniently placed.
mircea_popescu: [\\\] of course he has a point. old elite gettingstomped is always a good time to nostalgia.
mircea_popescu: tiberiusiv they didn't collect it lol. peopel just kept calling it in.
mircea_popescu: [\\\] has it. fincen is important for people in the know. deeply in the know
mircea_popescu: yeah, but frankly i don't think anyone from outside much cared
mircea_popescu: we're discussing perception. the 50-65 runup was pretty much all cyprus media circus
mircea_popescu: tiberiusiv suppose the us fucks up. such as, california actually defaults.
mircea_popescu: Chaang-Noi you went to bed wrongly. i went to bed it was 60 woke up 64
mircea_popescu: he may still solve the problem by proxiing as he's trying, but it'll be more work needed
mircea_popescu: he's in the shitspot of all time. unlike mpex he doesn't make infinite moneyz so he can't spend infinite moneyz, unlike mpoe he can't just go "heh, trade on irc fu".