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mircea_popescu: "everyone". hm. it's more of a "everyone that's bitching about it is bitching about it".
mircea_popescu: think of it in these terms : company pops up, doesn't list on nyse, lists on pink sheets
mircea_popescu: "Japan needs to face up to reality, and take real steps to correct its mistakes... so as to prevent a further escalation,"
mircea_popescu: <benkay> it's fucking nice to build stuff people value enough to cut checks for << this.
mircea_popescu: the way to go is just invent a name and use that as your tm and domains
mircea_popescu: but a ny times blog hit is nothing in this discussion.
mircea_popescu: i am aware the domain name scam people are really working hard to make their coolaid credible
mircea_popescu: <dub> sex.com sold for $14mn in 2010 << and it never generated 1mn of revenue in its entire lifetime
mircea_popescu: i bet it will be very valuable in the sense 10 bucks are very valuable.
mircea_popescu: there's people in btc that can afford 200k for a domain.
mircea_popescu: did any of the large btc players bother with it ? nope.
mircea_popescu: no "memorable domain" has a site worth anything on it.
mircea_popescu: and wth, it boggles that anyone'd pay 200k for a domain.
mircea_popescu: if by hardware you mean gpus bgupta it's a loser for him. and prolly for you too.
mircea_popescu: anyway if btc is zero nobody would want to be settled in btc
mircea_popescu: so if btc goes to zero outstanding puts just get setrtled in fiat
mircea_popescu: fortunately because btc is small and fiart is large it is kinda trivial for me to insure against that
mircea_popescu: Namworld they are fully covered, since you do put up enough btc to cover for the put in usd atthe time you write it
mircea_popescu: pizzaman1337 it can't be, cause he deposits collateral
mircea_popescu: if btc goes to 40, he's on the hook for the difference
mircea_popescu: if btc goes to like 55 and stays htere, all the btc he got selling he keeps
mircea_popescu: mjr_ well, if they're not in the money they just dissapear
mircea_popescu: you can tell cause the bids were taken out not the asks