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mircea_popescu: so is there anything to this story about asicminer chips blowing out like baloons or just bs ?
mircea_popescu: "Well I was looking for a trader to grab 5 bitcoins from for days,and this asshole pm'ed me saying he had them. I should've known better,but was desperate and time was of the essence. I really needed these 5 bitcoins for an emergency too. Anyway I gave him my mpak and receipt and he hasnt been back since (3 days)."
mircea_popescu: BitHub in principle we have a chance to hit any finite ratio within a finite interval.
mircea_popescu: well ok, but ask me for guidance about how to stuff the vagoo, not about wtf the price will be
mircea_popescu: so basically pay them the 15 cents per movie that the miaa won't take.
mircea_popescu: Jill: We hope by the time people get to alerts 5 or 6, they’ll stop. Once they’ve been mitigated, once they received several alerts, we’re just not going to send them any more alerts because they’re not the kind of customer we’re going to reach with this program
mircea_popescu: iirc about 2 days ago we were just starting this current diff
mircea_popescu: paying a 2% for new business may not be a bad deal, and besides, people value a dollar they think they stole above one they had to earn.
mircea_popescu: course it may be a good idea to just ignore the thing and let people fleece you.
mircea_popescu: i was in what they called at the time a "suprareal" class in highschool. basically romania's gifted kids programme.
mircea_popescu: "As a complete aside: putting a 5mn BTC buywall @ $200 each up in MtGox might actually be the most rational use of a billion dollars currently. You'll end up with 2-3 mn BTC and the price will be permanently in the hundreds. Profit."
mircea_popescu: 50 i would guess is possible, but over 100 is bubble territory.
mircea_popescu: trying to go through life without a head must be painful.
mircea_popescu: the dilemma of cluelessness. if you give it free then it must be worthless or else you wouldn't give it for free. if you sell it then it's not worth it.
mircea_popescu: a while back the girl went on some stripper forum to give them free btc
mircea_popescu: with like, a red purse, white suit. sent it back home the agape silence could be heard across the ocean.
mircea_popescu: that was me in mexico, eating chocolate bonbons in the street
mircea_popescu: wasn't he saying something about deci bitcoin lots or something ?