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mircea_popescu: but seriously now : somebody should make a bitcoin based webcam programme.
mircea_popescu: it ended up something like, random bitcointalk dood walks into a forum populated by 5000 mpoeprs
mircea_popescu: some bitcoin tard "educating" a buncha strippers about bitcoin
mircea_popescu: "If MP has any dirty laundry such as child sex charges or other things it will be found by SA. Then MP can be right up there with such luminaries as Bruce Wagner."
mircea_popescu: "I already get enough shit because the general public think the legal adult industry and the illegal adult industry are all the same. I'm not asking for a second helping."
mircea_popescu: which incidentally... who was the monumental retard who alloewd post deletion on btctalk ?
mircea_popescu: well at least they're preserving some shit the bitcoin forum deleted
mircea_popescu: they've decided bitcoin is bad, so now are making brocolli statues out of it
mircea_popescu: it's like... 500 ways of stubbornly not eating your spinach
mircea_popescu: "bitcoin mining seems like a potential first step in a weed grow-op, though. start off with a big bitcoin mining operation, enough to get the cops to search the place looking for weed. then after everyone's had a big laugh over the crazy kid "mining for buttcoins", sell off the computers and immediately start growing weed."
mircea_popescu: what if instead of spending money on video cards, motherboards, and a crudely built home depot rack, you spent that money on hydroponic equipment and you mined weed, same as bitcoins except you end up with something that has value
mircea_popescu: well yes, the old mpoe page was born in like august 2011
mircea_popescu: you can get either the book or the prices json, its in the faq
mircea_popescu: Where is the "specialized devision of a huge corporate electronics manufacturer in Canada" !!!
mircea_popescu: i haven't been following the story at all, just picked a random letter sequence
mircea_popescu: fine. abc spends the next full week runningspecials about la police corruption
mircea_popescu: why are they trying to be all nice ? it's not paying anything.
mircea_popescu: i know if i were a journalist i'd rag on the police till i dropped
mircea_popescu: suddenly all da polis at his doorstep, like he heard on his ham radio from jesus
mircea_popescu: this "everything is equal to everything else" mentality is probably the #1 most obnoxious thing about bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: the guy has never been involved with an ipo at all, either here or there. yet he comments on what "is common".
mircea_popescu: "It is quite common that during IPO most of the funds come from people You know. Only maybe 5%-10% are from private people that just react to the public offer."