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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."
mircea_popescu: anyway, it was funny cause i deliberately didn't say anything to see if the ~5 minute downtime window would be noticed at all.
mircea_popescu: ya for that matter could have just added all the bits together lol
mircea_popescu: and if the order is not in your list you know your book got hit.
mircea_popescu: so from now on, if you keep a db of the md5 of the orders you send
mircea_popescu: that will populate with the first 4 chars of the md5 of the order.
mircea_popescu: also, the person running btc guild said it was a website error
mircea_popescu: you can represent your power coming from 100 units as a single unit and vice-versa if you so please.
mircea_popescu: supposedly avalon has been shipping for what, 2 weeks now ?