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mircea_popescu: The Manufacturing Productivity Extension (MPEX) Program
mircea_popescu: course by now it's industrially produced, they put pork in it etfc.
mircea_popescu: it'd be pretty out there for me to not know what it is
mircea_popescu: well, if i ordered chicken curry and got pork curry i'd prolly say something
mircea_popescu: it was funny cause that morning i had horse salami for breakfast
mircea_popescu: it's funny tho, cause they call them romanians but it's mostly gypsies
mircea_popescu: The term stands for the standard identification code Pvpskvmybashd Mrsya.
mircea_popescu: for some reason the this is dog meme is really hard on foreigners.
mircea_popescu: there's been a lot of bitcoin sindicate drama on the forum tho
mircea_popescu: im just thinking its so commodified it's probably the case economies of scale rule.
mircea_popescu: heck, if one had any sense they'd build them together.
mircea_popescu: problem is, a datacenter is something a multi-billion company makes. in fact, it's about on the level of building a nuclear plant.
mircea_popescu: even with all that. they'll be fine, you'll make a little more per sq foot
mircea_popescu: the reason they're sloppy is that there's so much govt demand for them
mircea_popescu: somewhere in a free country, with good safety in place
mircea_popescu: arguably it'd be a good idea to make a btc-level secure btc
mircea_popescu: so your mkt cap is probably under 50k btc or something like that.
mircea_popescu: if you made a btc-taking datacenter. problem is the btc paying customers aren't doing more than maybe a few ks worth a year
mircea_popescu: for now the deals that make sense to finance in btc are the deals that bring btc.
mircea_popescu: you will eventualyl be able to finance fiat endeavours in btc, but prolly after btc mkt cap passes 1 trillion.
mircea_popescu: trades happen if and only if the % of btc you give away
mircea_popescu: your 400k would be a very big 4% stake out of all bitcoin. your datacenter would be an inconsequential 0.0001% of all datacenters
mircea_popescu: for so many different reasons it doesn't even matter that adoption would skew
mircea_popescu: the "charts" people like that idiot on reddit are working on are bs anyway
mircea_popescu: think like the blocks are train wagons, and the tx are people. the fee is what they pay
mircea_popescu: if its low nobody would include it unless there's space
mircea_popescu: if that difference divided by the tx length is high everyone mining will want to include it in their block
mircea_popescu: if input > output the difference is kept by whoever mines the blokc