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mircea_popescu: the entire server stuff is just a front. they do it on abacuses
mircea_popescu: mjr_ collateral to buy an option ? no, you don't you can't lose anything by buying one.
mircea_popescu: and i don't want to provide the momentum trading signal.
mircea_popescu: well, because everyone is already fully covered, so it's not a matter of evaluating cp risk that'd be helped
mircea_popescu: somebody was complaining to me that they can't buy anon
mircea_popescu: and a lot of people have been putting in a lot of work, learning a lot in the process
mircea_popescu: but that aside, it IS starting to become a problem, so...
mircea_popescu: my primary goal is to build a btc finance space, and so there's all sorts of "broken" things like that deliberately to let people solve problems and grow an ecosystem
mircea_popescu: but i thought originally this "problem" (ie, no single stock stat) would allow a nice niche for a sort of s&p, moody, fitch equuivalent to fill and grow
mircea_popescu: now, it hasn't happened yet, i'm either way about whether it should be fixed forcibly
mircea_popescu: people could push assets to it, it'd get a stat and push them back
mircea_popescu: the original concept would be that somebody would be making a verify-only account
mircea_popescu: no i meant, you lisrt bf on mpex end up with pt's on btct or w./e
mircea_popescu: well it's what it is, practically. whoever is owner has 50% + the voting share.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller yeah. untill i sell the golden share i will.
mircea_popescu: well, these are points that will be argued for eons to come.
mircea_popescu: problem is they made hot money, which will likely killthem
mircea_popescu: nope. it's good for a few investment bankers and maybe zuckerberg
mircea_popescu: you will never be able to control what the asset owner does.
mircea_popescu: people can want whatever they want to want, but they will always get what the system is designed to give.
mircea_popescu: truffles give it six months. everyone's story floats to the surface.
mircea_popescu: there's this nobody on the forums, trolling for a bullshit company peddling some vaporware that has a bunch of gigavps' money.
mircea_popescu: somebody is going to clean out on that bfl delivery bet
mircea_popescu: "No, I have an update coming. We are running a very tight timeline, so getting specific dates is difficult as the whole process is fairly fluid at the moment."
mircea_popescu: basically i think a number of people realised that keeping funds in random places is useless and stupid