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mircea_popescu: ya well give me an example of a hft getting crossed by retail lol.
mircea_popescu: mjr_ the problem with hfts isn't that they're fast. it's that they retroactively change time.
mircea_popescu: no argument that this is kinda hard, but not so sure it's for a good reason
mircea_popescu: <jurov> but that's tailored to HFT. and MP is quite anti-HFT. << im not anti hft. im anti stupidity, which is mostly phantom orders.
mircea_popescu: see the next article on the blog about something along those lines.
mircea_popescu: now, fiber is slightly bettert as a secure conduit, esp if you have quantum verifiers
mircea_popescu:
https is securing the conduit, ignoring the message. so is dedicated circuit. so is everything done currently pretty much
mircea_popescu: everyone is currently doing the former. i am doing the later
mircea_popescu: either secure the conduit, message agnostic, or secure the message, conduit agnostic.
mircea_popescu: you've got by far the best mixer out there, might as well use it as such
mircea_popescu: possibly make it so that inputs sent to that addy are NEVER 0conf'd and as a result they never receive back anything based on the same inputs.
mircea_popescu: you send X btc, you receive 9x% of x back 100% of time
mircea_popescu: o hey, apparently ineedausername resurfaced, and is paying his gippt thing in full.
mircea_popescu: evoorhees do you suppose something like a 100% win address for sdice would be a good idea ?
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 who told you to get involved with avalon baby.
mircea_popescu: so then, those very people will say bitcoin is very bad. no surprise.
mircea_popescu: this is a valid criticism, it will. as long as they don't want this to happen, bitcoin is and will remain a bad thing.
mircea_popescu: they dislike the fact bitcoin will necessarily bring down the welfare state.
mircea_popescu: if you read through it appears obvious what the actual problems they identify with bitcoin are
mircea_popescu: not really. there's not an objective standard of proof, especially not for people who aren't interested in seeing certain result sets.
mircea_popescu: if they were, they'd do real work rather than the sort of boring nonsense that lends itself to foruming
mircea_popescu: in fact, most people who spend a lot of time on forums aren't.
mircea_popescu: nice is one way to put it. from what i've seen in sa's digests, it burns some people
mircea_popescu: petaflops is really a measure of floating point computation
mircea_popescu: and most btc users matter in the sense most los angeles self-styled actresses matter.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform good, then i can point out why the theory is nonsense on fresh data.
mircea_popescu: S.DICE paid a total dividend of 2`000.73731948 BTC to 10`000`000 outstanding shares. #dividend #bitcoin #btc #stocks
mircea_popescu: may 2012 is right before s.dice started to move, among other things