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mircea_popescu: bitcoincharts reports Difficulty 2968775 Estimated 3111301 in 800 blks
mircea_popescu: there's plenty more on ruby. glbse escaped through being already dead.
mircea_popescu: anyway, vircurex/cryptostocks got owned, bitfinex escaped through global disinterest.
mircea_popescu: don't tell me ruby is blown wide open twice in three weeks
mircea_popescu: honestly, i think the only way that idea will work is owner-operated
mircea_popescu: everyone wants to be an entrepreneur, nobody wants to do any work anymore
mircea_popescu: smickles there were rumours of some actual glbse investigation, i was never able to obtain anything whatsoever
mircea_popescu: the randomness for s.dice is provided by the blockchain itself.
mircea_popescu: "Pastebin dump of a letter from SEC sent to several people who ran "funds" on GLBSE. Forum statements about people calling the attorney on the letter and providing statements. Not clear if it was just elaborate trolling..."
mircea_popescu: i doubt you could get him to go for a scheme like that
mircea_popescu: of course, due to the idiocy that was glbse, it will be a little while yet before people trust such funds
mircea_popescu: gesell i suppose the alternative would be to just invest in a fund, and let the manager worry about daily news
mircea_popescu: i think tbh, most people on mpex are btc addicts, reading it all multiple times a day
mircea_popescu: DeadWeasel i imagine something like a blog would be great.
mircea_popescu: it really boggles me that this isn't moving, the need for btc finance news is marked and yet... crckets
mircea_popescu: well, if anyone actually starts a real analyst service for btc finance
mircea_popescu: course people are allowed to announce their ipo wherever they want
mircea_popescu: in general i'll say something here and mpoe-pr will make an announcement on forum
mircea_popescu: ok, so, site was opened for beta, it was announced it will ipo in 5 days,
mircea_popescu: gesell in general ipos are announced in advance. were you around during the bbet ipo ?
mircea_popescu: because you can very convincingly argue you can afford to pay wins
mircea_popescu: pizzaman1337 well, for multiplereasons. there's a lot of benefit to being listed as a dice site
mircea_popescu: and also why put up with idiots a la PsychoticBoy eskimoblob etc filling up the forum with nonsense
mircea_popescu: in practice, good companies with revenue and market don't much want to list because why share your profits
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller by the time you're buying it it will be
mircea_popescu: smickles well it's only dead to the point that i wouldn't currently trust it with a case involving my or mpex's interests
mircea_popescu: at least hacven't received any complaints on the matter so far.
mircea_popescu: im only pissing off a buncha pasty ass computer geeks currently.
mircea_popescu: actually teh number of people willing to assasinate me is probably towards the lowest historical point atm
mircea_popescu: tho life expectancy has been mostly growing faster than my age for the past decades.
mircea_popescu: <mjr_> since everyone and there mom throws around the 21 million number << that number will be reached sometime in 2150
mircea_popescu: i can't fucking keep track of them anymore, it's all a blur. plus when i go to type into the url bar i have to type an entire word!
mircea_popescu: and unrelatedly : anyone starting any sort of business and naming it bit* bitcoin* or *coin IS AN IDIOT