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mircea_popescu: smickles i doubt statistics can help, because the sample is selected
mircea_popescu: im saying that whoever will apply fails to represent the entire set adequately
mircea_popescu: ya but drug stuff objectively interacts with the subjects
mircea_popescu: smickles well if we just kidnap test subjects off the street its unethical and if i let you bring your own you'll cheat.
mircea_popescu: why do women fuck better when they have real high heels on ?
mircea_popescu: for that matter, once things blow over do you suppose the usd will only drop 90% ?
mircea_popescu: do you think the greek drachma would have ONLY dropped 90% recently ?
mircea_popescu: most national currencies are worse than btc in that perspective.
mircea_popescu: DeadWeasel btc is not particularly volatile for that purpose.
mircea_popescu: the thing is, they're not smart enough to do any of tham.
mircea_popescu: i'd imagine at a bare minimum there should be 50% coverage which would put the volume in the 100k range per month or somrthing
mircea_popescu: i think like 20 sold or something, but that's really nothing.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter i dunno if i'd buy at 7.5mn. what, diff doubles in the next six weeks ?
mircea_popescu: buyer knows it's not going to be less than 2.9x whatever quarter he buys in
mircea_popescu: jurov the collateral is 2.9x the current diff per set, so march are currently about .1 ad june about .3
mircea_popescu: there's this kaballah thing where they look for the nth letters sort of thing
mircea_popescu: markedathome i guess by now pretty much everything's somewhat connected to mpex
mircea_popescu: markedathome I seriously have played a grand total of maybe 3 btc on s.dice.
mircea_popescu: course, this is all speculation about what people may be speculating about lol.
mircea_popescu: stuff like the recent online casinos opening btc to the us is prolly more pressure than whether someone makles or loses 10k
mircea_popescu: actually i imagine the largest single factor affecting price is people's judgement of how likely a sale to a large player is.
mircea_popescu: was up cause of lack of asks, prolly relaxed a little once owner bought a little more s.dice and put it on offer
mircea_popescu: listen, most people with that sort of nonsense outlook aren't on mpex
mircea_popescu: bah i stay up to write docs for miners, ppl sell mpoe. THIS IS THE THANKS I GET!
mircea_popescu: everyone that comprehends mining plz to read and comment
mircea_popescu: anyone here can give me some data on mining implements ?
mircea_popescu: chinese scammer impersonating or actualy avalon guy scamming ?
mircea_popescu: Do U think btc should move away from sha256 and let "normal" people the chance ?"
mircea_popescu: I realise that there are some ppl that allready invested in asic and fpga, but ton off ppl are unsatisfied with this.
mircea_popescu: We started off with a bitcoin that anyone could use and now were forced to buy stuff we dont really want.
mircea_popescu: "Would it be even remotely possible to force the change in sha256 bitcoin algorith to something else that asic and fpga devices couldnt compute?
mircea_popescu: "ASIC's are not a natural technological generation leap like going from CPU to GPU was. ASIC's are simply specialized processing units made specifically for Bitcoin. Which i do not beleive is following the original intentions of Satoshi, for many reasons."