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mircea_popescu: anyway. that arrest is possibly the worst setback for gambling prosecution in the past year or two.
mircea_popescu: threatening a honest citizen with unwarranted prosecution if he refuses to break the law will be a tough sell as good faith.
mircea_popescu: not particularly hard a thing to do, but certainly exhilirating in any case.
mircea_popescu: eyah, well, that may not give you the best perspective i guess.
mircea_popescu: it wouldn't surprise me if the das involved end up in jail.
mircea_popescu: nyRednek that was the most embarrasing botched conspiracy to pervert the course of justice ever
mircea_popescu: you coder people, instead of arguing with your implicit boss, should just stfu and go to work
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr not rly. but you won't go anywhere. the model works like this because it's sound like this.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder he's confused. there's the using banking for gambling federal thing.
mircea_popescu: nyRednek do you really think anyone cares what the us thinks about anything ?
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr that certainty is easy to reach if you stick to people who agree with you.
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr i don't mean the imaginary bitcoin you jack off to.
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr pestering erik atm is the single most damaging thing that can happen to bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: nyRednek it looks the same to me too. it's what it looks like.
mircea_popescu: then that sold out, little by little, now they pay 50 ?! 60 ?
mircea_popescu: i think the problem with btc finance is that people have a crazy time curve.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder no, seriously, it looks totally like a ponzi
mircea_popescu: it's funny, cause actually mpoe/mpex largest loss was the ~4k btc in august
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder i imagine he can't now, seeing how he wasn't there at the time and prolly doesn't have a copy.
mircea_popescu: nyRednek i don't think you're at all qualified to discuss the topic.
mircea_popescu: in the unwarranted hope i'll settle. which i won't, so that's moot.
mircea_popescu: nyRednek only if you could convince some ambulance chaser that i'm really rich enough to take your "case" on %
mircea_popescu: nyRednek prosecution is going to be nigh on impossible for the relatively simple reason that there's not a case.
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr you're obviously entitled to whatever construction you want on the facts.
mircea_popescu: if not then either... then maybe if btc goes super high
mircea_popescu: yeah. i guess if nobody sues now they might once (if ?) bfl delivers
mircea_popescu: of course, things may be changing there, what did you pay gigavps, like .1 per share ?
mircea_popescu: actually i imagine the reason nobody actually sued with the rota is that nobody has enough shares that they value enough btc to bother.
mircea_popescu: Namworld i doubt anyone would use the legal system seeing how there's not enough to pay for a lawyer's initial retainer in dispute.
mircea_popescu: anyone feels they were damaged by me or mpex there's the rota, he can sue
mircea_popescu: but seriously, i'm all for it, i don't see why this needs the drama attached.
mircea_popescu: all law is basically one huge technicality, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr yes, well, what your standards for courtly competence are may differ from what the courts actually do.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, it was clear the bonds won't be "upgrading", either, and this long before the glbse implosion.
mircea_popescu: i don't care what extra performance he needs, for whatever reason.
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr the promise was i will distribute anything gigavps sends.
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr not like this wasn't discussed to the end about two months ago.
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr i can appreciate he has no other way forward, but that still does exactly nothing for me.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder is jan = dec actual growth in the gambling market ?
mircea_popescu: i'm just one of the however many people not interested to deal with the newly created contract device.
mircea_popescu: On the positive side, dollar denominated securities of all sorts are slated to raise indefinitely, much past the point where a freshly printed thousand dollar bill won’t suffice to pay for one of the two freshly baked loaves of bread in all of Manhattan.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder_ course, value investing theory says that doesn't matter if you're liquid
mircea_popescu: nyRednek cost basis still matters. if you buy it at 75 you'll get about half what the ipo people got.