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mircea_popescu: dub their first product announcement was spring 2012 neh ?
mircea_popescu: jcpham kakobrekla. but srsly, what's the point of kicking people ?
mircea_popescu: the options page has been trading since august 2011. the exchange was beta'd in februyary 2012
mircea_popescu: nyRednek the site that "looks like it's run like a scam" is older than most btc scams.
mircea_popescu: this is like, s.mpoe sort of performance wtf. UNFAIR COMPETITION
mircea_popescu: nyRednek well, maybe you should treat them separately. for what it's worth, what you call "pleasing to the eye" is, both for good theoretical reasons and proven through practice on record, a sign of poor credibility.
mircea_popescu: nyRednek are you trying to resolve a problem of credibility or a problem of usability ?
mircea_popescu: problem is, this is my first day seeing you. why does your recommendation carry weight with me ?
mircea_popescu: i can appreicate that. but it's been in business for a while you realise.
mircea_popescu: but i don't think it's really the exchange's job to do that sort of filtering.
mircea_popescu: but yes, i am creating the solutions, just, it's a little slow.
mircea_popescu: Buglouse in april there wasn;t someone like mpex to create a downmarket for the half dozen or so smaller exchanges
mircea_popescu: not allowing them creates this very unfair field for many people.
mircea_popescu: which opens up another can of worms : it was a realtively small asset (3k mkt cap or so)
mircea_popescu: if you don't, there's always going to be this lead-up string. first it misses X. then a little more. then a little more still.
mircea_popescu: the problem here is that you never really know what to do. i mean, if you insta-wipe any company that's late with divs/misses a report date you will end up causing a lot of grief for legitimate shareholders
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder actually the 14th extra dividend was in fact acquisition cash payment as per the contract
mircea_popescu: i honestly thought that the listing is probably bvps' largest asset. there is such a thing as a reverse ipo for instance.
mircea_popescu: jurov i don't imagine they really groked the complexities of running a public company going in
mircea_popescu: <jcpham> i'm glad you are taking care of it Namworld << to his credit he did buy a bunch of shares while they were trying to acquire.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> EskimoBob, seems everything that is crap you own a few shares. << virtuaally lol
mircea_popescu: i mean i recall 18s flashing at some point, bu that'd be 35%
mircea_popescu: that looks like one of the nicer spots, towards the park.
mircea_popescu: this is funny, my book is almost equally divided calls/puts.
mircea_popescu: special ? nothing's special, what are you, a romantic ?
mircea_popescu: so a week or so ago - was it a week jurov ? - i was dealing with people rounding off the last two digits
mircea_popescu: in fact i've never bought anything other than germanz.
mircea_popescu: unveil a horsedrawn carriage at the 2013 whatever expo
mircea_popescu: would kick all ass too. if i was ceo of bmw i'd totally do that
mircea_popescu: they're still falling over each other with this non-bitcoin online payments thing ?