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mircea_popescu: if then xmas is going to plow right into your nude ass ?
mircea_popescu: jesus fuck, what is the point of making a black friday event
mircea_popescu: "the only thing that comes up for "Christmas" on bitmit is a Canadian silver coin."
mircea_popescu: what happens if you lose the email box/someone jacks it ?
mircea_popescu: pity the glbbq name is too long and so it'll never take
mircea_popescu: GLBSE'D Definition: You invest coins in a bitcoin project and that project uses your coins to hire a lawyer who proceeds to use legal avenues to make it practically impossible you will get your bitcoins back.
mircea_popescu: there is a funny aspect of the entire glbse thing. the mylawyr people specialise in :
mircea_popescu: anyway, i think someone sorta-competent bought a chunk of bitfinex interest or some sort of deal
mircea_popescu: your blogger career is starting pretty good if mag journalists are already apologizing to you
mircea_popescu: smickles : "There were no "suspicious" motives involved here. I would have gladly thrown in MPEX had I remembered that it has BTC options available. That's it. I just overlooked you. I'm sorry. (And by the way it's fixed now)"
mircea_popescu: btc being able to help is by no means a foregone conclusion
mircea_popescu: sgornick there's some huge problems with funding start-ups via btc however.
mircea_popescu: so who was saying i'm in for a loads of pressure from the sec ?
mircea_popescu: #1 reason nobody of any worth bothers with that spamsite.
mircea_popescu: uh-oh, make way for the wikiretard framing the discussion team.
mircea_popescu: these idiots think this little trick of framing the discussion is such pure unadulterated genius
mircea_popescu: I think part of the problem is that we’re looking at it from two different viewpoints. I’m looking for what’s going to help the Wikipedia article, and others are looking for what’s going to help the subject itself, Bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: well people will have to at the very least sign a renounciation of claim
mircea_popescu: PsychoticBoy expect the laywer to want to be paid up front tho
mircea_popescu: probably an ultimately doomed but otherwise brave attempt to plug all loopholes.
mircea_popescu: PsychoticBoy seems to me more like the recognition of how fucked up things are than any sort of loophole.
mircea_popescu: "as a lawyer, I hereby promise to be a lawyer and behave accordingly to the rules. if I don't, with or without this useless declaration I am still held liable"
mircea_popescu: (for once i don't mean about you, i mean about bitcoin in general)
mircea_popescu: but i admire the drive to do things properly for once.
mircea_popescu: "The BitForce SC chip is now in final stage development. Initial product delivery is scheduled for November, 2012."
mircea_popescu: anyway, i just looked. your thing is something more like that btcjam disaster than straight exchange
mircea_popescu: im not even sure how many there are anymore. 12 ? 20 ?
mircea_popescu: to think that only a few short months away everyone was pissing their pants thinking of the sec.
mircea_popescu: so is ANYONE left who's not working on, launching or trying to sell some sort of btc stock exchange ?
mircea_popescu: let them loan themselves imaginary money till they're blue in the ballsack.
mircea_popescu: just sell the fucking tbills and forget govts even exist.
mircea_popescu: anyone still extending credit to a government these days is absolutely loony.
mircea_popescu: Fox News claims in an exclusive report published this week that among the global taxes slated to be considered by the UN this year are a 1 percent tax on billionaires around the world, a “tiny” tax on all financial transactions worldwide and even yet another fee tacked on to already heavily-taxed airline tickets.