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mircea_popescu: everyone's asked this and nobody'll have a good answer.
mircea_popescu: he is a cool guy, but lately he's all but dissapeared.
mircea_popescu: but anyway Doffx you missed out on all the drama&outrage earlier.
mircea_popescu: there's this scene where the roman guard makes him fix his spelling
mircea_popescu: heh srsly. you were just blown to bits and you're gonna what, bite my arms off ? bleed on me ?
mircea_popescu: well, do it five times, who knows, maybe repeating it helps.
mircea_popescu: you are proposing the theory whereby "someone" sold btc all the way to 10.02 YESTERDAY. his position covers a few hundred btc.
mircea_popescu: people can short 100k bitcoins synthetically via options on the spot, and probably about the same in traditional borrow-short positions over the otc if they are well known
mircea_popescu: _Fireball well in this case, the frequency of bitcoin bears is limited by the fact that people who have bitcoins tend to believe in them too, or else they'd have never bought any.
mircea_popescu: lucky that after wreaking havoc for a while he was scared by a trilema article.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller the theory goes that some mysterious "manipulator" who had been keeping the price low on the site is losing all the money. not the site itself.
mircea_popescu: i actually am the first guy online to charge for content
mircea_popescu: if you read a buncha posts it pops this paid content thign
mircea_popescu: the market for narcotics is a very tough racked to break into.
mircea_popescu: note that i have no idea and don't really care either way.
mircea_popescu: this may seem to indicate they don't really have much clientele. it could be just puffery, buncha kids selling bath salts and pills.
mircea_popescu: still, the one point of concern was that their weapons store closed for lack of business.
mircea_popescu: besides, "the mob". there;'s what, fiddy billion factions. i don't think they even know anymore.
mircea_popescu: i wasn't particularly serious either, just saying, not like the mob advertises
mircea_popescu: well, the profit varies wildly for mpoe, but it's never been more than 40%ish of revenue so
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller how would you even know what their revenue was ?
mircea_popescu: basically you output them to a twitter channel and the bot sucks them from there.
mircea_popescu: yes yes. you settle daily inasmuch as you keep moving margins around.
mircea_popescu: listen. is there some event occuring on your site every day at 20:00 ?
mircea_popescu: that you close the book half a minute before daily settlement, that you then proceed to execute fake trades on your own account, that you then reopen the book after daily settlement cutoff
mircea_popescu: rather than posturing you'd be much better served by addressing the actual points.
mircea_popescu: weren't you complaining earlier you didn't get any mail ?
mircea_popescu: smickles yet again the problem with the website model. customer says X. site says Y. how do we verify this ?
mircea_popescu: because they fail to realise that i employ people, that i've had the affidavit vetter by trade engine experts before posting and on and on
mircea_popescu: no, actually, in general scammers do come to me with a head full of steam in the first pass