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mircea_popescu: they literally broadcast the code. you could load it into a z80 with a cable
mircea_popescu: dub early 90s romanian tv station used to have a computer show
mircea_popescu: (i'm not making this shit up, my dad was working in a govt research center)
mircea_popescu: dub they had old 7inch ones in my computer lab at school, wall decoration
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller possibly, yea. but if not... im on pretty much daily.
mircea_popescu: the difference is shocking, they've all read the faq etc.
mircea_popescu: dude, i have to explain things like ONCE, and in passing
mircea_popescu: and this was like, 3 days after i explained gpg to him. understand, guy didn't even know linux existed on like, the 5th
mircea_popescu: then in the next email was o, wait, i figured it. i got a qr generator! now my phone can read it
mircea_popescu: one dood was whining about having to keep move strings from cold to hot computer
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 you know i have a bunch of chinese people on mpex ?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller hey, unless it somehow blows up in their face its a good thing i think
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller they're the ppl trying to get a card going, neh ?
mircea_popescu: its so sad mtgox missed the change to be called derpox
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 i mean less than a day per month with over 10k
mircea_popescu: ill feel a lot better about my options once mtgox volume permanently stabilizes under 10k a day
mircea_popescu: it makes sense from the past pov, but from the future wtf does this "modern" mean. o, not like you're used to ? heh.
mircea_popescu: it's like making a victorian society - "modern" society distinction cca 1880.
mircea_popescu: the internet-rl distinction is irrelevant from internet's pov.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller nah. i need to fucking get my physical delivery futures already
mircea_popescu: that's kinda what btc is really. we're all vieing for a 21mn btc hill.
mircea_popescu: if anyone here plays those rts games where there's like 8 or 100 players and king of the hill ?
mircea_popescu: so people have this bad reference of thinking in usd value. think M3%
mircea_popescu: find me a stock that trades 0.001% of the usd monetary mass irl.
mircea_popescu: that 5k s.dice traded this month ? sure, it's "just" 60k
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 if you think in monetary mass terms then volume in btc IS HUGE.
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 i wouldn't go as far as to say it makes sense to me.
mircea_popescu: that's the angle i see for sdice. there's this revenue stream in pure btc. there's others, but they are dwindling.
mircea_popescu: (which meanwhile floated up to reflect the new competition in aquiring btc)
mircea_popescu: in 5 year's time (ie, 60 months) will you be willing to fight with the miners for a new 12 or 6 btc block ?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller that is what makes btc generators so valuable.
mircea_popescu: many of the early people were "usd parity ?! ?! ??!?!?! ridiculous!!!!!"
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 i know it's bullshit. i'd short it if i could guess when
mircea_popescu: look at the history. making a new btc used to cost <1 btc a year ago
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 bigger problem : do you think btc income will be as cheap in 12 months as it is today ?
mircea_popescu: so they're selling, taking a 15% loss on their capital investment to avoid a 3% unrealised gain
mircea_popescu: and since past few days it lost ~2k... i guess dividend doesn't look like much
mircea_popescu: i think many people buy/sell based on the immediate dividends expectation
mircea_popescu: anyway you need significant capital to mm that. it's a 400k-ish float object