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mircea_popescu: There's no drama like Bitcoin drama. The "will pirate make contact" storyline returns tomorrow and the new season of "will BFL deliver" starts in a couple of weeks. It's like reality TV without the ads. Which well-known Bitcoin business will suddenly fail next? Who should be voted off the libertarian island?
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 prolly a pretty penny to be made from sueing then
mircea_popescu: maybe you folks just need some better masturbation material.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller playing satoshidice isn't investing tho.
mircea_popescu: bad 3 or so years. if it keeps up you'll see bankruptcies
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller actually these days casinos are doing very poorly.
mircea_popescu: thinking going to the casino = participating in the economy is damaging.
mircea_popescu: the continuing pretense that it did however, was very harmful for everyone.
mircea_popescu: had nothing to do with btc finance, or finance at all.
mircea_popescu: so not for a second do i consider that "market" in any way related to any economics.
mircea_popescu: actually, take mpoe.etf. a DAY before it being unwound (at like 1.2x)
mircea_popescu: otherwise, im sure plenty of people made money bilking the idiots who thought they're investors.
mircea_popescu: right. from a macro perspective the thing was harmful.
mircea_popescu: yeah. if you go to the casino and make a lot of money your wallet might not complain
mircea_popescu: course, sucks for all the people who wouldn't listen / knew better / whatever.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller well, tbh, relieved. it was the main threat to having a btc finacials market. the longer it dragged on the worse it was.
mircea_popescu: you're not the only one calling me mp lol. and as long as the computer's on i have irc going.
mircea_popescu: if it were at all possible it'd have happened in his 20s
mircea_popescu: this is unfair. how's the guy to find a hot chick now ?
mircea_popescu: they depended on how much "salary" he could leach off the partners
mircea_popescu: his personal finances aren't much related to the results of glbse
mircea_popescu: course, also had a huge debtload they were paying off.
mircea_popescu: i doubt he didn;'t know this. it's just scam furtherance is all.
mircea_popescu: Ukto it's finished, they have an update, "can't process" anymore.
mircea_popescu: mixed with a good scraping off the bottom of the barrel.
mircea_popescu: people in bitcoin. they're the intellectual cream of the crop
mircea_popescu: "The person that controls this address should be someone honorable that everyone trusts. And maybe he should be anonymous because the intend of this bounty maybe isnt fully legal."
mircea_popescu: therefore we consider we have been served a restraining order by the algerian president and will not be processing anything
mircea_popescu: pigeons : today when we were at the mcdonalds the waitress looked at us a certain way and on the napkins was certain scribbled something from the prevbious patron who was this suspicious guy
mircea_popescu: rdponticelli privateers they're not, they go running to the govt way too often and in ridiculous ways
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mircea_popescu: you need a new thread, and an actual ideea for people to gather round.
mircea_popescu: if enough people sign... this won't go anywere in a DIFFERENT WAY from the way nefario was going to have it nowhere