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mircea_popescu: they were good enough, for sums up to 100 btc and sunday casual mmorpg play.
mircea_popescu: people thought (wrongly) glbse is good enough, and ppl thought (wrongly) nefario is good enough.
mircea_popescu: fact of the matter is, and we have to face this, the infrastructure was not ready.
mircea_popescu: so many things went to shit past 3 months people are hysterical
mircea_popescu: but more's the point : now you know how glbse shareholders feel
mircea_popescu: BTC-Mining did you have a contingency plan for glbse going down ?
mircea_popescu: dub well yes, he does have a problem. actually all things considered i think he;'s pretty calm.
mircea_popescu: dude, if i ran the forum i'd expect to be paid. it's only natural.
mircea_popescu: You can still see it like that, since there is a lack of information... but what I see is exactly what I had predicted: GLBSE was a highly illegal business and Nefario was just a crook working in conspiracy with other crooks... and one of them was theymos - the admin of this forum, who owned 23% of GLBSE - had anyone of you known about it?
mircea_popescu: countdown to someone posting in forum that nefario is dead (100% fact) in 5, 4, 3...
mircea_popescu: BTC-Mining if one day you go to this corner shop in your neighbourhood and it's ust closed. no notice no anything
mircea_popescu: i dunno. i see the bias towards "it's the end" very reasonable given that there was no notice whatosever.
mircea_popescu: it's not one isolated event, it's the final explosion of a series of explosions
mircea_popescu: BTC-Mining and nobody's putting it back in to buy glbse insecurities.
mircea_popescu: the large problem here is this : with the exception of *maybe* two items the btcv value of glbse paper is now 0.
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 i made a buncha shit romanians didn't have cause they were retarded
mircea_popescu: why do i have to run tho ? i'm lazy. can't i just sit here forever and take everyone's money ?
mircea_popescu: femtotube so your idea of security is, spending more money on the guy that ran off with your money ?
mircea_popescu: femtotube funny thing, i have an investor been asking me this since about novemver
mircea_popescu: which is kinda why i'm willing to help pretty much anyone through it. i know once they have it it's good forever.
mircea_popescu: same thing with some other guy, it's an hour to set up then i never hear from them again
mircea_popescu: i mean, i spent about an hour or so getting evoorhees set up with it. he hasn't needed help since.
mircea_popescu: if you get them to actually try it they go uhhhh ok ?!
mircea_popescu: rdponticelli seriously now, mpex is shockingly easy to use. people thinking differently are just basing themselves on prejudice
mircea_popescu: drekk o o sorry, thought you meant about key compromise
mircea_popescu: rdponticelli well he does some gpg, he idents in otc for instance
mircea_popescu: drekk trojan for passphrase, rootkit for actual keyring with secret key
mircea_popescu: PsychoticBoy well if you have kleo then i really fail to see your problem. you instal python and run pympex