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mircea_popescu: assumption Bitcoinica profits would quickly fill in the rest. What's
mircea_popescu: a flatline the next. I covered most of the deficit from the hack on the
mircea_popescu: As you know, Bitcoinica went from cranking out 6-figure profit one month to
mircea_popescu: Speaking of that, Zhou I wanted your thoughts on the financial situation.
mircea_popescu: their chief guy, kruger (for whom the kugerrand is named) actually believed the earth is flat.
mircea_popescu: "I read and dismissed Ayn Rand in the late 1970's. She codified and packaged selfishness and boorishness in such a nice way that it resonated with selfish boors."
mircea_popescu: im sure we'll read all about it in that magazine thingamajig
mircea_popescu: Founded in July 2010, the Organization has already played a major role in the development of cutting-edge financial services and promotional campaigns
mircea_popescu: In September of 2011 an interesting concept was presented in the DCAO minutes to increase accessibility of digital commodities through mobile payment processors.
mircea_popescu: including some of the brightest minds and most passionate voices in the Bitcoin world.
mircea_popescu: getting back to things of import : so wright has ~4 days to pay up 150k usd ?
mircea_popescu: i dun think i'm cool enough yet copumpkin. i rarely know what things are worth
mircea_popescu: i kinda like copumpkin cause he tries to be constructive.
mircea_popescu: "We do use... that thing... the one you just talked about. Right. We totally use that. You know, the one from... the market. The thing market."
mircea_popescu: the "company" that was doing something or the other and peopleended up logging in as anyone etc
mircea_popescu: this reminds me vaguely of that thing that failed, what was it called...
mircea_popescu: so basically what happened here is that copumpkin said something, usagi googled, found wikipedia and now thinks he knows ito calculus. and he'll bet me.
mircea_popescu: you have one hour. do something that's not available to c/p online.
mircea_popescu: so let's cut this fish then. usagi, pick a couple of stochastic processes of your choosing and demonstrate ito calculus.
mircea_popescu: they went through customer roosters and picked people to hire to train as brokers.
mircea_popescu: for instance, when they made the first large romanian brokerage house, way back in the 90s
mircea_popescu: i dunno who trusts their "financial privacy" anymore anyway
mircea_popescu: BTC-Mining i think they're right in the middle of the german ring
mircea_popescu: impossible to discern truth from journofiction in those tho