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mircea_popescu: they had a layered cake of conventions, deals and dealings a mile tall.
mircea_popescu: i mean, i read the logs. zhou was "not getting a salary" ?
mircea_popescu: there certainly is more to the friend took money gave back story tho.
mircea_popescu: hmmm... isn't this what the chinese themselves do ? only deal in family ?
mircea_popescu: i only knew a handful of chinese people, and never been there
mircea_popescu: nefario wasn't slush hit in that one too ? the vps thing ?
mircea_popescu: dub it's such a stupid story tho... who the fuck knows anymore.
mircea_popescu: well the story is that someone connected to a server through which they connected to the server where they held unencrypted pws of the wallet.
mircea_popescu: dub some people are doubting whether it was an actual compromise.
mircea_popescu: if we turn this into a paranoid xenophobia we will just wither and die.
mircea_popescu: for all we know pirate is still around, facing us as some bright lad with an ideea.
mircea_popescu: nefario : for sure we have HUGE obstacles to overcome before this is all settled.
mircea_popescu: historically it worked, with the banishment. course we dunno if it ever can be made to work again.
mircea_popescu: take the taming of the shrew as a fine example. servant and master switch roles. everyone knows there is a master, but nobody knows WHO exactly it is. except his own father.
mircea_popescu: why do you think ? because the entire economy was run as a pseudonymous wot.
mircea_popescu: most of the classical art (operas etc) are based on mistaken identity
mircea_popescu: of course, all of these were maintained by responsible people, who didn't give two rat's asses for decorum.
mircea_popescu: well, our hope is that historically a wot is what created capitalist economy. the hansa was one huge wot. the lombard trade was one huge wot
mircea_popescu: BTC-Mining well, for my own education, point them out on my side.
mircea_popescu: lonely loser how made a penny << how isn't used like that either.
mircea_popescu: i'm a liar because you're a teacher who aspires to be something more than a teacher ?
mircea_popescu: and you daresay you know both the language and finance better than anyone.
mircea_popescu: so you're a non native speaker public worker on the lowest possible pay braket
mircea_popescu: usagi : institutionalized means in english "put into mental hospital"
mircea_popescu: don't make friends just because people are in the same cryptocurrency as you. make friends if people are worthy of being your friends.
mircea_popescu: this is the place where people getting things done moved.
mircea_popescu: we should focus on saying things, no maatter who gets hurt.
mircea_popescu: coingenuity well it started from dmc and ended up a general discussion on things
mircea_popescu: now there i agree with the JWU_42. i dislike many people.
mircea_popescu: you say that like a douche that has no ideea what logs are.
mircea_popescu: EskimoBob hello and welcome back to the place where we type words. well done, keep up the good work.
mircea_popescu: i'm fascinated tho. so you think you're good enough to list on mpex now ?! who the fuck are you ? what have you done ?
mircea_popescu: because some deluded fuck who thinks he lives on the moon says so. right.
mircea_popescu: i have bigger guns is the point, my safety isn't your mousy safety, let's be anon and hope we're never a target.
mircea_popescu: "it just makes me a target". i've been a target. for a long while. do you understand this ?
mircea_popescu: usagi if you thought things through for a second, you'd realise you're safer with someone that has been hosting a 4chan for years
mircea_popescu: i just thought he's a little unhinged cause his toaster buying ipo didn't go so well ?
mircea_popescu: EskimoBob it's not my fault about your mother man. how was i going to know ?
mircea_popescu: his mother was a bank and his father a golden paperweight