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mircea_popescu: Luceo by now i'm indifferent to it. online conference calls changed the world.
mircea_popescu: this convo is very funny mostly cause it consists of people trying to cuss each other interspersed with my stock trading
mircea_popescu: for the record : i did once run a "cuss the other person out" contest on my blog
mircea_popescu: so eskimo bobbie, theoretical problem : you need 12 k for your wonder project which is 100% guaranteed to succeed. There's three investors that would give you money : a greek, a gypsy and a pornographer.
mircea_popescu: o, "people" do ? im sorry eskimodog, but we of teh internets know you're a dog.
mircea_popescu: but either way, if you worked in finance for a long time and left w/o 12k to your name you're even funnier than i had originally hoped for :D
mircea_popescu: Aug 17 19:29:16 <EskimoBob> what a waste of life it is.
mircea_popescu: Aug 17 19:29:09 <EskimoBob> I used to work in finance for long time. Got bored and left. Never looked back
mircea_popescu: Luceo i guess we're not supposed to remember things from the day before.
mircea_popescu: DeaDTerra just having a little fun at the expense of the wannabes.
mircea_popescu: so basically your theory here is that you're an ex banker with typically white trash mental representations.
mircea_popescu: EskimoBob wait. didn't your online persona include some floor trading ? weren't you some retired financier ?
mircea_popescu: Luceo flavour of the week is gypsy. i think last week it was greek.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, there exist people who, should they wish to spend half a mass market car's worth on something, just go ahead and do it.
mircea_popescu: i guess your silly stereotypes are the reason you have to "raise" 12k to piss away on some side project you'll get bored with in a week.
mircea_popescu: i come from a world where "rise" always prefixes sums of 5 million or more.
mircea_popescu: August 11, 2012, 06:17:05 PM A dividend of BTC8.5 has been paid.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> heh i'm guessing he didnt get that then huh.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> and you can buy in 1 btc increments (each option contract is for 1 btc). so depending what you want exactly 5btc will buy you a few.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> elementz options expire the current and the next month. the current ones are T
mircea_popescu: and you can buy in 1 btc increments (each option contract is for 1 btc). so depending what you want exactly 5btc will buy you a few.
mircea_popescu: elementz options expire the current and the next month. the current ones are T
mircea_popescu: i meant transactions in the financial sense, btc for usd or what have you
mircea_popescu: i didn't mean "all transactions seen in the blockchain"
mircea_popescu: and the reason that is the case is the fact that irl people don't just hand their money to any random dood.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't happen irl because the people who own that much are sane and don't do this sort of shit
mircea_popescu: that aside, if i were to sell 5.5% of any stock it would drop significantly too.
mircea_popescu: it's a pretty good reference in general, just, it's not gospel is all.
mircea_popescu: mt gox is really not the be all-end all. plenty of btc moves otc etc.
mircea_popescu: no actually now it's rallying nefario . dropped earlier to ~8.x
mircea_popescu: elementz the various bonds offered on pirate are really a tiny part of the pie.
mircea_popescu: i would guess we're gonna sit around nine from now on.
mircea_popescu: what if this isn't really a pirate thing but gox got hacked again !?