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mircea_popescu: obviously the title is tongue in cheek, if that's not obvious from the text.
mircea_popescu: srsly, ill say this much :" the greatest thing for a dev team is to announce some change
mircea_popescu: gives kids something useful to do turning rocks and painting them over.
mircea_popescu: can you conceive of anything else might be useful ? since we've got tghe bonnet off it atm
mircea_popescu: "S.MPOE":{"1d":{"avg":"38387.3709", "min":"34738", "max":"39650", "vol":"1724168", "cnt":"84" },
mircea_popescu: not just avg price in interval but also min max and volume
mircea_popescu: <assbot> MPOE.ETF [1@0.1BTC] paid: 0.00852236 BTC. Last price: 1.5 BTC. Capital gain: 1.4 BTC. Total: 1.40852236 BTC. (1408.5%)
mircea_popescu: why is the bet lost tho ? says there interest changes are ok.
mircea_popescu: and just parse for the symbol. it allows concurrency and goes pretty fast.
mircea_popescu: well so i don't see why you'd need to, you can get on irc.
mircea_popescu: gigavps well you're one of the rare breed that can master both forum and irc. i make no such claim.
mircea_popescu: yea, somebody should write a novel of bitcoin, about this one satoshi that was in ALL the scams, in all the hacks, in all of it.
mircea_popescu: maybe they're heroic bitcoins, they made it through the mtgox hack, and all the later hacks
mircea_popescu: bitcoin consultancy was bitcoinica/intersango and i guess glsbe
mircea_popescu: that bitcoin consultancy disaster has been multiperson for abnout as long
mircea_popescu: understand : these are high risk propositions, the ideea we'll get rich because we're sparrows and find a crumb some ogre lefrt behind.
mircea_popescu: this'd mean an insider or two being on the board and helping out.
mircea_popescu: usagi : yes, ideally they could get lucky and catch some production hole or something
mircea_popescu: to put it in perspective : we're discussing the efficient moving of coal, and somebody proposes they will do it by car and shows that their cousin who is a cab driver drives a cab on a yearly budget of 10k.
mircea_popescu: usagi : a. esillicon does not own or run foundries, they mostly manage other people's runs b. bfl has no 75 mn mkt cap.
mircea_popescu: are you telling me any of the asic proposing companies actually BOUGHT an already ran design ?
mircea_popescu: i do not believe any of them has the wherewithal to pull it off this year.
mircea_popescu: to cut this entire story short : i think any of the btc companies are well meaning, and i think asics will eventually come
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 there are some cheaper variants to set up that deliver dubious product, as in, the economies of scale don't get to play much
mircea_popescu: and i never heard of foundry runs for less than millions of units.
mircea_popescu: asics are large and expensive runs. just the set-up cost for the foundry to do an asic run can be 10mn.
mircea_popescu: which are specifically made to exist as prototyping units.
mircea_popescu: im not too busy to know the semiconductor trade, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: BTC-Mining not really impossible. sometimes difficult.
mircea_popescu: an asic run is in the 50-100mn range as the absolut minimum. they don't have 50 mn.
mircea_popescu: doing an asic run is actually of the complexity level of releasing a blockbuster movie.
mircea_popescu: this "can do" attitude has gotten people in a ridiculous position.
mircea_popescu: i think few people comprehend the intricacies of getting a foundry to do a run.