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mircea_popescu: Dratel instead said that Ulbricht only ran Silk Road for “a few months” after he created it. Finding it “too stressful,” Ulbricht reportedly handed the website’s reins over to others.
As a result, the defense argues that the government is prosecuting the wrong individual for building up a $1.2 billion black market, since Ulbricht is not Dread Pirate Roberts.
cazalla: but i must credit danielpbarron for the idea
as first saw him using that to denote which users were coming here from which forum
mircea_popescu: that's what i'd do
as minister of war i mean peace. fucking power suits. flamethrower in one arm, minigun in other, go for it.
mircea_popescu: the only thing i like about honey
as money is that it gives kids botulism.
Adlai: this rules out food
as money
mircea_popescu: but apples are nonsense
as they never were value store.
Adlai: right, we started
as apples
as money, then moved to coins, paper, digital fiat, cleared digital cash, bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: you act
as if the responsibility for idiocy is on the thing.
Adlai: "you never get a second chance to make a first impression" is true for bitcoin
as well, only bitcoin doesn't get to pick how to present itself
mircea_popescu: i don't go about bothering random folk about sumerian tablets, fascinating
as they may be ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla imo
as long
as the comment was made by human
as opposedto machine, it should be published.
ben_vulpes: is a gpg signature topologically the same
as encrypting to the public key?
mircea_popescu: so now that bitcoin.org is banned in russia, the real foundation is actually the only legal resource in bitcoin
as far asthey're concerned ?
mircea_popescu: there is going to be a transfer of power, and the only thing demuring can possibly accomplish is make it bloody. which i don't mind, because old people are too old
as it is. even them out a little.
mircea_popescu: twitter, reddit and the rest of the social media crapolade aren't powerful enough. they work, for
as long
as they suck my cock. otherwise... they're about
as useful
as homework, who the fuck wants to bother themselves in a playpen designed by adults for "safety".
assbot: "These fools have been handed a technology so clever, so disruptive and revolutionary, that the rulers of the world would have to fully unmask themselves
as ruthless tyrants in order to suppress it, — or give up their thrones on their own free will — if it were used correctly, that is." pe Trile ... (
http://bit.ly/1wb65X4 )
mircea_popescu: you shouldn't be able to read all that stuff,
as far
as reddit's concerned.
mircea_popescu: yes, he was. do you know who else is just
as stupid ? oh... everyone in america ? the smartest lawyers and the smartest businessmen, graduating at the absolute top of the absolute best classes in the absolute best universities ?
mircea_popescu: tripleslash: you'd essentially have a narrow window where you could have an easier time manipulating things, but the technicals of mining and others miners would catch up. << "other mienrs will catch up" is so much nonsense. other miners are turning down their rigs
as it is with the price today. if diff suddenly jumped 100%, "other miners" will give up and go home. which is why the other miners are not to be taken too
mircea_popescu: it doesn't matter WHAT the other, larger altcoin is. even if it is "nothing at all" : for
as long
as most miners are mining "nothing at all" then the altcoin Bitcoin is in danger of being stomped.
assbot: The woes of Altcoin, or why there is no such thing
as "cryptocurrencies" pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1IGVwSi )
TomServo: Should your lack of gribble use be seen
as an indictment? :)
adlai: i'm almost certainly being MITMed (who isn't?), and i'd be surprised if the men in the middle are shitty enough to leak it
as protocol errors
Naphex: adlai:
as far
as I see, btc-e definitely has SSLv3 disabled. So if you got that message you're either being MITM'd and the trapper device is failing mac'ing messages, or who knows what. you shouldn't be receiving that error
cazalla: you don't want to wake up feeling
as i did a few days ago
BingoBoingo: Nothing hurts
as bad
as the follow up to that particulat cancer.
punkman:
http://samy.pl/keysweeper/ "KeySweeper is a stealthy Arduino-based device, camouflaged
as a functioning USB wall charger, that wirelessly and passively sniffs, decrypts, logs and reports back (over GSM) all keystrokes from any Microsoft wireless keyboard in the vicinity."
gribble: CAUTION: irc nick differs from otc registered nick. Nick 'tripleslash', with hostmask 'tripleslash!\\\@unaffiliated/imsaguy', is identified
as user 'imsaguy', with GPG key id 7D7EA76776E6CE48, key fingerprint A1398F4C58AC3D387F012AFA7D7EA76776E6CE48, and bitcoin address 1Hf5qWZzd2WsrDwLhkykNc4uXPAkykg9PM
cazalla: undata, the cex portion really only served
as a means to discuss the new difficulty all time high anyway
gribble: Nick 'felipelalli', with hostmask 'felipelalli!~Thunderbi@201.82.158.149', is identified
as user 'felipelalli', with GPG key id 4C0AFCCFED5CDE14, key fingerprint 9E08524833CB3038FDE385C54C0AFCCFED5CDE14, and bitcoin address 1LipeR1AjHL6gwE7WQECW4a2H4tuqm768N
tripleslash: so why write articles based on no math and make no claims
as to accuracy
tripleslash:
as we all know, mining contracts have always sucked for the buyer.
mircea_popescu: so any bets/guesses
as to what price bitcoin needs to touch for coinbase to fire 9 workers ?
gribble: CAUTION: irc nick differs from otc registered nick. Nick 'pirateat40', with hostmask 'pirateat40!\\\@unaffiliated/imsaguy', is identified
as user 'imsaguy', with GPG key id 7D7EA76776E6CE48, key fingerprint A1398F4C58AC3D387F012AFA7D7EA76776E6CE48, and bitcoin address 1Hf5qWZzd2WsrDwLhkykNc4uXPAkykg9PM
mircea_popescu: "[EDIT2] I've never seen so much stupidty concentrated in the same space
as so much unpleasantness since I was in high school. Even if Popescu and his friends are right, they deserve to be left on a fork and lose all their precious play-money. This is why I usually avoid reading anything non-technical about Bitcoin. I'm going back to that policy, the pain was not worth the Quora credits."
kakobrekla:
as long
as you are not with the last 18k you are good
[\\\]: If it was the channels, this nick would get just
as much, but it doesn't.
BingoBoingo: [\\\]: Or maybe you parade around you old name with actual letters
as a badge of pride. Unless you have a reason not too, like embarassment.
WolfGoet_: can't even visit japan
as a felon...
BingoBoingo: But Charlie basically
as he tells it is going to a work camp where he will get EMAIL!!!
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: I actually gave attending that school a bit of thought
as I was making choices, but... a more local small liberal arts college was offering a deal where I particularly wouldn't have to pay tuition to them. Best not to question the past though. I could have ended up some doomed postdoc in Oklahomo if I went to St John and actually read all of those books too young.
mircea_popescu: reminds me of a much older but quite central asciilifeform point : "These fools have been handed a technology so clever, so disruptive and revolutionary, that the rulers of the world would have to fully unmask themselves
as ruthless tyrants in order to suppress it, — or give up their thrones on their own free will — if it were used correctly, that is."
cazalla: why would you use whatsapp and imessage if you want privacy? almost reads
as if he is goading people into using it because it's hip and cool and he doesn't want you to use it
mircea_popescu: some informative original research, fresh from marquardt : "According to Mike Hearn, Satoshi even planned on creating a reputation system integrated with the Bitcoin client that would use the number of blocks you'd individually solved
as part of a system to prevent scammers from creating infinitely many accounts."
mircea_popescu: fine. i blame them, their stupid fathers & bovine mothers, the fucking gooses masquerading
as "educators" in a ten mile radius
davout: guess that doesn't really count
as an airgap if there isn't a manual step
kakobrekla: i call it 'the gaper'
as a tribute to ass gapes.
mircea_popescu: soo... i go to see my private banker, her office's like four blocks down. and
as i walk on the street, i see a thing that's still with me.
pete_dushenski: bitcoin_charlie:Couple of people from the Bitcoin space <<
as meaningless
as "a couple of people from the neighbourhood where i grew up"
mircea_popescu: qntra has a link to webirc, iirc anyone following it shows up in here
as qntranet
mircea_popescu: "And
as anyone in indie romance knows, the waters are getting crowded, the competition is getting fierce, and I have to hustle my ass off to move books that sold themselves a year ago. I work twelve hours a day with promo, writing, and ad planning--sometimes more."
mircea_popescu: decimation infinite time's not needed, is it ? just
as long
as you're not done yet
mircea_popescu: forthat matter, bitcoin magazine is just
as active
as it always was
thestringpuller: davout: i can see the current leadership of bitpay being removed
as a condition of VC investing more capital
davout: guess nothing talks to idiots
as much
as scamming other idiots
mircea_popescu: you clever boy you thestringpuller. i was just writing
as to the stupidity of that.
mircea_popescu: you know, doge dieing sucks because all these fucktards are now misrepresenting themsleves
as involved with bitcoin
davout: or
as saint steve jobs would put it "gorgeous"
undata: but yeah
as mentioned above I use Press on android so I don't see the styles
davout: my point is that i'm interested in the content, so
as long
as html is used sanely it should display in a meaningful way
fluffypony: you can just do it
as a CSS media query
mircea_popescu: "And now in practical terms : there once existed this thing called NeoBee. It pretended to be a Bitcoin business, but inasmuch
as its purported CEO was not in #bitcoin-assets, it never stood a chance. This is a point oft neglected, but by far the best predictor of success or failure in the Bitcoin space : that channel is where the industry meets. If a purported business is not well represented in there, it is not well
mircea_popescu: i butchered it
as far
as everything but the imagery is concerned.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: don't get abducted. you say such amusing things. (No you don't amuse me like a clown. I do not view you
as Joe Pesci)
mircea_popescu: "Lets not forget the real paid shills on /r/bitcoin
as well. The fuckwits who were paid to spread the usage of 'bit'
as a unit. I wonder how much BitPay spent on that one." << that's a kinda funny one. yet another place where derps diverge from mp, derps fail & get burned, derps dun learn.
undata: mircea_popescu: yes, but
as qntra has what appears to be a fixed pixel width it ends up with rather small fonts on mine
mircea_popescu: "I think the bigger issue is that Bitpay doesn't have a long term business model. Even assuming that Bitcoin adoption grows, transfer of Bitcoin to fiat is a programmable function. People will immediately cut out the middle man if it becomes less expensive, and its a bit of a race to the bottom
as people compete in the space for the best rates, quickest conversion and most apis."
mircea_popescu: "An
as yet unknown1 individual or group has taken up the mantle of DPR and launched the next iteration of the Silk Road marketplace, but this time around it's not accessible via Tor."
mircea_popescu: no really this shit is beautiful. so, libertards that think they're part of bitcoin come up with the idea to fork bitcoin to make it moar libertardcoin. mp says "fu and your gavincoin". now, they do understand that leaving the issue
as bitcoin vs gavincoin pretty much settles the propaganda angle.
cazalla: davout, well agreed there, i won't buy and eat them from fish market in melbourne but while living near Sydney, happy to shove
as many down my gullet
as possible