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hanbot: <thestringpuller> how did you not have a stroke while in
the
trenches of super retardism? << what matters are facts; doesn't matter how often idiocy is repeated by idiots, or how exotic it gets. also, cold showers.
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: BitPay will soon be dead.
They probably make $1000 per month revenue and burn around $500K.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Basically
they fired
the guy who blew $1.5Million and only 5
Transactions (probably sub $10)
to show for it.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: So, I'm a big Dave Chappelle fan. Anyhow when he got heckled and ragequitting off stage during one of his last stand up shows he came back out and said something
to
the audience: "You know why my show is good? Because
the network officials say you're not smart enough
to get what I'm doing, and every day I fight for you. I
tell
them how smart you are.
Turns out, I was wrong. You people are stupid."
This is how I
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: thestringpuller btw, how does it feel
to like hit it with article ?
mircea_popescu: so
then ? huge instablocks, miners running into
the disaster of
textile
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you understand what
the bloom filters
thing is supposed
to do AFTER
that right ?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> what even is
the point of gigantic blocks ? << More pretend businesses for
the Mr Spamzors
thestringpuller: used
to not affect, me.
Today, I'm like "Sweet
time
to get beer".
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: you know. we used
to have a "no alcohol on sunday" policy.
kakobrekla: my guess is nobody really knows what
the actual fuck is going on.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Yeah. It really does. It's been a fight getting credibility from people on
the fence.
Took a few days for people
to realize
the BitPay layoff article wasn't bullshit.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo seems qntra is doing pretty well
these days huh
BingoBoingo: Retard,
that's not a bullet with
the name on it
that's just a fucking casing.
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artifexd: If I can replace
them for 1.35BTC each (or less), I will.
artifexd: ;;later
tell nubbins` Do you have an common casascius coins you want
to sell? I sold a dozen and would like
to replace
them.
BingoBoingo: Well,
they are going
to stop saying MP coin soon I imagine, because...
They still base
their idea of MP wealth on
that dorky
tortilla chart from god knows how long ago.
BingoBoingo: I'm surprised it
took so long for
the coin name for issue
to resolve
mircea_popescu: so
their attempt
to fork bitcoin escalated, because before
they can in earnest get
to
that,
they have
to resolve a namefork
mircea_popescu: so
they'd rather it be mpcoin vs "bitcoin". except... if
the gavincoin chain fails,
this in effect renames bitcoin after me.
cazalla: i'm not sure if
there is anything better
than butter soaked bread
topped with an inch of vegemite
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.
mircea_popescu: "mp got bitcoin renamed in his honor by not doing
things! now
that's
the
true entrepreneurial spirit!"
danielpbarron: they are starting
to call
the real bitcoin "MPcoin"
davout: no
trouble beliebing
that
BingoBoingo: decimation: And
that's why
the people who made
the jump
to culturing forest organisms in dirt found a useful.
decimation: asciilifeform: re:
tieteixobactin << My outsider view is
that microbiology has been more busy derping with 'computing dna' rather
than actually studying microbes
davout: they look pretty different from what i'm used
to, pretty fat and appealing :D
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
davout: cazalla: never. been
to sydney only a couple of days, lived in melbourne for a while
tho, where i witnessed
the unspeakable horror of
these oysters being sold already opened
cazalla: <davout> cazalla: not very surprising coming from a people
that sells oysters already opened <<< ever had Sydney rock oysters?
mircea_popescu: but it's how
they're bringing "hope and change"
to bitcoin, or w/e it was
they were bringing.
mircea_popescu: bvut
the recent openss; ecdsa library issue ? it's because
they pulled "ecdsa"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the original complaint was more of a "we include names, do not know what code
they stand for"
mircea_popescu: kinda a resplendent showcase of why one does not really want
to be on
the side of idiots.
mircea_popescu: i doubt it was ever in history
the case
that idiots supporting something did so much damage
to it by its attempts at supporting it.
davout: the interesting in
this bit is
that if you s/devs/power rangers/ it works just as fucking well, if not better
decimation: gut flora are probably more important
than we know
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah
that's a good
theory
davout: "oh
that croissant from yesterday is hard? let's just soak it in
that delicious milk+almonds
thing and sell it under a different name" delicious nonetheless
mircea_popescu: i
think
that may actually be required for people with no better source of b complex / colon flora
davout: decimation:
tbh
the almond pastry
thing is usually bakeries recycling yesterday's pastries
decimation: in france
they fill pastries with almond paste; in australia, with yeast shit
decimation: Vegemite (/ˈvɛdʒɨmaɪt/ VEJ-ə-myt)[2][3] is a dark brown Australian food paste made from leftover brewers' yeast extract with various vegetable and spice additives developed by Cyril P. Callister in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1922.[4] A popular spread for sandwiches,
toast, crumpets and cracker biscuits as well as a filling for pastries, Vegemite is similar
to British, New Zealand and South African Marmite, Australian Promite,
davout: mircea_popescu:
that sort of rings a bell, was
that in bsas? i kind of remember you mentioning some sort of cheese
too
davout: god forbid you confuse vegemite for nutella. YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A BAD
TIME
mircea_popescu: davout ever showed you
the alleged "salmon"
that was jet black ?
davout: mircea_popescu: of course, i'm speaking about stores, where
the oysters are presented like
that
decimation: it's
the shit at
the bottom of a beer barrel after fermentation is done
decimation: yeah in
the us it is common
to get oysters seved open
davout: that's even a worse offense
to humanity
than vegemite and
the australian accent combined
mircea_popescu: plenty o\f restaurants bring
them open
to
the
table
tho
davout: oysters.
they're opened. right.
davout: cazalla: not very surprising coming from a people
that sells oysters already opened
mircea_popescu: "This is one of
the shittiest pieces of fear mongering I've ever read. Hard forking is and should be a natural and regular occurance and never has any hard fork ever
threatened
the block chain. It's called natural selection. Have a little faith in
the educated masses"