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mircea_popescu: watch how in a few short months it won't be possible
to buy bitcoin at any price.
mircea_popescu: something
tells me
they have nfi how
to write a
term sheet, and
there's about 50-50 odds of
the financer backing out.
BingoBoingo: Mebbe
they
think legal shitstorm is
to
their benefit for filing bankruptcy?
mike_c: they should come
to NYC. very bitcoin friendly. just drop all your coins off at lawsky's office on
the way into
town.
kakobrekla: i dont
think so but dont have
the details.
mike_c: interesting.
they must be retaining UK incorporation, no? I would
think it would be legal shitstorm otherwise.
kakobrekla: btw bitstamp is moving operations
to us (prolly sf).
☟︎ mircea_popescu: when are
they bringing
the fractional reserve back up ?
assbot: Our
temporary website didn’t feel quite like home - so we gave it a little refresh while we work on restoring full services.
saifedean: hai
there, mp,
thanks for
the voice
mircea_popescu: "But what of it? How does
this effect you? Well, it effects" affects you. afect is another name for sentiment.
to affect is
to cause an effect upon something.
to effect, confusingly enough, is
to cause
the execution of something. so, you effect legislation, and
that legislation affects people.
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell pete_dushenski "Their habitual attacks on forums is usually" << are.
mircea_popescu: except...
there was
that ALREADY carved
there. easily 50 years old.
mircea_popescu: and i have
this distinct memory of a kid being pissed of at some chick, and going
to carve "X is a whore" in
the wall
mircea_popescu: i went
to school in
this huge, what you'd call super-preppy
thing.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i'm
told
that
there is - somewhat lower-tech -
traditional 'black on black' sc4mz0r1ng - 'numbers games' run in back alleys, etc. << Replaced by same game with different operator "Lottery"
mircea_popescu: "black on black violence in
the ghetto is so and so!!1". fine. and white on white scamming in bitcoin is how ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, i have no problem with dudes going "oh, blacks do all
teh crime!!!" if
that's what
they believe, and start running off stats about it. big whoop. but it's funny how nobody happens
to fucking noticing
the OTHER stats.
thestringpuller: gotta love pasty white girls who are afraid of
the sun like vampires
tho ;)
thestringpuller: hahaha! i
thought only black people used "pasty white person" phrasing
thestringpuller: pretty sure he's
taking bitpay cock up da butt knowing
the implications
mircea_popescu: what atlantic really means is "why are
there so few black scammers in bitcoin, because
that's all we know about anyway". and
the reason couldn't possibly be "because
they're just more honest
than whitey"
BingoBoingo: pete suggested: "Maybe
they are better at keeping it on
the down low".
mircea_popescu: whodda
thought, you know,
that NOT invoving an us company is better.
mircea_popescu: but i see whatcha mean. "not politically favoured, so not as well ironed out, so harder
to use"
mircea_popescu: jurov well ok, by and large for any expectation it won't be possible
to make "all" work. because anyone can anything, and well...
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i guess
that works out
then, prolly a customer.
jurov: also, email clients. it was *not* possible
to make all
them work with self-signed cert
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Bitstamp's line is
the 4th and
they didn't announce before
then. so if it was earlier still
time for customers
to get fucked pertending deposit addressses are
theirs.
jurov: it annoys me
to no end when i install self-signed cert and even if i
try
to distribute it between machines, some dam curl-like
tool breaks
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo wasn't
the actual breach prior
to
the 4th ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> now is
the
theory here
that what,
the haxxor is using on bitbet
the same address
that nejc was using on bitbet prior
to
the "hack" ? because why ? << I don't see any new bets after
the 4th. COuld just be a derp who wanted
to "win"
to his Bitstamp deposit address?
jurov: i am not
talking about browser,
that's lost cause
jurov: i don't see how every
time i'm accessing anything via
https/smtps i'm going
to
think whether
this is
the right cert
jurov: i'm looking forward how are
they going
to solve it in libressl, if ever
mircea_popescu: would work for a bank, wouldn't work for a newspaper sort of
thing ?
mircea_popescu: jurov so you mean, it only works for sessions where
the user knows/trusts
the source, as opposed
to whatever, random drive-by publishing ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
they also managed
this situation where all
the shit online carries a "5000 derps
that don't really exist LIKE
THIS"
jurov: i don't contest
that
jurov: so
they are not "almost zero cost"
jurov: and even
they
they are PITA
kakobrekla: unfortunately
things people call browsers dont like
to swallow self signed.
mircea_popescu: jurov im curious
to hear
the self signed cert reasoning
tbh.
mircea_popescu: obviously "one has no way of knowing" if a self signed cert is good. but if
there's also a .asc on
the server... i'd say it's a damned sight better
than "Verizon certifies"
jurov: lol
that's just keyfart
jurov: ncfaci meant
the bits where he promoted self-signed certs
mircea_popescu: jurov: lots of derp
tho << i kinda liked his piece
tbh.
mircea_popescu: it's like making dogs blind
to your fear by shaking uncontrollably.
mircea_popescu: as if irrelevance can ever be averted by
this sort of
thing.
mircea_popescu: TF can now claim relevance and victory by conceding practically every principle ever held dear in return for
the privilege of rubber-stamping Google's initiative."
mircea_popescu: "The IETF, obviously fearing irrelevance, hastily "discovered"
that
the HTTP/1.1 protocol needed an update, and
tasked a working group with preparing it on an unrealistically short schedule.
This ruled out any basis for
the new HTTP/2.0 other
than
the SPDY protocol. With only
the most hideous of SPDY's warts removed, and all other attempts at improvement rejected as "not in scope," "too late," or "no consensus,"
the IE
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: it just pulls news stories from other websites and does blind word replacement on
the articles,
to make
them seem original <<<
there's a million of
these.
mod6: tie
them
to
the radiator and grape
them in
the mouth
mircea_popescu: ahhh
the fact reddit is so in favour of
this hardfork business is so great :D
mircea_popescu: now is
the
theory here
that what,
the haxxor is using on bitbet
the same address
that nejc was using on bitbet prior
to
the "hack" ? because why ?
mircea_popescu: nejc/bitstamp crew allege
that hacker somehow got into
their system, stole privkeys for
their addresses, AND
THEN deleted
their copies. magically.
they were all online or something, who knows.