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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you carry on with the assumption that you are the only thinking man in BTC, you will come to no good.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: most Americans can't tie their shoes. Doesn't stop the remaining ones from, well, buggering the planet raw.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ask mtgox nicely to give the secret price adjustment knob a quarter-turn up, and the idiots will go away again.
smickles: mircea_popescu: 'endless march' has a nice ring to it
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: what is command for depth
Cylta: mircea_popescu are you technically able to start rally/panic sell?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: but what if it buys the contract back for more and then the exercise amount goes up?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: what happenes if MPOEBOT writes a contract
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: yeah, but he defaulted iirc
thestringpuller: like one of mircea_popescu hoes
thestringpuller: poor mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves https://twitter.com/Mircea_Popescu/status/317359515882385408
Bugpowder: mircea_popescu: I saw it somewhere yesterday.
burnside: I missed a pretty good conversation earlier. <mircea_popescu> Namworld you're confusing things tho. burnside isn't touching fiat afaik.
taub: mircea_popescu> that is a lot more concerning than any sort of crash
mpexbot: mircea_popescu: Asks: ['3000 @ 0.00398999', '12548 @ 0.00399997', '53154 @ 0.00399999', '3815 @ 0.00448', '9896 @ 0.00475']
mpexbot: mircea_popescu: S.DICE Bids: ['5600 @ 0.0032', '3000 @ 0.00310001', '337063 @ 0.0031', '100 @ 0.00100121', '3000 @ 0.00100002']
bgupta: mircea_popescu: any idea who's bot gribble is?
pigeons: mircea_popescu: they have strategy and capital, wether the strategy is any good remains to be seen
pigeons: mircea_popescu: oh i see you were asking why ripple's decentralized trading hasnt replaced centralised exchanges like mtgox
mircea_popescu: bgupta https://twitter.com/Mircea_Popescu/status/317213908769325056 check that
pigeons: mircea_popescu: you cant know from looking at a ripple address that the btc or fiat balances are markers for funds at the liquidity pools behind the exchanges, or if they are worthless ious unless you are in the pools
pigeons: mircea_popescu: talking to tiberiusiv, maybe you have him on ignore, i was considering it
bgupta: mircea_popescu: The big news for me is that the have or are working on a third batch, to bring total hashing to 200TH
toffoo: Chaang-Noi mircea_popescu I wrote an email to friedcat last night asking him to clarify the issue of the "missing" 6 TH ...
bgupta: mircea_popescu: What's your interest in DRM?
benkay: mircea_popescu would probably suggest they find women who accept their role in the world
pizzaman1337: mircea_popescu: I see. It seems like you might be able to get more volume though if people have free btc to use more often
pizzaman1337: mircea_popescu: is it possible to make options, sell them, later buy them back, and have the BTC freed up to use for something else? I don't see why it needs to be kept
taub: that was before i had a religious experience mircea_popescu
mpexbot: mircea_popescu: Asks: ['53154 @ 0.00399999', '2084 @ 0.00429257', '3815 @ 0.00448', '9896 @ 0.00475', '5248 @ 0.00479999']
mpexbot: mircea_popescu: S.DICE Bids: ['1025 @ 0.00310001', '805000 @ 0.0031', '100 @ 0.00100121', '3000 @ 0.00100002', '7500 @ 0.00100001']
Diablo-D3: just so people like mircea_popescu can stfu about "governments"
deadweasel: mircea_popescu: best life advice evar.
thestrin1puller: mircea_popescu: i followed bugpowders bet as an experiment
jurov: mircea_popescu: are you planning to coopt him?
Ukto: mircea_popescu: no cryprian atm bombs near you lately ?
smickles: mircea_popescu: i get email too :D
Ukto: mircea_popescu: he sells btc using google checkout
smickles: < mircea_popescu> there's been a pool of 2-5k waiting txs since about 3 months ago << that's a bit misleading, it's not like there are unconfirmed txns that have been waiting that long
smickles: i thought it a little funny, pointing out tiberiusiv's accusation agains mircea_popescu with links to their -otc ratings
Bugpowder: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://images.zoso.ro/img/2010/01/mircea_popescu.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.zoso.ro/mircea-popescu-este-cel-mai-influent-si-mai-destept-om-din-lume-si-din-romania/&h=420&w=322&sz=43&tbnid=Ax15b4F7WV-jVM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=69&zoom=1&usg=__AQxh65wDxZWtX1qGa-I250HzGvo=&docid=ooulPqIKMouWNM&sa=X&ei=hf5SUfaaK7PH4APj4oCABA&ved=0CE0Q9QEwAw&dur=238
unlord: mircea_popescu: thanks
unlord: mircea_popescu: how do you demonstrate ownership?
unlord: mircea_popescu: do shares have their own block-chain structure?
unlord: mircea_popescu: well I wasn't really into BTC back then
unlord: mircea_popescu: what did I miss?
Namworld: mircea_popescu... I think there's demand for more calls
Lyspooner: how many of the 60,000 75puts did mircea_popescu buy?
Lyspooner: mircea_popescu have you said anything about fincen yet?
Ukto: mircea_popescu: its great news.
smickles: mircea_popescu, you're just one of those *coiners*. go back in your hole
cylta: mircea_popescu: what is the total value of all asstes on mpex?
cylta: mircea_popescu: do you still sell accounts for 30 btc? =)
gribble: You are now authenticated for user mircea_popescu with key 8A736F0E2FB7B452
gribble: Request successful for user mircea_popescu, hostmask mircea_popescu!~Mircea@pdpc/supporter/silver/mircea-popescu. Get your encrypted OTP from http://bitcoin-otc.com/otps/8A736F0E2FB7B452
mircea_popescu: ;;eauth mircea_popescu
smickles: ooooh, mircea_popescu you sly dog
smickles: mircea_popescu: what media? news publications and blogs
smickles: mircea_popescu's blog has an article written at the time, which documents the date
smickles: mircea_popescu: remember when sr was down for 2 weeks, and it had no impact on bitcoin?
smickles: < mircea_popescu> so this means in fact sr is either a honeypot or else has been under law enforcement scrutiny for months <<< probably since that initial address change
MJR_: mircea_popescu: not exactly "manipulating" but anyone who puts an order that large out there is probably not trying to just sell or buy, they would layer it and break it up so that it wasn't obviuos
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: because people love a story
Bugpowder: mircea_popescu: the mpoe bot seems to not have offers up much more of the time now than a few weeks ago. Is this DDOS related, funding related, other?
Bugpowder: mircea_popescu: I'm guessing median is $1000 for joe reddit, but mean could skew significantly higher
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu Jansa is butthurt and posting shit around - we are way better than Italy if that is any consolation
Bugpowder: I wonder if mircea_popescu changed the pricing from 24vwap based to a blend of 24hr and spot
mpexbot: mircea_popescu: Asks: ['1000 @ 0.09287598', '1000 @ 0.25']
mpexbot: mircea_popescu: O.BTCUSD.C750T Bids: ['1000 @ 0.06090229']
jurov: hi mircea_popescu, when we can exppect bitbet payouts?
maximian: mircea_popescu I was wondering the same thing. eskimobob = tiberius?
mircea_popescu: yeah but as i said above, "<mircea_popescu> toffoo yea well, i wouldn't borrow mystical "asciminer" shares. i'd borrow actual tradeable instruments."
toffoo: mircea_popescu: so did that trade actually happen?
toffoo: mircea_popescu: have you gotten any further along in trying to short asicminer?
tiberiusiv: mircea_popescu: i think mpex shares declined due to missing out on the cavirtex ipo
topace: mircea_popescu: yea, until fucking BFL delivers
topace: mircea_popescu: my mining fund
Chaang-Noi: mircea_popescu> 2x asicminer volume yest. why is that ? is cavirtex a larger corp than asicminer ? i was answering this question
Bugpowder_: mircea_popescu: the girl's estimates were .075 to 0.15 no?
deadweasel: oh, thx mircea_popescu
deadweasel: mircea_popescu: is that what you are doing with the OIX?
mpexbot: mircea_popescu: 0.109438180923 seconds
Bugpowder: mircea_popescu: I suspect we will see a rotation out of S.MPOE this month.
smickles: mircea_popescu: also, because of it, she should be able to see and distinguish more colors than normal people
smickles: mircea_popescu: yup, and all her children and their children and so on will too
jcpham: i'll make sure to invite you to my dirt hut and feed you papaya stew mircea_popescu
mpexbot: mircea_popescu: 0.108052015305 seconds
ozonelayer: mircea_popescu: ok. thanks. typically, options are usually in units of 100 of the underlying asset. just a convention i believe (though SEC in the us may make this required...i'm not sure)
mpexbot: mircea_popescu: 0.112129211426 seconds
smickles: mircea_popescu: did you see what I said happened to mpexbot?
Bugpowder: cut off mircea_popescu's revenue stream
MJR_III: lol nice job mircea_popescu
mpexbot: mircea_popescu: 0.143377065659 seconds
Bugpowder: mircea_popescu: and with competition that is significantly underpowered relative to irl finance.
Bugpowder: I assume this is what mircea_popescu is doing. Why else would S.MPOE be worth so much?
Bugpowder: mircea_popescu: A car is a functional object of desire that feels like it just might actually be in reach, even if you have only a few hundred coins.
MJR_III: mircea_popescu: did you see the car i want to get once bitcoins make it possible lol
Bugpowder: mircea_popescu: Did they wire in over $10k at a time?
Bugpowder: mircea_popescu: They raised my withdrawl limit two hours after I emailed them