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MJR_III: btw... mircea_popescu did you see the Private Equity deal for CoinBase?
Bugpowder: mircea_popescu: I am not interested in the BTC number, just the USD total
MJR_III: mircea_popescu: i agree...but i don't like having to sell a position to take profits
MJR_III: mircea_popescu: that was kakobrekla's point of view
jurov: mircea_popescu: deposits, please?
gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. User mircea_popescu, rated since Fri Jul 22 08:04:26 2011. Cumulative rating 116, from 60 total ratings. Received ratings: 55 positive, 5 negative. Sent ratings: 62 positive, 13 negative. Details: http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: ;;getrating mircea_popescu
smickles: mircea_popescu: you might be interested in the logs of here starting at 21:26 utc
smickles: mircea_popescu: How's your NPD going today?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: Also y u no hold press confrences?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: When will there be a shareholders meeting?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: When will MPOE bot be upgraded to v2
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: "I've always wanted to try my hand at investing, but I don't have much "spare" money, and am currently not working at all. BTCs are offering me an opportunity to not only invest starting small, but learn so much about international monetary policy, trading, markets & so forth. The BTC community here on Reddit is amazing (minus the inevitable trolls of course), and probably the most helpful and sincere group of people I've come a
mpexbot: mircea_popescu: Asks: ['60 @ 0.24995', '8 @ 0.45', '30 @ 0.775']
mpexbot: mircea_popescu: X.IDIFF.JUN Bids: ['149 @ 0.08995']
smickles: mircea_popescu: no pm yet on that offer to help rpietila short s.mpoe
jurov: hi mircea_popescu, another magic world: deposits
jurov: me, kakobrekla, mircea_popescu, ukto
mod6: mircea_popescu & MPOE-PR are right, the btctalk people are turbo-idiots
TradeFortress: mircea_popescu, wasn't actually listed on the homepage for a while
mpexbot: mircea_popescu: 0.0966739654541 seconds
cads: mircea_popescu: I guess I have my new research questions
cads: mircea_popescu: it sounds like your account is not much better. I will have to read the paper for myself and faithfully learn the scheme.
cads: mircea_popescu: even the devs claim that bitcoin transactions can be tracked if they're not intractably mixed via a mixer.
cads: mircea_popescu: a naive search should scale exponentially :P
cads: mircea_popescu: yes, I understand those reasonably well
cads: mircea_popescu: he handwaves his treatment of the block chain
cads: mircea_popescu: I've read shamir's paper where shamir tracks cashflows from originator to recipient, even through large networks of obfuscation
cads: mircea_popescu: do you believe that blockchain datamining will at some point begin revealing the identities of the SR early adopters?
mircea_popescu: https://twitter.com/Mircea_Popescu/status/315357147934375936
KRS1: I treaded mircea_popescu how?
cads: KRS1: aww that's cute how you treat mircea_popescu as the BTC godfather
mircea_popescu: {mircea_popescu} mpex is here to arm bitcoin with all the high impact high efficiency weapons fiat currencies have.
mircea_popescu: {mircea_popescu} people don’t understand many things, chief among which that the world is at war, and finance is the means of that war.
cads: mircea_popescu: at least I will not be competing with well established finance phds already working in the field :)
cads: mircea_popescu: yeah, even if mpex and btc are superseded, what agents learn about this market will be valuable in the future
cads: mircea_popescu: I see it as a low entry cost into a promising finance research field
cads: mircea_popescu: do you play chess?
cads: mircea_popescu: at this point I'd like only to understand how to imagine, visualize, and refine an mpex investment strategy
cads: mircea_popescu: haha, what a very romanian sentiment :)
cads: mircea_popescu: so I could work with a 500 BTC base an recoup the entry cost over a handful of months?
cads: mircea_popescu: how much money is good enough to play?
cads: mircea_popescu: what type of option is traded on the mpex?
cads: mircea_popescu: do we still have to pay 30 BTC in fees for account registration?
cads: mircea_popescu: oh thanks to dogs there is a faq.
cads: mircea_popescu: as of this moment what I see when I look at mpex.co is a hellacious mass of legal jargon smattered with quantitative data readouts :)
cads: hey mircea_popescu, I just noticed the romanian version of your charter
cads: mircea_popescu: if you do not wish to mention any details about it that is perfectly fine
cads: mircea_popescu, I think I must have seen your name around the BTC sites and community before today.
cads: mircea_popescu: I only know a little lore about him - I'm not a student of MIT
cads: mircea_popescu: you're correct
cads: mircea_popescu: okay, which of these 3 lovely MIT students do you choose: http://philip.greenspun.com/images/pcd2668/three-graces-straight-full-27
cads: mircea_popescu: they look like conjoined sisters
cads: mircea_popescu: oh dear jesus both please!
cads: mircea_popescu: are the american romanian girls just all the pretty girls from romania, or are the girls even prettier back home?
cads: mircea_popescu: thanks for linking me to the charter
benkay: and mircea_popescu spends his time browsing prole food review sites
smickles: mircea_popescu: my wife declined your invitation to romania for sex dungeon activities
smickles: mircea_popescu: they probably just mean the same thing
MJR__: what's new mircea_popescu
mod6: (15:02) < mircea_popescu> "o no, too busy yakking" << yeah like wt
mod6: mircea_popescu: yeah i dunno what that guy is on
mpexbot: mircea_popescu: Asks: ['4484 @ 0.00444443', '1000 @ 0.00449999', '60000 @ 0.0045', '13055 @ 0.00499977', '1000 @ 0.00499979']
mpexbot: mircea_popescu: Bids: ['250 @ 0.00380002', '249 @ 0.00380002', '250 @ 0.00380001', '7000 @ 0.003308', '100 @ 0.00320005']
mod6: mircea_popescu: *nod*
smickles: mircea_popescu: oh please keep that trailing 0 in the mpsic, i don't want to recode things
jcpham: mircea_popescu have you seen the amagi metals silver bullets?
mod6: mircea_popescu: yeah i wouldn't put my btc's on it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you demonstrate how to steal a vault full of diamonds in Belgium, I'll give you a U.S. dollar in bounty.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: is your cold machine kept in a Faraday cage room, with optically isolated power?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do you hand-type the public keys and signed transactions?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes, ok, MPEx might be using cold wallets, kept on Mars. But most BTC users don't. and if you want to spend any, you have to defrost.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hope you'll enjoy having him as the sole client, then
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu cool makes sense then
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: a slice of stake from the grocery also doesn't have a fixed purpose. you can cook and eat it, or put it out in the sun and wait for it to grow with thousands of flies.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you speak as if that's evidence of effectiveness
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yeah, because that worked out so well for personal computing (and later the Net)...
smickles: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu does have a 'real' business
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: at MPEx? what else "just happens" there?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that is, why do you hire them?
MJR__: mircea_popescu: nice article
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one naturally wants to ask: why were they there?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the "I fire..." quote reads like "I expel rabid badgers from my house every day."
deadweasel: mircea_popescu: it's happening, BTC is a huge push towards it, the algorithms that come out of this could fuel future AI
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bruteforce mining is a contest of fiat bank accounts (and perhaps botnets.) I prefer contests of wits.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but yes, that's the only sort of BTC mining I'm personally interested in (well, that and optical computers.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: well yes. and cryproanalytic attacks on hashes aren't new, per se.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and no, this wasn't my idea. I may or may not have a better one, however.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: I can't bring myself to read the btc forums, did anyone discuss it there?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: Orlov has been writing since the mid-2000s
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: collapse veterans think quite alike.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yeah, it is a badger, isn't it. They also had: "Groundhog Fat: Enriched!"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they were behind the counter, so presumably not cheap. I didn't ask...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: here's a photo: http://greenapteka.com/zen_cart/images/Barsuchiy%20shir_capsules.jpg
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my local Russian grocery actually sells pills claiming to be made from dead weasels.
mod6: haha mircea_popescu, na.
deadweasel: it's coming backin states mircea_popescu
mod6: mircea_popescu: yeah, basically.
dub: mircea_popescu: yeah those are dealbreakers on spain
smickles: mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/oaJhsoO.jpg