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benkay: if exponential decay counts
as endgame.
benkay: hey hanbot is 'hanbot' an acceptable way to refer to you now that you're not stalking the forums
as 'MPOE-PR'?
mircea_popescu: "My impression is that the feel-good guys are incompetent and stupid and need others to be nice to them because if other people were fair and just to them, they would suffer tremendously, and therefore defend other incompetent and stupid people because they can identify with the sloppy bastards, but not with those who actually do their job well and have that
as their primary motive and their reason both for asking ques
mike_c: he is,
as he was very helpful when i was writing up the original post on JD. but easier access to stats would be nice.
mircea_popescu: Meanwhile, “pretty young things swarmed Warren
as soon he walked through the doors, asking to have photos taken with him,” said one observer. “He graciously did it. A few people asked him to open his wallet in the picture. Oddly enough, he did this too.” According to the onlooker, Buffett had “just a few dollars in his wallet.” The source added, “He’s more popular than the Dalai Lama!”
kakobrekla: i parsed it
as "25 kg PDF" for some reason
mircea_popescu: yeah. the master model of the preoblem is "cornering X market", such
as the 5 i think to date attempts on silver/gold
kakobrekla: well i did have some robots on btcusd back in the day but prolly nothing
as sophisticated
as you
moiety: fluffypony: oh and i dont mind what the site is like,
as long
as it isn't godaddy tbf
mircea_popescu: fluffypony not sa
as in south africa, sa
as in something awful
mircea_popescu: come back nubsy we need ourselves drawn
as flying dragon princesses
mircea_popescu: HeySteve: this place is becoming a real Dragon's Den, I'm thinking of writing something to that effect << by all means. maybe get nubbins to draw us all
as pony dragons.
mircea_popescu: (
as a bonus hint, before retiring a good decade ago, i was doing something like 240/160)
mircea_popescu: also in s.mpif news : juraj whom you know
as jurov has accepted to take over pc #5.
ThickAsThieves: mp, to say
as much would be to decide whether divorce is the answer
ThickAsThieves:
as an interesting aside, my lawyer, a former US Attorney, has expressed interest in coming here tp pick your brain MP
ThickAsThieves: The verdict is in, unless i'm ready to move to Romania, and/or MPEx blocks US customers, and/or I register
as a broker/dealer with SEC, I must decline the MPIF mgr position due to legal concerns. Even then, it'd take a combination of those to have any remote chance of safety. :(
mrstickball: its somewhat interesting. Not their business
as much
as they are using Counterparty
ThickAsThieves: this is some bumfuck logic no? "However the FCA has not offered any constructive guidance or comment on the regulation of digital currencies. In fact, the FCA has gone
as far
as stating it does not regulate digital currencies and has no intention of doing so. The result is that bitcoin businesses in the UK are not obliged to register with or be authorised by the FCA."
mrwdunne: ThickAsThieves remarkably I have actually spoken with the FCA about this,
as opposed to just reading their manuals.
Naphex:
as in hacked bank accounts, or clients wanting reversals because they inputed by mistake too many 0's
ThickAsThieves: Perfect regulatory environment for an exchange
as there are no AML/KYC requirements.?
mrwdunne: Free, instant bank transfers. Perfect regulatory environment for an exchange
as there are no AML/KYC requirements.
mrwdunne: Naphex: yes, we are selling in stages, at each stage we will sell the shares for more. Whatever we have left we will use to provide liquidity. However I think we will see a flood of people from the UK when we launch. Especially
as the bank transfers are instant
gribble: Nick 'thestringpuller', with hostmask 'thestringpuller!~leflor@99-39-97-12.lightspeed.tukrga.sbcglobal.net', is identified
as user 'thestringpuller', with GPG key id 0FF2943DA179E169, key fingerprint 6ACE36E786F39A4ADC4506DE0FF2943DA179E169, and bitcoin address None
Naphex:
as we see every day with blockchain
MichalisBTC: We are in Cyprus, low corporate tax attracts a lot of FX companies, who wish now to integrate bitcoin. Some list it already
as CFDs, but they cannot clear bitcoin. We do the hard work for them, they are in control of the wallets. We are just the passthrough, offering a service.
fluffypony: less reputational risk
as well, let the customer take ownership of their screw ups
punkman: MichalisBTC: why "
as a service"? why not license the software that provices the convenient API for the blockchain?
MichalisBTC: for blockchain
as a service we plan to use oauth, so yes
Naphex: MichalisBTC: bitcoin network,
as in SPV BitcoinJ
MichalisBTC: We are not holding any funds for "Blockchain
as a Service" and the only input in the system is the bitcoin netowork.
Naphex: ThickAsThieves:
as in thin client, in bitcoinj
MichalisBTC: The space we are entering with "Blockchain
as a Service" is kind of competing with blockchain.info, some features overlap. his advise on that was that indeed we need more of these type of SaaS to help the eco-system...
MichalisBTC: Really nice guy btw. We had a one hour skype video call and went over our designs. A few days ago we asked him if we appoint him
as our advisor for the funding process and he was kind enough to accept.
MichalisBTC: Yes, we approached Mike because all our previous work was on bitcoinJ. BitcoinJ was designed to be a mobile client rather a backend server.However, the tools of the library are helpful and because we code in Java we decided to give it a shot. We broke it appart and used what was good for our purposes but
as some point we wanted advise on how to proceed, so we thought to pass our plans
ThickAsThieves: maybe we can talk about this Hearn
as your technical advisor thing
MichalisBTC: we are working on a new project, it's Blockchain
as a Service. It's a friendly RESTful API that allows creating bitcoin apps...to put it in single sentence. with a lot of automations and event type notifications.
ThickAsThieves: my own goal is for you guys to put him through the wringer so
as to temper (snuff?) his plans
as appropriate
fluffypony: Naphex: that graph on the front page, it's not possible to zoom in right? wanted to see if you guys saw a dip from the China thing
as well
fluffypony: he has a point though - if the 200k coins they magically "found" form part of the assets sold off to pay creditors, customers will proportionally get less
as they have to share with other creditors
davout: thestringpuller: reading fine print is a good thing, why not rate it
as such? :D
HeySteve: "This week, SingleHop engineers noticed an increase in the number of customers reporting compromised servers.
As we investigated these reports, we were able to identify a common malicious software program installed on many of the compromised servers. The malware is specifically designed to siphon the server’s computing power into mining bitcoins. This has been a growing trend throughout
MrWDunne: Naphex: No that would be unwise, I will have a professional do that, and learn from him
as we go along
Naphex: MrWDunne: are you going to do the tehnical monitoring
as well?
MrWDunne: Anyhow, I do now need to go. So please send any questions to me on BitcoinTalk and I'll answer them
as soon
as MrWDunne: Of course,
as I said don't quote me on C++ I just know its not a PHP trade engine
MrWDunne: Anyhow, I have to leave in about 10 minutes to visit another bank (looking to get additional accounts for redundancy). If you have a few questions you want me to get a proper answer to just put them here and I'll get an answer
as soon
as possible
MrWDunne: I know
as a matter of fact its not just PHP fluffy
MrWDunne: The third party is doing that
as they go, but prior to launch we are paying for a full security audit of the code. Also the person who referred us knows them personally, and its an interesting project.
HeySteve: I suggest stating it not
as "lax" but rather "minimal"
fluffypony: "We should be attractive to customers thanks to lax KYC/AML,
as we will not require identification for those who wish to trade £500/€600 or less per week." <- so basically I can get around all KYC/AML issues by opening 100 accounts?
MrWDunne: Bitstamp isn't really in the UK. Its mainland Europe and
as such very expensive for those in the UK
gribble: Nick 'fluffypony', with hostmask 'fluffypony!~fluffypon@geartri.be', is identified
as user 'fluffypony', with GPG key id 7455C5E3C0CDCEB9, key fingerprint BDA6BD7042B721C467A9759D7455C5E3C0CDCEB9, and bitcoin address 1FAvFCgXBmJ4uV3p1NFzWkkyndH7FJ6Vzx
gribble: Nick 'Naphex', with hostmask 'Naphex!~naphex@btcxchange.ro', is identified
as user 'Naphex', with GPG key id 64CDBADCE1E0BBAF, key fingerprint F3D76A985F5844814A93F46364CDBADCE1E0BBAF, and bitcoin address 12mVDqdWqFY6zrCqNqgHbxhDPB4ZVUuaTu
BingoBoingo: benkay:
As best
as I can tell with Amazon is that they have done nothing other than reinvest in their history. Like the Poker Player who doubled down 21 times in row and won.
BingoBoingo: benkay: Mosin was one option, some sks variant was another with the particular variant left in the air, so long
as it wasn't chinese
BingoBoingo: Where
as in artillery the goal is to hit the target first.
BingoBoingo: This exists
as an exact why for bitches loving Yadier Molina.
BingoBoingo: Normally the answer is the catcher calling pitches,
as a great catcher is a slightly better source of entropy than the batter
mircea_popescu: anyway. i'm kinda up to here with the smoking addiction thing. i've been smoking since ~16. that's two decades ago. i still smoke, i average a pack a month. prolly less these days. it takes all the willpower of a tomato
as far
as i can tell, it's never bothered me.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: In the accultured.
As opposed to the occasional
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: And I sat through literally 2/3rds of the PharmD curiculumn, half of it twice. But
as a TA so I get no credit for having done such a thing.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: And this is baseball so there are nearly
as many balls spent in the game
as outs.
ThickAsThieves:
as in, they obv cant totally stop people from using it
BingoBoingo: Everything is legal so long
as you wait until the contest is over to flaunt it
cazalla: BingoBoingo: interesting article - my son is 14 weeks ATM, is favouring his left hand when grabbing for things yet no left handers in my family although my father is schizophrenic
as was my grandfather and my uncle
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: In the next 100 to 500 year someone might want to use Kansas
as their own breadbasket.
mike_c: this preston jackass strikes me
as a rebirth of dr foreskin. not worth even getting riled up over, and yet he manages to get under my skin with his herp derp.
mircea_popescu: that'd be the case if there existed no spot.
as it is, he lost 50 bux or w/e the spot was
mircea_popescu: "This suggests focusing on robustness,
as opposed to prediction, because the system works against rational expectations, especially those consensus ideas that come out of large bureaucracies. After all, what better sufficient statistic for a mimic to exploit than some well-known regulatory bullet point that supposedly ensures trivial risk? Recessions are not going away; they are endogenous because zero mimicry is not a
kakobrekla: free
as in not taken, not not costing any $
fluffypony: kakobrekla: "The remainder will be kept in reserves to pay for monthly costs, such
as the data center." - they have an entire data center to pay for, yo
fluffypony: I'm not sure if them adding Bitcoin
as a funding option will draw much interest from the BTC community tho
nextime: ok, anyway, i must go back to my daddy role now, asciilifeform i will send you infos tomorrow (
as italy time ) after lunch when i will be in my laboratory
nextime: asciilifeform : if you give me an email i will send you
as soon
as tomorrow ( is holyday tomorrow in italy, but i'm a stakanovist and i will be in laboratory ) i will send you a pdf with all specifications of our requirements
nextime: for through-hole parts we work by hands actually ( we are a small company
as i say )
nextime: asciilifeform : for tooling?
as i say, nothing. We usually choose to absorb this cost hoping to get fidelity,
as is a little cost in real.
nextime: ok, great, my company basically do low batches production and prototypes, and then we do assembly for bigger batches ( and for bigger batches
as usual we just build pcb with an external fab )
nextime: asciilifeform : ok,
as you prefer
davout: mircea_popescu: how would it make any sense for aqoba to take us
as client and somehow make up some lie about mastercard being anti-bitcoin?