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mike_c: i think the sale is almost over
mircea_popescu: dude i leave for a day and where is the two digit bitcoin!
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 485.42, Best ask: 486.98, Bid-ask spread: 1.56000, Last trade: 487.36, 24 hour volume: 19861.58716992, 24 hour low: 453.01, 24 hour high: 493.0, 24 hour vwap: 472.817569834
[]bot: Bet placed: 10 BTC for No on "1BTC >= $10,000 USD" http://bitbet.us/bet/635/ Odds: 11(Y):89(N) by coin, 16(Y):84(N) by weight. Total bet: 682.27919187 BTC. Current weight: 25,859.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.78092363 BTC for No on "1BTC >= $10,000 USD" http://bitbet.us/bet/635/ Odds: 11(Y):89(N) by coin, 16(Y):84(N) by weight. Total bet: 672.27919187 BTC. Current weight: 25,860.
assbot: The Gyroscopes in Your Phone Could Let Apps Eavesdrop on Conversations | Threat Level | WIRED
TomServo: ;;later tell pete_dushenski On "Who are we? Not nationals." footnote i.: s/self-refertiality/self-referentiality
TomServo: ;;later tell ben_vulpes The OTC link on your page still points to benkay's OTC profile.
nubbins`: i find myself questioning the wisdom of buying them :0
nubbins`: i see charlie shrem is selling a lot of casascius coins on the forums these days
Duffer1: i appreciate that, i'm glad i'm not dead too :)
Vexual: and youre all like meah wait till i finish this blunt
Duffer1: it was quite painful, and i refused pain meds until the ct scan results came back and the dr said "your appendix is all messed up, we're transfering you to a different hospital, ambulance is en route, take pain meds now"
Vexual: can i kick you in the nuts?
Vexual: you must gave some pain tolerence to burst
Vexual: i assume thats a good thing
Vexual: ive only read the abstract
RagnarDanneskjol: afraid I cant be too interactive tonight - I'm kinda in the middle of a few things and terribly behind schedule
Vexual: i was hoping this analysis might be interactive
Vexual: well i tought i might give an example of some concepts i garner from that collectionfor your further thought
RagnarDanneskjol: its relatively comprehensible cf. to a lot of academic financial dissertations I come across. I learn more about bitcoin from these sources than i would any "analyst" in the btc space
RagnarDanneskjol: economy. This dissertation analyses the effect of market imperfections at different time horizons.""
RagnarDanneskjol: at different time horizons." - I only got through the first essay. " Financial assets prices are not always in perfect equi- librium and deviate from their fundamental values. The dramatic rise and fall of the stock market raises concern about the rationality of sudden changes in stock valu- ations. The mispricing of assets contributes to financial crises, which can damage the overall
RagnarDanneskjol: "Financial assets prices are not always in perfect equi- librium and deviate from their fundamental values. The dramatic rise and fall of the stock market raises concern about the rationality of sudden changes in stock valu- ations. The mispricing of assets contributes to financial crises, which can damage the overall economy. This dissertation analyses the effect of market imperfections
RagnarDanneskjol: be moar vigilant with teh monies
Vexual: care to offer a quick dissertation Ragnar?
assbot: Essays in quantitative analysis of the effects of market imperfections on asset returns
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 487.19, Best ask: 488.0, Bid-ask spread: 0.81000, Last trade: 487.19, 24 hour volume: 31400.25076534, 24 hour low: 442.0, 24 hour high: 493.0, 24 hour vwap: 499.397297578
gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 23761047900.1 based on data since last change | 25481337320.0 based on data for last three days
Vexual: and that is a whole other level
Vexual: i think you are right, but many of the biggest ethical questions arise where dna meets patent law
xmj: it's an example of market forces at work without redistribution; of course they don't like that.
xmj: Vexual: Monsanto strikes the hypocritical white progressives as bad due to their feeding people.
gribble: Bitcoin-Central BTCEUR ticker | Best bid: 370.0, Best ask: 373.99999, Bid-ask spread: 3.99999, Last trade: 370.0, 24 hour volume: 150.20365524, 24 hour low: 340.0, 24 hour high: 370.0, 24 hour vwap: 354.3870935
Vexual: just a little bit shitter than their mixing service
Vexual: but mapping genomes is about as advanced as blockchain.info taint analysis
Vexual: its prolly hard to usefully gm an o where the o has been selectively bred for so many generations, unless you include a new selection criteria
xmj: whatever the plant you make opium from
Vexual: perhaps they will change their modus operendi and make a version that grows in africa easily without pesticides
Vexual: roundup resistant ganja? i think someones trolling
xmj: Soon we'll have GMO cannabis on the cheap, all the hipsters and Nassim Taleb will bitch about it
assbot: Is Monsanto The New Cannabis Supplier In Town? AnonHQ
xmj: alright, so I found this:
ben_vulpes: cutie id like to meat
Vexual: its a girl going to or from mt sinai or whatevr is called
Vexual: its from twitter :)
ben_vulpes: Vexual: what's that pic from?
usagi: I warned him about getting in with the wrong crowd. Guess he didn't know who his friends were
usagi: I guess terra is finally dead then.
usagi: I didn't know the terrahash failure was so spectacular
assbot: Did Margin Trading Crash the Price of Bitcoin?
Vexual: although, my tote had em at a pretty fucking longshot
Vexual: kenilworth is actually looking better than it ever haz
Vexual: and...if.. they used the btc right, theres money left to drill
Vexual: not sure if cause of efect, but they also renewed their exploration permits
Vexual: kenilworth did their emi
TheNewDeal: still very profitable for a high btc individual to bet as well
TheNewDeal: the thing about the 10k bet is
usagi: But it would have had to have a much larger payout, this might be the sweet spot for the $10k bet
usagi: I should have been looking at that bet 8 months ago heh
usagi: might toss something on the $10k bet
usagi: TheNewDeal; it contains subjective terms open to post-interpretation
assbot: BitBet - 1BTC >= $10,000 USD :: 75 B (11%) on Yes, 595.49 B (89%) on No | closing in 3 months 1 day| weight: 25`962 (100`000 to 1)
usagi: http://bitbet.us/bet/635/1btc-10-000-usd/ This bet pays about 1.4% per month, and if im wrong, I still win
TheNewDeal: site hasn't change much, merely the bets
usagi: Actually I'll go take a look at the site now
usagi: Oh? That sounds interesting
TheNewDeal: I'm in the business of scouting out good bets and reselling them
usagi: There are some issues with the site tho, which discourage me from betting
usagi: Yeah I made a little on bitbet, I should probably take a look at that site again soon
usagi: There isn't much available right now. I've been chatting with you recently. thought I'd ask
TheNewDeal: yes, it's called Don't Feed the Scammers
usagi: Do you run a business in the community, TND?
usagi: Anduck's contract was separate from kakobreklas. I think you can understand that.
TheNewDeal: not only that, anduck said it today as well
usagi: But a lot of the contracts had NDA's at the customer's request so I don't usually talk about particulars
usagi: TheNewDeal yesterday you said I told you I was insuring people (kakobrekla) against glbse defaults. I didn't say that, kako's contract was for pirate
TheNewDeal: 30 minutes, we'll see about that assbot
usagi: Hi thanks~
decimation: the mind reels. one hope is that as the 14-nm process seems to dribble production, the world will have time to step back and actually do something useful with the silicon
assbot: After a 10-year Linux migration, Munich considers switching back to Windows and Office | ZDNet
asciilifeform: like the doomed office plankton jumping from a burning skyscraper, they don't much care where they land.
asciilifeform: what we're seeing is not love of the typewriter, but a desperate flight from wintel.
decimation: yeah I believe. every security decision is full of trade-offs
asciilifeform: given the small quantities of the machines bought, it seems likely that each will inhabit a separate room. precisely the best circumstances for such a bug.
asciilifeform: (don't believe? try it yourself. each key has a detectably-different sound.)
asciilifeform: decimation: typewriters are trivially snooped via ordinary acoustic bug.
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment :: 1121.08 B (86%) on Yes, 189.09 B (14%) on No | closing in 5 months 4 weeks | weight: 53`621 (100`000 to 1)
TheNewDeal: methinks your yield is going a lot higher this month http://bitbet.us/bet/786/bitcoin-to-surpass-berkshire-as-an-investment/
assbot: Kremlin returns to typewriters to avoid computer leaks - Telegraph
decimation: asciilifeform: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/10173645/Kremlin-returns-to-typewriters-to-avoid-computer-leaks.html << Russian bureaucrats know it is easier to squeeze humans than control bits
asciilifeform: essential attribute of such being that it cannot be determined to be what it is other than by being actually used in a broadcasted transaction.
asciilifeform like probably everyone else, contemplated the mathematical curio of a 'panic key' that irreversibly destroys coin (in a hypothetical 'btc 2.0' apparatus, naturally)
asciilifeform: the only possible pill against this situation is - to not end up in it.
asciilifeform: even the dumbest bureaucrat presumably understands this.
asciilifeform: weakest link in btc apparatus is still - the owner. esp. if he's hanging upside-down, waiting for the next whack with a thick telephone book.
asciilifeform: only objective re: the wagen - don't get in.
BingoBoingo: With the slightest bit of personal awareness of your own addresses though, plausible deniability becomes feasible.
asciilifeform: blind 'taint' analysis is one thing, a list of 1mil names and deposit addrs is quite another.
asciilifeform is still waiting for the first leak from the u.s. dept. of wherever-the-stoolie-reports-from-btc-exchanges go.