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mircea_popescu: part of
the problem is
that
the guy run his affairs cca 2012 as if
they were fantasy baseball. buncha names/identities with no substantial business existence or raison d'etre, making
the
thing difficult
to remember or sanely structure historically.
TheNewDeal: he
told me he is still making payments
to people
to
this date... I
think it was for bmf ?
mircea_popescu: well, his relevancy came at a very late point. he had been making noises for a long
time, but nobdy paid attention for an equally long
time.
mircea_popescu: consider
the situaiton where a bunch of people actually believed
the earth is flat at some point
mircea_popescu: i know it looks impossible in retrospect, but it was
the fact at
the
time.
TheNewDeal: wasn't usagi giving insurance
though at a VERY late point in
the pirate ship?
TheNewDeal: why
the hell would anyone insure against a default on pirate?
TheNewDeal: usagi
told me it was paying out on a glbse default
TheNewDeal: what was
the contract insurange against? default by _____ ?
gribble: You rated user usagi on
Tue Apr 15 13:37:58 2014, with a rating of 1, and supplied
these additional notes: Had a 1140 btc contract with usagi which entitled me
to said amount on 2012-08-26.
The final payment was done 2013-04-27,
totaling 995 btc.
The sum was 145 btc short but I agreed
to let it slide because of distress on
the market of
the underlying 'securities' and rapid btc market (1 more message)
TheNewDeal: it was less
than what you had bargained for, like 900 off of 1100?
TheNewDeal: "In
the event of a full pirate default, NYAN.C will loose out, and CPA holds NYAN which holds NYAN.C.
Then we have contracts on
the outside as well. All in all CPA will remain very solvent, it may lose 20% of it's value in a full default. But we stands just as ready
to gain 20% if pirate doesn't default." - it will remain very solvent
TheNewDeal: But on Aug 23rd says
to CPA investors:
TheNewDeal: did he insurance against multiple parties with
the same CPA?
gribble: You rated user usagi on
Tue Jul 3 07:45:25 2012, with a rating of 2, and supplied
these additional notes: good business,
thanks =).
assbot: BitBet - BTC
to rally
to $4000 before July 2015 :: 0.1 B (1%) on Yes, 8.08 B (99%) on No | closing in 9 months 2 weeks | weight: 99`856 (100`000
to 2`000)
mircea_popescu: this because you know, merchant adoption is so important for a coin and all
that.
mircea_popescu: i don't
think
there's been a block with a
transaction in it since may.
TheNewDeal: so a 51% attack right now would be how many
TH?
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal well it's got 1.7th perm from now on, plus whatever other people
throw at it, so im guessing a 5
to 10
th rate going forward is probably its level
atcbot: [CoinMiner Hashrate]: 2.71
TH/s [PityThePool Hashrate]: 0.00 GH/s [iSpace Pool Hashrate]: 1.13
TH/s
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> i dun
think atc ever dropped
two digits sort of shit. << You forget before
the civilized
times ATC would
trade at ~500 and 100 satoshis in
the same hour
atcbot: [CoinMiner Hashrate]: 2.65
TH/s [PityThePool Hashrate]: 0.00 GH/s [iSpace Pool Hashrate]: 1.13
TH/s
[]bot: Bet placed: 2 BTC for Yes on "Nasdaq
to close at over $4500 in 2014"
http://bitbet.us/bet/966/ Odds: 90(Y):10(N) by coin, 86(Y):14(N) by weight.
Total bet: 2.64962778 BTC. Current weight: 62,518.
fluffypony: LTC dropped 20%
today, Darkcoin is
the major loser
fluffypony: I agree - "Blockr.io will continue
to operate as usual for now as Sašo and Samo
transition
to
their work at Coinbase."
mike_c: "Blockr.io will continue
to operate as usual for now"... and
then it will go away.
mike_c: fluffypony: blog post indicated
the whole
thing is going away.
fluffypony: I mean "will blockr.io stop support ATC,
thus culling it from
the list of coins for which it provides blockchain explorers"
mircea_popescu: fluffypony are you aiming
to ask "will blockr.io be shut down integrally or will
the atc part somehow magically survive" or do you aim
to ask "will atc implement blockchain culling like
the btc does"
assbot: Culling - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
assbot: culled - definition of culled by
The Free Dictionary
fluffypony: also fuck Coinbase, again,
they irritate mea
fluffypony: so do we know if
the ATC block exporer is going
to be culled or not?
mircea_popescu: (more likle,
the implication is you're from
the us, and
thus mate once for a lyftyme)
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal well maybe
the implication is you only used it on
their best friends.
pete_dushenski: using another man's condom is like using another man's mouth
to prechew your food before its shoved down your feeding
tube
TheNewDeal: do you
think
the females would enjoy a reused condom?
mircea_popescu: more so for
the other man part
than for
the spider web part, god knows how
that works.
mircea_popescu: but perhaps
the implication is
that it'd be icky
to use another man's spider web condom
TheNewDeal: best comment on
the article "I want a spider goat condom,
that I can pass down
to my male grand child."
TheNewDeal: pete_dushenski was hoping
they would mention Island of Dr. Moreua, just finished
that one up
assbot: The Silky, Milky,
Totally Strange Saga of
the Spider Goat - Modern Farmer
mircea_popescu: "then when it finally went
through his face light up "you just gotta know how
to work
these
treknologies"
mircea_popescu: sad
that
the story fails
to include a "he mumbled god dangit while kicking
the machine a couple of
times"
xanthyos: punkman: he spoke
to me just a couple hours ago planning
to
try
the lamassu
punkman: heh >> dustintheweb: Story
time: I just bought 0.2 from a Lamassu ATM. It
timed out in mid process w/out ever updating
the bitchain. I about crapped my pants, but
the business owner opened
the box for me, got my money out,
then we
tried it again until it worked.
xanthyos: completely reputable individual who refuses
to wot or use a real irc client
danielpbarron: found him on localbitcoins dealing in
the
town over from me
xanthyos: stander: get in
the WoT, you have 3 people who are waiting
to give you postive rating!
mircea_popescu: people here have shit like i dunno, laser cutters all over
their kitchen. so... you're in good company
X-Rob: I've probably spent about 10k over
the years on video cards, power supplies, etc. I haven't put any dollars into it in over 18 months (since ASICs became
The One
True Way(tm), basically).
X-Rob: Heh.
That's somewhat accurate
mircea_popescu: <Apocalyptic> <X-Rob> I normally just reinvest into hardware. //
this strategy is bound
to fail << i
think he pretty much said he enjoys
the
tinkering aspect. so from his pov it's perfect, put some money in, letting it run itself out. bitcoin,
the very complex and realistic online mmorpg/mud
mircea_popescu: it's like "dudes if you don't make
the world friendlier
to stupid people i'll stab myself in
the eye"
TheNewDeal: apparently he was quite angered after I downed him
the first
time
mircea_popescu: the reality in
the field is exactly opposite : i can dump porn pics all day and it'll stil be more important for bitcoin
than
tim swanson';s "books".
mircea_popescu: +r is based on
this imbecilic
theory
that
the content matters and
the people do not.
mircea_popescu: heck, even
the bureaucracy understood it eventually. hence no iraq 51st state
mircea_popescu: people understand it's fucking stupid
to undertake administering a shithole.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
the
thing is, both
the chinese and
the russians are run by people.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Yeah,
the parody article's only flaw is
there are no signs of Sino-Russian intervention yet. Merely observers.
assbot: Azi in
Timisoara, maine-n
toata
tara! - YouTube
mircea_popescu: as
the compatriots said
twenty years ago, Azi in
Timisoara, Miine'n Ferguson, MO.
assbot: Bitcoin, still not quite ready for CDOs pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
assbot: Michael Brown shooting: Amnesty International sends
team within US for first
time as National Guard deployed - Americas - World -
The Independent
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal> on bitbet, people always write up a bet about stocks like GOOG will close at above 1200 before jan 1 << so it's like freedom, let
them have fun.