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BingoBoingo: ^ the "context"
BingoBoingo: through their mobile devices.”
BingoBoingo: building replicas of existing financial infrastructure and instead choose to use this virtual-based system
BingoBoingo: countries, just as they leapfrogged copper wiring choosing to use wireless telephony, some may forgo
BingoBoingo: cryptoledger that is not controlled by an institution capable of abuse. As a consequence, for developing
BingoBoingo: form of a loan with specific terms and conditions. This is done in an external, tamperproof system, a
BingoBoingo: contract) could create a monetary instrument (a cryptocoin) and lend it to anyone on the globe in the
BingoBoingo: work and will be a godsend to the 3rd world. For instance, a person with a reliable DAO (or smart
BingoBoingo: form of identity management. This will completely transform how the flow of capital and investment
BingoBoingo: transactions based on clearly defined terms and services can be conducted on an exchange through a
BingoBoingo: other users can see its history and if it is reliable thus building credit scores. In turn, business
BingoBoingo: safe place to put an instrument or contract and people can digitally sign it. Since it is publicly audited,
BingoBoingo: webs of trust – that incentivizes users to pay back creditors. 334 With a blockchain you can now have a
BingoBoingo: For example, since at least 1991 there has been a variety of methods for building reputation systems –
assbot: Transcripts offer window into SEC probes of financial crisis and some awkward testimony http://t.co/g0KjnK2TF0 /WSJ http://t.co/rJL4iuTqz2
mircea_popescu: especially in the face of having called a random string generator in an article you're ostensibly rebutting.
pankkake: first time I've seen the word "disrupt" used in this context in months :p
nubbins`: a thousand times ^
mircea_popescu: anyway, the presumptiousness of calling a pdf "my book" is striking.
mircea_popescu: that way you don't have the problem of snotty 5yo disrupting other people's restaurant meal. because in his reptillian 5yo brain, the risk that the whole stampede of adults beats the shit out of him if he starts screaming is quite vivid.
mircea_popescu: kidsshould get NEGATIVE attention whenever they ask for it. such as a good beating.
pankkake: yes, that one: http://www.reactionface.info/sites/default/files/images/1356190763874.png
mircea_popescu: this idiocy came to be highly regarded by parents that aren';t people, that you shouldn't give attention to kids asking for it the wrong way (usually throwing a fit). this is nonsense.
BingoBoingo: The dude start's his page numbering from the fucking prematter right after the cover, which no.
mircea_popescu: pankkake give the right sort of attentio.
pankkake: just don't give attention to attention whores
mircea_popescu: ideally, one that needs their inept brand of "fixing"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yes, but those same people are too stupid to realise how stupid they are, and if someone tells them this they misrepresent it as an "ad hominem" and misconstrue it as some sort of failure of "the world"
pankkake: I suspect his publishing method is just a way to avoid rebuttals
nubbins`: Bitcoin ist totale kunst!
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Some people should not self publish, because they can't understand "bookness" especially when it comes to presenting "bookness" electronically
BingoBoingo: SEC issued an investor alert related to bitcoin and other virtual currencies. 892
BingoBoingo: numerous scams and thefts that continue to occur with these types of investments, in May the
BingoBoingo: $4.5 million Ponzi scheme through a firm called Bitcoin Savings & Trust.891 In fact, due to the
BingoBoingo: investigation as well as Trendon Shavers (‘pirate40’) who was charged by the SEC for running a
BingoBoingo: of Mircea Popescu of MPex who asserted Bitcoin's sovereignty in response to an SEC
BingoBoingo: will itself act as a form of “law” transcending all jurisdictions. Two notable examples being that
BingoBoingo: Part of the current narrative popular on social media such as Reddit and Twitter is that Bitcoin’s
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so basically the guy has no fucking idea of anything.
Apocalyptic: pankkake, oh it is ? great. Then I would somehow expect them to add all the listed coins
BingoBoingo: That's the trilema thing he linked in Chapter 17 of his Bitcoin book. I can dig through his other stuff, but... navigating his giant pdf's is a pain
pankkake: Apocalyptic: since X-BT is on coinmarketcap already for atc, you should have them add your ltc and nmc markets. I'd rather buy nmc from you when I need them, but there's almost no one trading
mircea_popescu: i asked him if he read the 2012 canonical text on contracts.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: the footnote 891 Interacting with fiat institution, a guide by Mircea Popescu, SEC Charges Bitcoin Entrepreneur With Offering Unregistered Securities, SEC charges bitcoin entrepreneur for share offering from MarketWatch and SEC Alleges Texas Man Ran $4.5 Million Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme from LexisNexis
mircea_popescu: these noobs need to learn how to spam ffs.
mircea_popescu: keywords2 example.com/ dlcqcafd@gmail.com 106.186.112.93Submitted on 2014/08/12 at 4:22 d.m. "Wonderful topic!…"
BingoBoingo: A bunch of weird characters that should have been spaces were treated as line spaces
mircea_popescu: SemFieteewBut l.uf.en.gk.u.an.gniub.i..u.k.10@gmail.com 76.164.201.226Submitted on 2014/08/12 at 4:24 d.m. "For this specific day of the week-spun2"
BingoBoingo: Well, I'll open the failbook again and try to get the actual text
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Was trying to present those footnotes from the failbook
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: not any time soon
thestringpuller: ;;later tell ben_vulpes when will images be supported?
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski when are you going to put the fro on twitter?
HeySteve: The goals are to allow real-time creative collaboration between storytellers, illustrators and readers and also to deepen the excitement of classic gamebooks by making player decisions a true gamble.
HeySteve: 80’s children will have fond memories of gamebooks like the Choose Your Own Adventure, Fighting Fantasy or Lone Wolf series. These books captured the essence of role-playing by granting players agency over their character within a greater narrative. Inspired by such classic interactive fiction, I’ve adapted the format to take advantage of the internet and Bitcoin, the coin of the
HeySteve: COINAN: The Wrath of BitCrom - A Blockchain-Powered Online Gamebook (with Gambling)
HeySteve: let me know if this sounds interesting to you guys...
HeySteve: I'm about to announce my new gambling game on the forum
nubbins`: ;;later tell pete_dushenski i've been to berlin and la candelaria in botoga, and i agree -- bogota wins, hands-down
xmj: offer number two
nubbins` sniffs, wipes away tear
nubbins`: just finalized the text for those bitcoin posters
Apocalyptic: well it would take some time to setuo
BingoBoingo: Apocalyptic: Makes it hard to go deep into both bids and asks at the same time
Apocalyptic: kakobrekla, validating 1k acc is more painfull that to just spam new orders
kakobrekla: if you need to limit it to 10 per user your code is wrong.
assbot: Graffiti in Bogot: Blank canvas | The Economist
pete_dushenski: http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2014/08/graffiti-bogot << has anyone else taken this in? it's quite something. more aware than berlin's even.
Apocalyptic: BingoBoingo, maybe, I didn't think someone would go over that with legit orders to be honest
BingoBoingo: Oh Apocalyptic Ever plan on changing the max order limit above 10?
Apocalyptic: is this the record ?
pete_dushenski: *been too busy
pete_dushenski: i'd like to think he would've been too taking advantage of the opportunities presented him
assbot: The Economist explains: Why the price of commercial sex is falling | The Economist
assbot: Study: Twitter Has Potential To ‘Induce Psychotic Symptoms’ « CBS Sacramento
RobinWilliams: obv my skin is thicker. let this serve as my message that no fucks will be given anymore
BigBitz: RobinWilliams have some respect, I guess? :) for the dead...
chetty: I thought you were a ghost
RobinWilliams: so apparently nicks are ban-worthy offenses in the 'ol #bitcoin-otc
punkman: pete_dushenski: that's the china book
punkman: pete_dushenski: didn't see a mention of the colored coin treatise in your post
pete_dushenski: fluffypony: never stop the lulz!
pete_dushenski: thought i said as much in the article?
assbot: ISIS took a Facebook approach, starting in one place then expanding to a caliphate. Al Qaeda too unfocused.
punkman: pete_dushenski: btw Swanson has not one, not two, but three books! http://www.ofnumbers.com/the-guide/
assbot: If the new iPad has an anti-glare screen, that's a potential gamechanger in the fight against ISIS.
fluffypony: better than Danny's
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] [PAID] 19.06680104 BTC to 1`149`988 shares, 1658 satoshi per share
punkman: fluffypony: pretty good trollface
pete_dushenski: fluffypony: that man looks like a freaking genius!
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 1.76083848 BTC to 13`817 shares, 12744 satoshi per share
fluffypony: trustworthyness to the max
punkman: pete_dushenski: I don't think younger people are that much better at troll detection
pete_dushenski: in the real world, this is necessary and effective, online however...
pete_dushenski: taleb can also be pretty emotional, lashing out on tards at the drop of a hat
pete_dushenski: pankkake: he's not dumb so much as born too late to grok the internet
pankkake: that guy looks dumb. then again, I've only read his twits
assbot: What if academics followed the new model of /nfergus and /nntaleb and got paid based on /hashtag/controversy?src=hash and /hashtag/engagement?src=hash?
pete_dushenski: lol taleb got trolled
artifexd: http://cryptopals.com/ <- some nice lessons teaching how crypto works, how to attack it, and how easy it is to screw it up ☟︎