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fluffypony: mircea_popescu: it's not that way, it's the other way around as well
ozbot: He wanted to go dressed as a bear. - Imgur
Mats_cd03: ascii is a programmer as well as a purveyor of cats and lasers?
fluffypony: moiety: I have funds sitting in my NameCheap account, might as well use them
Mats_cd03: e.g. physical beatings as corrective action
moiety: there are also very little dialect type variations in korea. its pretty homogenous. In japanese, you have four levels of politeness. oldest gen cant reall understand the youngest gen. as with thailand, place to place. people from bangkok can't always understand the rural people
Mats_cd03: its popularly known as something you can learn in a day - reading and writing, anyway
akstunt600: even if your poor as fuck
minersdidit: bitcoin attracted the worst scum of the cesspool known as the internet
minersdidit: but scum tend to have $$ as well
minersdidit: as weve seen
minersdidit: misterE lol why so its the same lvel as this year if not lower?
MisterE: [11:57:47] minersdidit: well first off if you are poor as i suspect everyone in here is, yea you might as well try to buy bitcoin lottery tickets lol
MisterE: not the world as we know it
minersdidit: acting as substitutes
minersdidit: as bitcoin demand increases no mechanisms exist to increase supply to market so altcoins start doing their thing
minersdidit: if you notice everytime bitcoin rallys, altcoins tend to rally faster, as they are essentially substitutes to access bitcoin liquidity
minersdidit: well first off if you are poor as i suspect everyone in here is, yea you might as well try to buy bitcoin lottery tickets lol
akstunt600: Mineits gonna be a soft collapse blood will be spilled as usd tanks
minersdidit: akstunt600 yea theyve been saying that year after year, the protocol is just as bad as it was in 09
akstunt600: think of btc as gateway to something else
minersdidit: they are just as bad as 1 year ago
minersdidit: hence why we are at the same level as november and so is the nasdaq
HeySteve: it does if the currency fails, as you say
minersdidit: hence why the US dollar as bad as it is will be the last to fail not the first. the derivatives based on the dollar will fail first
mircea_popescu: arguable if the very poor need it more than the not-as-very-poor anyway
MisterE: as usual the fees are regressive for the poor who need it the most
minersdidit: bitstamp is another sham as well youll never get large $$ out of it
minersdidit: charlie lee is touted as some type of inventor becuase he copy and pasted bitcoins source code lol
Trader1333: as do i testing.
Trader1333: i need constant BTC coming in which is what is slowing things down right now as this stupid bullshit pyramid scheme basically market was quickly raised to $1100 and now people think itd actually go back, ha.
Trader1333: i only use members of bitcointalk such as DannyHamilton, Tomatocage, escrow.ms, etc.
Trader1333: i flip it weekly and make good margins. hell i make more than someone as a general manager of a fast food joint and i only do it for 5 hours a week roughly.
Trader1333: willing to do a legally binding agreement of such and put forth my car as compensation should it cost too much
Duffer1: coin generation, network security are work as well
minersdidit: do you see the problem here? as the real value rises so does the cost to run the network
minersdidit: when that wanes out, you get insane volatility to the downside as the algo keeps supplying useless coins
minersdidit: making it impossible to use as settlement.
minersdidit: its not about price stability that is absurd as well
minersdidit: impossible to use as settlement
minersdidit: wasnt karpeles using it as his personal piggyback?
ozbot: Bitcoin firms dumped by National Australia Bank as 'too risky' | World news | theguardian.com
midnightmagic: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/10/bitcoin-dumped-by-national-australia-bank-as-too-risky ah you mean that. Lame.
benkay: once upon a time i took 2nd place in physics for attempting to quantify polarization of light coming through a prd as a proxy for embedded stress
jurov: but atc has same rules as btc
mircea_popescu: it matters not that ther world is full of mastodons as long as two mice are fucking somewhere.
asciilifeform: a turd 'by any other name would smell as...'
asciilifeform: as if ssl were useful if it worked as printed on the box.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: do they use a jury for financial stuff as well??? geeze...:/
mircea_popescu: no, conservative as in "where did you go to school ?" and other anathema mp-esque questions the child actors of this world abhor.
bounce: conservative as in generous?
dignork: mircea_popescu, yes, not too deeply though. But I'd buy it only as "dignork", pgp key 8334BB7B5BDFA126
jurov: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303873604579493901002691642 as we speak
jurov: akstunt600: they will inevitably try it as "Gox"
fluffypony: they should have done it as a coin
mircea_popescu: this is something you can maybe carry on for a while, but if you're trying to it's a damned good idea not to annoy me as a side dish.
mircea_popescu: all through this they were trying to daytrade, and doing it as well as bitcoinica
mircea_popescu: then just as 2013 brought increased prices and revenues, they lost 5mn dollars to the us fed, because karpeles is retarded and doesn't understand when to say no.
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
benkay: do they then have a copy of the mpex keys as well? for the signing of stats etc?
benkay: as in .99 pure btc
jurov: as in, .999 fine brass?
dignork: fluffypony, and Ralph Brown's INT list, although there was some nice interactive help system as well
fluffypony: asciilifeform: I remember trading copies on stiffy disk because the Internet wasn't as common, and then eventually in like 1998/1999 downloading my first "current" release
asciilifeform: problem being, all 'small' lisps are interpreters (what nearly everyone thinks of all lisps as being)
asciilifeform: as if an rng were a nuke, or any other rarity
robwhiz22: but I didn't submit as I didn't want to become your consultant on here for free. :)
mircea_popescu: the guy does declare he's trained as a phys, so i guess rank cluelessness about math may be excused
mircea_popescu: me either, but as described it's scandalous.
asciilifeform: bounce: well there was (still is...) a wealthy american crackpot who claimed cellular automata as his invention, suing anyone who publicly disagreed
mircea_popescu: i do't think american expressions are allowed to contain words such as elusive
ozbot: Americas overtake Africa as region with most murders | World news | theguardian.com
mircea_popescu: such as, putting your hand in the flame may in principle do all sorts of cool things, like charge your phone battery
thestringpuller: most people seem to do things wrong, get told so, ignor as MP points out, then they run head first into concrete and complain about how they have brain damage
mircea_popescu: nobody is disputing the woman's right to be as fucking wrong as she possibly can get away with.
fluffypony: also known as BFR:SDPMG
mjr_: as in the IRC command, not attention wise
mircea_popescu: as opposed to "in an 'organised' ie regulated market"
mircea_popescu: dignork otc as a concept. "over the counter"
nubbins`: educating -otc on the perils of referring to cash-in-mail as CIM
daybyter: maybe manual trading, but I wanted to start as simple as possible.
keonne: current i am redoing the blockchain android wallet, which is why i as asking earlier if anyone used it
keonne: as always its been a pleasure
keonne: and i can buyt as many sim cards as I want for£1 each
keonne: for £15 pay as you go a month
truffles: might as well not
nubbins`: might as well put a coca-cola logo on there
fluffypony: nubbins`: want a wooden case for it? we have a bunch as gifts, but most of our customers are Android users, and the guy that makes them doesn't make Android cases
ThickAsThieves: letterman is boring as shit
dvsdude: Stephen Colbert will succeed David Letterman as host of 'The Late Show'
danielpbarron: "The banks would be saved because people would be borrowing as much money as possible in order to buy bitcoin." <-- ...
dexX7: benkay: think of "let's create new transaction types and coins, encode the transaction information and store it on the blockchain as pubkeys in multisig transaction outputs"
thestringpuller: but each excahnge is centralized as you will always trust the issuer
danielpbarron: full nodes have to keep those addresses in memory as outputs that might get spent in future transactions
pankkake: for me, bitcoin is terabytes of bandwith per month - I don't mind as it's almost free, but don't make the madness worse
pankkake: that's why transactions should be as small as possible
pankkake: pool operators are highly dependent on their users, as it is very easy to migrate
pankkake: transaction/network wise, both miners *and* public nodes. devs, nothing really, as it is with all open source software
kakobrekla: as to rng on trezor
danielpbarron: what's the deal with trezor? I'm gonna assume it's not as good as cardano will be?