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Apocalyptic: "as-safe-as-wire-transfers" is an understatement
nubbins`: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-as-safe-as-wire-transfers-says-ny-hedge-fund/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CoinDesk+%28CoinDesk+-+The+Voice+of+Digital+Currency%29
nubbins`: aww, just as i was about to ask whether it was officially a pump and dump now
nubbins`: it's funny, death started as r&b and bad brains started as jazz fusion
azi`: i didn't even considered this could be a bet as well
ThickAsThieves: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-as-safe-as-wire-transfers-says-ny-hedge-fund/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CoinDesk+%28CoinDesk+-+The+Voice+of+Digital+Currency%29
cazalla: as for domino's, i was speaking to the australian version, nfi what american domino's is like
ozbot: Cryptocurrency News Round-Up: Protests at Mt Gox as Dogecoin Hits Wall Street
kakobrekla: glbse seemed ambitious as well
asciilifeform: methinks 'the holiday' is as good a name as any for that event.
KRS1: i'm pretty resourceful..worse comes to worse I can live off the land somewhere remote..or even better dump all my savings into a sizable yacht and live life as a mariner.
asciilifeform: misread as 'contest between a bulldog and a couch'
deadweasel: houston is corrupt as all hell
dub: meanwhile.. http://www.click2houston.com/police-cite-man-dressed-as-banana-carrying-ak47/-/1736084/24388136/-/vs4cvuz/-/index.html
asciilifeform: "If the reader had access to real dossiers on the secret agents of spetsnaz he would be disappointed and probably shocked, because the agents of spetsnaz bear no resemblance to the fine, upstanding, young and handsome heroes of spy films. Soviet military intelligence is looking for an entirely different type of person as a candidate for recruitment. A portrait of an ideal agent for spetsnaz emerges something li
mircea_popescu: incidentally : CORRECTLY DESIGNED BITCOIN SITES, SUCH AS MPEx, that use tx encoding in the payment ARE IMMUNE TO THIS, and many other bugs.
kakobrekla: Espinoza, prosecutors allege, arranged such a deal with an undercover agent in early December in which that officer paid $500 for 0.403 BTC, in turn generating a profit of around $83.67 for the seller. Investigators then arranged for a second transaction to occur days later, that time purchasing 1 BTC for $1,000 and earning Espinoza around $167.56 through fees as a result.
Shakespeare: "Okay, dogecoiners, you got us. It may surprise people who don’t even know about bitcoin to learn that there are number of alternative, electronic currencies out there. They include litecoin, Ripples, Mastercoin, Quark, the soon-to-come auroracoin (for Icelanders)…and dogecoin, a newcomer that started out just in December as something of a joke"
mircea_popescu: you could just as well teach them to chant "ffmpeg" "awk" "youtube-dt" etc
Shakespeare: The motions of his spirit are as dull as night..
nubbins`: save as .gif
mircea_popescu: as if.
mircea_popescu: at the end of the month the widest berth of that collateral need is taken as "the needed collatera" figure
mircea_popescu: such as ?
mircea_popescu: mjr_ same as always, bitcoincahrts
mircea_popescu: they can't put up with the notion that much smarter, much better people are there to lead them, so they end up with issues such as starting alt coins,
asciilifeform: they'll use that online 'alcoin generator', as soon as it gets a '100% premined' ticky-box in the menu.
asciilifeform: they'll simply 'repay' their chumps in 'goxcoin', as soon as mr. k gets gcc working on his box. ☟︎
diametric: gox will live on as people trade non-existent bitcoins internal to their platform.
ozbot: Canadian shot in Dominican Republic as Manitoba students watch - Manitoba - CBC News
nubbins`: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/canadian-shot-in-dominican-republic-as-manitoba-students-watch-1.2519822
mircea_popescu: could even have the error ding as a vibration
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/author.php?author=MWH+yo | ... home Nolifing WoW. mark as favorite buy nolifing mugs & shirts · computer games 1337 video speak by MWH yo January 31, 2009 add a video add an image ...
asciilifeform: i imagine it came out of somewhere quasi-rational, sure. but it seems to have this other purpose now, as well.
jurov: If you are interested in becoming a Coinsultant, this is a right time for you. Coinsulting family is growing same as Crypto Currencies do. In case you consider yourself being the right one, please send us your CV at careers@coinsulting.net
mike_c: hehe. fucktard press quotes could be as good as coinion. "bitcoin fatal flaw: transactions can't be reversed"
deadweasel: So a guy who calls himself "Magical Tux" and describes himself as "PHP Developer working on some weird stuff, like a mail server (POP3/IMAP4/SMTP) written in PHP" was not able to build a reliable worldwide exchange?
nubbins`: bit people do as well
the20year3: With as much money as gox had coming in/going out , they should have had a full time seucrity team doing nothing but looking for weaknesses
ThickAsThieves: <@gmaxwell> xiando: as far as mtgox's "proposal" having a stable-txid is handy, and sure we'll add that, in fact here is the code: https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/commit/1173eef630783a822d9a709cfbc22ba91880231e
ThickAsThieves: lol @ dr greg "Due to the fun of repeatedly chasing my tail for several minutes, backing out of positions left unhedged by the BTC.sx delay, and eating the spread both at BTC.sx and at ICBIT as a result, the fund has taken a haircut of just over 2% -- enough to erase all our gains to date." ☟︎
davout: mtgox chan topic : "MtGox is NOT dead as a FUD post suggests" <<< priceless
copumpkin: if not as rich as mircea_popescu
KRS-One: http://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/bitcoin-price-drops-as-mt-gox-exchange-closes-indefinitely-20140210-32ap1.html
mircea_popescu: or low as tyhe case may be
mircea_popescu: benkay he could have pulled in just as much if he bought his own stock the same way.
the20year: As of now a little shy of $100k in fiat
the20year: Not really, as it stands now they can scale enlistment if they play with iring bonuses
diametric: ""That no religious test ought ever to be required as a qualification for any office of profit or trust in this State, other than a declaration of belief in the existence of God;""
diametric: no it clearly states I'm only competent to serve so long as I believe in God
diametric: nubbins`: Article 36 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights says I have to believe in God: "nor shall any person, otherwise competent, be deemed incompetent as a witness, or juror, on account of his religious belief; provided, he believes in the existence of God, and that under His dispensation such person will be held morally accountable for his acts, and be rewarded or punished therefore either in this world
nubbins`: or "nice mild effects" left as a review for 5-MeO-DMT
herbijudlestoids: id prefer you just verified things before spoutingthem as fact
herbijudlestoids: nubbins`: its not a fight until you claim something that is obviously not a fact (for people who know) as a fact
herbijudlestoids: guess what, until its been HPLCd, you can claim ignorance as to the substance
nubbins`: benkay: there always was, just didn't make it quite as far around
KRS-One: someone told me he microdosed LSD for a while and wound up speaking perfect german almost as if you can learn great things by separation
nubbins`: fun story, before the early 2000s there was no recreational drug that was active at the same dosage range as lsd. you bought some paper, it was the real thing or nothing at all
nubbins`: i'll concede that i'd just as soon kill the pillheads in my neighbourhood
mircea_popescu: violence is way underrated as a personal development tool.
mircea_popescu: not that many substances presented as addictive actually are in any sense.
nubbins`: inner ear pain is tough as well
nubbins`: anyway, as lovely as this little "kill everyone" scheme sounds
mircea_popescu: of all things it's actually the most bearable. as people die of thirst in a coupla days and of hunger in a coupla months
dub: as should be obvious, the better way to acheive your subservience is to addict you to drugs and tv
mircea_popescu: dub kids have 0 utility as it is now you kidding me ?
mircea_popescu: and suddenly lolcatting isn't quite as appealing either,
mircea_popescu: kids will scream as to how "this doesn;'tg work"
mircea_popescu: do the gedankenexperiment, as asciilifeform calls them :
mircea_popescu: dub far as i've seen it;s the only thing it ever worked.
nubbins`: you just posed a tautology as a question
nubbins`: benkay, i'll leave that as an exercise to the reader
mircea_popescu: the argument is that in the actual dysfunctional economy as it is, without any accounting or reporting, the fed can SAY it did anything it pleases, and SAY it had whatever effect it choses
herbijudlestoids: mircea_popescu: well he doesnt really view the "fighting the fed" angle as valid, he doesnt believe QE has any proven mechanism for higher prices and shows pretty convincing data on that front. his view is the rally since 2009 is entirely attributable to the FASB mark to unicorn rules
nubbins`: mircea_popescu, there's no such thing as a hassle here
cazalla: My brother sends twice as many DHL packages as your brother
the20year: Just as good as a commodity as gold/silver, but can be used :)
mircea_popescu: so basically, since i have a bed anyway, some guy unrelated might as well come take a nap.
nubbins`: dub: my first coffee experiences as an adult were starbucks
nubbins`: this is for no good reason other than some asshole decades ago decided "hey, i'll sell all these peaberries as a tanzanian thing"
davout: indeed, as hitler once said: "most problems are semitic"
mircea_popescu: as you can see, it's on stroke.
Namworld: Cairo has the same issue as China.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well the same stupid idea from last year that came out of that scamsite betsofbitco.in as well.
mircea_popescu: and so there you go, she might as well say yes.
mircea_popescu: (obviousl;y some research as to the more nubile forum members being i norder)
mircea_popescu: exercise for benkay and anyone else : let the standard deviations be calculated for one who only engages in sexual congress with members of one gender that accept as prerequisite that they may not have any say in when sex is happening nor in the choice of partners or activities.
ThickAsThieves: as do i
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves didja count me as confused at best ?
mircea_popescu: i know romanian and french and spanish and as a result portuguese is directly transparent
ThickAsThieves: second, you dont use shitty pop commercials as exmples
KRS-One: Ya the 50's seemed like the new trends would have been annoying as fuck.
mircea_popescu: so what, you can be raised by a poor mother working two shifts and an absent father who then came back as an antsy alcoholic ?
mircea_popescu: such as for instance, laws.
mircea_popescu: as in enormity ?
pankkake: it's in the same place as the wallet.dat
Duffer1: same dir as the exe i believe
mircea_popescu: as far as i know, out of all the folks pretending to be into bitcoin finance, the only person who was in the press is yours truly.
ThickAsThieves: theyll basically sell as much as would be bought it sounds
pankkake: you made me do accounting, as the transaction list of bitcoin-qt sucks