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pankkake: it's understandable to lose your own stuff, but when you manage others money, you should take every precaution
pankkake: it's just the basics of backups. keep it offsite and preferrably offline. he had neither
fluffypony: pankkake: right? because every single Bitcoin n00b post on Bitcointalk and Reddit advocates multiple backups of wallet.dat, how does he now know this?
BingoBoingo: Right, and his building a webwallet fetish. Maybe Tradefortress was just Usagi having a couple of lucid months?
pankkake: and wtf at that backup system
pankkake: most of the forum does
assbot: BMF has lost access to it's wallet
jurov: mycelium wants to hide their proprietary server behind tor as ddos mitigation? good luck
jurov: curent slide "Using TOR for DDoS protection"
BingoBoingo: jurov: Satoshi probably fits into the trinity as Casper the Holy ghost.
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Sorry, you came on just at the end of my being awake.
BingoBoingo: I guess I'm going to try to get in on this waiting game of go to the conference for the BTC cheapest. Maybe I'll be able to set aside a couple months and hoof it there.
assbot: Crabs in the Bucket
benkay: thestringpuller: http://devilsadvocate.biz/crabs-in-the-bucket/ // ThickAsThieves needs help with slang
benkay: and just in time for client calls
xmj: and for this purpose.. 2K is "good enough"
xmj: benkay: I mostly use it to make others believe a mail was sent by me.
pankkake: yes, it probably doesn't matter, but the replacement was surprising
benkay: "for today"
fluffypony: asciilifeform: the dev is an idiot, tho
xmj: pankkake: I replaced a broken 4K key which I couldn't use to encrypt things, yes.
benkay: but i'm biased, you've corrupted my thinger
benkay: not really triggering my bullshit radar
assbot: Darkcoin Price in Turmoil Following Emergency Fork, Network Issues
benkay: all i really want to see are code samples
xmj: i've essentially cut out all the details formerly listed and replaced it with nebulous blaaa
xmj: benkay: read through http://xmj.me/#hireme
benkay: har well the lease on that thing ain't going to pay itself
benkay: <pankkake> Vexual had some insight on those real mining businesses IIRC // lolwut
fluffypony: they reckon that 12-14 people is optimal
benkay: <mircea_popescu> pity we're not more advanced, i'd like to buy them // two years? three?
fluffypony: ok well Paramount Business Jets are putting together a more comprehensive quote
benkay: don't talk to me about sterilization, ben.
benkay: "here kid! 100M! 3 years! here's your contact at boeing, your contact at raytheon, and a list of smarty pants software folk we like into whose maw you should flush those fresh greenbacks!"
benkay: i was out for dinner with a DoD guy last night and marvelling at what darpa flushes down the drain
artifexd: I'm 3 days behind and feel the exact same thing.
benkay: man i pay no attention to irc for a day and MOUNTAINS of text emerge
chetty: He explained that in countries like Argentina, Venezuela and Nicaragua, with their closed economies and strict financial controls: “Those are the markets where bitcoin volatility actually looks really good!”
assbot: Argentina's Central Bank Issues Warning to Burgeoning Bitcoin Ecosystem
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 2.19062341 BTC to 9`109 shares, 24049 satoshi per share
moiety: also, that's an amazing cat fluffypony!! :o I'll have to train marvin to play poker or monopoly to compete
moiety: i broke my irc client! i don't even remember how this one works properly
thestringpuller: ;;lastlog thestringpuller 5
fluffypony: chetty: he'd have to IPO his way in
jurov: fluffypony: no place for satoshi in the pantheon?
bitcoinpete: fluffypony: then let's have a thai-stylez coup!
fluffypony: and Andreas is the Bitcoin God?
bitstein: “Put it next to my Malcolm Gladwells, The God Delusion and that Steve Jobs biography and bang, I’m a fucking polymath."
bitcoinpete: how can the us not even fudge data anymore
bitcoinpete: and his eyes… the green
bitcoinpete: if mp comes back to twitter, that's his new background
bitcoinpete: lol that's some creepy shit
mike_c: trades on everything are no different than bets. but still.
bitcoinpete: mike_c: are trades on havelock different than bets now?
mike_c: trades are a bit more important than bets.
mike_c: hm. this is bitcoin-assets, not gamblers anonymous :)
bitcoinpete: enough of the havelol spam
bitcoinpete: if the bitbet bot only posts >1 btc bets, assbot should only post >1 btc trades
assbot: User contributions for Truecrypt-end - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
assbot: Peter Watts's The Scorched Earth Society: A Suicide Bomber's Guide to Online Privacy - Boing Boing
asciilifeform: chetty: thought #4 was in kazakhstan, with manuls.
chetty: asciilifeform, I think thats conf #4
xmj: The WiFi in FRA is even worse than in ATH.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: turns out it can still be found, for about 100 usd.
asciilifeform: pretty good mechanical quality - after 35 years it needed a new spring and some oil; runs today.
asciilifeform: this kind of watch used to be sold everywhere.
thestringpuller: :D that's cool tho
thestringpuller: it uses your body's motion to wind?
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: this particular one self-winds when moved around; these used to be common.
thestringpuller: (and how difficult it was to tell time on the sea)
thestringpuller: especially after learning the history of pendulum clocks
thestringpuller: i really want a mechanical watch, something about not needing electricity to power a clock...
thestringpuller: my grandpa left my dad a watch like that
chetty: cool about the crab pot, I was trying to describe that a couple days ago and people didn't believe me about the crabs :)
thestringpuller: bitcoinpete: you still there?
bitcoinpete: joecool: today [reddit]'ll probably praise [mp] for his insight << too much humble pie for the socialist brain
bitcoinpete: decimation: Montaigne was forced to learn Latin before French << this is a neat story. makes one want to explore the feasibility of this for bp jr...
bitcoinpete: i dug into him pretty well, i thought
bitcoinpete: and the result woulda been the same
bitcoinpete: i coulda threatened him to till the cows came home
bitcoinpete: i don't think crawley is popular enough that people even care
fluffypony: bitcoinpete: you need to threaten to kill more people
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: ya, hilarious radio silence from crawley and coindesk. not even a reddit thread. jeez
chetty: mircea_popescu: because in its purest form, knowledge can not be held in a store-of-value (a.k.a. money) and money can only represent some quantity of hard resources and manual labor.// the folly of not having a classical education
mircea_popescu: prolly prop up argentina gdp a good 1% as everyone runs to buy hot coffee and fur coats.
mircea_popescu: i have half a mind to print my collection of babes frolicking nude in snow as building sized posters and hang them up one night
mircea_popescu: everyone's wrapped up to their eyebrows, local chicks hang out indoors with coat on "cause they're cold"
jurov: nah, better sit at home and watch tv
mircea_popescu: what this bullshit they do in english is supposed to be i have no idea.
jurov: i'd understand retail as people don't like to go shopping when it's cold and dark outside, but housing?
mircea_popescu: at least, that's the press i grew up with.
mircea_popescu: the press used to be more like "the government has fucked up, which is unsurprising conjsidering the congenital retards and ordinary criminals it's made up of"
ThickAsThieves: but it's no fun to report "supply is exceeding demand"
mircea_popescu: wtf bs nonsense is this.
mircea_popescu: it's like what, we're in 1860 and if it snows the horse and buggy can't get to the market so no potato sales this week ?
mircea_popescu: if cold weagther is stunting the economy...
mircea_popescu: but wasn't global warming supposed to solve that problem ?
Apocalyptic: that's the excuse placeholder they used for pretty much everything
mircea_popescu: how the fuck does cold weather stunt the housing market.
mircea_popescu: "The January through March period often tends to be the slowest for growth, he noted, and this year, colder than usual weather stunted retail sales, international trade and the housing market."