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Apocalyptic: "the new exchange being developed/run by the Ciphermine team. But we are NOT committed (in the sense of having promised to go there) to it - and, at present, I am not committed to being involved either as part of the operational team for it OR as an investor in it."
kakobrekla: >For many different reasons, such as for instance described in IV. Disposal. Also because the wear-levelling optimisation most SSDs natively employ makes it nigh-on impossible to actually delete anything you ever put on them. [?]
jcpham: as if that means anything
kakobrekla: its already clear as day
dexX7: 2-3 weeks before everything went down he received exact the amount of dividends as he should
mircea_popescu: well, they are usually wrong, as all option traders are
nubbins`: well, suppose we do a pay-as-you-go. you've already got yourself a few concept sketches paid for.
taub: well, seeing as how pretty much all exchanges break down under load...
KRS|gotyawallet: thats not right..lagged as fuck
nubbins`: taub, as if 1.2 billion people could affect the price of btc ;0
taub: now new buyers aren't gonna come as fast
mircea_popescu: as far as i understand, m-of-n creates the m and n on the same m,achine, then distributes them
mircea_popescu: i recall back in 2012 this site which gave you printed sheets m-of-n, as manty as you wanted
jurov`: oleganza, you can look at mycelium. it does export the wallet as PDF + password
oleganza: you and me are not the same kind of people as our parents, for instance.
Diablo-D3: nubbins`: so you weigh about as much as I do then
mircea_popescu: consider the problem in its proper generality, as the byzantine problem.
pankkake: UIs cannot be enough, users need to understand what they are doing or they will fail as always
nubbins`: asciilifeform: trudeau is as close as canada got to a fuhrer
nubbins`: the idiot doesn't need to comprehend anything beyond "keep this safe", but if he doesn't comprehend it, it's just as likely to grow wings and fly away
thestringpuller: On top of all that, this isn't like trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Midday Wednesday, MPEx appeared to shut down, and the prices of the contracts disappeared. I was told this happens a lot. As of early Thursday, the exchange still wasn't listing prices. What's more, after running through my math of the trade with a Coinbr broker in a chat room, with the conclusion that basically the trade doesn't make sen
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: As an S.NSA product? Printed by nubbins?
oleganza: start is as good as end
oleganza: multi-part RAR might work as well
KRS|gotyawallet: You can't be social engineered but you sure as hell can be smurfed or hacked.
KRS|gotyawallet: 16:06:35 ThickAsThieves: - If I do not redeem your bitcoins before 31. December 2013, you get my 1 bitcoin as I lose the bet
KRS|gotyawallet: not sure if they patched it, but it read as a huge problem, because vmware shares memory, you can grab the memory contents of other machines and even the host
KRS|gotyawallet: Faber also referred to the rapid rise of bitcoin, the digital currency that crossed $1,200 early Friday, as an area affected by excess liquidity.
zacm: bank of america can buy as much btc as they like
zacm: regulators making things ireggular, as always
KRS|gotyawallet: Colleagues, is there such a thing as a continual throttled dump of sale of btc into the buys?
nubbins`: watch this retired police captain masturbate in your face, just as he has for the past 35 years
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well as I view things I do more regularly (betting valuations in SAGE mostly) I generally thing of my self as a scripter more than a person who programs. I think I'm going to have fun with the PIC
asciilifeform: there is really very little more fun you could have as a programmer, than on a machine that you can completely understand.
asciilifeform: there is something to be said for even the most humble microcontroller. the PIC16F84 (mentioned in the link, also my 1st micro as a kid) has separate address spaces for code and data.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well As a hobby project I'm thinking of setting up a webserver and running the blog off of it. Basically rewriting the parts of wordpress I like and letting the rest die in a fire, perhaps literally http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2013/10/14/a-proper-barrel-fire-a-secure-way-to-dispose-of-data-storage/
asciilifeform: as seen here: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=186
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Well Inaba is also full of scam as well. When scam prevents adequate blood flow of course Inaba will only be able to offer Garr a limp and flexible member.
nubbins`: "While the bitcoin price is high ($40+) it is a great time to invest in hardware, as we are getting the most out of our coin."
BingoBoingo: jamespeerless: Definitely, but you have to watch bitbet for these bets as they occur so money that opposes you can also cone in on favorable weight
BingoBoingo: jamespeerless: As long as your large BitBet bets are large enough to make the other side of the bet seem appealing, generally I've noticed the money to match generally shows up.
davout: pankkake: i thought it was you as well :-)
ThickAsThieves: "On top of all that, this isn't like trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Midday Wednesday, MPEx appeared to shut down, and the prices of the contracts disappeared. I was told this happens a lot. As of early Thursday, the exchange still wasn't listing prices. "
benkay: as real as the people buying them, one assumes
pankkake: haha and they don't accept litecoin as payment
dub: asciilifeform: swapping them for guys with warehouses of pgas as central banks?
benkay: asciilifeform: examples: targeting fpga's; dynamic workfns (as you mentioned); sorcery resistance
asciilifeform: or simply if you'd prefer a cryptocoin that doesn't degenerate into semiconductor plants as central banks
davout: mircea_popescu: i'm at chapter 2 of my book, hopefully i'll grok moar and come up with better questions as i progress
mircea_popescu: davout yeah. if you buy the right to receive livestock in the future, as long as you can't actually take the livestock
ThickAsThieves: brides as clients, lol
nubbins`: and each print is unique, as the linoleum squishes around and wears down
nubbins`: it doesn't exist as a piece of art until it's printed
mircea_popescu: i;m too lazy to go into the endless debate as to why stupidity doesn't work. i'll just state the general point and shrug.
ThickAsThieves: basically they want to paint their obsessive passive aggression as some kind humanitarian effort or something
nubbins`: in that context, anglo-saxon essentially should be translated as "bogeyman"
nubbins`: i'm sure pankkake is preparing to throw his wooden shoes into some gears as we speak
nubbins`: not as rich as all of us
ThickAsThieves: "Bottom-line: maximum market capitalization for Bitcoin’s as a store of value = $5bn"
KRS|gotyawallet: The horses backed coin would work equally as well in Somalia and Croatia.
ThickAsThieves: Dividing the former by the latter, we get 0.07 (which we will refer to as velocity from now on)
mircea_popescu: well... inasmuch as i didn't make the original one,
ThickAsThieves: as a wanna-be audiophile i dont trust noise cancellation not to fuck up the sound anyway
jurov`: just demand proper RF compatibility, as used in TV studios
ozbot: A simple example as to why fiat institutions can’t stand pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/a-simple-example-as-to-why-fiat-institutions-cant-stand/ << me being a bitch.
kleeck_: I cannot wait until 4Chan picks this up as a target.
topace: and i questioned the valuation as well
ThickAsThieves: and that james isnt intimitaly involved other than as dev team for HL
mircea_popescu: whoever wrote that has significant experience as online tech support and no experience as a finance anything.
ThickAsThieves: well as income and profit estimations. "
ThickAsThieves: "Seventh Company Ltd. evaluation has been made based on previous first and second rounds of investments by Havelock Investments Canadian Bitcoin based Fund Exchange during due diligence process and it is indeed a post-money valuation (not pre-money valuation!). But of course evaluation took into consideration total capital invested in the previous rounds by Angel investors and VC, as
ThickAsThieves: like if i come back as a cow
mircea_popescu: but life w/o camembert is scarcely life. if i offered you the deal of 200 year lifespans as long as you lived in a hamster ball weould you live in a hamster ball ?
mircea_popescu: just as long as it's not a youtube link
ThickAsThieves: We will also give you the same 24-hour head start our employees will receive, in order to ensure you have the earliest opportunity to reserve shares at the offering price. While many companies depend on their customers' support every day, those customers don't always get the chance to own a piece of the action at the same price as Wall Street investors. We're offering this exclusive
ThickAsThieves: as offered to Wall Street investors.
mircea_popescu: ESPECIALLY seeing all the intervening experts in their own head in the past 13 months opining on the topic as if they knew better.
mircea_popescu: as long as there remains balance bitcoin will do ok.
mircea_popescu: anyway, some people were contemplating vehicles such as funds
mircea_popescu: as ruled on trilema, oct 6 2012.
mircea_popescu: well, it specifies chinese banks are not to use bitcoin as a currency, as the chief point.
ThickAsThieves: so I read this as banks and the general financial market cant play bitcoin, but everyone else can, including gox
Namworld: "However, Bitcoin transaction as a commodity trading behavior on the Internet, ordinary people have the freedom to participate in the premise own risk."
Namworld: "such as not having sex with mandatory legal tender currency property"
Duffer1: "At this stage, the financial institutions and payment institutions are not allowed to Bitcoin price for the product or service, may not be sold or traded as a central counterparty bitcoin"
Duffer1: such as not having sex with mandatory legal tender currency property
KRS|gotyawallet: as an engineer i spec'd out a lot of the equipment and direcly showed them how we could increase density for increased capacity and a better financial forecast
KRS|gotyawallet: sometimes referred to as lemmings
KRS|gotyawallet: badass lambo but anyone who knows anything about engines knows you dont rev it as soon as it starts, gotta let oil get up above the heads and what not
snackman: just because you are scammers, doesn't mean everybody else is trying to scam as well
dexX7: it's tagged as ghash
snackman: what do you want as proof?
dexX7: i read it as "we at cex.io sell the hashrate from ghash.io"
unbalanced: If washing the floors say isn't worth paying someone $10/hr to do, then people won't get hired to do that. (Or far fewer people will as the floors will get washed less often.)
mircea_popescu: it's not going to change as long as the diff isn't changing
mircea_popescu: twizt chains will definitely not shelf you. go after restaurants as someone suggested.
snackman: "Incoming Bitcoin that doesn't exactly match a quoted sum will be simply kept, reported as profits and distributed to MPEx shareholders."
mircea_popescu: this shit is not as hard as making asics.
ThickAsThieves: i had the card showing up as a yellow ?