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nubbins`: and then auto-adjusts the btc price as the rate changes
nubbins`: KRS-1: i believe there is some sort of escrow-type transaction you can do if you involve a third party. not sure the details, and then you've gotta trust the escrow as well
kakobrekla: thats as good as nothing
firedrops: mircea_popescu, that torrent hashing protocol idea.... as far as Ideas go, it's excellent. I can't comment on practicallity. but I love the idea.
mircea_popescu: it is factual the site was run as a scam in 2012.
taub: they establish themselves as big players by letting trading happen for free
bitesak: this is in all humility as I am no expert..
bitesak: more speficially, how to steal from a protected (as in 2fa bitcoin signature for withdrawals) account
bitesak: as it seems in my humble understanding, it can rather easily and quickly be circumvented
bitesak: right, like inputs.io "Cold storage system protects coins against server compromise" and 4'100 gone through email reset is as if we were 2 years ago
mircea_popescu: i'm a little rusty on it as i never used the thing
mircea_popescu: i don';t see any reason to take it as humor
gribble: Empirical Analysis of Bitcoin-Exchange Risk - Financial ...: <http://fc13.ifca.ai/proc/1-2.pdf>; BitFloor Joins List of Compromised BitCoin Exchanges - Slashdot: <http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/09/05/1238214/bitfloor-joins-list-of-compromised-bitcoin-exchanges>; EFF Ditches Bitcoin as Alternative Donation Currency Due to Legal ...: <http://siliconangle.com/blog/2011/06/21 (1 more message)
Namworld: or he ordered an asicminer from someone and received something with "Belkin N300" on it and is now puzzled as to how to make it work...
truffles: "As the only non-anonymous team member (after some early scams on the exchange, he implemented a system where anyone issuing shares would have to verify their identity with him before listing), he felt he was putting himself at risk." doesnt sound great..
truffles: as a ebay hmm
pankkake: > They started as a ebay for bitcoin sites "WITHOUT ADVERTISEMENT"... then now they added a few AD BANNERS...
ThickAsThieves: and sell them as tabfeet
ThickAsThieves: i even considered repackaging plain rubber feet as high end
gribble: Nick 'nubbins`', with hostmask 'nubbins`!~nubbins`@stjhnf0148w-142134193006.dhcp-dynamic.FibreOp.nl.bellaliant.net', is identified as user nubbins`, with GPG key id CF2950F23C844002, key fingerprint 5015BD3D0AE659C8B8632F31CF2950F23C844002, and bitcoin address None
nubbins`: and i might as well do it now
Jere_Jones: I read that as "person was done bullying" at first.
Jere_Jones: Gambling seems to be about the thrill, as I understand it. That has no attraction for me.
pankkake: I feel that way as a simple user too :)
ThickAsThieves: as an issuer at leats
Jere_Jones: Rephrase: I interpret what you just said as a very positive statement for the future of Havelock. :)
nubbins`: well, what qualifies as "better"?
ThickAsThieves: and overall tempering the space as a whole
ThickAsThieves: Well, at first we felt it affected us a lot, but in the end we are what we are regardless of the environment around us. As long as that environment exists, we will adapt to thrive in it.
Jere_Jones: I see that as someone who is trying to slow down this train to avoid a crash instead of as someone trying to cash out.
benkay: as it should
BingoBoingo: Apocalyptic: Well, did you listen when our better spoke? I do mean better as opposed to bettor, because when it comes to bettors I still might percentage wise be the winningest bettor on BitBet.
Apocalyptic: as mircea said running a btc finance service with GA is moronic
BingoBoingo: And I offered the rabbit in the pot as a cat
pankkake: you've got to love all the little journalisty things. to pain the ex-mayor as a bad guy, just mention he has "king-zise S.U.V."
Namworld: Indeed, quite the replicas. As a grumpy old businessman and sociopath, I cannot handle company.
mircea_popescu: McAuliffe's get-out-the-vote strategy is from Obama's playbook, focusing on minorities and young voters as well as women. Quentin Kidd, a political scientist at Virginia's Christopher Newport University, predicts the model would be used nationally in 2014 if McAuliffe wins.
mircea_popescu: apparently socialism has to be implemented as a demographic pump.
nubbins`: as in, "i'm getting my hair did"
nubbins`: might as well give her a drill press
benkay: but it's a somehwat complicated problem. one wants to be able to make more cards as a game operators
mircea_popescu: as it stands right now every idiot is drawn to that field because you can literally do anything with no repercussion.
mircea_popescu: except she spent about as much in the sun as coinbase on wallstreet.
nubbins`: as you can see, the bar would be set pretty low
firedrops: tits, as an expression of joy.
af33: as long as i have the same name...?
mircea_popescu: of course this is moot, as this particular shit he;'s involved in will sink him
mircea_popescu: no pdf counts. what should it count as ?
Jere_Jones: I always thought of it as a play on dilemma. But instead of two (di) sides, there are three (tri).
mircea_popescu: ubsequent share issuance by S.NSA for any reason through any of the three avenues delineated under 3.2.b above will result in further SSWs being issued for Stanislav Datskovskiy, equal to 70% of the share issuance, as well as for Mircea Popescu, equal to 30% of the share issuance, with a price equal to the share price used in the share issuance.
mircea_popescu: nture through a consensus process. As such Stanislav Datskovskiy is entitled to and will be issued a number of SSWs equal to 70% of the shares sold per 3.2.a above, at a price equal to the average price established by the IPO, and Mircea Popescu is entitled to and will be issued a number of SSWs equal to 30% of the shares sold per 3.2.a above, at a price equal to the average price established by the IPO. Further, any s
[\]: had them just as good as most peoples 5870s
[\]: Now I mainly ban trolls and get labelled as an op abuser.
pankkake: as we know, it's better to have more numbers
mircea_popescu: just as long as it doesn't turn to wee
Apocalyptic: would like to know as well
jurov: Just applied as vip.
dub: as long as I make my bed
dub: I like how in the post after its made perfectly clear that butfunder was a one man show he's refering to himself as buttfunder in the 3rd person
nubbins`: ran into this problem during my brief stint as an iOS developer
ozbot: U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion | The
nubbins`: http://www.theonion.com/articles/us-economy-grinds-to-halt-as-nation-realizes-money,2912/
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform same reason a girl wearing a funny hat doesn't function as the emperess of china.
asciilifeform: any reason such a beast wouldn't function as a miner?
asciilifeform: just as RSA-breaking has not been proven to require fast factoring.
mircea_popescu: i guess nobody today remembers machlup as the initiator of the "information economy" concept
nubbins`: it turns out that if i had just done nothing with my btc, i'd be in exactly the same financial situation as i am today
nubbins`: any guesses as to when we'll see a BTC-USD all-time high?
kleeck: And uses network shares as a backup solution..
topace: and as a clueless IT person, thats probabyl what i would do too
jurov: <mircea_popescu> as a result mpex now returns executed collateral immediately upon execution.<<< immediately on opex you mean? or it's about futures?
mircea_popescu: as a result mpex now returns executed collateral immediately upon execution.
jurov: pankkake: my impression is as soon as one wants javascript interactive bling, is in for serious butthurt
benkay: (as an aside: do you know how hard it is to find business-oriented mentors in america?)
mircea_popescu: i don't recall now if it was written as a bitcoinica envy clone or not.
pankkake: "savage capitalism" as your socialists say
mircea_popescu: as what, a main course meal ?
mircea_popescu: while the opex system works great in every aspect as it is, the underwriter has no actual way to verify when they were executed in fact.
nubbins`: the support community around .NET is just as massive as the one around any other web dev technology
mircea_popescu: nubbins` except a fictitious exchange with no volume could be just as well run off dreamweaver.
benkay: dub: as in "are you on crack"?
benkay: nubbins`: when a thing strikes me as being of high quality, i generally submit it to the aesthetics comittee for discussion and then instruct said aesthetes to purchase the thing
benkay: on an entirely different topic, i fly to argentina tomorrow. i'd be glad to act as a proxy in buenos aires for, you know, not *anyone*, but people in this channel with btc-related inquiries
benkay: the only opinions as what matter terribly are those as what emanate from the powerful
mircea_popescu: as enacted by trilema.
mircea_popescu: think of an old painting being discovered in a stahs. what is the question first and foremost asked ? is it something as to the paionting itself or is it as to the pedigree of the owner ?
mircea_popescu: but this sort of drawer novel, as it was known, doesn't exist in the sense of art.
mircea_popescu: but this has little to do. you were discussing a particular application of the theory, with what i took as a view to reduce it to absurd.
nubbins`: as a facile counterpoint, why not?
mircea_popescu: none of your business as they may be,.
mircea_popescu: this naive "man at center of everything" goes well with the naive nominalism, but it's quite as nutty.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact it's about as vague as art.
mircea_popescu: you might as well offer an explanation of art for spherical chickens that live in vacuums.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the miscasting as art as "that which yields emotional response" is roughly the reason trolling has become such a big deal culturally.
mircea_popescu: you might as well propose the cancer walk in the front door one day and begin jacking off.
nubbins`: just as the validity of what my opinion of art is can be debated
mircea_popescu: there are qualifications needed to be an observer. you don't become an observer of the battle of thermopylae just by stating yourself as an observer
nubbins`: but as a matter of determining whether it's art, yes
mircea_popescu: it'd be "the eiffel tower of my commode", but only inasmuch as you are concerned.
mircea_popescu: but there's a difference between calling a dude a nigger for convenience, as the shortest word available,