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BingoBoingo: Sure. But if we value
the BTC on
the benkay principle
that it is never worth parting with, it holds. Now with
the sinking Patrick Harnet only cost 500 BTC or $2500, sure.
This continutes
to
the mysticism surrounding BTC prices.
mircea_popescu: that'd be
the case if
there existed no spot. as it is, he lost 50 bux or w/e
the spot was
BingoBoingo: But at million dollar BTC,
that's a new Dodge challenger with racing stripes he lost.
BingoBoingo: One of my favorite parts of
the
thing was
the spread ran roughly from 400 satoshis
to 100 satoshis, and he
though settling around 100 satoshis would be a bad
thing. Low and behold since x-bt opened 100-200 satoshis has been
the norm.
BingoBoingo: herbi at
the
time lsot what was all of his declared BTC
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Up
to
then
there had never really been any solid indication of
this chan
that I might have some potential for
trading prowess, at least not until I
took herbi's house, car, wife, and dingo
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: See, before
the quoted interaction with herbi
there would have been zero or less reason
to propose I be your altcoin
trader, whereas herbi had been pimping his 1337 quant skills and fx hobby.
mircea_popescu: i'm exactly
the opposite of a bureaucracy, fucking impredictible by design
mircea_popescu: and why
the majority of "actors" in "business" hate my and my model
mircea_popescu: "This suggests focusing on robustness, as opposed
to prediction, because
the system works against rational expectations, especially
those consensus ideas
that come out of large bureaucracies. After all, what better sufficient statistic for a mimic
to exploit
than some well-known regulatory bullet point
that supposedly ensures
trivial risk? Recessions are not going away;
they are endogenous because zero mimicry is not a
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: Prolly a
trackback from my post
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no but
the symmetry see ? white/white for liberals/normal ppl, mirrored in
the suka/suka for english/russian
mircea_popescu: o btw,
to note down
the 2nd kicker in my
thing, for
they who do not speak russki :
phf: that's preserving
the original derevensky rhythm :)
phf: fell in love with mr. krushchev / but
the marrige was a flop / on our wedding night discovered /
that his penis was a cobb
mircea_popescu: A bedouin lost in
the desert stumbled on
the lawn / Obama assured him
that if he likes his water,
mircea_popescu: There was once a great storm / Which moved
the White House
to
the desert of Sahara
mircea_popescu: i fell for hruschev and married him /
turned out his cock was a cobb
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't even have noticed it's
trying
to be had you not said so :D
mircea_popescu: "we caught up with
the us on milk ; we're behind on meat, our bull's cock [is] broke"
mircea_popescu: Feb 14 03:12:12
the herbi argument you quote | Feb 15 10:41:31 <mircea_popescu>pankkake pls
to pay
to BingoBoingo 100k atc, let's see what he can do.
BingoBoingo: Well,
the herbi stuff was over
the 13th and 14th. It wasn't until later I became your
trader (but not much later)
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: At
the
time I battled herbi I was
trading my own ATC
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo dude, at
the
time you were atc
trading already for a day or
two
kakobrekla: ah ok
then, i
thought i signed something
that was not aware of for a sec
mircea_popescu: poor herbi, he had a good idea but not so good carry
through
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Maybe
that is
the public impression I want
to deliver. I mean I let herbi
think I was a bot for a good while.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "And
that's pretty much
the
thing in a nutshell." "Generally..." "Basically..." dude you sound moonstruck.
kakobrekla: free as in not
taken, not not costing any $
Apocalyptic: kako, reads
to me like we'll be doing all sorts of shits, because another income
kakobrekla: Multibet.io is a work in progress, but is another source of income for our company. You will also receive profits from
this.
fluffypony: kakobrekla: "The remainder will be kept in reserves
to pay for monthly costs, such as
the data center." -
they have an entire data center
to pay for, yo
mircea_popescu: phantomcircuit did it, on
the previous first best & largest uk exchange.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: who do you
think wrote
that famed script
that emailed
the entire userbase
the emails of
the entire userbase ?
Apocalyptic: wait, how is phantomcircuit involved in
this ?
kakobrekla: the readability of
the .ly is worse :\
mircea_popescu: The UK is
the world's 6th largest economy, but so far
they have no bitcoin exchange."
mircea_popescu: anyway, when i see all
these exciting news "we"
teams, all i can
think is
mircea_popescu: "I wanted
to share
this new exciting news with you all.
The Startup Stock Exchange (SSX) is now
the first investment platform
through which Bitcoins can be used
to invest in companies!"
fluffypony: I'm not sure if
them adding Bitcoin as a funding option will draw much interest from
the BTC community
tho
fluffypony: and
there are several stages including due dilligence
fluffypony: costs about $5 500 for a company
to list
fluffypony: kakobrekla:
that's actually quite interesting
gribble: Error: User doesn't exist in
the Rating or GPG databases. User must be GPG-registered
to receive ratings.
fluffypony: "President Vladimir Putin on
Thursday called
the Internet a CIA project"
nextime: ok, anyway, i must go back
to my daddy role now, asciilifeform i will send you infos
tomorrow ( as italy
time ) after lunch when i will be in my laboratory
jborkl_: I can't understand anything, but you know when
they are pissed off
jborkl_: we went and saw motogp and he was yelling when Rossi got cut off in Italin- pretty funny
to ear
jborkl_: I will make sure
to use
that on him :)
thx
nextime: jborkl_ : so, let me say
that in italy we usually say "che cazzo vuoi?" instead of "ma che vuoi?", a little bit more rude, but more common
jborkl_: I have a Swiss friend here who
teaches me a little
time
to
time
nextime: jborkl_ : a little bit better
than my english :)