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alexsanjose: or "dateline the world"
mircea_popescu: i thought she was in mexico.
BingoBoingo: alexsanjose: Class it as a UK story. They operate in the UTC +-0 time zone
TestingUnoDosTre: I know, was just trying to backtrack on my earlier fuckup
BingoBoingo: TestingUnoDosTre: That isn't how university names work
alexsanjose: but i also have to talk to a company that has something there -- a call center, a server, a license
mircea_popescu: on the grounds that while i matter, reuters does not.
TestingUnoDosTre: now what was this talk about writing a program that can parse through bets?
alexsanjose: look, u have important privacy concerns which i can only begin to imagine.
BingoBoingo: Only had a gun pointed at me twice there
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose you can tell your editor i said he's doing himself way more favours running stories about me than the reverse.
BingoBoingo: Not only better school, better college town
BingoBoingo: Srs should have gone to MIZ ZOU
alexsanjose: i tried to pitch it as a world news thing
BingoBoingo: alexsanjose: Isn't world news a thing?
BingoBoingo: TestingUnoDosTre: Hisghest BAC I've hit on the overstock.com breathalizer is 0.67 while lucid
alexsanjose: because i can t really write the story unless i can tie it somehow to the region i cover
mircea_popescu: are you licensed to operate an online nuclear powerplant ?
mircea_popescu: how is this relevant ?
ThickAsThieves: on teeth
alexsanjose: i mean to operate
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose im sorry, licensed to what ?
BingoBoingo: I'll have to do the BAC after this cigarette again
mircea_popescu: dude did he just threaten to off me ?
BingoBoingo: I might happily have an opinon column for the right price, if you buy out my mystery sponsor's share
mircea_popescu: the lyf and times of the luddite journalist. 1. find webchat. 2. 500 pages of 500 words each avalanche. 3. profit ? 4. burial.
alexsanjose: i recommend the guayaba
alexsanjose: u should come over to the dark side BingoBoingo
BingoBoingo: alexsanjose: And that is how I scooped the whole press on the OpenBSD story
gribble: evoorhees was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 39 weeks, 6 days, 2 hours, 32 minutes, and 30 seconds ago: <evoorhees> I need to go for now, on later
BingoBoingo is too new to knwo evoorhes IRC nick
alexsanjose: i get that cyber shizel makes some of these considerations less relevant
mircea_popescu: so... waiting for location to get its head out of its ass, realise that the tables have turned and start making offers.
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose it's like this. the way locations normally works is that it doesn't need people, but people need it. and so people make offers to location.
asciilifeform: to whom does this matter.
alexsanjose: like the undisclosed number of humans that work for bitbet and the servers
TestingUnoDosTre: ill think of one over the next couple few weeks
TestingUnoDosTre: im gonna be the bookie, owning up the bitbet bitbet
mircea_popescu: still waiting for locations to submit their offers.
ThickAsThieves: i cant pass up an opportunity to push Schrodinger's BitBet, thx testing124
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre don't you start too
BingoBoingo: alexsanjose: I dun have an official account, but at least 3. mircea_popescu kakobrekla and the secret mod or mods
TestingUnoDosTre: would be fun to bet on how many btc will be bet on bitbet
TestingUnoDosTre: do you have an rss feed of total bets
alexsanjose: take that, AP
mircea_popescu: well, if it ever is disclosed, you'll be the first to know.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin betting. it really is killing the margins for irl betting.
alexsanjose: and it wont be disclosed i take it
mircea_popescu: but definitely fewer than the sands.
alexsanjose: and how many employees do u have on just the bitbet end?
alexsanjose: beats the sands for higher average bet u mean
mircea_popescu: bitbet beats the sands, you read it here first.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, that means that the AVERAGE bet is like 1.5 btc,
mircea_popescu: we couldn't possibly have more than 10k diofferent users.
mircea_popescu: incidentallyt, there've been a total of about 10k bets, so that's an upper bound
alexsanjose: so i can use the above phrasing?
alexsanjose: 15k btc in total bets -- from jan 2013 to march 2014?
alexsanjose: ok that was my next question
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: his wall markings. two wired, one forbes... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yBIeh7Wug54/UChVTKXKxaI/AAAAAAAAEP4/4or9ZxvENlI/s1600/vargas6.jpg
mircea_popescu: whether this is 15k people or 3 is immaterial.
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose bitcoin is fungible. bitbet did 15k btc in total bets or so
kakobrekla: alexsanjose the things we can measure, we measure and publish, see numbers in the footer on bitbet
BingoBoingo: alexsanjose: If they go off of addresses alone I am 20 some users. If they narrow things down based on shit talking I am 2-3 users
mircea_popescu: it's certainly more than a dozen cause at least a dozen diff people here bugged me abouyt it
alexsanjose: but that s cool
kakobrekla: its more than 2.
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose depends whether you want us to.
BingoBoingo: alexsanjose: Maybe they can
alexsanjose: can u track all those bets to the same user
mircea_popescu consults his wall markings. two wired, one forbes one bi, one ap etc
alexsanjose: and i made say three bets
BingoBoingo: Well benkay Maybe you ought to take your tongue out of fluffypony's wife's asshole
alexsanjose: well i ll miss the spoon feeding
mircea_popescu: i can't recall who the ap guy was here.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: THe alternative is we switch allegiances to AP
BingoBoingo: benkay: All of your thoughts on BitBet on demanded nao!
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose seriously, someone over at reuters has to eventually figure out how to create a gpg key, reg it with gribble, get in the wot.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla because you see it's a different my when you talk about bitcoin wallets than persons.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla yours wasn't as good tho.
kakobrekla: incidentally i already linked her that.
BingoBoingo: There are a lot of ways this assumption could fork
kakobrekla: i want to spoonfeed too, alexsanjose , http://bitcoinpete.com/2014/results-of-first-bitbet-audit-april-7-2014/
BingoBoingo: What do you mean not have their own accounts?
alexsanjose: is there a way to estimate that if folks dont have their own accounts?
mircea_popescu: well you add up the 12 monthlies
alexsanjose: do u have that info?
alexsanjose: so -- apols if this is out there -- but i see monthly profits. DO u have annual for 2013?
BingoBoingo: alexsanjose: Here's a writeup on some of the bigger bets in BitBet history for some perspective http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/03/16/interlude-the-big-bets/
mircea_popescu: say a bet started today ending next month with a 10:1 spread, you bet in 3 weeks on the 10 side.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, somethings are hard to pick up from sound.
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose yes, it's possible. also discussed in the faq.
alexsanjose: is it possible for u to win and have no net gain? like so many humans take the same side as u and no one opposes and so u all just get back what u put in?
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose no, the rake is charged on resolution.
mircea_popescu: because of bitcoin mining fees however, it's not really worth it to bet under 0.00005 or w/e
BingoBoingo: Even the pettiest shit is betable if you can guarentee a starting stake
alexsanjose: ah rejected possible topics bets! i thot u meant that if someone wants to bet too little money their bet was rejected
ozbot: BitBet - NPDA College Debate Championship 2013 - McKendree College to win
BingoBoingo: Ah, thx kakobrekla for clarifying
kakobrekla: BingoBoingo i dont partake in that ordeal
mircea_popescu: im in timisoara atm.