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mircea_popescu: anyway, as a lower bound, coupla hundred btc.
MilkyLep: About as appealing as a juicy worm looks on the end of a hook to a fish.
San1ty: And what about Lacboin? Slacking as always?
San1ty__: ThickAsThieves, Good news that you are going to havelock as well, but I just don't understand why everyone is so interested on having stuff on bitfunder. But that just my dislike for BF.
ThickAsThieves: <San1ty__> Ugh bitfunder as well --- ?
San1ty__: Ugh bitfunder as well
thestringpuller: arij: I was just asking about the cash reserve because it seems you keep profit mainly as BTC and utilize fiat for only paying bills.
pankkake: pretty much as buttercoin was a thing after one mtgox issue or something
ThickAsThieves: it almost sounds cool with cognitive as an adjective
jurov: if you as an american invest anywhere, the SEC is here to protect you
matuszed: over something as treivial as a btc exchange
saulimus: yes. some people, such as me, were sleeping when all this happened.
VanCleef: may as well invest in chelsea manning
ThickAsThieves: as in, anyone that isnt her
pankkake: that should be as easy as finding a bitcoin security that isn't a scam
soypirate: I want to have some faith in mpex as well. this is just a bad omen here...
kakobrekla: becase, as someone has tought me on the forum, business is fun ad not business, shit happens
San1ty__: is bitfunder going to to have the same faith as btc-tc?
VanCleef: do you think it will face the same fate as btct?
Vexual: i thought paying a team of lawyers big bickies to tell you that you're breaking the law would come to be known as a neobee, i guess it's a burnside now
Ukyo: i think users should be free to be anonymous as they want tho
Ukyo: such as AM board
Ukyo: or register as a cheap $50 corp in london ;)
Ukyo: as i have said before
San1ty__: I have a feeling that'll end up as a disaster
Ukyo: Rannasha 5btc, same as btct.
Ukyo: i coudl care less which way things move, as long as they keep moving
mircea_popescu: o you meant long as in wordcount ?
mircea_popescu: "I do not want to take Telesina as a wife" "Why not?" "She is an adulteress." "But she mostly does it with boys" "A, in that case I will."
ThickAsThieves: and the SEC does not run Canada, so as at least *some* limit or obstacle in reaching into it
mircea_popescu: anyway, jurov : bbet currently is a signal processor. transforming it into a cpu would perhaps have some advantages, but also some disadvantages. atm we live with it as is and see how bad it gets.
mircea_popescu: well, some people would like sendmany so as not to collect dust, some people want to be paid on the spot.
jurov: but as i understand that, outputs under 2000 satoshi are frowned upon since 0.8.something, no?
DiabloD3: most muslims are rather normal people. its less than half a percent of them can be described in any way as "terrorist".
ThickAsThieves: stress is a big factor in health as well
DiabloD3: and Im still waiting on btcmc to liquidate as well
mircea_popescu: and it's quite another thing to think you know the future and recount it to a bunch of sexually frustrated men in uniform as an exercise in solving the world's imagined problems
mircea_popescu: ya, but it's one thing to think you know the future and recount it to some chick during post coital bliss as an exercise in humorous fantastic creativity,
mircea_popescu: at least betting is supposed to be leisure, as opposed to investing which is theoretically work
ThickAsThieves: There has been more than one occasion where I have wanted to quit as well. Without going into details, the stress of being DPR is sometimes overwhelming. What keeps me going is the understanding that what we are doing here is more important than my insignificant little life. I believe what we are doing will have rippling effects for generations to come and could be part of a monumental
thestringpuller: So a hobo ends up finding them in the end as if he won the lottery.
ThickAsThieves: like if you were born on the same date as Hitler, you should be shot
ThickAsThieves: rate, but I see it as in my interests as main shareholder to boost liquidity and make the pass-thru a success."
ThickAsThieves: "I've just offered 500 CIPHERMINE-PT (some of my personal shares) at a knock-down price of 0.05 BTC/share. I personally remain convinced that CipherMine's share price will recover to its earlier levels within the next month or two as our armada of ASICs get rolled out so this is a good chance for you to get in on the action. I don't intend to do many offerings like this at below market
ThickAsThieves: rate, but I see it as in my interests as main shareholder to boost liquidity and make the pass-thru a success."
ThickAsThieves: "I've just offered 500 CIPHERMINE-PT (some of my personal shares) at a knock-down price of 0.05 BTC/share. I personally remain convinced that CipherMine's share price will recover to its earlier levels within the next month or two as our armada of ASICs get rolled out so this is a good chance for you to get in on the action. I don't intend to do many offerings like this at below market
ThickAsThieves: well then bitcoin isnt a ponzi as long as you have infinite bagholders!
pankkake: social security is not a scam as long as you have infinite people!
mircea_popescu: dude i'm fucking rich. all you bitchez wish you were as rich as me with my 4.5 million euros and basil williams, Pricipal Attorny
Namworld: "I'd say we are equal. Actions do speak louder than words, which is why you will all believe me when I float at the concert, just as St. Joseph and Yogi Pullavar did. I know someone personally who has floated and I know someone who has witnessed their iPhone float."
Ukyo: This was just to make my opinion as an investor to other inestors for consideration
mircea_popescu: well ehre's the thing : if the worshippers are irrational they're statistically as likely to blow you as they are to clobber you (by definition)
mircea_popescu: i claim it's just as unlikely! ha!
mircea_popescu: for instance, if i were to sign blocks with my gpg signature the suspicioun would be misplaced, as it's not bloody likely i've shared my private key with some random miner to win a bet.
mircea_popescu: which i guess is satisfied as it's been plainly stated here.
mircea_popescu: i guess it is marginally valid, just as long as bettors understand the weakness.
kakobrekla: 21:21.55 ( kakobrekla ) ok so "some X blocks will be signed with as labcoin is mining them"
mircea_popescu: at least you could have left two spaces between ] and [ in that spot as a typo
mircea_popescu: in ten years the cus will be just as corruipt as banks today. they are being corrupted by the government.
ThickAsThieves: as an exchange
pankkake: put up a buy at 0.0001, to have some as a souvenir?
mircea_popescu: “Of course it will be argued that there must be an, as yet, unknown mechanism for transferring large particles from Earth to the high stratosphere, but we stand by our conclusions,” Wainwright said.
dexX7: We would also like to take this opportunity to say that while we have remained as silent as possible on our simulations and only promised figures that we know we can meet. we will not down clock our chips to 400 we will release all our machines with the greatest hashing power we can. So yes the rumors are true Jupiter will be greater than 400 by a significant margin as a free gift from
dub: free as in side stream crack smoke at stallmans house
kakobrekla: mjr_ as much as free dentist
kakobrekla: like as much as us
cosmo: does bitfunders graph cause problems for other peoples browsers as well? everytime i try to change it it lags like hell then i get a stop script prompt from firefox
mircea_popescu: anyway, the notion that lies enact reality are no different from the earlier socialistoid propositions that work enacts currency, as brought by hitler in the 30s and by the various revolutionaires right before the empire.
asciilifeform: i can't help but suspect that bitcoind-as-we-know-it is only a Schelling point b/c virtually no one understands the code
mircea_popescu: as IF.
asciilifeform: if the chumps decamp en masse, btc might end up as a Hawala for a dozen people.
mircea_popescu: but as long as i have the total energy and it's fixed, you can't run fake perpetuum mobiles.
mircea_popescu: jcpham yes. as long as you speak american, in order to be anything anywhere within the structure you have to be a talking head. that's the thing. thats why obama's not black, even if he is a nigger.
jurov: it's grup of kids cooperating to avoid doing their homework as mircea nicely put it
ThickAsThieves: it's a shell org to act as catchall for for VC opportunities
ThickAsThieves: Is Bitcoin the Beginning or the End of Banking as we know it? ~reddit
pankkake: nokia shareholders must be mad as hell
mircea_popescu: as far as possible.
pankkake: by the way I have an idea for an altcoin but I am too lazy to figure out how to create it (there is nothing to gain, it would be designed as unpreminable because of its stupid design)
mircea_popescu: anyway, i'm not of the coercive school of ip rights management. as far as i'm concerned there should be some fundamentally sound, lightweight drm in place. if you have the werewithal to circumvent that and find this is something you wish to do, hey. you're an independent agent with a mind of your own.
benkay: begone, as they say, foul dwimmerlake.
BingoBoingo: benkay: You have seem so averse to getting this new ASIC scammer/vendor to committ to a bet where they put skinb on the line as per http://trilema.com/2013/the-positive-market-effects-of-the-delivery-bet/ (benkay are you the only person here without a trilema subscription?)
Freebitcoinslist: 5.Relating to my previous question, would HashFast be willing to put up a start of shipping timeframe guarantee on ???.??? as this would ease customers’ minds knowing that the company is willing to put their money where their mouth is….
BingoBoingo: benkay: I have about a hundred SSL certificates. Having a certificate for Google doesn't make you Google though. It is much the same as how killing Jesse James doesn't make you Jesse James.
mircea_popescu: same as chans
mircea_popescu: " Does things high level compiler never ever do like use as data (including instructions!) from code segment, to make value pun elsewhere, use as number or insert in string. Horrible to trace, damned clever." << this by the way was very funny, because of the word pun is afaik never used before in that context.
mircea_popescu: you're supposed to say "as mp pointed out, labcoin is a scam from day one."
dexX7: i'm not really sure what i'm looking for, but "labcoin" uses his username "delaria" as skype handle and "delaria" posted some avalon pictures/pool stats labeled with "labcoinx_avalon" etc.
mircea_popescu: the bet was around the exchanges as defined by bitcoincharts.
mircea_popescu: that's exactly what it is. as speciffic as possible.
Kleeck__: Be as specific as possible.
mircea_popescu: i'm trying to compare things here so as to see how the two items rate.
mircea_popescu: the same thing as what you used for the 8th of aug or w/e it was
ThickAsThieves: name the closing date as the measure
mircea_popescu: i mean... on one hand forbidding bets of the sort seems strange, as the people aren't obliged to bet on it.
mircea_popescu: no, what i mean is, bitcoincharts currently shows mtgox as
ThickAsThieves: or accurately resolving bets as a service
mircea_popescu: that's the trier of fact as it were.
ThickAsThieves: cant use court as justification
ThickAsThieves: as a data point