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fluffypony: all
the money Karpeles stole, presumably?
fluffypony: I read somewhere
they're offering 1 BTC and are willing
to absorb all
the liabilities
Namworld: Doesn't look like an appropriate candidate anyway.
There's no amount of duct
tape
that can fix MtGox.
Namworld: The name seems
to be a bad coincidence. An awful one even.
Namworld: "This PR
team apparently sees nothing wrong with
this Sponsor’s association with Silk Road Equity LLC (I am not shitting you)."
benkay: i'm off
to harass
the womenfolk and ingest intoxicants
benkay: well, index me into
the googleborg gents
benkay: ;;google goddamn stupidest
thing bitcoin
artifexd: That article is
the
top result for "goddamn stupidest
thing bitcoin"
artifexd: and a gun
to scare you off your phone is
the height of idiocy.
artifexd: urthermore, putting bitcoins on your phone is probably
the goddamn stupidest
thing
that I've ever heard of. Bitcoins are going
to be
the world's reserve currency4, and as such fated
to rise
to prices per coin
that dwarf even
the outlandish Winklevoss' most media-hungry "predictions".
To leave such a precious commodity within reach of anyone with a USB cable5
artifexd: Yep. I was looking for
this paragraph:
benkay: it's probably a bad
thing
that i'm
the search engine for my blog
artifexd: benkay: I'm
trying
to find an article
that I
think you wrote. In
the article
the statement "Storing bitcoins on a phone is
the god damned stupidest fucking
thing evar." Or something
to
that effect. Do you remember
that?
fluffypony: please
tell me someone set up a pool
to let
the miners mine and never find a block
TestingUnoDosTre: "All other pretenders
to
the altcoin designation must be assimilated. Resistance is futile."
benkay: share some gems,
TestingUnoDosTre
TestingUnoDosTre: oh my gawd, I'm laughing my ass off while reading
this forum. How
the hell did he pull
this off?
ozbot: There is no recourse in Bitcoin - only
trust and identity
TestingUnoDosTre: I'm wondering because shortly after he left,
the books are going wild with buys
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TestingUnoDosTre: ;;rate mircea_popescu 2 I bow
to my bitlord, for despite his friendly demeanor, we are not equals
TestingUnoDosTre: ;;rate mircea_popescu I bow
to my bitlord, for despite his friendly demeanor, we are not equals
benkay: ;;later
tell mircea_popescu how does
the discreet escort leverage
the WoT?
benkay: leastaways
that's how we learn before getting hoovered out of our ditches into Business.
cgcardona_: in fact once someone
took over my screen/vim session w/ ascii art/text
telling me about an engineering meeting.
benkay: in an odd
turn of events
that no doubt indicts my past masters for incompetence i've always had root on der boxen
artifexd: Do you remember
the first
time somebody gave you real responsibility? "Don't let me down, kid."
type stuff.
benkay: lowest of
the low, artifexd
artifexd: Anyway,
time
to put
the existential crisis on hold and get some work done before bed.
artifexd: Because, seriously, who
the fuck am I?
benkay: some day i'll get
to say
that
to someone in all seriousness.
benkay: bow
to your bitlord, for despite his friendly demeanor ye are not equals.
benkay: and yeah,
they're probably just like you in
the particulars of
their lives and mistresses and dinners and base houses etc
artifexd: And yet, every
time I
talk, he gives me
the
time of day. When I question him, he responds reasonably. I guess
that encourages me
to
treat him as an equal.
benkay: that understanding is
the glue holding
the democratic army of america
together
artifexd: Here, mircea and I should not exist in
the same caste. I'm just a normal dude. He's a Romanian Billionare. WITH A B! I can conceive of no reason
that someone
that high up
the food chain would give
two shits about what I
think or why I
think it.
artifexd: When I was in
the Navy, lower ranked officers were nothing special, but even lower enlisted (like myself) didn't have conversations with
the Captains and Admirals.
There was
the understanding
that
they were "people" just like us (meaning
the enlisted folk), but
their concerns and our concerns didn't overlap enough
to allow for everyday conversation.
There
benkay: JorgePasada: i can't rate you unless you get in
the WoT.
artifexd: Or rather,
that I have access
to
the same information he does.
artifexd: I
think my (possible?) mistake is in
thinking
that he has access
to
the same information as
the rest of us (specifically, me). He may have more people
to pour over it and analyze it, but
the raw information is available.
benkay: asciilifeform: points about verification aside,
that'd be
the point i'm
trying
to pound into artifexd
benkay: not
that i'd know. derpy kid as myself.
benkay: artifexd: i
think
the joke is
that
the nsa would love
to have access
to mp's intel.
benkay: so an entity with an intelligence arm claims a
thing is
true and says 'get stuffed' when you ask 'but how ams u knooooow?'. how as a prole in -assets are you going
to ever verify something
the entity spent an unknown amount of money discovering?
artifexd: Unless his "I got my own nsa" statement was not a joke and was actually a comment on his research
team.
benkay: but if it's my spy, and you want
to know how good
the report is
artifexd: Sure. But
there's nothing other
than "Because I said so".
benkay: a not entirely
thing
to say about mircea_popescu's sources is
that
there's a nonzero chance
they're
trained ninjas who've infiltrated both
the us and sino mining operations
benkay: artifexd: another point on
this
topic is
that intelligence is completely unverifiable. your source may be compromised, your source may be lying, all sorts of
things may be
true.
artifexd: Without inside knowledge, how could you verify it?
The only information
that actually links
to
the miner is
the coinbase script and I haven't seen any scripts with "Mined by US GSA" in
them.
benkay: graham
tire of
the derp circus?
benkay: artifexd: ain't nobody sharing information like
that for free.
artifexd: If it is an educated guess,
that's cool. What I'm asking is whether you have any independently verifiable proof
that governments are mining? (Like, verifiable by someone like, you know, me)
mircea_popescu: anyway.
the bed's just filed extradition papers so ima have
to bid you a very good laters!
artifexd: How do you know
that governments are mining, much less which governments and
to what degree?
ozbot: Things
that matter
these days ;
things
that don’t matter
these days. pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mirce
mircea_popescu: But in either case,
the race is on :
the governments are mining, boys and girls. (The good news, of course, is
that
they’ve started about at
the same
time, which means we have cleared
the ONLY roadblock Bitcoin ever seriously had in its path. We’re done here, we’ve won.)
TestingUnoDosTre: also been quite surprised about
the amoung of gigahashes
that have been dropped on
the network in
the last day or so
mircea_popescu: (for new people : mtgox failed miserably a year ago,
this
time.
their lag was routinely in
the half hour range. it's all in
the logs.
their response ? "we are a victim of our own success!!1"
mircea_popescu: ahaha.
ty bitcoin-assets wiki, i had forgotten
this one
ozbot: List of Victims of
Their Own Success | Bitcointa.lk
cgcardona_: i haven't checked
the charts. how long before was it?
ozbot: BitBet - Bitcoin
to surpass Berkshire as an investment
gribble: Error: Something in
there wasn't a valid number.
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD
ticker | Best bid: 410.62, Best ask: 412.0, Bid-ask spread: 1.38000, Last
trade: 412.0, 24 hour volume: 12445.68945649, 24 hour low: 397.16, 24 hour high: 427.75, 24 hour vwap: 410.365466491
mircea_popescu: anyway. epic article, all
the lulz one could want for an evening.
mircea_popescu: Finally, its worth noting
that Y Combinator has funded a
total of 564 companies. More
than 150 of
those companies are less
than 18 months old.
Therefore, 80% of
the companies are older
than 18 months and have not been acquired.
TestingUnoDosTre: ;;rate mircea_popescu 1 knows where
to find inexpensive indian writers
TestingUnoDosTre: ;;rate mircea_popescu knows where
to find inexpensive indian writers
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mircea_popescu: kiko. Kiko is a web calendar for anyone who wants
to keep and share a calendar online. Kiko excels at
three main
things:
mircea_popescu: Divvyshot. "Divvyshot allows groups of friends
to share
their photos easily, at
their full resolutions. It was a Y Combinator participant."
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