asciilifeform writes to umpteenth ru supposed-hoster, with canonical 'Можно ли оплатить хостинг криптовалютой Bitcoin ?' and gets the canonical 'Нет, но вы можете обменять её на рубли (или евро для серверов в Словакии)' ( i.e. pissoff )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'drill' appears to consist of going round and round in circles. so perhaps was not difficult to find machines that will suffice.
asciilifeform: dunno for whom at this point, i suspect that ~everybody already traded theirs in, so nao the 'official' price can be wahtever hitler likes
asciilifeform: lol shitcoin still quoted at 0.1224 on shitfinex
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-14#1714464 << i actually had one when slaving for usg ( believe or not, was made ~mandatory~, on 'fire safety' (?!) grounds ) and disassembled in a fit of pique. arseplate -- iron.☝︎
asciilifeform: 'does the copy verbiage literally contain entire phrases from nsa.fleanode's 'private internet fuckery' scamolade ?' if yes -> to /dev/null -- is good firstpass cut, loses 95% of noise
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: at least consider ~reading~ these before posting...
asciilifeform: 'Stay Anonymous With Us!' << oh ferfuxxsake
asciilifeform: d00d uncorked his wagner an' cyanide or wut.
asciilifeform: do we even have a d00d who speaks cn yet ?
asciilifeform: there's one right ~next to where i live, massive fortified beauty thing circa '50s with n weeks of diesel, metre-thick walls, etc. and i know it has colo; and many times i tried to lease a cage to be met with 'no, call THEM', 'oh dontchaknow, we sold to Shitcorp last month', 'yeah this is shitco, we never heard of no colo', etc
asciilifeform: y'think the 5m with which he paid bail was the last 5m in the sofa cushion ?
asciilifeform: if you were buying 1mil btc, you would discover a very different price ( supposing you were even able to find where. ) and ditto selling.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i'm not convinced that the exchange ( any and all of them ) price have ANYTHING to do with actual reality☟︎
asciilifeform: as i understand, d00d could have left shitreich behind and sacrificed nuffin