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ozbot: As police crack down on pirate radio, broadcasters resist the move online | The Verge
mircea_popescu: you don't seriously take the forum as the venue of record do you.
dub: hrm immediocrity already coined and not applicable, I was trying to say his history of not being as shit as everyone else
dub: you're representing yourself as providing pass throughs
tiberiusix: you are just as dumb as the rest
tiberiusix: i guess mircea will go on as the longest running scam in bitcoin
tiberiusix: chaang-noi was up there with theymos as number 2 and 3 participation wise
ozbot: paulsproge: SEC Director Considers Bitcoin As "Investment", Digital Currency Regulated Alongside Tra
Chaaaang-Noi: http://www.paulsproge.com/2013/07/director-of-sec-considers-bitcoin-as.html
mircea_popescu: During the relevant period, Shavers transferred at least 150,649 BTC to his personal account at an online BTC currency exchange which, among other things, he then sold or used to day-trade (converting BTC to U.S. dollars and vice versa). As a result of this activity, Shavers suffered a net loss from his day-trading, but realized net proceeds of $164,758 from his net sales of 86,202 BTC.
mircea_popescu: During the relevant period, Shavers obtained at least 700,467 BTC in principal investments ; During the relevant period, Shavers returned at least 507,148 BTC to BTCST investors as withdrawals or purported interest payments.
tiberiusix: chaang noi how stupid were you to believe 7% a week is possible anyway? as that is higher then the bitcoin growth rate itself
mircea_popescu: In August 2012, as the scheme collapsed, Shavers made preferential redemptions
chsados_: but is operating as a passthrough that is a ponzi illegal?
tiberiusix: chaang noi you can have as many passports as you liked once your flagged at the airport as a no fly, you wont escape the US before the trial
tiberiusix: guy runs a scam bazaar as a forum
tiberiusix: your having a discussion with pirate as some sort of a bond/passthru operator
tiberiusix: and not just as an investor but as someone who collects funds
Azelphur: I'm glad I made the decision to get out of the politics bullshit and just work as a code monkey
Chaaaang-Noi: bitinstant is now dead as a money transmiter right?
Chaaaang-Noi: you can speculate about what the DOJ will do, but dont treat you wild guess as fact
Chaaaang-Noi: that azn girl was really fit... that photo was just as bad for her as me...
thestringpuller: as*
thestringpuller: here as in the channel
dub: as in pricing
mircea_popescu: mjr_ incidentally, in case this isn't obvious to you : some larger organisation took an interest in buttcointalk sometime in may. as a result there's about 100 accounts they control.
Rulother_: I beat the first one, never really played the second one. But I hear the second isn't anywhere near as good as the first.
tiberiusxvi: as i said mircea is clever and hes highly intelligent
tiberiusxvi: hes a US citizen i believe as well
tiberiusxvi: ponzi profits tend to be low for the operator as you need the funds to pay out
tiberiusxvi: chaang noi was an active participant in the fraud acting as a feeder agent
PeterL_: mtgox has been about 5 usd above all the other exchanges for a while, clearly people do not want to sell there as much
tiberiusxvi: bitcoin china looks to overtake btce probably next week as the 3rd largest exchange
ThickAsThieves: as my friend just said,
ThickAsThieves: [10:59] <jborkl> Thick as Thieves : AM is releasing financials today? Is that correct? <<<< This was a tentative possibility, never confirmed
jborkl: Thick as Thieves : AM is releasing financials today? Is that correct?
dexX7: well, as long as everyone else is unable to trade, it's not thaat bad ;)
Chaang-Noi: the jeep i want is too small as well
gecko_x2: the realtime box has't updated as well 4 hours
elchespirito: as it looks, BFL asic miners started shipping out and producing
ThickAsThieves: he rights con-trakts as he thinks
mircea_popescu: As soon as enough coins are raised and the opportunity becomes available (Whether it be Avlalon, BitFury, BFL, or other) we will make a purchase.
[\]: I'm seriously interested how having any of the passthrough operators as board members has actually benefited any of the passthrough buyers
mircea_popescu: they also blew that one but nobody cared as they actually seem to hash, so
Apocalyptic: how would that be relevant anyway ? i never thought about it, i'll keep enough money to be sure i'll never have to work again while being able to afford a decent livestyle, as for the rest i have no clue
mircea_popescu: the next week he excused himself as he was on vacation
dexX7: the mining division. As an investor you are invested in all of Active Mining, its sales and mining revenue, hence the merger.
dexX7: A. When this venture was first conceived AMC was essentially the entity that the shareholders represented. VMC was the producer and seller of the miners. The separate companies threw investors off. Now, to make it much more simple for investors to understand, Active Mining is the umbrella that all holders are invested in. VMC should just be seen as the sales division and AMC as
jborkl: hmm, that is confusing as shit
Rulother_: as far as btct goes
jborkl: I can not say, I have not done any research on it. I am observing the same behavior as prior scams
jcpham: they start off as different things but basically end the same way
FabianB_: ah, ic, there's no bot as with the options
Rulother_: for a second there, i read that as 1200 @ .0048
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benkay_: i just declare them as income
mjr_: in that range, and don't take my decimals as facts
Chaang-Noi: i use it as an inflation hedge, not a collectors thing
gecko_x2: fractional panda's develope nice premiums as well
mjr_: k, coins are better as long as you don't pay too much over spot
Chaang-Noi: coinibul just upset he is now know as a scammer, yeah, that was a lot of my doing...
Rulother_: I read an article recently about a hacker, where the police couldn't decode his computer and he didn't have to give up the password due to the 5th Amend, and got off clean as a result.
Chaang-Noi: SSD's are cheap, ill get one as my main boot drive
kakobreklaa: oh that, yeah as soon as kelinworth finds a nugget
kakobreklaa: heya mjr_, ah not much, everything is fucked as it was, you?
mjr_: but in general measuring dick size in a financial sense with a bunch of assholes online is just as valuable
parseval_: 13% of my coinflow site visitors have chinese as their primary language.. A few weeks ago it was significantly less. I wonder if BTC is trending up in China more now
ozbot: Internet porn block on EVERY home: Victory for the Mail as PM David Cameron pledges 'opt in' rule |
grilledcat: S.MG lowest ask on MPEX is 0.000269 though, so not quite as big a difference as it looks :)
grilledcat: Not that he has to prove himself quite as much when he's already given out more than the IPO was. He has a religious following by now :)
mircea_popescu: grilledcat scams are made like that deliberately, so as to preselect.
ozbot: Bitcoin transaction volume as % of market cap - Imgur
KRS1: as in multiple vampur
ozbot: [Proposal] Bitcoin as a payment option for either PLEX or Subscriptions - Assembly Hall - EVE
Diablo-D3: because women's lib means they want to dominate men and keep them as pets
dexX7: <@assbot> [BTCTC] [AMC-PT] 250 @ 0.0025 = 0.625 BTC [-] << shouldn't it show a [+] as they were bought and not sold?
mircea_popescu: and the discarding from history as irrelevant started at age three.
Namworld: It just got discarded from history as irrelevant.
peterl: oh,ok, what I meant is are you going to keep some as reserve or pay out all the profits as dividend?
Namworld: Everyone ask... I can't disclose how it's performing like that. I prefer it go out as an official announcement at the end of each month, on the website.
Namworld: People expect some kind of privacy as to what stuff they purchase.
ThickAsThieves: currencies in general should be subject to a higher degree of scrutiny, and thechilling effect this could have on the still nascent bitcoin industry. The Bitcoin Foundation isalso concerned that certain statements could lead to confusion concerning the money launderingregulatory framework as applied to virtual currencies in general and bitcoin in particular."
mircea_popescu: i imagine as we develop better controls for the entire set of problems of the gpg contract we'll be able to bring the hare voting franchise back.
CheckDavid: oh, I see, why don't you allow more than half? To avoid issues such as how to enforce majority of share holders rights?
mircea_popescu: 50mn were not for sale at any point, as mpex contracts don't allow management to sell more than half.
CheckDavid: Oh, meaning 90 Million were not for sale, as they were held by the owner right?
usagi: peterl It may behoove you to ask me what my plans and goals are for BMF as well
mircea_popescu: on the face of it reddit fame pretty much counts as being retarded here.
MiningBuddy: I literally took a sip of my southern comfort as you said that
FabianB: just as with pirate
mircea_popescu: finally upload warms just as much as mining
lordshipomokeli: yeah, i think it's clear, that it's storage vs. bandwidth, but it was confusing to mix both as the proper continuation in this case would be "unlimited" .. that lead to my question :)
nubbins`: might as well just delete wallet.dat immediately
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mircea_popescu: stealth. darker than dark. we could go as far as to say these are the original nigger pools.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you're probably exposed as lopng at least for limited intervals running a pt
ThickAsThieves: working as intended usagi
nubbins`: there's a reason why i operate the studio instead of producing art, this is about as fancy as i get: http://i.imgur.com/feLeauz.jpg
PeterL_: <Namworld> Could you please process the withdrawals request? Got to pay out my PT holders. -- MPEx is not allowing withdrawals? They are as bad as MtGox! Everybody PANIC!!!!
Rulother__: Would be the purpose of doing that though, just curious myself as well.