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ThickAsThieves: "AMC will be partnering with eASIC, an established manufacturer. A review of their past manufacturing experience only indicates expertise in 90nm and 45nm chips, raising some question as to how reliable their estimates will be"
mircea_popescu: as there have been mining corps.
mircea_popescu: deadweasel there have been about as many of these shitty "we webpayments" made-to-start-up craps
Vbs: ThickAsThieves: I know, trying to be as stoic as possible atm :P
ThickAsThieves: which, as we discussed, can be bad for you
TradeFortress: Scrat, the external service can be something that has high availability and is proven to have high availbility, as well as repeatedness
dub: PT issuer and its underlying exchange, on top of trusting a guy known only as friedcat who lives in a country with no laws
louong: also actual ASICMINER shares are not as liquid
FlyingLeap: even whole shares are not the same as originally purchased shares right?
ozbot: Brain-eating amoebas thrive in US lakes as global warming heats waterways | The Verge
mircea_popescu: on the OTHER HAND, americans fucking belive they personally are at least in the same boat as buffett
mircea_popescu: "we're in the same boat as the guys that did it because i heard about hardcopy and am really excited"
Vbs: we are on the same BOAT as one of the BEST asic companies out there!!!!
mircea_popescu: as any negotiable instrument
mircea_popescu: as in, investment banks for real.
mircea_popescu: it's not a way to pay the lower level people, as their performance isn't so tied with the overal results
ThickAsThieves: you use these warrants as payment for developers and such?
ThickAsThieves: of new shares on MPEx in exchange for mergers or acquisitions in all-stock or stock-and-BTC deals ; or c) through the issuing of Special Stock Warrants as defined, written at a price no less than the average S.MG price 24 hours prior to the SSW issuance.
ThickAsThieves: as noted here:
Vbs: we are on the same boat as Seagate :D
ThickAsThieves: "AMC has released 2,000,000 shares yesterday at ฿0.0025 on BitFunder, as a headstart for
Bugpowder: Nanex data show as many as 30,000 shares of SPY traded in 1 millisecond during the course of the 15 millisecond gap between the inadvertent release and the official public dissemination of the information that day.
mircea_popescu: "@Crosby, ask our real customers. Our service is immediate, responsive and personal. As is our security."
zerokwel: same as food I know what I like :)
deadweasel: addictive as hell
mircea_popescu: "I understand that I will be required to pay 0.3BTC as fees for registering this
ThickAsThieves: cards (such as Visa, MasterCard and American
deadweasel: as Bitcoin and a host of others, can enable
deadweasel: As highlighted by the latest initiative of the
deadweasel: ah well, as long as teh check doesn't bounce.
mircea_popescu: somehow naturally occuring, as most of the fraudsters are "honest" fraudsters (ie, not in control of their fraud)
mircea_popescu: i imagine it's some sort of natural sweet spot as to where the hope of further investment no longer justifies the service efforts.
ThickAsThieves: people saying they dont vote as a form of protest make no less sense than people that do vote for 1 of 2 idiots that won't make any difference anyway
mircea_popescu: that's a mistrial right there, as presented.
dub: as always procrastination pays off
furuknap_: I have no idea, but I'm leaning towards it not being paid for as of yet.
ThickAsThieves: First week's normal dividends paid. The balance payment of the next batch, as well as the premium for a full-mask to guarantee our quantity production (200 TH/s or more, depending on how well BTC/USD could do) within the next three months, are partly taken from this week's revenue and the next week's. So the dividends within these two weeks are lower than normal.
Namworld: Eh, for now it's all rumors as far as I'm concerned. Haven't heard anything official.
ThickAsThieves: and many see it as TAT.AM being worth 5% less
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla mpoe-pr thinks he's back as some recruiter woman
furuknap: Here's something that's not a joke. "for all anyone knows [me] and [friedcat] are the same person." implying that I can't use friedcat's statements as arguments that AM is earning more on their hardware than I am earning on my asset.
aknap3: TAT: I don't normally read the New Yorker, but it looks like the report was meant as a joke
reggin: but its valued as a business that makes 500k a year
dub: but like 'tail -f ~/.bitcoin/debug/log | grep <addr> | mail blah blah' as easily
mircea_popescu: as in doing what specifically ?
truffles: as a weirdo myself im pretty normal compared to other legit weirdos out there
mircea_popescu: even as a cutout ?
mircea_popescu: jborkl as who ?
mircea_popescu: which really messes with people. as they'd much prefer to have been unlucky.
mircea_popescu: dysfunctional arguments don't age like wine, as in you revisit them three months later and they've improved now.
ThickAsThieves: "If you are a shareholder of ASICMINER, you will have the privilege of paying later. You will have 15 days to pay after shipping. The maximum volume of USB sticks for this policy you enjoy is (share number / 3, rounded down). Your (USB number * 3) shares will be frozen, thus not trade-able, as collateral, till payment for the USB. If you fail to pay, the shares will be collected back
ThickAsThieves: others might call the super cruel as super idiots
mircea_popescu: that is as if fucking is going on.
mircea_popescu: that is not as if a door was being opened
mircea_popescu: "What they found was far different from what happens according to general relativity alone: there was no singularity. Instead, just as the black hole began to squeeze tight, it suddenly loosened its grip again, as if a door was being opened."
Scrat: mjr_1: well fuck you (hated good hunters as a melee class)
topace: my felguard was da shit, i remmeber getting jumped by a group of 4 ~same level as me when i was soloing some quests working through BTC, and i pwned them all
ThickAsThieves: not pro as i wasnt paid
mircea_popescu: as competition for blocks essentially goes away.
mircea_popescu: as to which chan person is the anon.
ThickAsThieves: (as an investment opportunity)
ThickAsThieves: as low as .0025
thestringpuller: Cause I like testing your responsiveness as a bitcoin super CEO
mircea_popescu: reused their info on multiple sites as in, made accounts on more than 1 site ?
mircea_popescu: "Unfortunately the chip does not perform as planned. We optimistically assumed a hashrate of 3.5GH/s at 0.6V. The chip is 2 times slower and if overclocked can run at 2GH/s. Further overclocking would be to expensive in terms of hardware prices (power supply).
Scrat: mircea_popescu: I have the same profit as him with 5 times the bet volume
assbot: The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the crow.
Jezzz: with as much porn as ozbot serves up, it's a miracle he gets any work done whatsoever
jurov: the foundation incorporated with satoshi as founding member... would be fun if that resulted in him being chased by some TLAs
ThickAsThieves: but as long as people have to live primarily fiat
ThickAsThieves: price volatility is an issue as well
Vbs: as it is, it's just plain wrong
ThickAsThieves: as he is likely the one most largely invested in it
davout: the waitress answers as expected : "well, that would be x^3/3"
davout: pankkake: you probably have some dust, which would count as non-zero
pankkake: anyway, I have a zero balance *now* but as I used the site I would like to get the mail too
mircea_popescu: site took a 40% dip of its gains yest as a result. it's back by now tho.)
mircea_popescu: (actually my investment illustrated the problem, as a bunch of people withdrew and gambled on the spot.
mircea_popescu: if he's backed by 5k gamblers with 1k btc each and two actual investors with 3k btc each it's not (nearly) as much of a problem
kakobrekla: furuknap play this at the same time as listening to that talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSE077G5Mfc
ThickAsThieves: altough dub did say "dumb as fuck" since then
mircea_popescu: as if after the strauss-kahn debacle anyone takes them seriously anymore.
ThickAsThieves: i forget who it was, maybe Diablo, taught me that there's no such thing as loss, only unrealized profit
mircea_popescu: course they can automate it as it is
bitcoin935: mircea probably bought his own shares and made a huge seen out of it as mpex was losing marketshare to other exchanges since january
ThickAsThieves: i also usually take MP silence as I sign i'm doing somehting right
mircea_popescu: hehe. poor bellhop ends up involved in some "psychodrama" as he says
mircea_popescu: as long asd they can be actually verified.
psychoron: I ready mircea_popescu's last comment as a answer to benkay.
Chaang-Noi: <psychoron> Chaany-noi, meh, mistakes happen. As long as the right information is eventually found well, i ws in the mindset of arguing with d3 and that toehr retard who thought $100 face did not mean $100 cuz gold
psychoron: Chaany-noi, meh, mistakes happen. As long as the right information is eventually found
Namworld: There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for GOODS AND/OR SERVICES.
bitcoin935: Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy.
bitcoin935: There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, co
Diablo-D3: bitcoin935 as well
bitcoin935: This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a
Diablo-D3: bitcoin935: as per US federal law, yes, they must accept cash.
Chaang-Noi: $100 gold coin is just as valid as a $100 paper bill
Chaang-Noi: he still backs s.dice and well, have to as it is all he has left
bitcoin935: soon as you said walmart has to take your gold coins