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jurov: Any blog abut
the brk-a bet background?
jurov: Hi all just checking from ski
trip
mircea_popescu: the point of life isn't
to avoid people getting killed.
mircea_popescu: TomServo his dying resulted in
them
trying
to fix "problems" which were wholly imaginary.
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ThickAsThieves: yeah, i suspect any violent increase in inflation would result in a more abrupt increase in bitcoin value
than BRK-A
mircea_popescu: the funniest shit will be if
the us inflation goes bonkers
this year, berkshire ends up ~2mn by next march, bitcoins
trade ~6k ish
Duffer1: what was
the market cap of BTC
this
time last year? i'm sure it was already well beyond 200k..
mircea_popescu: berkshire will probably cross 200k sometime
this summer.
mircea_popescu: that should make nice news for a blogger wanting
toi have some fun
ThickAsThieves: "Analysts now see $100 BTC within easy reach. I am sticking
to my bet. I bet Warren Buffett 100,000 BTC
that BTC reaches $200,000 before Berkshire Hathaway does."
mircea_popescu: gotta love
these fiat guys. 0.00450000 at a
time, srsly, don't give yourselves a hernia folks
ozbot: BitBet - Bitcoin
to surpass Berkshire as an investment
Diablo-D3: seems like a lost oppertunity
there
Diablo-D3: .... you know, why has
there never been a financial blog for bears named bullshit?
ThickAsThieves: it's weird, it happened
to me both
times i was in Amsterdam
ThickAsThieves: either way everything
turned white and i almost passed out
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves was it because
the nude chicks behind glass ?
Diablo-D3: he said, and
this is why he killed him, "all
this shit
they make you do
that God didn't expressly say do? stop doing it. God didnt
tell you
to do
that."
Diablo-D3: ThickAsThieves:
that sounds closer
to an axienty attack
mircea_popescu: but by
the
time it gets
to "you gotta wear
this
thing" it's gotten real old.
mircea_popescu: i mean religion is one
thing, as a
theological pursuit, you know, whatever, let's sit around and discuss
the beard of
the
teapot in
the sky
Duffer1: did you get your little scarf
thing
too?
ThickAsThieves: oddly it was
the first
time I ever had hot flashes and almost fainted
ThickAsThieves: i remember my confirmation vividly because i said
to myself over and over "never forget how happy you are
that you never have
to come here again"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves did you get a little white
tutu and everything ? or do
they only do
that for girls
Diablo-D3: ThickAsThieves:
then
the catholic church is not a church
ThickAsThieves: gotta do it for 8 years before you can leave
the scene
Diablo-D3: sunday school never made sense
to me
ThickAsThieves: wrestling was always
the hot
topic whilst learning about jesus
Diablo-D3: I mean, I have
to give it
to wrestling
ThickAsThieves: due
to
them being
the same day, i have an odd association with WWF and Catechism as a child
Diablo-D3: then
the NWO shit wore out and
then
they went
to college
Diablo-D3: well I remember everyone quit watching it,
then
they had
that NWO shit
Diablo-D3: only had friends who watched it and
they wouldnt shut up about it
Diablo-D3 never watched wrestling as a kid, it was
too much like soap operas for men
Diablo-D3: that was a looooooooooooong
time ago
mircea_popescu: which reminds me, when i was a kid
there was
this wrestler dubbed bam bam biggelow
balulasch_: cant believe someone bet 1000btc on
this
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: only b word I could
think of
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 but i'm not a brony. perhaps
the only bitcoin veteran in
this sad situation.
balulasch_: mircea_popescu did you set up
this bet?
Diablo-D3: the only way
that could have come out better is
ThickAsThieves: my favorite is how all
their Yahoo headlines have ! after every word
ThickAsThieves: Can you
tell I've been reading
TheRegister for more
than a decade?
ozbot: Twitter / Mircea_Popescu:
Tremendously
tittilating
title ...
ThickAsThieves: fwiw i watched
the nethash decrease about 200TH over
the past hour
mircea_popescu: lol ima gonna have
to end up buying a barony in
the end
wao-ender: aspiration
to quantum self-parody?
Duffer1: oh man stick of
truth was... wow
nubbins`: "police said neither of
the men wanted
to provide any further detail about
the incidents"
mircea_popescu: btw, someone dump
the
trilema article on reddit will you ? i wanna see
them writhe.
ThickAsThieves: i aalways
thought most people lived as parodies of
themselves
mircea_popescu: i guess
the world is split in
tow sorts of people :
those who aspire
to be so lucky
to live
to be our own parodies, and
those who aspire
to be so lucky
to die before
that.
mircea_popescu: well, we should be so lucky
to live
to be our own parodies.
ThickAsThieves: in less
than a year I learned a bunch of stuff about Buffet, and
then
the first letter I get
to read as it is release, reads like satire
ThickAsThieves: well he can only lean on
the inertia of BRK so hard
til it falls over
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves oddly, he doesn't say
the same of government-sponsored
transfer of wealth from
the middle class
to
the lower class.
that's fine, iho.
ThickAsThieves: and Buffet would say of
this bet, "The bet is a perfect example of why Bitcoin is a bad investment, it is speculation and gambling at its purest!"
Neil: Would be funny if Buffett bet 1k BTC on
the other side
tho.
ThickAsThieves: the excuse will be, I don't wanna have
to buy bitcoins
to bet against bitcoin
mircea_popescu: no resources, no skill, no
talent, no ability, no brains, perhaps ?
Neil: Or will say
their winnings will be near-worthless, yadda yadda.
mircea_popescu: none of
them will make 1k btc in 2014. so why aren't
they ?
Neil: Unfortunately
those who don't believe in bitcoin will not have bitcoin
to spend on
the bet :)
mircea_popescu: kinda why
the article is adressed
to
the would-be financiers of wallstreet and generally
the world's pretend-bankers.
Neil: You mean, if you're not a bitcoin believer?
Then yeah. But I'm quite confident BTC will outperform Berkshire.
mircea_popescu: "honey,
there's a 1000:1 bet
that berkshire will outperform bitcoin in 2014, and i'm not
taking it"
mircea_popescu: perhaps
this is
the best line
to explain
to noobs why bitcoin is so powerful :