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ThickAsThieves: so they are opening a trading platform
ThickAsThieves: facebook is gonna buy drones to provide internet to africa
ozbot: Bloomberg TV: Business Live TV - Bloomberg
artifexd: ;;later tell BingoBoingo I'm trying to buy some ATC. Are you trying to sell?
artifexd: I'm looking to buy some ATC. x-bt and openex orderbooks are too thin. Anybody selling?
Mats_cd03: is there a sizable irish pop in cn
Mats_cd03: any bets on when the next exchange with >1000btc gets robbed
mircea_popescu: is keefe like the most common canadian name ?
nubbins`: nor a dennis, for that matter
nubbins`: report slum landlords, wait two years for solution
nubbins`: "O'Keefe said the city will act quickly on complaints once they're received, but if a landlord refuses to allow an inspector into the unit, the city then has to go to court. If an order to clean up a property is then ignored, they would have to go to court again."
nubbins`: hey those aren't your doors!
nubbins`: hadnt heard of it before today
mircea_popescu: pretty sure it's not the first thing posing as a bank no
mircea_popescu: aww flexcoin eh ? which was this one ? i forget.
nubbins`: now that's an interesting way to respond
ozbot: Official CaVirtex.com Thread
moiety: i'd be too frightened to open the cans for fear of beasties
moiety: plot twist : there weren't only five cans (i hope)
asciilifeform: that was the claim, yes
moiety: so if they prove its the 1900 heist money, they won't get anything?
asciilifeform: moiety: linked piece mentions that it might be confiscated.
asciilifeform: moiety: yeah, them
moiety: aww asciilifeform is that the couple who were out walking and found the gold?
ozbot: Bloomberg TV: Business Live TV - Bloomberg
ThickAsThieves: Nic Cary will be on bloomberg tv in 35m
punkman: "Or, in other words, if Satoshi Nakamoto is the Genius Father of Cryptocurrency as an advancement in cryptotechnology, then Thomas Jackson is its Genius Uncle as an advancement in cryptotechnology in world economics."
punkman: "Make music with the world. "The Cypherfunks" is a decentralized band & cryptocurrency. A new way to make music in the 21st century! The cryptocurrency, enables the new music collective."
diametric: closed at the end of the session that is
diametric: ThickAsThieves: its been a while since I've done any PHP code, but all connections get closed if you open them with mysql_connect vs. pconnect
ThickAsThieves: does LAMP have a way to autclose db connections (of a certain age) across all hosted sites
nubbins`: feb 25: "We hold zero coins in other companies, exchanges etc. While the MtGox closure is unfortunate, we at Flexcoin have not lost anything."
ozbot: flexcoin (flexcoin) on Twitter
deadweasel: nice to have a shake-out now and again.
ozbot: Bitcoin bank Flexcoin shuts down after $600,000 theft - Business - CBC News
nubbins`: ah, the Alberta
nubbins`: "Flexcoin, Inc is located in the Alberta, Canada"
nubbins`: well that's convenient
asciilifeform: 'As Flexcoin does not have the resources, assets, or otherwise to come back from this loss, we are closing our doors immediately.'
asciilifeform: 'On March 2nd 2014 Flexcoin was attacked and robbed of all coins in the hot wallet. The attacker made off with 896 BTC...' (http://flexcoin.com)
ThickAsThieves: KateCraig: "However, the bigger reason for the delay is that I've been trying to track down an accounting error. My spreadsheet says we should have much more in the h/w reinvestment fund than we actually have in the bank. I believe I've traced the issue to how depreciation was being calculated."
nubbins`: to replace the ios app that got yanked
nubbins`: i'd say the big news is a functional html5 web wallet
nubbins`: judging by the picture of an iphone
Rulother: Well we're expecting "big news" from them soon
moiety: i don't like shell, but that's awful
mircea_popescu: probably because the chemtrails did it ?
asciilifeform: no snow in that one.
mircea_popescu: sooo... is this a fake ?
mircea_popescu: someone should dump that on twitter.
ozbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
ThickAsThieves: maybe itll go back to 40
Multivac: haha, derps sell their LTCs for AURs, causing LTC to fal from 25 to 21, then BTCChina lists LTC and it goes to 27
asciilifeform: can't wait for the exchange that keeps balances as 'unsigned int' and underflows into $MAXINT - epsilon when it gets cleaned out.
punkman: "Because there is not enough BTC to cover everyone's balances, all balances will temporarily be deducted by 12.3%."
punkman: "The major problem here is that the auditing and security features were not explicitly looking for negative balances."
asciilifeform: house burgled, thieves took tv but not the turds in the cat's sandbox...
mircea_popescu: what, they left all the auracoins behind ?
punkman: Poloniex hacked, but hackers only took out BTC, didn't care for the altcoins
asciilifeform: probably asked to 'turn karp' and refused.
mircea_popescu: i usually made 3-4x my money by the time i was in oregon
asciilifeform: (i distinctly recall that being in there)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform now we know how the office xeros romp got started.
asciilifeform: not quite what modern people have in mind when they think 'fax'
asciilifeform: chetty: early faxes required user to trace over the picture
chetty: 5. The fax machine was invented the same year as the Oregon trail migration.
asciilifeform: plow? bah. uprooted tree stump. what pre-iron-age slavs plowed with.
mircea_popescu: putin could just get done with it and declare obama must now spend a week naked in chains pulling the plow under the whip somewhere in rural ukraine.
mircea_popescu: suddenly the eu is forced to ALSO drop the dollar because if you can't buy gas from the gazprom with it then what good is it ?
mircea_popescu: now that'd be a riot.
mircea_popescu: "A Kremlin aide was quoted on Tuesday as saying that if the United States were to impose sanctions on Russia over Ukraine, Moscow might be forced to drop the dollar as a reserve currency and refuse to pay off any loans to US banks."
moiety: bizarre "only ships within united states" why is it in CAD then
moiety: i think that's the only chess set you can commit a murder with
mircea_popescu: neat btc product tho, find them and hussle them.
moiety: they had googly eyes too... made the game
moiety: i wonder who did make it and i wish there were better pictures of the sides
moiety: i truly wish i made that mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: you made that ?!
moiety: look at this http://imgur.com/gallery/X3IbG it's immense
mircea_popescu: hey there moiety
mircea_popescu: holy shit this guy's good.
mircea_popescu: was "s'up." Advice for aspiring comics like Max: if you get to go on TV, you should probably prepare some material.
mircea_popescu: d here for supporting Romney? Why should we want Obama for a second term? Please, no soundbites you got from twitter." As the kid's head melts like he was staring into the Ark of the Covenant we'd see clearly that he isn't an Obama supporter at all. He may be voting for Obama, I have no idea, but he wasn't there for Obama, he was there for himself under the pretense antagonizing Fox, which is why his main argument
mircea_popescu: Imagine Gretchen Carlson doing what she should have done if she was smart: kept the interview going longer. "Oh, I'm sorry, Max, we must all be dummies here at Fox because when you told us you were pro-Romney we... just believed it. We do that with the Bible and pre-war intelligence, too, gosh golly. Well, you have a Columbia education and I'm giving you a national platform, why don't you tell us why we're all stupi
mircea_popescu: Imagine you are in the target demo for Fox & Friends (i.e. your ex-husband drives an F150 and your daughter's Nokia is bedazzled), would you feel punked? What would you see in the video? You'd see a wise ass, a self-aggrandizing cynic, a douchebag. So if he's pro-Obama, then the point is obvious: pro-Obama people are idiots. Thanks, Max, you helped the cause.
mircea_popescu: sn't helping collect the dirt bombs.
mircea_popescu: The thing is, your brain has to be full of prions to think that this "Punked By Obama Supporter" video shows Fox being punked, either that or you're in first grade where the following exchange is considered an awesome practical joke: "I told you my name's Bill, but it's not, it's Will! All this time you thought it was Bill! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" I'd warn that kid he's going to get himself beat up at recess if I wa
KRS-One: First sinewave, now digital rainbows. Next thing you know cats will sleep with doges.
mircea_popescu: ikr ? now they're going to be square
KRS-One: Its about time rainbows were disrupted.
mircea_popescu: i heard auroracoin is going to disrupt rainbows.
KRS-One: Any rumor that mastercoin is going to save goxcoin
jurov: darwin award doesn't quite apply to internet
chetty: there should be an award for the dumbest ideas
ozbot: Satoshi should give away a good chunk of the 1.000.000 btc he has
mircea_popescu: we're in the middle of a debate as to how scammy this is.
mircea_popescu: that bitcoin scam foundation thread is really delivering the lels.
mircea_popescu: (why did the chick cross the road ?)
mircea_popescu: not a bad place to be
mircea_popescu: the cuttoff for regs for the april conference is march 15th. there won't be late regs or anything.