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BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: A nice first step is checking your feed for Maybe controversial tweets from people you follow. If there are a lot of responses call out some of the idiots.
ThickAsThieves: i take this very seriously
BingoBoingo: Like anything else the additional work is really very little when you know what to look for.
ThickAsThieves: meh too much work
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: Well you have to scope the people out a bit first and remember people like @maxkeister take the same approach to criticism Pirateat40 did, they ignore it.
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: You may also need to pick some better targets
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: Don't worry, they respond eventually.
ozbot: Bitcoin Error Log (Bitcoin_Assets) on Twitter
ThickAsThieves: they so trollsilient
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: Who are you trying to engage?
ThickAsThieves: this twitter thing in no fun if no one responds
ThickAsThieves: i guess thatd be the best way
ThickAsThieves: does it mean on that date of closure?
ThickAsThieves: wtf is that?
ThickAsThieves: like must have 250BTC trades in a 30-day period
ThickAsThieves: i wish the bet was worded better though
BingoBoingo: I wonder how much it costs people to retain this dude's services a'la med 20th century Boxing http://mlb.mlb.com/cutfour/index.jsp#contentId=68612078
kakobrekla: just you wait and see how fast people stop using this shit court.
ThickAsThieves: so aurawracoin is already trading? before it's been distributed to every Icelandian?
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: They forget that Bitbet and not Reddit is the court though.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: At the moment Bitbet seems the only real platform for hedging that risk which might deliver.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: betting on a proper, long-awaited nato vs. russian shooting war is great fun, but ww3 makes it a little hard to collect.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well my interest is largely due to http://bitbet.us/bet/769/crimea-2-electric-boogaloo/ which I hope to profit from on the "Yes" side by the arrival of Sradinian troops
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: since you seem to take an interest in the subject: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/03/reichstag-fire-in-kiev.html
copumpkin: I think we can tell what timezone they're talking about
BingoBoingo: Why can't these news agencies specify timezones http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/russias-invasion-of-ukraine-march-3-live-updates-338232.html
ozbot: Former Central Banker Admits "[They] Are Making It Up As They Go Along" | Zero Hedge
BingoBoingo: I dunno if people really read the forum for things other than the neg ratings anyways
kakobrekla: well, i can still negrate, despite the ban. at least something.
asciilifeform: but at some point, they will
asciilifeform: at the moment, the idiots daren't take advantage of this fact
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: know what's sad? with all of the bitcoin phoundation's public goatfucking, the most commonly used client remains: the one put out by them, or whatever well-connected scammer picks up the torch.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [COG] [PAID] 1.18344475 BTC to 13`595 shares, 8705 satoshi per share
benkay: someone is sporting a foundation lifetime member badge in that thread
BingoBoingo: OMG look what the Ripple shill and spyware guy said https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=498002.msg5485066#msg5485066
asciilifeform: the point is, none of this is pushed by people concerned with actual security or whatnot
BingoBoingo: Well, a hammer is usually the right tool for this kind of job
asciilifeform: military bureaucrats traditionally keep this simple.
asciilifeform: (near the hdd cavity)
asciilifeform: i have a dell laptop circa 2007 lying around in some box. it has a 'hammer here' target embossed on the bottom.
BingoBoingo: I kind of imagined an Ipad destruction machine would "fold" the thing over a few times before puncturing.
asciilifeform: there is probably already a custom hydraulic press on the market for puncturing 'ipads' and the like
asciilifeform: rather than merely the disk, with the remainder hitting the surplus market
asciilifeform: they stand to win big from the fact of bureaucrats (government and corporate both) mandating destruction of a whole machine upon write-off
asciilifeform: incidentally, hardware vendors are 100% solid wall behind this crap
asciilifeform: e.g. mailing a personal box with live (!) environment to somebody.
asciilifeform: enemy does not need to remotely control the box if he can encourage you to voluntarily practice bad comsec.
asciilifeform: thinking that problem with modern hardware is limited to 'rooting' is a failure of imagination.
BingoBoingo: For sure. Then there's the problem where business and education market products which seem to have longer time until then now usually come with firmware rooted by default.
asciilifeform: or accessible independent of the machine it was bought in.
asciilifeform: 'The Market Has Spoken' (TM) that disk doesn't need to be removable.
asciilifeform: and those are quickly overtaking the winblows pc portable
asciilifeform: but this is 'coming soon to a cheap x86 box near you' at any rate
asciilifeform: the only apple-specific detail in the plot is perhaps the difficulty of removing hdd in newer apple boxes for sanitation
BingoBoingo: Definitely. The ritual cleasing is roughly as effictive as one of those "dream catchers" with an overly coarse net on a round wooden frame
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this is another one of those instances where the 'avoid ritually unclean things' formula is inadequate.
BingoBoingo: No, but the high sticker prices seems to encourage bad behavior
asciilifeform: the practical 'joke' in the piece isn't apple-specific
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Indeed, but it must be established that Apple Products are a serious hotbed of fraud
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this one is considerably funnier
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: It's the drama bump
benkay: thru to settlement in order to ensure profitability."
benkay: "The fact that this type of strategy is ever viable at all seems to me to suggest at least one of two possible explanations: either the futures market is relatively inefficient and dominated by unhedged directional bets taken by gamblers and speculators, or the aggregate view of the Bitcoin capital markets is that the counterparty risk created by exchanges like ICBIT is too high to support strategies that require maintaining a position
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 669.34, Best ask: 669.72, Bid-ask spread: 0.38000, Last trade: 669.34, 24 hour volume: 51163.03455737, 24 hour low: 553.0, 24 hour high: 710.0, 24 hour vwap: 612.981668613
ozbot: Selling the Froth: A Simple Hedged Forex Strategy for Bitcoin-Denominated Returns
copumpkin: mircea_popescu: any luck with that key?
ozbot: [Stratfor] Examining the future of Bitcoin : Bitcoin
ThickAsThieves: if anything can remain irrational longer than the marker, it's surely a creation of mircea_popescu ;)
ThickAsThieves: i dont recall which or how many articles covered the topic, but i recall them mostly boiling down to mpoe being the only sure thing in bitcoin to invest in.
the20year2: Does mircea_popescu have a contingency plan if Russia rolls through Romania too?
the20year2: Nice big trade today, joy
ThickAsThieves: while i'm not converted, mp did take the time to explain this already
mike_c: except the knife isn't falling!
benkay: ready to play a game of catch-the-knife?
benkay: it's a mystery to me as well, mike_c
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 2.36577410 BTC to 3`590 shares, 65899 satoshi per share
BingoBoingo: Looks like the drama rally might be heating up
ThickAsThieves: bets on how long before he apologizes for this one?
jurov: welcome in the club
mike_c: give up trying to understand.
mike_c: ok.. i give up. mpex turns off 70% of its revenue, the share price goes down basically 0%.
Neil: Hmm discus fish goes from 56K blocks to 594K blocks.
Neil: KRS-One: good bait; I have a soft spot for the Asian ladies
ThickAsThieves: they used to post more though
ThickAsThieves: ah they just tucked it under a misleading name
ThickAsThieves: i wondered what happened to The Genesis Block blog. It looks like they gave up writing and moved on to data
ThickAsThieves: people now trust the con- more than the -vincing
ThickAsThieves: davout makes mean posts on forums, therefore he is a liar and only trying to promote his business. Of course!
davout: jurov: o, you linked to me buttraping jesse powell :D
davout: I used the former before, now I tweet under the latter
ThickAsThieves: does davout haz twitter?
jurov: <davout> they told me i'm slanderous soul
jurov: with >600 upvoes, it should be right there
ThickAsThieves: i wonder how blurry the line is for getting banned from commenting at theverge
ozbot: Bitstamp and Kraken, can you respond to these allegations by your competitor that you aren't complyi
ozbot: noospheer | The Quantum Graph
ThickAsThieves: (This was Vitalik Buterin and Jordan Ash, for the record)
KRS-One: quantum computing is teh sexy
ThickAsThieves: they were deadly focused on the sexiness of achieving psuedo-quantum mining and being geekchic
Neil: Huh? They were claiming they'd be rich exploiting something whose value would go to zero being exploited? They'd have to be quick and smart in how they did said "exploiting".