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duduqa: ThickAsThieves: do you
think so?
ThickAsThieves: furthermore, i believe hostility
towards such innovation
truly will lead
to exodus
duduqa: asciilifeform: I never played poker, so I was not aware of
the
tremendous resources usg spent fighting against it
duduqa: asciilifeform:
the question i ask is "would
the adoption from small places such as cyprus, or Honduras ZEDEs, or African regions be enough
to bring such wealth and power
to overcome bitcoin's adversaries?"
ThickAsThieves: and
the arguments against bitcoin bring
to
the
table equal criticisms on
the dollar
duduqa: asciilifeform: I see
them everyday, and it drives me pretty depressed
duduqa: asciilifeform: yep,
the "it's ridiculous" argument doesn't stand in such discussion
ThickAsThieves: i don't believe it is agile enough
to anything meaningful quickly enough
to matter
duduqa: as disruptive
to politics/government/central banks as bitcoin can be, I expect it
to be
treated and regarded as pedophilia in a short
time
duduqa: asciilifeform: I can also imagine a scenario in which such firewall happens
to
take place in
the EU, China, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Russia, UAE, South America etc
duduqa: kakobrekla: I will carefully read,
thank you
duduqa: asciilifeform: let me clarify...that's
too much power
to let go
duduqa: asciilifeform:
that's
too much of a honeypot
to let go without a good fight
duduqa: asciilifeform: we are
talking about a huuuuuuuuuuuuuge power, which is being
the printer of
the world's reserve currency
duduqa: asciilifeform: do you envision
the possibility of bitpay and coinbase being shut down, as well as second market's BIT, bitcointalk and localbitcoins.com etc vanishing from america?
duduqa: (brazilian here, english not
that good, sorry)
duduqa: asciilifeform: I
think so
duduqa: given
the different dynamics of drugs and currency
duduqa: But would it be able
to deter widespread adoption in a matter of generations?
duduqa: basically what would be your expectations of
the consequences of a formal US government (declaraton of) ban of bitcoin. Even as noob as I was, I do not fear stuff as ~bitcoin will die~
duduqa: It seems here's a better place
to do so rather
than reddit or bitcointalk
duduqa: first of all, I'd like
to excuse myself for some dumb stuff I might say...I have no
tech nor economics formal background, interested in austrian economics as a hobbist
benkay: well with who else would
they be acting?
Bugpowder: I now have all of
the pieces
to
the #mtgox puzzle. Mt. Gox acted alone and in desperation. Comprehensive post after I lawyer up.
Bugpowder: submitted 24 minutes ago by
twobitidiot
mircea_popescu: i can't really comfortably read serbian fast enough
to watch a movie
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i've used
the same us standard layout since
the 80s.
ozbot: Grafia istorica a limbii romane pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
ozbot: Singura limba care pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: amusingly : romanians are universally convinced (through
the virtues of nutty p;rimary education)
that "romanian is
the only language which is written as it is heard"
mircea_popescu: bee's knees is also onomatopaeic so
there's a
thick line of
that.
mircea_popescu: in romanian it's probably cause it rhymes.
tita de mita,
t͡sɨt͡sa dø mɨt͡sa
kakobrekla: i have seen
them with my own eyes and ears.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, romanian uses "cat's
tits"
to indicate superlative achievement.
kakobrekla: not just a
tourist
trap, some people are real belivers
mircea_popescu: they
think black people are a sort of us gypsies, but heh.
Bugpowder: Time
to work on my mtgox address analysis again.
Bugpowder: Is Mark actually using
the I forgot
the password defense?
MisterE: seems
the market has already shrugged off and forgotten Mt.Cox
MisterE: thought we were going
to have a lot more volatility yesterday
than we did
mircea_popescu: Yet
the speaking public imagines #Bitcoin gives a shit @Recode A Long
Tail of Whales: Half of Mobile Games Money Comes From 0.15% of Players
mircea_popescu: "Women entrepreneurs, @Square is celebrating you with an event, & @Maggie will
teach you important
things:"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lol. well, jacket, vest,
tie, shirt, undershirt
mircea_popescu: no but srsly, it's ridiculous, we counted once.
the
total count of clothing items on ALL
THE GIRLS
mircea_popescu: o i was getting free fashion advice from some musical
talent on
twitter earlier
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i did, on something awful.
they had a series of aneurisms,
mircea_popescu: "Did you ever fuck a woman hard enough
to end up past her cervix"
ThickAsThieves: senators will know
the wrath of reddit like never before
ThickAsThieves: i like how bitcoin might be
the first
thing since Bill Clinton
to get people under 35
to care about politics again
ThickAsThieves: "Sure. Just outlining
that @twobitidiot is a friend of #bitcoin. His leak seems no more self-serving
than @BTCFoundation"
mircea_popescu: then
the street cops were like... one laughing his ass off,
the other looking all suspicious at me
mircea_popescu: possibly
the peak of it all was
the one
tme in NY when mugger wouldn't mug me