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[]bot: Bet placed: 1.4 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to drop under
$150 before March"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1107/ Odds: 16(Y):84(N) by coin, 20(Y):80(N) by weight. Total bet: 8.38179557 BTC. Current weight: 52,784.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for No on "BTC to rally to
$4000 before July 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1026/ Odds: 10(Y):90(N) by coin, 11(Y):89(N) by weight. Total bet: 12.7199 BTC. Current weight: 43,121.
mircea_popescu: next time tell them "listen bub, i'm not fresh off the turnip truck. you want to hire me on pure salary, it's
$1,5mn the first year payable upfront and increasing by 1mn each eyar after that.
mircea_popescu: jurov: if you want them to wait through all the oom plodding, make them pay
$300 << in the immortal words of baal (quite literally) : we shall take your position into consideration.
danielpbarron: ben_vulpes> ..i require details of this assasination << i paid someone
$5 to put on on the list, everyone on the list gets assigned a target, the object is to squirt your victim with a water-gun without any witnesses, you get
$5 back per kill
jurov: if you want them to wait through all the oom plodding, make them pay
$300
jurov: for
$12 they expect something that just works and it isn't worth waiting a month for to be done
jurov: <mircea_popescu> big fucken deal, if product ends up being "spend
$12 and ...". you know this does not match expectations of general public
mircea_popescu: big fucken deal, if product ends up being "spend
$12 and three hours of your time following these instructions. if you have prior chain, you have node right off. if not, you have node in a month"
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> [] ^ condemned to pay infinite fine, and to use only microshit << i don't see the m
$ requirement
pete_dushenski: Yum calculated that the transferred coins were worth a total of
$13.4 million.
nubbins`: btc just needs to be at
$7k 30-day avg by mid-march
nubbins`:
$27usd incl. shipping to the great white north(east)
[]bot: Bet placed: 2.5 BTC for No on "BTC to top
$450 before 31st Mar"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1113/ Odds: 1(Y):99(N) by coin, 1(Y):99(N) by weight. Total bet: 2.6 BTC. Current weight: 99,989.
mod6: gpg --homedir
$HOME/.gnupg -k >& /dev/null
nubbins`: i actually semi-regularly purchase sub-
$1/gb sticks as a matter of principle
davout:
$ du -sh blocks --> 34G
nubbins`: still less than
$100 for the whole thing, cables and all
nubbins`: remember those usb block erupters? people would literally pay a
$300+ premium if you just put the USB hub, a cable, and the erupters in the same box for them.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: okay, then i'm talking about "nubbins orders 10k units, pre-loads the code, does what he just described, makes
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$, donates 10% to .foundation, moves to dutch antilles"
nubbins`: so like a "
$50 with
$50 irc-in rebate"
mircea_popescu: "Please take Econ 1. When the Federal govt prints more money and spends, you do not get much inflation when there is massive unemployment. The extra
$ the government prints and distributes is spent, increasing demand for goods and services. If the govt then KEEPS increasing the money supply, THEN you get inflation."
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: this is why I think private spy agency with
$maxint budget are more efficient than any USG version.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: kings << that one, and
$maxint others, are 'moldbuggian' blogs that appeared in imitation, nth generation copies of nth generation copies, etc. << Less pseudoliteracy, more literacy as archeaological artifact there. Seems distinct off shoot of Moldsphere. Far greater focus on expatriation.
[]bot: Bet placed: 10 BTC for No on "The Winkdex: BTC
$5000 or more in 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1104/ Odds: 19(Y):81(N) by coin, 19(Y):81(N) by weight. Total bet: 50.673 BTC. Current weight: 95,931.
[]bot: Bet placed: 5 BTC for No on "Gold to drop under
$1000 before March 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1101/ Odds: 8(Y):92(N) by coin, 11(Y):89(N) by weight. Total bet: 24.30387905 BTC. Current weight: 54,051.
[]bot: Bet placed: 2 BTC for No on "Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) to drop under
$40 before Mar 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1096/ Odds: 24(Y):76(N) by coin, 31(Y):69(N) by weight. Total bet: 6.35433047 BTC. Current weight: 49,633.
[]bot: Bet placed: 2 BTC for No on "Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) to drop under
$30 before April"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1112/ Odds: 18(Y):82(N) by coin, 18(Y):82(N) by weight. Total bet: 5.654 BTC. Current weight: 98,475.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to drop under
$150 before March"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1107/ Odds: 16(Y):84(N) by coin, 20(Y):80(N) by weight. Total bet: 6.61929562 BTC. Current weight: 66,037.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to drop under
$100 before April"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1108/ Odds: 16(Y):84(N) by coin, 17(Y):83(N) by weight. Total bet: 7.87303349 BTC. Current weight: 84,349.
decimation: actually compared to 'rich men' of the past, folks with mere
$ billions are rather poor
decimation: asciilifeform: for 'passive investments' available to the public, that implies a net worth of >
$3 mil
decimation: lol even in ohio a place near civilization is around
$1000
decimation: I was talking with a guy who was in korea in the early 90's. at that time, you could easily find someone to custom tailor your entire wardrobe for a low
$$ price. he recently returned there and found no one bothers with that anymore
decimation: asciilifeform: re:
$10-per-month-internet < yeah, except it's even more insideous - if you are the 'right kind of people', you get the deal, otherwise you get the full monopoly
[]bot: Bet placed: 2.5 BTC for No on "Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) to drop under
$30 before April"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1112/ Odds: 29(Y):71(N) by coin, 29(Y):71(N) by weight. Total bet: 3.599 BTC. Current weight: 99,976.
[]bot: Bet placed: 7 BTC for No on "Gold to drop under
$1000 before March 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1101/ Odds: 10(Y):90(N) by coin, 13(Y):87(N) by weight. Total bet: 19.30387905 BTC. Current weight: 56,085.
phillipsjk: I was paying
$109.10 for commercial access. (300GB cap)
phillipsjk: If I us web-hosting I get 5TB/month for
$80 or so
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.5 BTC for No on "Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) to drop under
$40 before Mar 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1096/ Odds: 35(Y):65(N) by coin, 40(Y):60(N) by weight. Total bet: 4.35433047 BTC. Current weight: 51,859.
[]bot: Bet placed: 2 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to drop under
$100 before April"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1108/ Odds: 18(Y):82(N) by coin, 19(Y):81(N) by weight. Total bet: 6.87303349 BTC. Current weight: 85,030.
[]bot: Bet placed: 2 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to drop under
$150 before March"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1107/ Odds: 19(Y):81(N) by coin, 23(Y):77(N) by weight. Total bet: 5.61929562 BTC. Current weight: 68,439.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.46308271 BTC for Yes on "BTC back over
$300 before March"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1110/ Odds: 72(Y):28(N) by coin, 71(Y):29(N) by weight. Total bet: 7.15636312 BTC. Current weight: 76,473.
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pete_dushenski: Andreessen Horowitz is heading up a
$58 million round of investment in TransferWise
Adlai: it looked quite similar to what happened a few months back on bitfinex where the order book reported an out of date book about
$20 below the current one
nubbins`: i probably would actually pay upwards of
$100 for that piece, as-is.
decimation: the problem with a fancy interstate is that it costs a shitton of
$$$ for upkeep
davout: "If Bitcoiners could ever get decent adoption and max out that 7 transactions per second the fees wouldn't even have to be that bad. Just make every transaction cost 0.006 BTC and that's just
$1.50. That would be the equivalent of the current block reward. But the problem is they've all decided that microtransactions while having an expensive Bitcoin is the killer feature."
mircea_popescu: CAVirtex, Canada’s largest and oldest Bitcoin online exchange, is facing a potential class action lawsuit to the tune of
$884,880 CAD. The alleged losses were incurred by the lawsuit-bringers after the company offered 10% of its shares for sale on the cryptocurrency-based asset exchange, Havelock Investments then stopped listing the stock by the end of 2013.
[]bot: Bet placed: 2 BTC for No on "Gold to drop under
$1000 before March 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1101/ Odds: 16(Y):84(N) by coin, 18(Y):82(N) by weight. Total bet: 12.30387905 BTC. Current weight: 61,285.
mircea_popescu: davout: "you want to do some btc related accounting? well, fuck you, the decimals after the second are a
$1.99 in-app purchase" << seriously ? like a power chord that's not six inches long ?
davout: "you want to do some btc related accounting? well, fuck you, the decimals after the second are a
$1.99 in-app purchase"
nubbins`: "got beat up,
$5k of bling stolen"
decimation: however, what
$$ cannot buy is the will to use them
decimation: I can't imagine buying a surplus romanian kalash & a few sticks of c4 for every household would be more than a few
$100 mil
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.81747625 BTC for Yes on "BTC back over
$300 before March"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1110/ Odds: 64(Y):36(N) by coin, 64(Y):36(N) by weight. Total bet: 5.59373041 BTC. Current weight: 83,343.
mircea_popescu: "There are all of 3 people on this forum who know who i really am, and every one of them would not sell that secret for
$100,000 because they have a vested interest in keeping the secret. What i am is why you will never find out. I am, in fact a world famous artist, my pieces have been in the Smithsonian on exhibit at the Louvre and in the home of pompous wealthy people the world over."
nubbins`: funny thing is, he was trying to solve this problem specifically for Blazedout419's
$14,000 piece
pete_dushenski: "The stock—which trades under the symbol BOX—opened at
$20.20 on the New York Stock Exchange, rose as high as
$24.73 and closed at
$23.23, up 66% from its initial public offering price of
$14."
jurov: "the startup world, a valuation of
$1 billion says that you’re no longer a fly-by-night startup with plans to quickly sell out to Google."
jurov: amazon sells them between
$20-
$60 depending on version
nubbins`: i'd front some
$$ to get it going as well
nubbins`: two raspberry pis for the cost of a
$100 router :P
mircea_popescu: backup plans never hurt. once they go "well wtf we do nao, we don't want to lose your
$xxxx" i just go "use this" and end of story.