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asciilifeform: 'for every smart orifice,' there's a spiked hedge-c0k...
BingoBoingo: c0k futures are even more precarious than difficulty futures
BingoBoingo: Looks like it, gotta hedge those c0k values
ozbot: This Man Is Representing AOL on Live Television
mircea_popescu: the bug that ruined five empires
asciilifeform: i sorta live there
mircea_popescu: you keep thinking you're in this parallel universe where people like... put effort into what they do and whatnot.
asciilifeform: ah that's lame. should be diddled in a way that survives recompile.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform iirc it was just some random crapware bundled with the wallet
mircea_popescu: let him be destitute in the land he helped create.
asciilifeform: trojaned in the 'magic block sets up the bomb' style
mircea_popescu: mike_c it's for ppl who has none! i'm not sending tat any either
mod6: but was excited enough to try it out to see if I could get a solo-block. didn't happen. lol
mike_c: did i miss the l33t giveaway? i'd like to hoard some more atc at 1NUNo4rF9a5gehszwSu8W7uMGaJs4Ee2dX
asciilifeform: i'm still waiting for the first directly trojaned altcoin.
Duffer1: i really don't want to run the exe hehe
Duffer1: i don't know enough about the process involved to know if it's generating a Altcoin compatible address
BingoBoingo: I've got to take my Altcoin balance from 1337 to 31337
asciilifeform: can we get altc addrs in those?
mircea_popescu: now this at least has good spatial controls. the razor thing... heh
mircea_popescu: " Tattoos made by the robot cannot be compared with handmade tattoos and the device would need more advanced mechanism to imitate the behavior of artists who hold the skin tight to engrave tattoos."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ok, that may work, but...
ozbot: A tattoo making robot that etches your forearm with a religion of its own choice | TechTripper
mircea_popescu: http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdo88qoXHz1ru15g3o1_1280.jpg << and this'd be the real problem with boobjobs.
pankkake: oh, I like that one
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i would think so.
ozbot: ThinkGeek :: moodINQ - Programmable Tattoo System
Bugpowder: re: second market exchange : i guess they need a way to start liquidating ?
asciilifeform: (optical mouse scans skin just fine, try it)
mircea_popescu: dumbass teenyboppers of 2020 will do it and if they do i will hunt you down
jborkl: Tat, regular stratum runs against it but- mining.submit must be different. You will need to ask
asciilifeform: newer ones with an optical mouse-style sensor instead of the wheels almost work.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you ever had one of those hand-held scanners ?
asciilifeform: doesn't have to be full body - can run it over skin, like a shaver.
Bugpowder: looks like my ex with smaller tatas
asciilifeform: (the man invented the dot-matrix printer! seriously.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it would probably need a full body scanner tho
asciilifeform: (can't help but think of Kafka's 'The Penal Colony')
mircea_popescu: give it that nice limoges look
asciilifeform: wonder if anyone makes a tattoo printer.
pankkake: I have a hard time with colored tattoos
mircea_popescu: basically tattoos only work on white chicks of that particular complexion
ozbot: alt girl on Tumblr
chipug: mircea_popescu: lol @ the seated lassie's expression
mod6: ThickAsThieves: aight thanks man
ThickAsThieves: <mod6> should link that on the homepage, ThickAsThieves -- i will this weekend, gotta go
KRS-One: i guess i can set up my asics to mine directly
mircea_popescu: i suppose if "the core dev" power-rangers fuck up too badly we can just move on to atc and be all liek... whatever.
mod6: should link that on the homepage, ThickAsThieves
mircea_popescu: mod6 afaik he finally did get the sauce.
gribble: (nethash takes no arguments) -- Shows the current estimate for total network hash rate, in Ghps.
mircea_popescu: for that token, maybe they got them 15% over spot.
Bugpowder: maybe they got them below market
mircea_popescu: im sure they didn't get them for ALT.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder so then there we go, 80k btc holders in 500 different hands are... well... what they are.
Bugpowder: Do we know what they PAID for those coins?
mircea_popescu: clout usually is about shorter timespans than "eventually".
Bugpowder: people that use them are chumpy
Bugpowder: long time horizon, can't time the market. Just buy as the money comes in.
KRS-One: U can try to get a hold of Fontas. Behold: Teh FONTAS pump.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder they deployed 6mn in capital, took it in the teeth for 10% the next day. sounds kinda chump-y.
mod6: ThickAsThieves: did you ever hear back from BlueMatt about the source?
jborkl: just trying to dl the blockchain for it
Duffer1: they plan to create an exchange
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder isn't this instructive as to their relative unimportance ? would you say ?
ozbot: SecondMarket Bitcoin Investment Trust Observer
benkay: come on pankkake. alt-coin broker to the stars.
mircea_popescu: pankkake ya but then you're stuck having to export addies.
mircea_popescu: chipug you don't have an angle. as a small entity with little money you need a god damned good angle. otherwise, what you're trying to do, compete on execution,... you'll get crushed by the larger entities. see ?
pankkake: so I can actually send to your bitcoin addresses in altcoin
asciilifeform: what's the addr algo for 'altcoin' ?
mircea_popescu: what is this, metameta ?!
pankkake: well you don't need to actually run the wallet
benkay: would you be so kind as to run my alt-books as well, pankkake?
mircea_popescu: benkay don't ask to ask, addy to ask.
benkay: i'll take some alt.
chipug: sorry for delayed repsonse, been cooking. a woodchipper mircea? you think i'm fighting a losing battle just because where site came from originally? i don't want to do nothing.. i'm not so good at giving up. thanks for your thoughts guys by the way, much appreciated
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo who would pump such a thing, srsly.
ThickAsThieves: of the pankkake strain of it
BingoBoingo: Oh thank you. I hope there is nevar and Altcoin pump. I don't want to be tempted to split such a nice round number.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is no plan
asciilifeform: what's the plan? dump when moon is full?
ThickAsThieves: never even loaded the app
mod6: tried to solo-mine (cpu) some about a week ago, unsuccessfully. might just have to buy some.
ThickAsThieves: i dont wanna run that coingen exe
KRS-One: now i want to know when is the pump
mod6: I'll have to try to pick up some of those ATC's later. (don't have my pub addr handy atm)
pankkake: if you use the open source version, you don't need addnodes
mircea_popescu: KRS-One see that thread :D
KRS-One: Where will this coin be traded? Curious to see the valuation
mircea_popescu: jborkl see that thread.
KRS-One: Invest today.
jborkl: what is your coin again Tat?
mircea_popescu: and a sane man dressing in a clown outfit to scare the shit out of everyone at the office one day
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves there's a difference between a retarded man dressing in a clown suit as his business outfit
ThickAsThieves: but i dont think so
ThickAsThieves: i dunno if that makes me a hypocrite
mircea_popescu: not only that's not enough pressure, but moreover diamonds are made of carbon not silica
ThickAsThieves: the maxcoin event was so hideous to me
mircea_popescu: maxcoin seeing green is like making diamonds in the desert by jumping up and donw