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mircea_popescu: much like
the HRE leadership is fugger not maximilian.
mircea_popescu: which means
the us leadership is carnegie, not whoever was president,
mircea_popescu: chetty
that may be pushing it,
the government is not supposed
to be involved in economics.
mircea_popescu: the advantages of living in a country
the size of oregon are so very marked.
mircea_popescu: apparently meanwhile forgets all about it, cause he just sent me a spam comment linking
to his site. so i... accepted it, replaced his seo-optimized user name with his own name, and put a link
to...
the
three year old article.
mircea_popescu: ah
this is a good story. so :
three years ago i write a scathing piece dropping dox on
this romanian spammer guy. he gets really butthurt keeps calling my office
to make btctalk-type legal
threats and spends a while "ruining my reputation" on social media venues. eventually simmers down.
mircea_popescu: no leader, no business. as unpleasant
this
truth may be.
random_cat: mircea_popescu: it only requires a leader.... i am making no assertions as
to number or quality of generals
ThickAsThieves: volume is mostly
traders,
they got bored and
their
TA
told
them a correction was due
mircea_popescu: either someone was a cp in a deal
that had
to be unwound and
they had
to liquidate, or else someone somehow figured i'm in
the shit.
mircea_popescu: random_cat you are
thinking like
they are
thinking,
that "management" = "ops management"
random_cat: neither mtgox nor coinbase look like massive management projects from here:
they look like operations which would fill
the room i inhabit
to
the gills (and possibly cause fistfights)
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves if he doesn't like you
that's you
two's problem :D i'm more into
trying
to discern if he has something
that's universally usable
ozbot: BitBet - Bitcoin will
top $1200 before going under $800
Duffer1: meh,
the alt discussion interested me
Duffer1: oh ya
the poke at your pmg
mircea_popescu: and it doesn't
take very much flailing
to step on enough lightbulbs
mircea_popescu: random_cat
this is what you get when you have random clueless fuckwits stuck with massive management
takss.
they don't know what
to do.
random_cat: but
that has been
true for a long
time
Duffer1: i
tried not
to pile on
TaT, who
the hell am I
to
tell you your conscience
mircea_popescu: mtgox is STILL not above water,
to
this day, and i don't
think it has 50-50 odds it ever will
mircea_popescu: then you get
the leaks and discover bitcoinica was net negative for its entire life.
mircea_popescu: random_cat from outside all
this shit looks like it makes
tons of money.
random_cat: not privy
to
the internals, but my casual observation is
that
their broker pricing could make
them a fuckton of money
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell nubbins` so what's your beef with
the altcoinz ?
mircea_popescu: random_cat i daresay
they know
they got a burn rate, and everything else is desperation
random_cat: i
think
they know
they are a broker in bitcoin, and everything else is pr
mircea_popescu: this is like
the one
thing god did right : all situations naturally evolve
towards
the largest lol content.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile back @stupid ranch, clueless journo working for obscure publication links
to my article on cryptsy, calls me "a commenter". i point out
to him he's embarrasing himself.
random_cat: coinbase is a wallet service, even if
they do not advertise as such
ozbot: How
to find out if you’re stupid in one easy step pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
punkman1: clearly
the answer is
to
TWOFACTORAUTH harder
punkman1: " A day after Jeff's second hack, Coinbase enabled
two-factor authentication via email for anyone attempting
to
turn on
the API key"
ozbot: A string of
thefts hit Bitcoin's most reputable wallet service |
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ThickAsThieves: one day
the whole conversation in here will be links
to log quotes
punkman1: random
tweet: "What
the fuck is
this #whoisneo ??? Can't handle it anymore!!!!"
kakobrekla: i dont even know what is suppose
to happen
punkman1: ThickAsThieves: did Neo put
those ads on
TV?
truffles: want
toknow how many ppl would make a majority so i can confirm my guestimate
that murrica dominant room
ThickAsThieves: well if
there's anything juicey in
the vid maybe he'll confirm
that
too
Apocalyptic: ThickAsThieves, fyi Mark just confirmed
the reddit story
truffles: haha, he was said
to be watching movie
Duffer1: trading on most of
the coins was halted
though, but most are back up
ThickAsThieves: herb, i mean
that
there are
too many factors
to predict mining diff accurately enought
to make any use of it
Duffer1: i don't
think
the amount exists
herbijudlestoids: Duffer1:
the only real question is how many maxcoins do i have
to pay max keiser
to stop
talking
herbijudlestoids: ThickAsThieves: do you mean it wont level off until difficulty is "so so difficult"? :P or
that its difficult
to forecast
truffles: i can suggest
to u entertainment in
that resepct :D
ThickAsThieves: <herbijudlestoids>
truffles: any opinion on when bitcoin difficulty might level off from its current insane
trajectory? ---- so, so, difficult imo
herbijudlestoids: ok well im off
to watch a movie, have a wonderful day/evening fellows
truffles: it is said
that difficulty but i wonder if groups decided
to
test
that..
herbijudlestoids: punkman1: so
the current market implied forecast is "yes"
to 5.6b by apr