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mircea_popescu: BitPay will soon be dead. They probably make
$1000 per month revenue and burn around
$500K.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Basically they fired the guy who blew
$1.5Million and only 5 Transactions (probably sub
$10) to show for it.
mircea_popescu: "Dude that runs Mpex is a crazy narcissist that happened to get rich (if he cashed out) from being an early adopter. I think the MPEX buy-in was 10k coins just for a seat at the table even after the price hit
$30. He also just consented to a
$50k fine from the SEC for selling unregistered securities."
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for No on "Gold to drop under
$1000 before March 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1101/ Odds: 23(Y):77(N) by coin, 23(Y):77(N) by weight. Total bet: 8.8399 BTC. Current weight: 98,810.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for Yes on "Gold to drop under
$1000 before March 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1101/ Odds: 28(Y):72(N) by coin, 28(Y):72(N) by weight. Total bet: 7.1 BTC. Current weight: 99,593.
[]bot: Bet placed: 5 BTC for No on "Gold to drop under
$1000 before March 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1101/ Odds: 17(Y):83(N) by coin, 17(Y):83(N) by weight. Total bet: 6.1 BTC. Current weight: 99,885.
BingoBoingo: beautyon: I don't see how they could not know. I mean they can't even get their favorite to stop bleeding because they pay
$145/CPM for TV marketing
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for Yes on "Gold to drop under
$1000 before March 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1101/ Odds: 92(Y):8(N) by coin, 92(Y):8(N) by weight. Total bet: 1.1 BTC. Current weight: 99,962.
mircea_popescu: cazalla
$2 a day can't be a lot if you're stuck with a
$500 piece of machinery + the bills for its maintenance.
cazalla: you wouldn't bother playing it for the payouts but i'm sure someone for who
$2 a day is a lot would find it worthwhile
davout: Merlak, 28, and his colleague Nejc Kodric, 25, both computer experts, founded Bitstamp in 2011. According to the Slovenian media the two had earned about 23 million euros (
$27.2 million) from the enterprise which places them among the 50 richest Slovenians.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for No on "Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) to drop under
$40 before Mar 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1096/ Odds: 45(Y):55(N) by coin, 47(Y):53(N) by weight. Total bet: 2.35388047 BTC. Current weight: 92,212.
assbot: Jackson Palmer: I created
$20m Dogecoin phenomenon and all I have to show for it is a jar of Nutella ... (
http://bit.ly/1BTbpTG )
BingoBoingo:
$500k for sponsorhips rights alone. The rest of the marketing all came with other costs.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Was told to cut
$$$ value of inventory, was sent a bunch of expensive about to expire.
pete_dushenski: speaking of cognac, i wonder what albert camus woulda thought of a
$2100 bottle of the stuff bearing his name
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well MPEx isn't paying
$145/CPM
mod6: i was following the twins closer until a certain
$100M player came down with "bi-lateral leg weakness"
mod6: yeah, lol. they're like
$8 or something at Target field. its bananas. mind as well get a mixed drink.
BingoBoingo: When I go to the cards games most I eat there is a hot dog. Gotta make hose
$6 beers work.
mod6: the Twins built that Target field for
$1bn bezzle bucks. and if you step outside to smoke the fascist asswads wont let you re-enter.
WolfGoethe: also if Russia answered their attack with chinese help we could very easily have
$1,000,000 bitcoin in a month
[]bot: Bet placed: 2 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to drop under 200
$ before Feb"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1095/ Odds: 17(Y):83(N) by coin, 18(Y):82(N) by weight. Total bet: 6.03161579 BTC. Current weight: 88,975.
assbot: Xoom Corp. CFO resigns after fraudsters steal
$30.8M in corporate cash - San Francisco Business Times ... (
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mike_c: that is excessive. call it
$100/hr.
mike_c: your estimation was
$50 / hr. I doubt that is the case.
mike_c: six months of my life and
$5k?
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for Yes on "Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) to drop under
$40 before Mar 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1096/ Odds: 96(Y):4(N) by coin, 96(Y):4(N) by weight. Total bet: 1.12 BTC. Current weight: 99,703.
BingoBoingo: Well, I imagine dilemma isn't too different from my present ability to buy a gallon of gas for
$2 because America is dumping its entire oild reserve now to try to fuck Russia in this moment.
BingoBoingo: Even with. With WoT you'd still likely need a more tangible item to trade for that many than
$$$$... Prolly Plutonium would do.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.4 BTC for Yes on "Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) Mar 2015 to drop under
$50 before Feb 2015 "
http://bitbet.us/bet/1082/ Odds: 57(Y):43(N) by coin, 50(Y):50(N) by weight. Total bet: 8.01048706 BTC. Current weight: 36,569.
mike_c: plus, it hasn't happened yet. mar '15 is at
$50.65
decimation: to buy a call that expires 15 jan on the mar 2015 future, for a strike price of 1.19 costs
$0.0096
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to drop under 200
$ before Feb :: 1.05 B (33%) on Yes, 2.09 B (67%) on No | closing in 2 weeks 2 days | weight: 98`291 (100`000 to 10`000) ... (
http://bit.ly/1xJbLeE )
PinkPosixPXE: you would put the initial investment in the dedi's? teh competitively priced ones might be in the arena of
$300-400/mo to rent depending upon how competitive I want my services to be, and I will probably be buying something through voxility
BingoBoingo: And yet gasoline is now under
$2 a gallon here.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin to drop under 200
$ before Feb"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1095/ Odds: 94(Y):6(N) by coin, 94(Y):6(N) by weight. Total bet: 1.1 BTC. Current weight: 99,986.
mircea_popescu: "asciilifeform: no actual human transmits
$maxint whatevers from a single ip per second/hour/etc" except a) yes they do and b) 4kb should be enough for everyone.
decimation: they charge a shitload of
$$$ to actually use their 'pro' tools
decimation: why not let the little people suffer when you can rake in the
$$$ and push the costs onto others
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.25499999 BTC for No on "BTC to rally to
$4000 before July 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1026/ Odds: 11(Y):89(N) by coin, 11(Y):89(N) by weight. Total bet: 11.7199 BTC. Current weight: 53,006.
[]bot: Bet placed: 20 BTC for No on "Gold to drop under
$1000 before Feb 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1080/ Odds: 6(Y):94(N) by coin, 10(Y):90(N) by weight. Total bet: 31.93238982 BTC. Current weight: 39,772.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for No on "Gold to drop under
$1000 before Feb 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1080/ Odds: 17(Y):83(N) by coin, 18(Y):82(N) by weight. Total bet: 11.83238982 BTC. Current weight: 49,952.
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assbot: Logged on 27-01-2014 05:25:17; asciilifeform: there is, for instance, a legend of an occasion where it was necessary to move several
$mil in dollars out of the ussr
decimation: if you pay
$mils per year, people know who the hell you are
decimation: yeah the bell labs guy said that they charge him
$500k per year per seat
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Sure. Winning is news. Filing is What
$20-
$250 at the county courthouse?
austeritysucks: but i try my best to encourage people, set them up a hotwallet, shoot them
$1 in btc or something ,and get their lips wet
jborkl: yeah, the weekend btcst went bust it dropped to
$8
kakobrekla: Anduck bitcoin is not a credit card, you dont 'pull' stuff from it, you 'push'. if someone pushes 100
$ bill in your postbox, did you steal from him?
decimation: asciilifeform: there's no way in hell someone could create a 'free and open' laptop like that for less than a few
$100 mil
ikeboy: if I can sell it for
$20, that means someone is willing to pay for it
Adlai: "worth" is the key word. it could be worth
$30 on the bucket shops that choose to list it, but zero to the rest of the world.
ikeboy: so give your prob estimates for: paycoin being worth ~
$20 in 2 weeks, paycoin being worth ~10 dollars in 2 weeks, paycoin being pretty much worthless in 2 weeks
ikeboy: ok, but they were trying to convince me that buying now to sell at
$20 on monday is a bad idea
ikeboy: Don't tell me it's not worth
$600 for someone to spend time setting it up
ikeboy: They claim that they will buy any coins for
$20 starting monday. If they don't, it will probably drop