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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: $depth s.qntr
asciilifeform: and how does your $library actually implement this
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."
assbot: Analysis: Bitstamp Hacker Almost Stole Additional $1.75 Million ... ( http://bit.ly/14kfGEa )
[]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.
asciilifeform: decimation: neh. something more like a 'new, shiny, xxxxx' reimplementation in $trendylang
[]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.
[]bot: Bet created: "Gold to drop under $1000 before March 2015" http://bitbet.us/bet/1101/
asciilifeform: unless the $500 machine emulates 100,000 click-idiots
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
asciilifeform: yeah, the 'actual work' of pretending to help voters, drafting bills, etc is generally performed by 18-25 year old women << zoologically interesting phenomenon. visit wash. d.c, they're everywhere - restaurants (incl. costly ones), $xx mil houses, 7 to a room...
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
asciilifeform: '#21876 GlooBoy BUY 100.0 @ 100 / {bitstampask} * .84 BTC Buying up to 100$<-(todays limit) Physical Amazon Gift Cards (NO eGIFT CARDS) - Offer only available to those with considerable OTC/WoT trust. -/msg GlooBoy for a exact quote and privacy - visit https://localbitcoins.com/ad/72576/?ch=c6c'
asciilifeform: back to the 'radioactive mushroom' - anyone could, in principle, leave a 'wanted ad' to the effect of wishing to purchase $bannedobject anywhere he wants
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well MPEx isn't paying $145/CPM
mod6: it's like $100M!?
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
asciilifeform: that is, there is a fence to keep folks from leaving; they are left to fend for selves for food and water within the confines; and if the weekly quota of $metal is not brought to the gates in timely manner, there are public educaxecutions
asciilifeform: 'PARASTOO IS INFORMING THAT "CPLD AND FPGA BITSTREAMS" RUNNING THE SECURITY MODULES IN BOTH GROUND STATIONS AND MANY OF THE HOVERING ACTUAL SATELLITES THAT ARE LINKED TO SOME TARGETED NOCs ARE FULLY DECRYPTED ..AND WE FOUND -- WHILE DOING SATANIC LAUGHS -- SOME OF THESE UGLY CODES ARE NOT EVEN COMPATIBLE WITH BASIC NIST'S FIPS SECURITY GRADE GIVEN TO THESE PRODUCTS WITH $+APPLAUSE .'
[]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 ... ( http://bit.ly/1Dg3uDG )
pete_dushenski: anyways, now we know that mike_c is $100/hr!
pete_dushenski: if you have $200 btc, which we almost do
pete_dushenski: ok, so wol is $105k.
mike_c: that is excessive. call it $100/hr.
pete_dushenski: well a decent lawyer is $350/hr
mike_c: your estimation was $50 / hr. I doubt that is the case.
pete_dushenski: let's say you're worth $100k per year? so $55 k.
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.
[]bot: Bet created: "Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) to drop under $40 before Mar 2015" http://bitbet.us/bet/1096/
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 $$$$... Prolly Plutonium would do.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.4 BTC for Yes on "Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) Mar 2015 to drop under $50 before Feb 2015 " http://bitbet.us/bet/1082/ Odds: 57(Y):43(N) by coin, 50(Y):50(N) by weight. Total bet: 8.01048706 BTC. Current weight: 36,569.
mike_c: plus, it hasn't happened yet. mar '15 is at $50.65
pete_dushenski: crude sub-$50
assbot: The creator of Minecraft outbid Beyoncé and Jay Z on this $70 million megamansion | The Verge ... ( http://bit.ly/1BAoIIs )
decimation: to buy a call that expires 15 jan on the mar 2015 future, for a strike price of 1.19 costs $0.0096
decimation: kakobrekla: all the way to $2!
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to drop under 200$ before Feb :: 1.05 B (33%) on Yes, 2.09 B (67%) on No | closing in 2 weeks 2 days | weight: 98`291 (100`000 to 10`000) ... ( http://bit.ly/1xJbLeE )
PinkPosixPXE: you would put the initial investment in the dedi's? teh competitively priced ones might be in the arena of $300-400/mo to rent depending upon how competitive I want my services to be, and I will probably be buying something through voxility
kakobrekla: wait for 2$.
BingoBoingo: And yet gasoline is now under $2 a gallon here.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin to drop under 200$ before Feb" http://bitbet.us/bet/1095/ Odds: 94(Y):6(N) by coin, 94(Y):6(N) by weight. Total bet: 1.1 BTC. Current weight: 99,986.
[]bot: Bet created: "Bitcoin to drop under 200$ before Feb" http://bitbet.us/bet/1095/
cazalla: $20 floor
kakobrekla: paycoin is sitting at 3.87$ atm btw.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile $ curl -v http://t.co/NSgTQv1tyN
mircea_popescu: "asciilifeform: no actual human transmits $maxint whatevers from a single ip per second/hour/etc" except a) yes they do and b) 4kb should be enough for everyone.
decimation: they charge a shitload of $$$ 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.
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assbot: My $2375 Amazon EC2 Mistake ... ( http://bit.ly/1BhiXiK )
assbot: Sony Hack Reveals That MPAA's Big '$80 Million' Settlement With Hotfile Was A Lie | Techdirt ... ( http://bit.ly/13DwyWa )
decimation: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141224/06321429517/sony-hack-reveals-that-mpaas-big-80-million-settlement-with-hotfile-was-lie.shtml << lolz "TorrentFreak has been combing through the emails and found that the Hotfile settlement was really just for $4 million, and the $80 million was just a bogus number agreed to for the sake of a press release that the MPAA could use to intimidate others."
adlai: with a $20 spread
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for No on "Gold to drop under $1000 before Feb 2015" http://bitbet.us/bet/1080/ Odds: 17(Y):83(N) by coin, 18(Y):82(N) by weight. Total bet: 11.83238982 BTC. Current weight: 49,952.
kakobrekla: nah, that be 5$
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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 $mil in dollars out of the ussr
adlai: s/er$/ing/
decimation: if you pay $mils per year, people know who the hell you are
asciilifeform: to china, or to me, and you, it's $0
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 $8
kakobrekla: and refund costs you 5$
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
decimation: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/james-stewart-devoted-his-life-to-math-and-music/article22168574/ << man writes calculus textbook, government mandates sales, man builds $32 mil. house, dies.
decimation: holy crap they go for like $100-300
asciilifeform: no actual human transmits $maxint whatevers from a single ip per second/hour/etc
asciilifeform: anything mr spam can get $maxint of purely by perl script is useless
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
thestringpuller: $depth x.idiff.dec
thestringpuller: $depth x.diff.dec
mike_c: for $6.