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ThickAsThieves: you cant both have
time for
the finer
things AND do everything yourseldf
benkay: i am not paying someone
to maintain a shitbox in my residence.
ThickAsThieves: the only cat I have problems with is
the wanna-be alpha
that keeps attacking
the smallest female
benkay: perhaps its
that i live in america where men don't know how
to handle women or cats and so all cats i encounter are of
the 'let me out now let me in now let me piss on your rug' variety
mircea_popescu: they're not
that stupid
to not be able
to
tell
the difference, just need some
time
to decompress
mircea_popescu: most mistreated cats will actually also come
to sanity
mircea_popescu: you may occasionally have
to
throw one out
the window into
traffic, but w/e
benkay: women are hard enough
to domesticate
benkay: listen i expect my dependents
to honor my every desire and worship at my feet
benkay: undomesticated
to boot
jurov: no duck milk for her,
then.
KRS-: Although cats enjoy milk from cows, its not like
they would get it in
the wild.
KRS-: Humans are
the only animal who natually drink another animal's milk.
jayk: you might get sick of it and prefer
to die
jurov: better go back
to milk goats
mircea_popescu: You see dear Internet, Juraj Variny was a simple country boy... you might say a cockeyed optimist, who got himself mixed up in
the high stakes game of world diplomacy and international intrigue.
ThickAsThieves: so what you're saying is Altcoin really is
the first altcoin with a purpose
mircea_popescu: so you know... ATC/ALT getting more hash
than doge serves a good purpose in
the end.
mircea_popescu: you want
them
to eat ltc's lunch
to some degree, much like you want about 50 other groups
to start
their own, doge-food eating bitcoin killers.
mircea_popescu: the actual correct move is
to simply support other alternatives
to burn
their underbase.
mircea_popescu: ironically, while
the correct move may seem
to be
to support ltc
to crush
them back into
the swamp,
benkay: well sv bank can hardly be
thought of as a high finance operation
````: then
the silicon valley bank deal came (which ended nowhere)
mircea_popescu: so basically what we have here, is "everyone" in
the sense of "everyone
that goes
to
tech conferences in SF and reads
techcrunch religiously" figures
they can
take over
this novel idea.
mircea_popescu: that
they will be crushed by much larger
things
that exist independent of
their knowledge or understanding is about as aliento
them as mpex customers
to jimmothey
mircea_popescu: the va circus, as hopelessly fucked as
they are, imagine
that "all entrepreneurship" is... well...
them.
mircea_popescu: in principle, every circlejerk imagines itself "the only
thing out
there". like,
the us
thinks it's "the world". any us court
thinks it has universal jurisdiction. any us politician
thinks
that his decisions matter universally.
mircea_popescu: because if you get more fuckwits
to retweet your inane shit you will
thus
therefore be "bigger" and "more important"
than people with fewer retweets.
benkay: like 'i am startup and will rule all
the buttcorns'?
mircea_popescu: ant will kill rhino, skin it, wear
the skin as king of
the jungle.
benkay: entertaining and all but from
the ants perspective how is what
they're doing an attack?
mircea_popescu: they are attacking bitcoin. perhaps in
the manner an ant attacks a rhino, but nevertheless. as far as
the ant is concerned, in its own system of representations,
that's what's going on.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "There are more
transactions of
the cryptocurrency
than Bitcoin, although it is only worth a
tiny fraction of Bitcoin."
mircea_popescu: most nobody even noticed, or cared. except for
the finest
tuned of watchdogs or w/e
mircea_popescu: basically bitcoin got attacked in 2013 by
the most unlikely of sources :
the dieing start-up circus.
☟︎ benkay: the answer is August 2012, for
those who care.
nubbins`: i can't even imagine what it's like in
the original language
nubbins`: mircea_popescu, i actually met someone who was doing
that once
benkay: french is next on
the docket
````: doesn't copying content from
trilema need consent written by a sharpie which is
then put into
the ass?
nubbins`: makes about as much sense as learning spanish just
to read cien años de soledad, i guess
nubbins`: but if you do
that, what are you gonna spend your credits on?
benkay: this is
the point at which i decide
to archive all mpoe reports
mircea_popescu: benkay seriously
tho, im pretty sure it was in a mpoe report. prolly died summer 2013 ?
mircea_popescu: (dude
this is so cool, i'ma do a series of i don't remember / i don't recall and be just like a real banker nao!)
benkay`: when did
that series close?
benkay`: just from
the pedants perspective
that asset series closed
mircea_popescu: jesus yeah,
there was a distinct set
that died horribly. ie, with
the mm
taking it up
the ass.
jurov: benkay` id right, it was distinct from
today's futures
benkay`: what, you
tryna
tell me an option
to buy hashes is a future diff?
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nubbins`: TheTrueHOOHA is actually a better name
than DPR
benkay`: drop
the footnote link etc
benkay`: mircea_popescu: i don't see
the hash options on your list of closed mpex assets
mircea_popescu: Feb 01 16:41:24 <ThickAsThieves>getting my hands on
the source will be Altcoin's "2 weeks" << did you ?
mircea_popescu: can't believe
that chick's been building
the snark since
two years ago, and yet last month's noobs still "ambush" her
benkay`: quick on
the
trigger you are
today,
ThickAsThieves
benkay`: "We won't be issuing another series for a while, nor will we be making further attempts
to support seemingly "worthy" or "credible" "financiers" for a while, mostly because we're running out of quotes."
ThickAsThieves: why do celebs do heroine anyway?
they spent all
the other indulgences?
jayk: superbowl wifi password broadcasted on national
tv
mircea_popescu: one of
those "pay
through
the nose or waste your money" sort of situations which institutions handle so poorly.
mircea_popescu: problem being, of course,
the space is full of fakers, and otherwise insanely expensive.
mircea_popescu: no. like getting
the ok of someone in
the space with enough authortiy
to ok it.
ThickAsThieves: that outlier would have
to have some way
to get
trust and establish a blockchain
jayk: they now accept bitcoin dont
they
mircea_popescu: in general, a small outlier could
take over
the entire world economy by doing something smart like
this.
mircea_popescu: specifically, small countries had problems with
their clipped/worn currency
ThickAsThieves: they likely learned
their lesson about confusing
their audience when
they announced
that new
thing
that never happened
mircea_popescu: fun fact : at
the
time
the amsterdam bank rose
to prominence,
the
thing
that propelled it was its marginality
jayk: drive
theit stock up
Duffer1: sure
they could do a respectable coin
jayk: i expect someone like netflix
to offer payments in bitcoin soon
Duffer1: i fully expect jpmorgan or somesuch
to ipo an alt coin
then bet against it
mircea_popescu: problem is, it'd need diametric's hr. which
they dont have.