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mircea_popescu: hopefully he got lazy and is now trying to shag this blonde teen.
Duffer1: wonder whatever happened to that kid that came in here trying to start his own silk road at his college
mircea_popescu: it's incredible how stupid these people are individually. the aggregate boggles.
ozbot: Cantina Market Mega Thread (Up vote for visibility, this is a self post I receive no karma) : DarkNe
mircea_popescu: we know you don't like hosting so we took your hosting out of the hosting dashboard.
ThickAsThieves: how the hell do i get ftp access or something
mircea_popescu: i dunno how the fuck it would, i had to use mine with nocss.
pankkake: it's like 2000s ugly admin surrounded by trendy 2010s css
pankkake: management interface looks the same
ThickAsThieves: omg this namecheap interface...
mike_c: you don't know how to take credit for good luck do you? what kind of ceo are you?
mircea_popescu: believe it or not, i'm saying the entire marketing consideration didn't even enter into it.
mircea_popescu: just as well i could believe it's a sign from god and go into the church.
mircea_popescu: doesn't give them license to imagine good things happening are a marketing event
mircea_popescu: similarly here : if you throw money around at some point good things may happen. just because marketeers imagine they have a monopoly on money beng thrown around
mircea_popescu: they have nothing to do with it.
mircea_popescu: statistically, the fund will do well sometime.
mircea_popescu: what i mean is : wall street "experts" love to take a fee if the fund does well.
mike_c: what are they?
mircea_popescu: fwiw, i don't believe they are in fact marketing stats.
mircea_popescu: and then you mine.
kakobrekla: what about Buttcoins, pegged to 1 buttcoin value
Duffer1: i'm tellin yall, Hodor Coin is the next Bitcoin
kakobrekla: get a domain and put up the logo
ozbot: [NEW] The REAL Altcoin
pankkake: "connections" : 26 that part is underwhelming
pankkake: going to sleep, hopefully will be rich tomorrow
ThickAsThieves: i emailed him about getting the source
pankkake: bad settings of starting difficulty and its adjustments; no seed nodes; same genesis block for all coins and I think same RPC port
mircea_popescu: no, why terrible.
pankkake: why what? the starting difficulty is too low for todays's hardware
mircea_popescu: lol i wonder why exactly that is
pankkake: coingen really makes terrible coins :))
pankkake: still 1+ block per sec, I suspect a lot are lost to stale and orphans
mircea_popescu: o hey. two in a row.
mircea_popescu: getting there yeah
asciilifeform: looking forward to the mega-scams involving 0.001btc total, a few yrs. from now
pankkake: provided bitbet wants too though
pankkake: bitbet would be a great tool as insurance against black market closure
ozbot: Black market owner shuts down, takes BTC with him
kakobrekla: hmm where is that from?
mircea_popescu: or wait, was this intersangro v2.0
mircea_popescu: "I begin implementing code changes to freeze funds and dump them to myself. I was unable to cope with the stress and constant demand, so I panicked. I am sorry for my actions, but with the funds I gathered from the site, I will be able to keep myself from being homeless for the next several months. I will always remember those that made this possible."
mircea_popescu: especially if their lives end up improved as a result.
mircea_popescu: fundamentally speaking, time spent trying to improve the lives of idiots is a waste.
kakobrekla: just trying to spare times.
kakobrekla: im not trying to fix
benkay: better give up then ;)
mircea_popescu: if only these experts had heard of bitbet.
ozbot: The Bet: BMR and Sheep to die in a year : SilkRoad
ozbot: The Bet: BMR and Sheep to die in a year : SilkRoad
nubbins`: tbh i like the title
benkay: well grep the logs, breh
mircea_popescu: it basically mirrored exactly all the specific performance points teh "bankers" made on their announcement.
benkay: mircea_popescu how did you construct the pirate short that worked?
nubbins`: "if you point a machine at our large smooth wall, the police will put you in jail"
nubbins`: think about the madness of that for a moment
mircea_popescu: benkay we're even then, that wondering is even older than pirate :D
nubbins`: they will srsly call the police and charge you :0
nubbins`: recording in a theatre is a crime here in canada as of a few years ago as well
mircea_popescu: but you copying their shitty movie is not.
ozbot: AMC Theaters Allegedly Calls FBI to Interrogate a Google Glass Wearer - Slashdot
mircea_popescu: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/01/21/0215214/amc-theaters-allegedly-calls-fbi-to-interrogate-a-google-glass-wearer << somehow going through your privatge porn is ok,
benkay: some days i wonder if mircea_popescu didn't look at Pirate and say to himself "oh so you want to see an elegant scam, do yer?"
pankkake: maybe they're refering themselves endlessly?
nubbins`: right, that thing
mircea_popescu: then again... people like the toilet.
pankkake: still that's a lot of users, I hardly believe it
mircea_popescu: but his general sniffing is correct, bitcointalk is spiraling into the toilet.
mircea_popescu: pretty unclear how that'd work
mircea_popescu: basically the guy's decided to somehow still matter in btc.
pankkake: nubbins`: but you're canadian. that's your nature
pankkake: jimmothy is going to explode
nubbins`: sometimes i don't want to be polite ;(
benkay: man i gotta write something up about goat's role in the madhouse
benkay: also TEH IRONY
nubbins`: "At my new forum cryptocrypt.org free-speech will be restricted a bit to enforce rules on being polite and respecting other members. We will have a very low tolerance for insulting others and more or less being a nuisance. Scamming and the like will not be tolerated at all. I hope this will be more civil place to talk about crypto and economics. "
benkay: to the effect of?
nubbins`: so i got a pm on the forums from goat
benkay: i'm vaguely aware of this 10k bet but lack the full story. highlights?
mircea_popescu: that argument led directly into the 10k bet, and so on.
mircea_popescu: "let me build a strawman show you nobody REALLY wants to short pirate"
mircea_popescu: anyway, it never got any volume, which was the point of the exercise
benkay: my combudder will impludder under the derp
benkay: i can't open any more bitcointalk.org tabs
mircea_popescu: read up on it, i imagine it's still on the forum.
mircea_popescu: course they mostly got lost, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: asset. i made the real short assets.
mircea_popescu: started a campaign to list it and sucker the average holder.
mircea_popescu: when they were running out of liquidity a bunch of assholes (goat chief among them, the "bankers" like kludge, jarnett etc,
benkay: lol: with the caveat that the correct valuation thereof has proven in practice to be more difficult than it seemed in theory.
mircea_popescu: pankkake you know... things today are the way they are and not worse in part because pirate got humiliated on mpex, etc.
mircea_popescu: "III. F.PURE.SYNTH is withdrawn due to lack of interest shown by investors. All outstanding shares were rebought, the current float being 0."
ozbot: MPOE, rezultate August 2012 pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
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benkay: what ultimately happened to F.PURE.SYNTH?
mod6: At least that piece of shit has the excuse that itt's made by nobody starring Fuckfleck and wht's his name. << lol Fuckfleck
pankkake: > To make use of tweens, you must construct a “tween factory”
pankkake: I guess it's capped to 4×
benkay: i actually take it back totally