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mircea_popescu: when i do hidden in plain sight, it's hidden. when the
usg tries it, it's snowdened.
mircea_popescu: how the hell does that work ? just because he dislikes the
usg ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo : perhaps a good alternative is to buy a chinese and a
usg and use them in paralel.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I see no reason why chinese government should be more trustworthy than
usg mircea_popescu: dexX7_ part of it was lost to the
usg, as a result of karpeles signing false documents
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: fwiw I don't believe
USG is capable of any meaningful banning of bitcoin << that'd depend on the definition of meaningful,
decimation: I agree with TAT, I think the
USG is too weak to actually ban bitcoin
duduqa: ThickAsThieves: don't you expect
usg banning bitcoin before that happens
duduqa: ThickAsThieves: don't you expect a war against
usg before that?
ThickAsThieves: i just have real difficulty imagining the
USG's ability and story of how it may ban crypto
duduqa: asciilifeform: I never played poker, so I was not aware of the tremendous resources
usg spent fighting against it
ThickAsThieves: fwiw I don't believe
USG is capable of any meaningful banning of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: the
usg has the god given right to destroy any wealth of its citizens it can.
ThickAsThieves: i wonder, is there a legal ground for disallowing the
USG to ban it on grounds that it would destroy huge amounts of wealth for US citizens already invested?
mircea_popescu: so then i hardly see what argument you have against the
usg.
jurov: greenspan_fan: you imagine tsmc can and will reject all orders for 2 month or so just cause
usg drops a billion?
benkay: sounds like typical
usg propaganda
mircea_popescu: "Even if the initial miners in the "Satoshi Gang" were not initially part of the
USG - they would be hunted down and forced to turn over their Bitcoin at gunpoint." oh for the love of christ.
mircea_popescu: <francis_wolke> A large scale, important project, developed in secret by
USG. << how does bitcoin meet any of your criteria ?
francis_wolke: A large scale, important project, developed in secret by
USG.
francis_wolke: mircea_popescu: I fail to see how this leads to a
USG without Manhattan projects.
pankkake: "the
USG would kill it with fire" it can't
decimation: there is a thing called the "roth IRA" where you save post-income-tax money;
USG claims it will never tax it again
benkay: mircea_popescu, linking a
USG publication as a source of useful numbers?! will miracles never cease...
mircea_popescu: hearn is the guy that answered experimentally the
usg's question as to "what happens in case of major bitcoin fork ?"
ThickAsThieves: seems that maybe the bets regulation
USG could do is require gov to run a mining farm
ThickAsThieves: so the
USG takes over money transfer via the Post Office?
kakobrekla: the
usg can build a guantanamo clone and house all 2 mio slovenians there
ThickAsThieves: So am I correct in stating the
USG reports there exists approx $11,000,000,000,000?
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding the only time i heard someone in this channel wanting some sort of info from the
usg decimation: sounds dubiously competent for the
usg mircea_popescu: god help me. you mean yahoo is seriously going to do the whole bs
usg thing in 2014 ?! after it died ?
mircea_popescu: yet the "community" and it's "press" fails to print in two inch letters "Hey! We have a guy here that's two years smarter than the best of the
USG. That's why you're fucked."
decimation: For the amount of money the
USG shovels into the beltway bandits, we could have your princely secure terminals
decimation: he underestimated the avarice of those who would influence
USG decisionmaking
herbijudlestoids: although i would posit that considering the nature of centralisation of the internet currently, it might not be that hard for the
USG to do so
herbijudlestoids: hmmm well i would never have argued that the
USG will shutdown bitcoin or that bitcoin will be worthless, those seem like two stupid things to bet on
mircea_popescu: (not that i'd fly to the us without a handwritten note from the president saying that any
usg personnel coming within five feet on me is to be shot on the spot)
mircea_popescu: and yes. winklevii are lieing to the
usg, on the grounds of scammy promises people who make a habit out of lieing about their dev status made.
mircea_popescu: consider all the people that apparently are in some capacity part of the
usg, and somehow (at least in their own mind) decision factors in various capacities.
jurov: lol, so
usg gave a tesla to nejc?
Namworld: Bitstamp must actually be
USG funded.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it's instructive tho. according to dimon, the only marketable value of jpm is that it's a hand puppet of the
usg.
benkay: i like the implications that the
usg requires transaction reviews
pLambert: no, the
USG is worth -10 trillion USD, they are in deep debt!
benkay: the question is what the pointy headed ones in the
usg mean by the bitcoin network, pankkake.
Duffer1: but to take that one step further into facilitating drug trade, i don't believe you're ready to hide from the awesome and terrifying might of the
usgov
benkay: so typical
usg propaganda.
mircea_popescu: hardly anything else than proof as to how the
usg is impotent and pointless.
mircea_popescu: the
usg insists to bother foreign merchants with "regulation". this is one step away from everyone just sending it packing. so it agreed to stfu and save some face.
pankkake: I aim to sell Bernankoin to the
USG!
benkay: it's not simply los estados unidos, however, it's the entire fiat system.
usg simply sits atop it for the meantime.
benkay: the great all seeing eye of
USG mk. IV will not of its own make any decisions.
mircea_popescu: KRS|Gotyawallet in the food stamps context ? the stealing of people's money by the
usg.
mircea_popescu: except of course if prosecuted by the all-corrupt
usg.
mircea_popescu: honestly, the sad mental state of people still showing up to work for the various
usg agencies suggests we'll soon see jamestown-like mass suicides.
dub: probably best to steer away from things that can both circumvent
USG spying ubiquity and casually blow up airplanes
BingoBoingo: Honestly more than million dollar bitcoin, I'm waiting for the republic of Bitcoin to annex Cuba where despite taking an opposite ideological stance to Fidel's regime this island remains opposed to the
USG's incompetence.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
usg drone fighting rc planes is definitely the thing of the future.
mircea_popescu: zacm no, just the
usg using american companies as governmental agents.
jurov`: if anyone wonders what the
usg are doing