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mircea_popescu: yes on
this bet is actually a better "investment"
than everything
they do over btctalk/reddit/etc.
pankkake: I do, I made a comment
to encourage Yes votes! :p
pankkake: 7% or -100% with a pretty good change of
the latter.
that's some shitty gambling odds!
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i was
thinking, if
there's a sudden hickup in
the hashing
there's going
to be such a run
to cover
the world has never seen
ThickAsThieves: and
then when it starts looking like No, some schlub will
throw 500btc on it
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves what do you get if you win
that one, 200ish ?
ThickAsThieves: it's still a lil early
to have an accurate number, but 338 blocks solved already since diffchange
thestringpuller: the last change estimate keeps going up, but past
three days is very slim
gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 1040199420.32 based on data since last change | 894132728.373 based on data for last
three days
ozbot: BitBet - BTC network difficulty
to
top 1B before 2014
Kleeck: So, we're not
thinking it'll pass 1B before EOY?
pankkake: no
the difficulty bet. biggest one,
top of homepage :)
Kleeck: Link? Is it for
them
to ship before
the end of
the year?
Kleeck: Too late for what? Do
their machines not ROI?
mircea_popescu: get out of here, ready
to ship, so it
takes a week if
they ship
today.
too late.
pankkake: because
they did show an empty case at a conference?
dexX7: hashfast seems
to be almost ready
to ship
gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 1040268619.58 based on data since last change | 894132728.373 based on data for last
three days
zacm: wonder what all
the people swooning over amazing senate hearings will have
to say
mircea_popescu: zacm was here earlier and on
teh grapevine for a coupla weeks yeah
mircea_popescu: at least coinbase has
the sense
to rape ex-respectable ppl a la gavin
mircea_popescu: funny. any someone is going
to even look at
that
thing now ?
pankkake: I don't
think he has disclosed how much he pays
the dev?
mircea_popescu: dexX7 is
that
the kslaughter of
the famous activemining ?
ThickAsThieves: "Brain wallets are not a good way
to secure your money."
ozbot: Snoop Dogg
tweets Coinbase and Bitpay : Bitcoin
ThickAsThieves: "Traders don't want volatility in
the currency
that
they are
taking in."
ThickAsThieves: "We are averaging 10,000 new customer sign-ups a day, and are now working with over 16,000 merchants including OkCupid, Khan Academy, and Reddit, who use Coinbase
to accept bitcoin. "
ThickAsThieves: "Separately, we’re also very pleased
to share
that Gavin Andresen has joined Coinbase as an advisor. "
ozbot: Coinbase Raises $25 Million From Andreessen Horowitz -
The Coinbase Blog
Duffer1: still have
to be an accredited investor for
that
though i believe
gribble: Total bids: 34368303 USD.
Total asks: 29979 BTC. Ratio: 1146.38318 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 0.0950 seconds
gribble: Total bids: 16525252 USD.
Total asks: 16205 BTC. Ratio: 1019.73429 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 0.0533 seconds
ozbot: Fidelity now allows clients
to put bitcoins in IRAs -
The
Tell - MarketWatch
pankkake: there is CoinJoin and some other
thing I always forget
the name of
dexX7: well, if you want
to use multiple inputs and outputs, you can do it
pankkake: well activemining is a
thing in a sense
that unicorns are still a
thing, you can write stories about
them
pankkake: but
the whole input/output
thing is
there for a reason, I don't
think it can be easily changed
pankkake: you could
tweak
the whole input selection, and do
things like create multiple outputs
jcpham: actvemining is still a
thing?
jcpham: y u no clikc dramatalk link
tat
dexX7: you can't
take "half of an output, so you don't have any change"
dexX7: <ThickAsThieves> well it's silly
that a wallet exposes more info
than needed for
the
tx << ?
ThickAsThieves: well it's silly
that a wallet exposes more info
than needed for
the
tx
pankkake: well some seem
to be in
the
testing phase, i.e.
the moment
they realize it sucks
mircea_popescu: basically it's summed up by george costanza's "a widget for
televising opera or whatever"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves
the only reason
that stopped is because
the current crop of fanbois are
too intellectually lazy
to even
take
that much of a reading plunge
ThickAsThieves: now colored coins devs are back in
their closet waiting
to be brought out for
the next exchange shutdown
mircea_popescu: financial
trade rags bad ; zh latecomer ; claims "we're not gonna be
that retarded" ; benefit of doubt ; dissapoint.
ThickAsThieves: hey remember when everyone wanted
to decentralize everything?
mircea_popescu: not like
they're zerohedge and people have expectations or anything.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
they do have
the lemon sale, which is actual news.
mircea_popescu: outright sterile, actually.
the only
thing a guy
that comes out
to claim he's
the guy
that REALLY invented bitcoin could possibly produce is a ream of arguments with all
the other guys claiming
they did it even before him.
ThickAsThieves: better
to be a unique snowflake and make it up as you go
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it also reveals
this funny "we have no understanding of any of
the constraints of
the space,
therefore we don't understand what competence is or why would you want
to build on
the results of others"
gribble: MtGox BTCUSD
ticker | Best bid: 905.0, Best ask: 908.354, Bid-ask spread: 3.35400, Last
trade: 909.0, 24 hour volume: 11088.84685319, 24 hour low: 856.123, 24 hour high: 959.88, 24 hour vwap: 898.69515
ThickAsThieves: every major article reveals
the author/pub's bitcoin ownership status and not much more
mircea_popescu: i'm rooting for
the guy who was advocating it in korea.
ThickAsThieves: "It's like being on
the ground floor of
the Internet 20 years ago," Smith said. "Bitcoin is going
to be
transformative."
mircea_popescu: "Brock Pierce is
the godfather of virtual currency," says David Johnston, CEO of Engine, and another early adopter of
the digital currency.
mircea_popescu: "Shortly after his panel on investment opportunities, former child star Brock Pierce (The Mighty Ducks) was engulfed by a
throng of admirers."
dexX7: looks
toxic, in green
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