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pankkake: well, hadn't I held it, I would have told you to fake financial difficulties
nubbins`: yeah, there was a spell there
ThickAsThieves: i recall some great buys before closing too
ThickAsThieves: and the bidder was probly erik
ThickAsThieves: and a huge gain for the bidder, cuz it was probly the week before closing
nubbins`: you can almost hear the screams of anguish
mircea_popescu: that was a 10k btc loss or thereabouts for the hapless author.
mircea_popescu: well in fairness s.dice got sold once into i don't recall but sometjhing like that, 10% of avg.
ThickAsThieves: maybe that;s fair value
nubbins`: seriously, the first trade was at 5% of ipo price
nubbins`: turns out leading zeroes ARE significant if they're on the right-hand side of the decimal
nubbins`: people not counting their zeroes
nubbins`: there appears to be a large amount of fail happening with HIF
deadweasel: time to start truly mining bitcoins: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/27/hard-drive-bitcoin-landfill-site
nubbins`: opening trade: 2013-11-27 12:06:312000฿0.00002500฿0.0500
nubbins`: forgot about that
ThickAsThieves: is that the HIF opening trade?
ThickAsThieves: as the article suggest
ThickAsThieves: however none of this leads back to LTC arguments being fraudulent
pankkake: there's a blockchain fork of bitcoin already, the bitcoin-scrypt thing
mircea_popescu: or something like that, but it will resolve.
mircea_popescu: it may come down to which gets a 1hr block firsty
mircea_popescu: it will still resolve, because the slightest randomness will amplify
ThickAsThieves: what of the circumstance creates that uncertainty
mircea_popescu: if there's doubt it may linger, but it is possibly the most unstable situation in naturel.
ThickAsThieves: what about the people on the winning side?
mircea_popescu: so the sinking of the identifiably bad chain will flash.
mircea_popescu: nobody has any incentive to wait.
mircea_popescu: everyone has an incentive to sell the loser RIGHT NOW while the price is still good
pankkake: infinitecoin has a better progression than litecoin
mircea_popescu: you have to appreciate the following mechanism : if there's a blockchain fork, the two forks can be sold and bought independently.
mircea_popescu: pankkake nah, that'd make it clear which is the wrong one
nubbins`: like the original ghostbusters vs the real ghostbusters
pankkake: they'd both call the other one the altcoin
mircea_popescu: so is the cloning gf.
ThickAsThieves: i personally dont find it to be THAT impossible
ThickAsThieves: i did, as an example that it's also possible
mircea_popescu: i thought you meant blockchain fork
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller that;s actually a good bet.
ThickAsThieves: i argue that you are wrong because it is already the case
nubbins`: grow up and listen to it
thestringpuller: there should be a bet for that ThickAsThieves
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: I'm the cookie guy!!!!
mircea_popescu: bah. ty for saying
ThickAsThieves: its the premise
pankkake: that's not the point of the article
drmandude: but there's 10 months of closing time
ThickAsThieves: no coin NEEDS to win
drmandude: 1000 for the rest of 2013
ozbot: BitBet - Bitcoin will stay above $1000 for the rest of 2013
nubbins`: hm, yeah, that's possible too
ThickAsThieves: more likely piano leaked into the vocal track
nubbins`: hm. would love to find some talking heads vocal tracks
nubbins`: the bohemian rhapsody one, you could hear a few piano parts where they happened to be around the same freqs as his voice
ThickAsThieves: hard to comprehend
nubbins`: occasionally you'll find one that's just the naked vocal track from the mixing board, but those are pretty rare
nubbins`: you can hear the backing tracks in a lot of these, very faintly
ThickAsThieves: it requires the mix to be favorable
ThickAsThieves: you know there's an easy way to make acappella versions?
nubbins`: there's a ton of these acapella videos on youtube, some of them are pretty funny
nubbins`: addresses with btc in them?
mircea_popescu: you could parse the blockchain for all addresses seen so far.
Venat: is there a way to track how many addresses there are currently
nubbins`: the only similarity is the "fuck you" at the end ;D
ThickAsThieves: freddie mercury babbling sounds on stage can communicate better with a crowd than most leaders
Venat: nubbins`, you the one with the diaries?
nubbins`: i made it through BOTH SIDES of the tape before deciding that this was in fact the case
nubbins`: y'know, the first time i bought a Queen cassette, the fucking thing was spooled backwards
gribble: MtGox BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 1062.323, Best ask: 1064.994, Bid-ask spread: 2.67100, Last trade: 1062.323, 24 hour volume: 32653.65049996, 24 hour low: 877.0, 24 hour high: 1073.0, 24 hour vwap: 964.51224
nubbins`: anyway, click that video
gribble: Total bids: 36829309 USD. Total asks: 14725 BTC. Ratio: 2501.07829 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 232.0051 seconds
nubbins`: some set of teeth on him
nubbins`: this one is pretty sick too:
assbot: Last trade for S.MPOE on MPEX was at 0.00082913 BTC [+]
nubbins`: pretty lelly when the headbanging part comes up and it's just silence for like a minute
nubbins`: right? people don't sing like this
pankkake: I can't listen to this song without thinking of the Wayne's World bit
nubbins`: fuckit, i'm posting this here too
pankkake: the name made me think it was reality tv
ThickAsThieves: i downloaded the bitcoin ep to try it
ThickAsThieves: the name, the main actress, all make me squirm
ThickAsThieves: i cant bring myself to watch that show
markedathome: so now that bitcoin has passed 1000usd, will 'the good wife' do a followup to their "bitcoin" episode?
asciilifeform: once read that louis xvi and marie a. held it in for a week, prior to their magic date.
nubbins`: well, few things feel as good as taking a shit
asciilifeform: i once read that in america, it is customary to plug the butts of condemned criminals. they are denied the traditional gallows privilege of shitting themselves.
pankkake: oh you can watch starcraft in bars all over the world now
gribble: MtGox BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 1060.0, Best ask: 1069.0, Bid-ask spread: 9.00000, Last trade: 1069.0, 24 hour volume: 32565.53644014, 24 hour low: 877.0, 24 hour high: 1073.0, 24 hour vwap: 963.61072
nubbins`: ^ that shit's on tv there
ozbot: BitBet - Non-South Korean to win the Starcraft 2 "2013 DreamHack Open: Stockholm" tournament
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: is that like, yellow buttplug if you want things to change direction and red buttplug to stop scene immediately?
mircea_popescu: two degrees of magnitude in there.
mircea_popescu: mike_c something like that
nubbins`: ThickAsThieves: no tax
mike_c: mp, this is the.. fourth time you are going to have to update strikes this year?
ThickAsThieves: wasnt there recent news about korea and btc?
nubbins`: trying to figure out how to get apache to play nice with MPI
nubbins`: seriously, there must be a guy out there somewhere with a beowulf cluster of raspis
nubbins`: "raspi is cheap, let's get a bunch of those and install apache"
gribble: MtGox lag is 4.850078 seconds. During this time, light travels 0.00971950200782 AU. You could have sent a bitcoin from Saturn to its largest moon, Titan (0.00802 AU).