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mircea_popescu: that was a better than average move.
mircea_popescu: o i remember this thing, it was originally waiting for deliveries for a while.
topace: doesnt matter, the fund didnt pay for the equipment until it was physically delivered and mining
nubbins`: what's today's fiat equivalent of the money you paid for the hardware?
mircea_popescu: what was that command again
mircea_popescu: topace what's the hash behind it atm ?
pascal2571: folks are actually buying that crap
topace: nubbins`: this has 0 to do with the mining fund
mircea_popescu: why would you need to cover costs ? it's a fund. you report the loss.
mircea_popescu: i have never seen nonsense so resilient as the stuff nefario pioneered.
nubbins`: part of me suspects this is going towards covering costs from the havelock mining fund
mircea_popescu: jesus the glbse idiocy just won't die already.
pankkake: I thought the « half price » woudl attrack more. some sort of black friday nonsense
nubbins`: oh, that's today, isn't it?
pascal2571: ah right, I multiplied by the "discounted" share price
pascal2571: I'm wondering how they came up with an evaluation of 10k BTC
nubbins`: "it's the internet, names are for meatspace!"
mircea_popescu: dude crumbs is a heavy hitter in the forum nao ?
mircea_popescu: The only info provided is a phone number resolving in Minnesota, USA. Is this also typical for Panamanian corporations?
mircea_popescu: Is it customary for a multi-million dollar registered business to withhold information such as the names of its owners/directors? Can we at least get a link to your Facebook page or YouTube account?
gribble: There are currently 16367028 bitcoins demanded at or over 0.0 USD, worth 27433795.2254 USD in total. | Data vintage: 113.4125 seconds
gribble: There are currently 29747.899 bitcoins offered at or under 9999999.0 USD, worth 100746835.565 USD in total. | Data vintage: 106.4467 seconds
gribble: (asks [--over] <pricetarget>) -- Calculate the amount of bitcoins for sale at or under <pricetarget>. If '--over' option is given, find coins or at or over <pricetarget>.
mircea_popescu: "so your honor, he claims the site send him this html, to his own key ? well... how can we verify this has anything to do with anything besides his overactive imagination ?"
mircea_popescu: spooks can spook it till they get bored.
mircea_popescu: then add a layer to turn the html into crypted text to keys by ips
mircea_popescu: i was actually thinking, a pretty decent way to run an underground site would be, have everyone register their ip to a pubkey
asciilifeform: 'diddle this.'
asciilifeform: i won't be surprised to live to see billboards and newspaper ads with rsa pubkeys.
mircea_popescu: tits want to be free
mircea_popescu: but code wants to be molested.
asciilifeform: wonder how much executable code going cleartext over the wire gets to the other end unmolested.
asciilifeform: gonna be fun when people actually start to give a damn about pubkey distribution.
asciilifeform: download a fresh copy, right. patched on the fly. ken thompson.
gribble: There are currently 16365090 bitcoins demanded at or over 0.0 USD, worth 27068826.9028 USD in total. | Data vintage: 8.4697 seconds
gribble: There are currently 29698.058 bitcoins offered at or under 99999999.0 USD, worth 148418672.73 USD in total. | Data vintage: 4.9472 seconds
gribble: There are currently 0 bitcoins offered at or under 0.0 USD, worth 0.0 USD in total. | Data vintage: 0.0015 seconds
mircea_popescu: it logs everything there, and it's accessible anywhere gribble goes.
gribble: (buy [--long] <amount> <thing> [at|@] <priceperunit> <otherthing> [<notes>]) -- Logs a buy order for <amount> units of <thing>, at a price of <price> per unit, in units of <otherthing>. Use the optional <notes> field to put in any special notes. <price> may include an arithmetical expression, and {(mtgox|bitstamp)(ask|bid|last|high|low|avg)} to index price to mtgox ask, bid, last, (1 more message)
pascal2571: I did not know that
asciilifeform: gotta love how hetzner advices gdb attach for the 'amirooted?' test
mircea_popescu: pascal2571 you know gribble has a market thing ?
asciilifeform: difference with 'cloud hosting' is that it's more like bird hunting than deer
asciilifeform: once the chump is rooted, you can do a million different things.
asciilifeform: people have been doing this kind of thing for ages.
asciilifeform: i'd say the newsmen are hyping up the novelty a bit
mircea_popescu: they lost the payment details and everything else ?
ThickAsThieves: this is finance after all, how can you not factor translated values
ThickAsThieves: I also think disregarding fiat-influence is one of the core areas of ignorance for harming investors
mircea_popescu: and that helps with experience.
mircea_popescu: well... experience helps with that.
ThickAsThieves: I think they have not appropriately valuated or structured their offering, all factors considered.
kleeck: The defense is that "we don't measure BTC in FIAT" which I get, sure - but that is one way to quantify value against a fluctuating Bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: kleeck everyone imagines they're worth like, a shitton.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller is the guy i learn names from.
kleeck: What do you think?
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ThickAsThieves: i follow all things
kleeck: I know ThickAsThieves is.
kleeck: ANyone following this Havelock IPO?
thestringpuller: i think bombshells following you is a clear indication you are as cool as Bender Rodriguez
mircea_popescu: or like getting a coupla bombshells to follow you around and expecting this'll make you seem all cool and shit.
nubbins`: Expecting the tools to provide security for you is like buying a set of weights and then sitting around waiting for your fitness to improve.
mircea_popescu: mostly for the The hackers are hopelessly outclassed at this game. Hell, the majority of them don’t even know that they’re playing!
mircea_popescu: "here's a list of 16 entities that'd love to be important in bitcoin"
thestringpuller: http://www.arc.gatech.edu/ - did work with them, they get couple hundred mil each year just for crypto stuff
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: people spend billions of dollars on RNG for pure research, so I mean, is that really all that surprising?
mircea_popescu: more stuff about the cardano. basically we're spending an inordinate ammount of time on the rng side of things.
ozbot: The reason you can’t have nice numbers and other considerations. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Po
mircea_popescu: i don't even remember if i saw that one
thestringpuller: since many critics say the "heroes" of that movie were latently gay for one another
thestringpuller: i know, I was being sarcastic. I like your commentary on the insecure latently gay hero
mircea_popescu: i never say that.
thestringpuller: Who knows, maybe because you fucked their sister when you said you'd love only them forever and ever.
mircea_popescu: now why would they do that ?
thestringpuller: not if they trynna con you
mircea_popescu: fucking difficult to be threatened by one once you've had threesomes with her sister.
mircea_popescu: the femme fatale is the weakness of sexually insecure, latently gay heroes as constructed for the sexualyl insecure, latently gay us public cca 1950
mircea_popescu: nah. i get along great with those
mircea_popescu: the odds on those should be pretty good seeing how i went deep on the yes side out of patriotism
thestringpuller: http://bitbet.us/bet/614/starbucks-to-announce-bitcoin-acceptance-on-thanksgiving/ - ahh there it is
ozbot: BitBet - Simona Halep to show at AU Open
ozbot: BitBet - Simona Halep to win Roland Garros
mircea_popescu: and since we're on the topic of bets :
mircea_popescu: so props to them
mircea_popescu: but at least they did figure out what to do and everything
mircea_popescu: my guess would be this is accurate : every 100k reddit comments = 1 btc
thestringpuller: on this guise prediction?
thestringpuller: wait they are using reddit to bet?
mircea_popescu: 207 reddit comments = 0.002 btc zeroconf, or 2% of what bitbet puts in on the house.
ozbot: Starbucks to make announcement regarding Bitcoin by/around Thanksgiving : Bitcoin
mircea_popescu: if i ever manage to complete it
mircea_popescu: in the end i will probably write a million words on that book
mircea_popescu: i managed to get about halfway his first chapter producing like 11 articles in the process
thestringpuller: you'd probably like murray rothbard too
thestringpuller: so how goes the ludwig von mises reading?
thestringpuller: that photo looks like it was taken when hugh hefner didn't have wrinkles...
mircea_popescu: 'm not that fixated on the teenage part either.
thestringpuller: very controversial stance tho!
mircea_popescu: any rapper that's a teenage girl with nice hooters and doesn't take her rapping self too seriously.