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davos: if you could
trade gox it would be inside info.
their next revision jumps
them from 30tx/sec
to like 100,000,000tx/sec
davos: well
they're still running on
the same engine
they've been using forever
davos: mark is basically
the only programmer at gox
mircea_popescu: Vbs
this is
the
thing
that ipo'd at 8
then re-ipo'd at 25 for no apparent reason or am i confusing my obscure scamsets
mircea_popescu: okay, so
they're
trying
to prop
the price pulling a gigavps
Vbs: AMC shares will be
traded
to VMC shares 1:1, with an expected
total number of VMC shares much less
than AMC now
mircea_popescu: americans have lousy goals. houses in
the palisades and whatnot.
Vbs: mining and selling hardware, all under
the same hat
Vbs: following
the AM model +/-
pankkake: next step,
they will issue shares for more
than
there are bitcoins in existence
ThickAsThieves: it sounds like AMC is gonna IPO
their scam company VMC
mircea_popescu: yea dude.
the rights
to a multi billion franchise. i'm getting it
Bugpowder: thestringpuller: I just want a nice house in
the Palisades
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder hewanted more but didn't want
to pay a decent premium for a 10%
thestringpuller: Bugpowder: wants more
to add
to his billions so he can buy more novelty cars
Bugpowder: is
that
the guy sitting with
the 31M bid?
Bugpowder: what I don't understand about
this new investor, is did only 1/3 of his bid get filled?
Bugpowder: Dealbook should do a story on
that fucking bubble
Bugpowder: my favorite part : Before Mt.Gox registered with
the
Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, some of its accounts in
the United States were frozen.
The company
temporarily stopped its American customers from cashing out while it said it was “making improvements.”
Bugpowder: Their proposal has
the advantage of coming from
the desk of Kathleen Moriarty, a lawyer at Katten Muchin, who played a leading role in
the creation of
the first exchange-traded fund and popular gold- and silver-backed E.T.F.’s.
mircea_popescu: genius
tyvm i couldn't have just found
them on my own.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you're proposing i go on
teh interwebs
to meet girls living next door ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im not sure mail delivers
to dead drops.
Bugpowder: they have
thought of many risk factors!
Bugpowder: I
think
there is just so much negativity associated with Winkelvoxen
that it colors
the whole affair
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder possibly it's
that
they don't buy in
the etf ?
mircea_popescu: is
thatg
the guy who spent like his yearly salary each month
Bugpowder: I guess
they are bitter
they missed
the 2nd bubble
Bugpowder: All my bitcoin defense comments on
the DealBook story on
the WinklETF are not getting
the recommendations I had hoped
Bugpowder: Founded by Suroosh Alvi, Shane Smith, and Gavin McInnes,
the magazine was launched in 1994 as
the Voice of Montreal with government funding, and
the intention of
the founders was
to provide work and a community service.[5
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well kinda difficult
to implement us mail dead drops.
Bugpowder: I don't remember reading anything from
then before about a year ago, and
then
they were just killing it with pretty cool stories
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder i
think
their pro marketing campaign of
themselves started cca 2011
Bugpowder: has vice been around since longer
than 2012?
mircea_popescu: this is like
telling me
that a well chosen weather vane attracts
the afids. dude...
the afids can't fly, and
the ants are keeping
them pretty well
tied down. what vane.
mircea_popescu: it's 2013. who
the fuck do you
think acts upon or even cares what "vice" says
mircea_popescu: i mean sure, in
the 80s it used
to. even in
the 90s, maybe
Stardust: you just stated
the goal of marketing nowadays
mircea_popescu: what's
the
theory, whether i buy
them a subway or not makes or breaks
the business, is
that it ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, i wonder who outside of
the famished inters of vice/forbes/etc actually
thinks
that "pro marketing" does anything
ozbot: Interview with a (virtual) drug
tsar | All
Things VICE
ThickAsThieves: i remember reading something about how people could suss
the key of
the signed message contains
the address within it
ll: isnt m
the
testnet prefix
Stardust: always deal with
the 1* address
Stardust: you have
to specify
the private-key bound
to an address when you
talk about signing
Stardust: signing with what
ThickAsThieves ?
ThickAsThieves: somehow signing
the mz77WBQSpvYAiDFu9sCveYmzYQC5ZQpvq2 address
ThickAsThieves: with
that many people, it doesnt
take many
to be bad at maff
to run up
the price
ThickAsThieves: then why would AM be promoting it
to chinese in presentations?
dub: at some point
the belief
that retards have enough money
to drive
this demand starts
to
thin out