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decimation: The20YearIRCloud: many real estate agents don't make jack shit, only the good ones make
$$$ decimation: gernika: not unless it is your primary residence and your gains are less than
$500k (as I recall)
decimation: imagine you just convinced your daddy's golf buddy to give you
$100mn in seed money. you are now the 'bitcoin ceo' of your own startup! how do you make your 'idea' work? rent the talent that your roommate from stanford used for his startup!
decimation: that's probably well over
$100k of equipment
decimation: if they reset the research budget to
$2000 they couldn't afford the bezzle-equipment
The20YearIRCloud: And the oil industry has pathetic margins, apple is the king of margins on
$1b+ companies
mircea_popescu: can confirm - made an awesome bet on betsofbitco.in well over a year before the conclusion (had previously been paid out by them) - when it came time to pay up, the site stopped closing bets and then eventually just shut down. I bet .1btc when btc was ~
$70 and I would of won around .5btc when btc was ~
$800"
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to drop under
$400 before October :: 9.69 B (45%) on Yes, 12 B (55%) on No | closing in 5 days 4 hours | weight: 15`353 (100`000 to 1)
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.5 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin to drop under
$400 before October"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1029/ Odds: 45(Y):55(N) by coin, 28(Y):72(N) by weight. Total bet: 21.68931212 BTC. Current weight: 15,387.
ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> bitbet is having a totally shit month /// use your powers to make BTCUSD
$700 again, all will be well
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin to drop under
$400 before October"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1029/ Odds: 36(Y):64(N) by coin, 25(Y):75(N) by weight. Total bet: 18.68931212 BTC. Current weight: 15,690.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin to drop under
$350 before November"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1034/ Odds: 26(Y):74(N) by coin, 24(Y):76(N) by weight. Total bet: 11.49991689 BTC. Current weight: 54,425.
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> "VC's will write
$10M checks after 3 weeks of knowing someone, and there is 0% legit fraud there." << what's ilegit fraud ? fraudy-fraud ?
nubbins`: "Minimum investment accepted from any outside investor
$10,000 USD"
ThickAsThieves: "VC's will write
$10M checks after 3 weeks of knowing someone, and there is 0% legit fraud there."
thestringpuller: 17:20 <qq1932> That is how people protect themsevles in the real world, and it works. VC's will write
$10M checks after 3 weeks of knowing someone, and there is 0% legit fraud there. << ~_~
ThickAsThieves: as of mid-Aug it was
$2m with
$5m projection for year end
assbot: Washington Has Wasted
$22 Trillion In War On Poverty It Can't Win - Investors.com
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin
$817 or above before Christmas :: 1.1 B (20%) on Yes, 4.46 B (80%) on No | closing in 3 months 2 days | weight: 97`758 (100`000 to 1)
BingoBoingo: Well, last I priced the esacpe it was ~300 dollars to the border and ~
$2000 to hardware BA. Not counting the part where I leave the car in Laredo it die.
BingoBoingo: In the worst case though the plan is to go pack and forth across the border with
$40k stuffed up my ass each time
assbot: A Law Enforcement Encounter: If you ran a Bitcoin related service before the thing hit
$100 you prolly ought to be somewhat concerned and/or prepared | Bingo Blog
[]bot: Bet placed: 2.04854766 BTC for No on "Gold above
$1300 on October 1st"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1022/ Odds: 17(Y):83(N) by coin, 42(Y):58(N) by weight. Total bet: 3.73414003 BTC. Current weight: 18,706.
mike_c: ;;calc [echo
$rand] + 512 / 1024
nubbins`: wait, what is it? ,,(echo
$rand) for inline
nubbins`: so gribble can generate a ,,
$rand but does anyone know how to restrict the range?
mircea_popescu: <Namworld> and supermarket price tags to all read
$∞? << yes because no matter what
$∞ purchase you pay with an
$∞ bill you're still owed
$∞ in change.
Namworld: and supermarket price tags to all read
$∞?
assbot: Vilified Bitcoin Tycoon After Losing
$500 Million: My Life Is at Risk - The Daily Beast
assbot: Give Me
$46 Billion and I will Build a Safe Computer System | Rebecca Abrahams
assbot: Give Me
$46 Billion and I will Build a Safe Computer System | Rebecca Abrahams
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.01 BTC for No on "Bitcoin volatility 2014 over
$800"
http://bitbet.us/bet/986/ Odds: 24(Y):76(N) by coin, 36(Y):64(N) by weight. Total bet: 2.3111 BTC. Current weight: 42,527.
decimation: actually that's
$6.8bn for the metal cage that holds the humans, the rocket is extra
decimation: asciilifeform: this is true. But even at 1000x that price, you can buy many rockets for
$19bn today
[]bot: Bet placed: 3.14590287 BTC for No on "Iron Ore 62% Fe, CFR China (TSI) Jan 2015 over
$200 at any point in 2014"
http://bitbet.us/bet/775/ Odds: 18(Y):82(N) by coin, 27(Y):73(N) by weight. Total bet: 11.27138403 BTC. Current weight: 31,667.
midnightmagic: Ah. So you're just complaining about how nobody's learning and using its (still-preserved) complexities these days because
$stupid_youth..?
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.25 BTC for No on "Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) Jan 2015 over
$200 at any point in 2014"
http://bitbet.us/bet/776/ Odds: 14(Y):86(N) by coin, 22(Y):78(N) by weight. Total bet: 36.35204745 BTC. Current weight: 31,793.
assbot: Speaking live in about an hour at MIT
http://t.co/qJ1lq7q7Pv, as the first event to introduce the lucky undergrads to their
$100 of bitcoin
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin
$817 or above before Christmas"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1043/ Odds: 24(Y):76(N) by coin, 24(Y):76(N) by weight. Total bet: 4.4198 BTC. Current weight: 99,837.
decimation: "Anheuser-Busch paid the town
$500,000 to transform the mountain community into a Budweiser paradise as part of the beer giant’s “Up For Whatever” ad campaign."
decimation: "Wildlife officials are offering a
$2,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the poacher or poachers responsible for killing a black bear with a series of arrow strikes."
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin
$817 or above before Christmas :: 0.05 B (2%) on Yes, 3.37 B (98%) on No | closing in 3 months 4 days | weight: 99`876 (100`000 to 1)
[]bot: Bet placed: 3.2969 BTC for No on "Bitcoin
$817 or above before Christmas"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1043/ Odds: 1(Y):99(N) by coin, 1(Y):99(N) by weight. Total bet: 3.3978 BTC. Current weight: 99,898.
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah agreed. Although to mojang's credit they apparently make
$240 mn per year. Yeah I forgot whatsapp
decimation: re: microsoft paying
$2bn for mojang: I saw the news this morning and lol'ed.
$3.2 bn for nest,
$2bn for mojang; only
$3 bn for high-power specialty manufacturer that has
$1bn in revenue per year
assbot: Microsoft confirms it will buy 'Minecraft' for
$2.5 billion | The Verge
assbot: Infineon to Buy International Rectifier for
$3 Billion - WSJ
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for No on "1BTC >=
$10,000 USD"
http://bitbet.us/bet/635/ Odds: 9(Y):91(N) by coin, 15(Y):85(N) by weight. Total bet: 813.28919187 BTC. Current weight: 18,995.
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Tim Draper: Bitcoin's Price Still Headed to
$10k << "I read some stuff on BitBet let me tell you it" FIFH
ThickAsThieves: “I guess the markets aren’t seeing what I am seeing. An entire economy is being rebuilt. I have a price target of
$10,000 in three years. Even that may be pessimistic.”
assbot: Tim Draper: Bitcoin's Price Still Headed to
$10k
pete_dushenski: and weren't you all "i dunno about
$conference because bun in oven?" a few months ago?
ben_vulpes: <xmj> ...and django, and uwsgi, and
$crap << hey have you ever done anything with uwsgi or gunicorn as a dev server?
mircea_popescu: I got pulled over in Nebraska and when I was getting my license out of my wallet the officer saw a
$100 bill in there and ended up confiscating the
$400 I had on me as suspected drug money without ever arresting me or even charging me with a crime.
kolinko: let's say that I wanted to build a business that relies on options... a web wallet that maintains the users' bitcoin balance stable in relation to usd (e.g. I put
$100 worth of btc into the wallet, and after a year I'm almost guaranteed to be able to withdraw
$100, regardless of bitcoin price)
mircea_popescu: what i mean is, i'm a kid with a computer, i have to pay
$200 for a new video card, and each watt gives me 1 thing. this other kid pays
$500 for a consumer asic, each watt gives him... 5 things. the price of a thing will reflect this, going to ~1/4 the price of a watt, making me able to buy a lot more things for my
$200 directly than i'd get mining ?
xmj: shar `find bitmonero` > bitmonero__
$version.shar
xmj: ...and django, and uwsgi, and
$crap
KODE_YETI: i only work when there are
$CURRENCY_UNITS on the table
chalbersma: I noticed someone said they didn't like bitvps but they have VPS for
$20/mo that may do the trick. I assume other vps providers have similar pricing. 2 cores 2G 20GB 2TB transfer.
decimation: chalbersma: denver would be logical. my point is that I suspect that usg employees are paid
$$$ to write fantasy
decimation: they charge several hundred
$usd to provide the 'paperwork' needed to sell a house with covenants
cazalla: "Bitcoin prices have swung between more than
$US900 to as low as
$US341 this year as enthusiasts try to address the digital currency's weaknesses, persuade consumers to embrace it and overcome governments' concerns that it could be misused by criminals. " ok lol
assbot: BitBet - 1BTC >=
$10,000 USD :: 75 B (9%) on Yes, 737.19 B (91%) on No | closing in 2 months 1 week| weight: 19`804 (100`000 to 1)
guruvan: oh hey mircea_popescu that's a loan that I had quite some time ago ( took loan @
$6.50 or so) and haven't been able to repay yet. 70BTC still outstanding.