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joecool: it did take them like a decade to become profitable though
ThickAsThieves: amazon is also having trouble eeking out good profits no?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but yeah, the buraucrats "do what they must, because they can."
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: The linked article suggests that the tax only applies to ebay sellers who gross over $1M
joeykrim: mircea_popescu, i wrote my congress ppl to not pass that :x
jcpham: damn 10:1 leverage at that
jcpham: yeah a channel full of guys playing games on bitcoinica is not someone you wanna share info like this with
asciilifeform: jcpham: ok, that makes sense
jcpham: because that's how bitcoinica worked
jcpham: and several people just went the other way with sufficient funding and he was force liquidated
jcpham: basically the guy revealed his postion on bitcoinica
joecool: oh, then mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: i do, if you mention someone;'s key that's already registered you each get 5btc
joecool: mircea_popescu: dare i ask? do you give mpex registration discounts to OTC members?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: perhaps your sales fee is too low?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: raise it to 1000 BTC, you could be in the black!
mircea_popescu: something like that
gribble: BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 135.45606, Best ask: 136.00000, Bid-ask spread: 0.54394, Last trade: 136.00000, 24 hour volume: 122987.25837791, 24 hour low: 121.45164, 24 hour high: 139.49743, 24 hour vwap: 131.92260
jurov: they had better things to do with bitcoins than having them stuck as cover?
mircea_popescu: i find it pretty incredible that nobody moved into the midmarket during these ~2 weeks
pizzaman1337: thanks, I need to make a public site for these
pizzaman1337: ah yeah, looks like the spread for the bot dropped a ton: http://i.imgur.com/P5aQ53K.png
pizzaman1337: ah yeah, looks like the spread for the bot dropped a ton: http://i.imgur.com/P5aQ53K.png
mircea_popescu: perhaps connectivity issues to blockcharts
jurov: it's perhaps more timid now :)
jurov: trying furiously to increase stickyness
taub: he doesnt know how the currency works at all
taub: Max Keiser gone full clown mode when sugggesting to peg bitcoin to dollar
troc: aren't sessions are too late to benefit of blockchain spam. SD proportion of transactions is going down. perhaps sessions to increase site stickyness
jurov: ? no i was talking about s.dice thread
mircea_popescu: everyone already knows to watch it
mircea_popescu: jurov i srsly don'ty understand why that forum thread isn't good.
jcpham: mostly that though
mircea_popescu: i think they're planning to have sessions next.
jcpham: amirite cuz SD could you know register accounts and run a db and NOT USE the blockchain
jcpham: asking you to run one so he can send messages
mircea_popescu: i should compete with twitter and facebook, since this is what you do on the internet.
mircea_popescu: yeah yeah. everyone wants mpex to be an information platform
mircea_popescu: you'll have to be dilligent :D
jurov: please also mention the vwap used. i always forget to check it at the opex time :/
SlipperySlope: mircea_popescu, will you please mention something here when the April MPOE statement is posted on Trilema?
mircea_popescu: the entire thing has a lot of promise baked in
ThickAsThieves: like how some of the shares were unsold?
mircea_popescu: i'm sorta preparing a bucket of lulz for the first contractual dispute which won't be resolvable for lack of an actual contract.
ThickAsThieves: at 1.3, isn't it gonna take like a year or something to get that much in divs?
ThickAsThieves: i wonder how much a truly pro btc co would fetch
ThickAsThieves: when asicminer said they would put 12-15TH online some month(s) ago, the price rose from .6 to .9, now that they are actually doing it, it goes from .9 to 1.3
mircea_popescu: GBBG is MUCH MORE then the fund. The fund was started exclusively for members to give them something extra before the core GBBG product is released. The core product has been in development for more than 10 years.
kakobrekla: take that as a no.
benkay: GirlfawkesyBTC do you plan to trade actively?
GirlfawkesyBTC: I'm guessing thats something not many people do?
gribble: There are currently 69365.632 bitcoins offered at or under 200.0 USD, worth 11722826.2462 USD in total. | Data vintage: 77.9878 seconds
gribble: There are currently 168990.8 bitcoins demanded at or over 50.0 USD, worth 14632147.5237 USD in total. | Data vintage: 70.0259 seconds
jurov: "Before I throw myself into ... I'd like to feel rather competent." <<< I'm gonna to use this, thx
GirlfawkesyBTC: As a side note, thank you to everyone who has been politely educating me today. I've been away from btc for awhile, and before I throw myself into coinbr or other trading I'd like to feel rather competent.
jurov: i should kick myself every time i'm thinking of such dangerous jokes
jurov: plus i don't have anything to declare recently anyway
jurov: it's normal to be a bit late with tax declaration, no criminal stuff
GirlfawkesyBTC: sigh...when am I going to get all my hookers?
jurov: i'm gonna have llc with external accounting, looking forward to it
GirlfawkesyBTC: bullshit compound tax
mod6: oh value added ta
GirlfawkesyBTC: value added tax
mircea_popescu: drama added taxc
jurov: so, you can expect coinbr to get seized by slovak tax office over vat not due in time :/
mod6: (14:44) < jurov> mod6 thx had exactly that in mind...throwing it to -otc << haha nice.
jurov: also vat report was due yesterday, fck that...
jurov: should have thought about that mpbpt panic yesterday...i'm so slow recently
jurov: mod6 thx had exactly that in mind...throwing it to -otc
mod6: (14:32) < jurov> like "what if 137 is the new 5?" << http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3u499x/
jurov: dunno, should i try to place 0.07 bid for mpbpt and cause panic?
kakobrekla: trading allover the place
gribble: (ticker [--bid|--ask|--last|--high|--low|--avg|--vol] [--currency XXX]) -- Return pretty-printed mtgox ticker. If one of the result options is given, returns only that numeric result (useful for nesting in calculations). If '--currency XXX' option is given, returns ticker for that three-letter currency code. It is up to you to make sure that the three letter code you enter is a valid (1 more message)
GirlfawkesyBTC: Spain isnt looking well these days
kakobrekla: who is next on the list, somalia?
GirlfawkesyBTC: until the next major country to undergo economic collapse...
jurov: like "what if 137 is the new 5?"
ThickAsThieves: mp, will options be a lil less timid to volatility next session?
gribble: BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 136.30001, Best ask: 136.60000, Bid-ask spread: 0.29999, Last trade: 136.60000, 24 hour volume: 168982.74808586, 24 hour low: 121.45164, 24 hour high: 149.87970, 24 hour vwap: 134.31450
mod6: people are so clueless about finance though, that you'd think that he'd try to stay more serious about the subject.
mod6: (14:01) < jurov> hes just trolling << i guess this could be true.
ThickAsThieves: i tell my rackspace cloud manager to fix permissions on one folder and i get a wall of text about FACLs :(
ThickAsThieves: [17:16] Use black vaginas and not asian vaginas <--- no one likes colored coins tho
GirlfawkesyBTC: And MP, you were right, I forgot how much better a proper irc client is than the stupid webchat.
jurov: mp already presciently did the calculations on trilema
jurov: stfu ThickAsThieves with your imperial units
ThickAsThieves: maybe we can peg it to untapped vagina inches?
mod6: I like the idea of only supply/demand governing the price, btc needs natural price signals.
ThickAsThieves: but elec cost is variable too
jurov: mod6 satoshi's already practically pegged to some miliwatt or microwatt anyway
Girlfawkesy: Actually, I was thinking about making a pegging set, but I dunno how thrilling that would be for you boys
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mod6: ThickAsThieves: ok thank you. I was feeling pretty stupified for a few minutes there.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla he hasn't figured out the fork yet.
kakobrekla: im wondering why is there no MaxCoin yet
ThickAsThieves: the peg idea is so moronic I bet we couldnt have come up with it if we were trying to be morons
jurov: did she qualify in topless?
mod6: I mean, if anything, why not just peg like 1 satoshi to a certain unit of gold? Then it would have a sudo-peg via gold, correct?
mod6: anyway, just had to come in here and vent a bit about this stuff.
Girlfawkesy: lol @ thick