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ThickAsThieves: SR is also higher and higher risk to use
MJR_: the $5 million from bitpay is exciting to me somewhat
troc: the $5M (bitpay) is not all that exciting, walletbit what are they turning over ?
ThickAsThieves: at this point sellers should be able to realize that selling into bids is dumb, people will obv pay any price
bgupta: yeah I know, but last I heard "commerce" at least on the silk road side was like 12 million per month.. how much larger is other commerce..
MJR_: but bgupta, my point was that there are fundamentals to back this up...actual bitcoin transactions for goods is up quite a bit, and we are just getting big enough to attract real attention from big fish, this is what i think happens today and this week...
gribble: BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 185.50001, Best ask: 186.00000, Bid-ask spread: 0.49999, Last trade: 186.00000, 24 hour volume: 85340.97056825, 24 hour low: 147.01000, 24 hour high: 186.50000, 24 hour vwap: 163.95404
MJR_: you can introduce FUD and price manipulations, but the idea is solid...scared people go back to fiat and we get more btc
MJR_: genie is out of the bottle
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu i used AirBNB to throw a party
Namworld: Would just like to close a part of it before anything happens to my BTC investments. Better be safe than have to default if everything goes bust.
Namworld: Let's just say that the debt in USD value is already at 35k USD which I'd be quite hard pressed to be able to purchase that much in BTC. I have over half that in free BTC and much more in BTC assets however.
mircea_popescu: really business insider is the most ignorant piece of shit out there.
mircea_popescu: "Pachter thinks that could increase to 100 million nights "eventually"—at which point it could be generating $1 billion a year in revenues.
Namworld: but with BTC price increase, that 0.06 is still 10 USD daily.
mjr___: what a troll
Namworld: It went down from 0.09 BTC daily to 0.06 daily in interest, about 1/3rd already bought back
thestringpuller: oh that
Bowjob: Ah, i didnt win anything from the rape contest. shoulda paid more attention to photoshop class lol
ThickAsThieves: or is the first name the last?
ThickAsThieves: Just saw the author name on a Wordpress Plugin in one of my client's sites "Ciprian Popescu"
gribble: BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 163.83639, Best ask: 163.89000, Bid-ask spread: 0.05361, Last trade: 163.89000, 24 hour volume: 60953.30417683, 24 hour low: 142.70000, 24 hour high: 164.90000, 24 hour vwap: 154.33445
Bowjob: Oh wow. this picture won something
Namworld: where is the end to all this?
deadweasel: is that nambla from south park?
dub: its a popular place for the NANOG conf for above reasons
dub: surely Bruce Wagner has a network there, offer up somelittle boy butt
mjr___: its just close to the US, and I have some family there
dub: DR is a big kiddy sex tourism place, expect bitcoin to be popular
mjr___: specifically the dominican republic
mjr___: anyone know a good way to track bitcoin activity in kinda small areas
assbot: Shit. You ain't even old enough to smoke.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu so the BCB is the bitcoin illuminati
mircea_popescu: in the 90s they were shockingly insane for the european mind
dub: from my home space I get adds for international travel, hotels and insurance
benkay: "this one trick" etc?
dub: the ad bubble has a palpable craziness to it
dub: I find browsing the net from american IPs quite unsettling
thestringpuller: I'd rather gamble on the market
btcc100: make up to 17x your bet, its easy, game
deadweasel: pretty sure that has a virus
mircea_popescu: un-maffy ie didn't learn to multiply past 5
dub: I honestly cannot tell if he's a troll or not
dub: is that the forum/otc masturbator?
mircea_popescu: dub more like the typical unmaffy muff.
thestringpuller: is that like a joke?
dub: comes accross like your typical limey toff
dub: dunno https://twitter.com/EmmaHarriett too was looking for bitcoin references
dub: I say old chap. Down with this sort of thing!
jurov: and everything else is akin to mating anyway
gribble: MtGox lag is 0 seconds. During this time, light travels 0.0 AU. You could have sent a bitcoin ... nowhere, really (0 AU).
mircea_popescu: english just doesn't deliver under the telling off rubric.
mircea_popescu: i was just telling him off.
mjr___: it was starting to look interesting
thestringpuller: img macro to ensue
thestringpuller: okay mircea_popescu is officially the rubber band man
mjr___: i think they may need to lower the sending threshhold eventually
mjr___: its crazy to see all the tiny amounts of bitcoin i have left across the web
gribble: There are currently 6231.4017 bitcoins offered at or under 179.99 USD, worth 1061300.05165 USD in total. | Data vintage: 0.0015 seconds
jurov: lol i'm actually in the same timezone.. just confused by summertime
ThickAsThieves: So we're lookin at 175-180 tomorrow it seems
mircea_popescu: ya something like that.
jurov: so at least orders could be able to get placed now
jurov: On Sunday, April 7th at 11:00PM CET/Paris Time, full trading will resume with the ability to create and cancel buy and sell orders.
AndroUser: With orders close to mkt price cancelled
thestringpuller: did the coinlab deal with mtgox fall through?
AndroUser: Its open tomorrow
mircea_popescu: jurov not open for trading yet is it ?
mircea_popescu: they get dunked into the riever every time they say "I feel what the author really means"
thestringpuller: yes, you would use corporal punishment on individuals, they get 4 lashes everytime they tell you the integral of 2X is X^2 instead of X^2+C
mircea_popescu: if you only educate about half the kids, and beat the shit out of about half of those it works nicely.
mircea_popescu: i'm an opponent to free education, and also to nonviolent education.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: I feel as though you are an opponent to education because of the tendency for the young's reluctance to "listen"
AndroUser: Hence a strategy with calls, puts and holding in a combination that makes sense no matter what happens
MJR__: that's why I got the 164 calls in the first place...calls haven't let down so far
MJR__: both are true
AndroUser: Learn to do the opposite of what you feel ;
gribble: BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 164.10000, Best ask: 164.89994, Bid-ask spread: 0.79994, Last trade: 164.10000, 24 hour volume: 57855.56993253, 24 hour low: 142.51000, 24 hour high: 164.90000, 24 hour vwap: 153.31309
benkay: ugh there is a video about him
mircea_popescu: anything that makes sense
benkay: what sorts of things do you invest in, mircea_popescu?
benkay: mostly because i'm trying to develop expertise in the evaluating of people thing
benkay: i wish i could meet the guy
benkay: but the individuals they mock look very similar to them.
mircea_popescu: people who imagine they're being entrepreneurs and in general doods preocupied with posturing and maintaining apparences
benkay: evolve*. not that many *do* obviously, but it happens.
benkay: individuals can learn a lot by seeing things happen. humans experience the world and evolce.
mircea_popescu: ok, that i can buy.
benkay: worked in the presence of accidental success?
mircea_popescu: well, my expertise tells me this guy is lieing when he claims he had success.
benkay: but individuals beat the markets all the time by developing expertise
benkay: if one invested in the idiots
mircea_popescu: i am saying that the statistically expected benefit is degrees of magnitude under the statistically expected loss.
mircea_popescu: no, i'm not saying that statistically he's likel;y to fail
benkay: so you're saying that statistically he's likely to fail. also a thing anyone who puts money into companies should expect.
benkay: i don't really think he's looking at an investment-caliber round
mircea_popescu: the rermainder 14 will not be able to bring me 10001 btc in total.
mircea_popescu: 985 flounder, because they were in fact run by idiots, nigerians and uidiot nigerians.
mircea_popescu: here's the problem : suppose i'm an investment fund. i have 10k btc.
benkay: not the point