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fluffypony: kakobrekla: BTC can be used purely as the medium of exchange, pegged to the local exchange rate, if the lenders aren'
t long on Bitcoin
fluffypony: also people in developing countries don'
t have an eBay or PayPal account
danielpbarron: i liked the old one, but it wasn'
t the most aesthetically pleasing design
danielpbarron: if Bitcoin gets to the point where I can'
t spend it unless I have a mark on my hand or forehead, that's when I divest from Bitcoin and start street preaching
cgcardona: thestringpuller: yes and no - there are online documentation of 'secret societies' which meet up yearly in the same place. but yea they aren'
t really secret. Real secret societies probably do meet up in different places each time
cgcardona: moiety: I'm also suggesting that price doesn'
t matter to this group of people
cgcardona: and you think the owner of the SuperUser underground lair wouldn'
t (this is all hypothetical)
moiety: but thing is, if people go to the effort of getting plane tickets etc, they tend to have passports and stuff? you don'
t really squat a plane ticket/meet up
Micon: For me personally, coming from the poker world, being insanely google-able and IRL verfiable, and especially because I spend every June at Rio since 2006, being on bitcointalk and doing btc trades here in Vegas since 2011... most ppl don'
t have any issue if they need to trust me.
danielpbarron: Micon: don'
t pay attention to "total rating scores," that's where the scammers show up
benkay: * danielpbarron isn'
t interested in acts of violence << i love a good bit of the old ultra-violence
danielpbarron: Micon: sorry I haven'
t called in to your show in a while, i've been so busy lately I space out on the time
Micon: so like, this isn'
t FED heaven?
cgcardona: yea it wasn'
t too painful but it could suck if you had a huge WoT score.
cgcardona: ok i've removed all my previous wot ratings from the cgcardona_ account and rerated w/ my new nick. If i had previously rated you and you don'
t see it now w/ the new nick let me know and I'll fix that. thanks
danielpbarron: high profile doesn'
t necessarily mean important; it usually means the opposite
danielpbarron: there are a lot of high profile Bitcoin users in other channels who don'
t auth with gribble; it's just not important to them
cgcardona: just to check I just ran `info name_of_op` in another room I hang out in and he didn'
t have it turned on either
cgcardona: yea most people def aren'
t in the wot and don'
t care
danielpbarron: meaning that most users aren'
t using nickserv for the WoT and don'
t care if someone else is on their nick when they are gone
cgcardona: meaning what? That people will squat on nicks or that people wouldn'
t be able to handle putting in their pass each time?
cgcardona: why oh why doesn'
t nickserv turn ENFORCE on by default?
BigBitz: didn'
t tell me anything I didn'
t know or couldn'
t work out.
BigBitz: Ah yeah US can'
t play Pokerstars fiat.
cgcardona: ;;rate mircea_popescu 1 didn'
t become the richest person you know by accident. cookie eating bitlord
danielpbarron: BigBitz: that just means the casual players can'
t collude (so what?)
danielpbarron: (where players actually BUY play chips from pokerstars, knowing they won'
t be able to cash out their winnings)
moiety: <mircea_popescu> wasn'
t it stiffler's mum ? << i are not stiffler!
BigBitz: but don'
t most limit connections per IP etc.
danielpbarron: BigBitz: there is no way to prove that players aren'
t colluding
danielpbarron: I like Micon, but i've recently come to understand why online poker is essentially a scam, even if the operators aren'
t directly stealing
BigBitz: then he wouldn'
t give me information on KingOfSports when he scammed me..... so meh.
danielpbarron: is it really you? gribble says you aren'
t authed :p
danielpbarron: cgcardona: i think that's possible, or I don'
t see why not
danielpbarron: 11:01:27 <+cgcardona> thankfully my WoT score is pretty low. << don'
t hear that often
ThickAsThieves: mircea_popescu when you mention "art" for S.MG shall be open market, does that mean: 1. It will start that way? 2. It will/won'
t not have a style guide as boundary? 3. Audio will be sourced likewise? (style guide? music? sfx? voice?)
danielpbarron: i don'
t think it's nearly as easy to get that changed
cgcardona_: yes, this is why super users don'
t lose passwords (le sigh)
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: There's been a strong push in low-cost banking services here; there's a legal requirement for every bank to offer a low-cost banking product that doesn'
t exceed dictated maximum costs, so for remittance within the country (for miners sending money to their families, for eg) they just use that
Maciano: before as PhD, but that wasn'
t for me
Maciano: Working for telecoms (
T-Mobile, KPN), say 5 yrs
fluffypony: Nah, Vodacom (cellular service provider) and Nedbank (bank) spent millions in trying to bring M-pesa to South Africa; after a few years they don'
t have a substantial market and Nedbank has pulled out of the deal. Not a good market indicator.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: I don'
t have the knowledge or connections to do set that up in the Northern African countries
mircea_popescu: moiety: if anyone joins called gaylesmum DO NOT VOICE <<< wasn'
t it stiffler's mum ?
mircea_popescu: and so in this perspective, people starting and people funding kickstarter campaigns aren'
t into it for the direct reason, but for the meta reason : to have been in it.
assbot: Shit. You ain'
t even old enough to smoke.
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: Didn'
t one of your presidents suppose something to that effect?
cazalla: don'
t they fuck them for an aids cure or something?
ThickAsThieves: "There are ~230 little girls in Nigeria getting sold for around $12 each. I have one bitcoin. I don'
t know how to do hostage escrow and I don'
t know anyone in Nigeria, scams notwithstanding. It wouldn'
t be enough for all of them even if I could try to buy them back."
moiety: kidding she wouldn'
t know how
benkay: ;;later tell mircea_popescu you don'
t have an mpex sandbox environment kicking around, do you?
moiety: don'
t keep me in suspenders!
moiety: there is only one thing i wish for assbot. it doesn'
t have manuls to counteract a potential war from gribble's kittens
mike_c: that wasn'
t the right emoticon
mike_c: moiety: +1 can'
t stand it.
moiety: also i like how we don'
t have to re-up! when assbot takes a break kakobrekla :D
moiety: though a hot toddie wouldn'
t go a miss if you have a cold
moiety: BB btw paracetamol doesn'
t have a % ;P
mircea_popescu: so... he doesn'
t understand what i'm getting at. because FINLAND was also omitted.
bounce: heh, tritium glow fobs. apparently they're made somewhere near here but you can'
t buy'em. can buy'em in the uk but only if you live there due to transport regulations and shit
bounce: well, if there isn'
t a port then this is as good a point as any to cook one up
bounce: doesn'
t openbsd have a port for bitcoind, by the by?
fluffypony: openbsd doesn'
t come with wget preloaded
bounce: I'd not've made that out hadn'
t you told
bounce: you can get whatwasit 100 hours out of a single aa... but it won'
t be much light.
MarieLynn: Usually when I participate in these things I wind up wioth an annoying stalker so I haven'
t been in IRC for over a decade.
MarieLynn: I still haven'
t asked the museum archivist to tak out the note he wrote in the guestbook. Barrie!
mircea_popescu: don'
t go telling me about how a 200 meter long pike is nothing.
mircea_popescu: MarieLynn arbitrage is the buying and selling of the same one asset (either natural or synthetic) in different markets that are divergent. so in order to arbitrage skills, you'd have to first buy them. skills aren'
t commodities however, and so this "arbitrage your skills" is just hipster talk.
mircea_popescu: for all your poetry and wit couldn'
t buy you half a hash.
mircea_popescu: maybe the bunion accountant has no business in physics, nuclear or otherwise, and the thing ain'
t an university in any sense.
mircea_popescu: so trendon shavers managed to funel ~70k through his paypal account. to which paypal gave no trouble at all. why aren'
t they co-defendants in his case ?
Namworld: What? That's retarded. We'd end up with 2000 BTC to the dollar and a shitload of BTC. Plus that wouldn'
t change anything at all, actually.
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> and ignored << just because some inconsequential idiots a la bitpay & the forum are herping away dun mean anything's been ignored. you can'
t ignore the judge, or the bullet.
bounce: that oauth hole isn'
t really fixable, is it?
mircea_popescu: and i can'
t catch up because you're all into explody talkmode