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tiberiusiv: does the confirmation time decrease with more hasing power?
mircea_popescu: tiberiusiv seems to me within normal noise
benkay: constant value of transactions with decreased value of fiat currencies?
benkay: local talent is better than no talent, and silicon valley has plenty of chip facilities and fabless foundries.
tiberiusiv: anyone notice the daily transactions have fallen from 75k to 45k
benkay: plus local talent
benkay: but more likely to raise the funds for an asic round
mircea_popescu: and then i could find a foxy chick to train for this mission of infiltrating amd top brass
mircea_popescu: if someone could talk them into sinking the moneyz into it.
mircea_popescu: i think amd could actually do it
dub: as a core developer, i look upon all Avalons as my son. i will send them to who believe us, not the faithless or buzzard.
benkay: gotta find some forward thinking intel folks
benkay: i live in the forest
mircea_popescu: and in a sense it's good that a bunch of no starter corps did it first
benkay: still hold that the furor over their delivery to market is idiots.
benkay: i'll give on that
mircea_popescu: w/o them we're playdough.
mircea_popescu: benkay no, actually, asics are a crucial step in securing the network.
mircea_popescu: ya i guess that's right
[\\\]: mircea_popescu: at this point, its more than 200 bux
mircea_popescu: even money too
mircea_popescu: a cool 200 bux riding on that atm
mircea_popescu: [\\\] i suppose you've seen the http://bitbet.us/bet/314/bitcointalk-org-treasurer-to-be-scammer-tagged/
[\\\]: and 2 of 3 is too complicated
Bowjob: oh, and nice use of stockholm by the way, irrc I was the first one who used it against BFL. I'm honored
mircea_popescu: [\\\] why'd the forum fget donations tho ? so theymos can come up with weird financial schemes ?
[\\\]: another rocket scientist here to school the rest of us
benkay: this absurd focus on overpowered mining rigs is evident of an unhealthy focus on short term gains over long term tools to expand the bitcoin economy.
benkay: it's also hellza tricky to manufacture your own chips. not that i know from experience, never having sunk shitloads of money into a litho run and subsequent processing (knowing how much things cost in the first place).
[\\\]: benkay: you realize people said the same about gpu?
benkay: they cost a lot of money, and deliver a lot of hashing power to the purchasing entities.
[\\\]: notice how the forum hasn't gotten any donations since January?
benkay: asics are arguably bad for the ecosystem,
[\\\]: benkay, then use punctuation.
benkay: slashes, let me finish before you jump down my throat
benkay: silicon ain't trivial
dub: if I was butthurt t'would not be due to you repasting the rampant threadshitting of the other clowns
benkay: so emotionally attached to their mining rigs
kakobrekla: bfl decided to refund customers in btc, you know 2 per and mine themselfs too
topace_: and bfl is "stuck on their test rig"
Bowjob: im flattered you care so much about it. thanks
dub: spew moar miconisms troll
benkay: put zhou tong on the case
mircea_popescu: dub so perhaps asicminer figures the same and your 3 isn't gonna be 3 for very long.
mircea_popescu: what's the worst that can happen ? they get a btctalk scammer tag and a chinese relic hunter is hired to track them down and "have a chat" ?
mircea_popescu: you know how scamming goes... today you dip a little
mircea_popescu: which they had been allegedly dfoing a little anyway (people reporting dusted units delivered)
mircea_popescu: but basically i think dub has it : they've decided not to ship but mine instead.
mircea_popescu: topace_ increased their unit price 5x
topace_: dub: lol oh.. thats not good :p
dub: topace_: admitted to not having shipped batch 1, not having capability to ship batch 2 and charging moonbeams for batch 3
kakobrekla: i have a feeling they found a meter free elec plug and now making exuse not to sell by increasing the price xD
Bowjob: avalon is gonna take a vacation
benkay: url markdown's broken in that post
mircea_popescu: whether that makes asicminer worth 3...
dub: from the top rope
mircea_popescu: dub that's a point.
dub: AM is the only dog in the race
benkay: at first, I read that as "I am getting crunk with my floor, guys"
ThickAsThieves: first they wanted to smoke, then drink, now they wanna rap over some beats
benkay: dunno if that counts as an 'asset' anymore.
gribble: BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 63.50000, Best ask: 63.70002, Bid-ask spread: 0.20002, Last trade: 63.70002, 24 hour volume: 92771.15913148, 24 hour low: 57.70200, 24 hour high: 66.00000, 24 hour vwap: 61.99830
[\\\]: it is having a hard time adding 0
[\\\]: I sold a ton of s.mpoe at .00020000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
[\\\]: you could have added like 200 of them
deadweasel: i hate those random attempts at root
[\\\]: smickles, decimals are magic.. you can add as many as you want after the decimal
smickles: mircea_popescu: i kept a lot too, (and i think i put an extra 0 in there)
mircea_popescu: it was totally overpriced so.
Bowjob: I need to beef my security up
deadweasel: well that was just good business sense, smickles...
ThickAsThieves: workin on my first thousand
smickles: i might've, but i actually use them
Bowjob: i thought everyone here owned 1000s and 1000s of btc
gribble: There are currently 5896.4315 bitcoins offered at or under 67.0 USD, worth 386684.371278 USD in total. | Data vintage: 0.0016 seconds
smickles: Bowjob: i dunno about you, but currently, it'd have to be about 1666666 usd/btc for me to begin considering that
smickles: http://i.imgur.com/WPhc7Lq.png << see to me, this totally justifies buying more at .0047
Bowjob: and we are indeed the new wealthy elite
Bowjob: its been there for a while\
pizzaman1337: that's been there for a while
smickles: lol, Dooglus has "I am pretty confident we are the new wealthy elite, gentlemen." in his sig now
[\\\]: hormones too
smickles: "All users of Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind versions 0.7.2 and earlier are required to upgrade to 0.8.1..." REQUIRED!
[\\\]: They took the preorders in July.. middle of March.. 8 months later
[\\\]: why you gotta be trolling man?
mircea_popescu: at the latest!
mircea_popescu: [\\\] so when do they ship ?
smickles: "Earn Bitcoin at the First Business Opportunity using Bitcoin as primary currency." lolwut?
Bowjob: im okay with this
gribble: BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 63.12999, Best ask: 63.13000, Bid-ask spread: 0.00001, Last trade: 63.13000, 24 hour volume: 91479.15178779, 24 hour low: 57.70200, 24 hour high: 66.00000, 24 hour vwap: 61.92404
mircea_popescu: what the fucking hell.
mircea_popescu: patent troll lol
pigeons: [\\\]: probably how avalon did it, and why they only had 3 working units after a whole run of components
[\\\]: after all, he can have boards printed in like less than 24 hours
[\\\]: pigeons: wouldn't throwing the chip on a board and seeing if it hashes be a good way to test it?
pigeons: which has nothing to do with a mining rig by the way
jurov: [\\\] expects to be bribed to not ask mp to increase fees
[\\\]: we need a test rig for the test rig damnit!
pigeons: oh shit our test rig broke
[\\\]: paging BFL hardware, table of 1