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BCB: Life doesn'
t get much worse then that
BingoBoingo: BCB: I've seen you around forever now, but I don'
t think we've had occasion to interact.
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre well, the life of a late bettor is hard. if you get in, you get in. however, if you don'
t you don'
t, and it's the mod that makes the call.
TestingUnoDosTre: There's no reason the price couldn'
t have swung in the opposite direction
peterl: as long as the charity gave you a receipt, I don'
t see why there would be any hassle?
mircea_popescu: people with actual tax accountants who get actual advice (ie, the people in a position to make meaningful donations) don'
t do stupid shit because that;'s what happened to be in front of their eyes that hour.
peterl: well, according to IRS rules, couldn'
t you claim a bitcoin donation as charitable donation for tax purposes?
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: lol that doesn'
t leave a lot, does it
benkay: i don'
t really get the mining arguments. but yes, containerization.
bitcoinpete: benkay: eli doesn'
t get the scarcity angle. few casual observers do, particularly amid the mt gox this and that noise
Azelphur: that was pretty funny "This bet is serious business, if you place the bet and loose then don'
t pay, you will be marked as a scammer and banned"
TestingUnoDosTre: In the article it said EFF didn'
t want to get near the case until appeal was possible. I had higher expectations
bounce: IIRC he'd sucked up a bunch of apple device IDs from at&
t's leaky activation site
pankkake: github is for people who don'
t know how to use git anyway :p
phf: (it doesn'
t affect history either)
phf: github doesn'
t even bother to inform you that there's a signature on the tag, but signed tags seem like a good place to put contracts
pankkake: where we're going, we don'
t need laws
pankkake: I don'
t understand what he really means
benkay: what are their lines of recourse and why aren'
t they using them?
benkay: well head of NBP doesn'
t have much say in euro monetary supply does he?
wywialm: why don'
t they flood EU with cash, when they have mandate to do it?
bitcoinpete: benkay: yup. and i meant to say that bitcoin prevents this, if i wasn'
t clear
benkay: isn'
t monetary diddling used solely to socialize losses?
bitcoinpete: wywialm: from personal experience, when the price is going parabolic, there's little incentive to spend bitcoin when the good or service will be cheaper tomorrow and the need isn'
t dire
wywialm: sure, but i didn'
t want to enter this branch of discussion
wywialm: i happen to agree with you, especially considering bitcoin deflation argument, but if so, wouldn'
t e.g. printed-money-spending benefit economy as well in some cases?
Apocalyptic: SHA-256 will resist so long? // even if a full 1 block colision is found, it won'
t affect mining
pankkake: bitcoin could work with md4. the goal is to brute force it, so it doesn'
t matter how broken it is
TestingUnoDosTre: And its not like bitcoin owners won'
t be able to transfer value to said systems
bitcoinpete: jurov: good point, hadn'
t thought of that. oh the wonders of software
wywialm: well, bitcoin is medium of exchange, you can play with definitions as you wish, but it won'
t help with understanding anything
bitcoinpete: numerisTrade: i imagine that a currency whose supply is decreasing over time wouldn'
t make for a very good currency. an example of this would be the picassos in the world today. over time, they're lost to fires, floods, irreparable damage, etc. as such, no one defines picassos as currency just as no one sane defines bitcoin as money
bitcoinpete: we can'
t say that increasing x is desirable because it correlates to increased y without considering the social and political impacts
bitcoinpete: wywialm: monetary effects don'
t exist in isolation. nothing does. and least of all in economics
fluffypony: BingoBoingo: "hacked" by some obscure definition of hacked we weren'
t previously privy to
gribble: Error: User doesn'
t exist in the Rating or GPG databases. User must be GPG-registered to receive ratings.
mjr_: but I don'
t actually ask for stuff...so I guess its ok
gribble: Error: User doesn'
t exist in the Rating or GPG databases. User must be GPG-registered to receive ratings.
mjr_: lol, don'
t worry still have trouble
TomServo: I don'
t believe he paid at all
TomServo: He didn'
t pay, if I recall correctly
nubbins`: too complicated, can'
t we just share all this stuff on the network drive?
mircea_popescu: pankkake earlier this small island in the channel said it won'
t impose regulations
pankkake: didn'
t even know BullionRock existed
fluffypony: jurov: yes, but I didn'
t have Trilema in my feeds a year ago
fluffypony: BingoBoingo: my nick / name wasn'
t mentioned on the post, except in the screenshot of the thread, so discovery would've been tricky
fluffypony: although I didn'
t know of its existence till it was pointed out
BingoBoingo: But on the matter of +m being a thing, isn'
t the person with L1 trust offering a chance at L2 trust taking a substantial risk
fluffypony: which means the educated user won'
t trust way beyond that
numerisTrade: ok, I'll prepare something. If you aren'
t on the channel then, I'll leave you a message, I'll be on the channel up till 21:00 GMT, or we'll meet tomorrow same time as today
numerisTrade: well, I don'
t trust them with a lot of money, but everything seemed ok
bloctoc: for the record I don'
t know what secular means in this context.
Apocalyptic: I haven'
t said this, but I think the new policy is a good idea, ty mircea
the20year1: spent like 30m today trying to figure out how to authenticate via gpg and couldn'
t do it
bloctoc: I don'
t know what that means
mircea_popescu: davout didn'
t wanna let me sell x.eur short, i could have been rich.
joecool: sry couldn'
t find another source
joecool: accountant pocketed his tax payments, didn'
t file for 7 years, then kicked the bucket, no idea about the truth of it all
joecool: mike_c: for the amounts paid, but can'
t be held negligent if accountant fucks up
BingoBoingo: dub: Well they probably didn'
t have to deploy "their" gunships, just their pilots
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: To be fair this wasn'
t a Flag officer, but Flag enlisted
mircea_popescu: "Well the answer is the IRS is extremely strict about property taxes and nobody in the United States is going to want to use Bitcoin after a 20% tax on it. That combined with Bitcoin rumors about China banning it means we won'
t see $525." << anon expert, april 15th around noon.
Apocalyptic: isn'
t it run by thermos or something anyway ?
pankkake: this is why I don'
t take anyone seriously when they say that word
pankkake: I wasn'
t expecting much when I saw patents, but…
ThickAsThieves: it's more likely than if they weren'
t hashing at all, right?
pankkake: is it actually worth it to record what was tested? wouldn'
t pools share it if it was?
nubbins`: i didn'
t quite get the gist of the mascot
gribble: Error: User doesn'
t exist in the Rating or GPG databases. User must be GPG-registered to receive ratings.
benkay: people round here don'
t appreciate quality trolling
mike_c: because clearly the price *shouldn'
t* have dropped below 400.
mircea_popescu: lmao this "unprofessional" business has pretty much replaced "asshole" in us office drones parlance hasn'
t it