asciilifeform: ... a genuine pharma co. basing itself in nigeria, say.

asciilifeform: 'All of the gory details come from court documents related to a fight with former partner Geeksphone, which has filed a legal complaint in New York state court over a disputed $5 million payment. Geeksphone, the Spanish company that helped build the original Blackphone, says it’s owed the money from the $30 million sale of shares in the pair’s Blackphone SA joint venture...'

asciilifeform: when's the last time there was an intellectually significant b00k on a bestseller list? in whatever country

asciilifeform: (not that these folks, with attention span of a gold fish, and to whom ~1900~ vintage english is foreign language, even like conan doyle)

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-07#1498509 << what did mircea_popescu expect to see in a bestseller list? euclid? ☝︎

asciilifeform: a few min's downtime since december

asciilifeform: btw mircea_popescu that's a misnamed tar.gz

asciilifeform: (in capacity as a man? possibly. as orcish traitor? leather strictly.)

asciilifeform: no orc ever 'rides' in the 'friendly' west except as a leather seat.

asciilifeform: last i recall, they fitted 'general electric' fuel rods to the 1 remaining sov reactor, it is a pop waiting to happen ☟︎

asciilifeform: in urban usa, their attrition rate is a wonder to behold

asciilifeform: so 1 at a time.

asciilifeform: 'Law enforcement officers, pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade teachers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians can contribute to community revitalization while becoming homeowners through HUD's Good Neighbor Next Door Sales Program. HUD offers a substantial incentive in the form of a discount of 50% from the list price of the home. In return you must commit to live in the property for 36 months as your sole residence.'

asciilifeform: 'The suspicious death of a pet snake puts a chokehold on a loving father.'

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it's a perfectly respectable job!1111

asciilifeform: apparently ben_vulpes's woman is a movie star!111

asciilifeform: would lead a nubbins to prefer one 'gold' brick to other.

asciilifeform: and even existed for a spell, and was then abolished

asciilifeform: anyway 'mathml' was supposed to have been a thing.

asciilifeform: 'physical btc' is fundamentally, physically, a bad idea, like trying to build an airplane that runs on hay and oats.

asciilifeform: it is a thing with 0 up-side, like putting arm into bear trap

asciilifeform: and that a substantial fraction, perhaps ALL, of minters, kept backups.

asciilifeform: i posit that 'physical bitcoin' is a ~single shot~ prisoner's dilemma.

asciilifeform: iterated pd has a nash equilibrium, 'tit for tat'

asciilifeform: y'know, that one, 'Embezzlement, Galbraith observed, has the property that “weeks, months, or years elapse between the commission of the crime and its discovery. This is the period, incidentally, when the embezzler has his gain and the man who has been embezzled feels no loss. There is a net increase in psychic wealth.” Galbraith described that increase in wealth as “the bezzle.”'

asciilifeform: the 'physical coin' is a fundamentally, definitionally bezzlatronic device

asciilifeform: for all you know, it could have been a burglar who broke in 10 years earlier, and read the key using the device i described here.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: this is a 'protocol vs promise' issue.

asciilifeform: i dun care if it is made of gold, shitanium, hitler's skull, etc.; my take on folks selling envelopes which may or may not contain a funded privkey, and may or may not contain the ONLY extant copy thereof, remains same. ☟︎

asciilifeform: linked item is a physical toy.