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TheNewDeal: I would love to see it go towards
$1500 this year, but I think next year is going to be a big one pricewise
kyuupichan: Still I don't think BTC goes to over
$2k this year now. I'd be happy with 1500
kyuupichan: Lloyd Blankfein turns believer and publicly puts
$100m in BTC.
[]bot: Bet placed: 59.99631592 BTC for No on "1BTC >=
$10,000 USD"
http://bitbet.us/bet/635/ Odds: 12(Y):88(N) by coin, 17(Y):83(N) by weight. Total bet: 612.76560806 BTC. Current weight: 37,560.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.7998 BTC for No on "Bitstamp Price to exceed 900
$ before August (day's low)"
http://bitbet.us/bet/814/ Odds: 17(Y):83(N) by coin, 27(Y):73(N) by weight. Total bet: 4.4097083 BTC. Current weight: 19,659.
decimation: if only they would have seen the value they would have also purchased whatsapp for
$20bn
decimation: the DoD was very clever in its spending of
$0.6 billion for crapware
decimation: "The Defense Department has leveraged the buying power of more than two million information technology users to award a three-year,
$617 million joint enterprise license agreement for Microsoft products, defense officials announced."
decimation: well sure, but they have
$100 to spend on pashtoon ak or enfield :)
decimation: you can probably buy a "spectrum analyzer" for
$1k new
decimation: they are famous for making
$20k test equipment that runs windows xp
ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> wow. /// simple GS strat, spend
$120k on a Tesla, short TSLA, crash it. Works every time!
mircea_popescu: "To give you some idea, at PorcFest last year our booth took in about 3 Bitcoin all week. At the time Bitcoin was about
$100. This year I took in 3 Bitcoin the first day, when Bitcoin was about
$600. By the end of the week we had earned over 8 Bitcoin for our various commercial and non-profit partners, which is a windfall I could hardly believe."
assbot: Bitcoin Startup Xapo Valued North of
$100 Million - Digits - WSJ
mircea_popescu: Coinbase has managed to secure
$25m in series B funding led by Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. This brings the total amount raised by the company to
$31.9m.
mircea_popescu: "For what it's worth, the median annual wage in Ohio is
$46,093."
assbot: Wannabe Startup CEOs Hate This Guy: One Easy Way To Raise
$45,000+ You Won't Believe The Register
assbot: French Officials Seize
$272,800 From Illegal Bitcoin Exchange
bitcoinpete: hey, if you can spend
$75k on a nanny, why not a daycare
bitcoinpete: "Preschool admissions coaching: up to
$35,000"
mircea_popescu: "In February, he saw a fundraiser called Cancer for College would get Will Ferrell to shout out anybody who donated
$1,500. Green said he didn't realize he was typing in British pounds, rather than dollars, and so he accidentally gave
$2,466 of his own money. To date, just over 2,500 people have viewed the nine-second video of Ferrell somberly thanking r/dogecoin."
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> there are fiverr people who specialize in shit like this. you could easily pay
$5 for 5k retweets. << this being obviously the only way ver gets 16k rts.
mike_c: there are fiverr people who specialize in shit like this. you could easily pay
$5 for 5k retweets.
ThickAsThieves: Roger Ver finds some way to not truly pay the
$165k to Ross' defense
bitcoinpete: priceless! roger ver is
$160k in the hole and counting… for dpr's legal fees
nubbins`: plastic comb, regular
$189, on sale for
$59
cazalla: single parent pension in australia -
$713.20
ThickAsThieves: lol Ver offered
$10 to the Ross Ulbricht defense for every retweet, 16,500 later he says "More retweets welcome, but the donation limit has been reached."
mircea_popescu: "The loss to a U.S. seed corn manufacturer of a patented seed line is a minimum of
$30 million to
$40 million and from five to eight years of research time, Klinefeldt said."
decimation: wrt to the HMMWV: you were able to buy the whole truck for
$700? Or just the radio?
teward: mircea_popescu, sure... if you want to pay thousands a month for a 1gig symmetric pipe, or
$850 a month for a 100meg symmetric pipe
mircea_popescu: well then my multibattery thing is better, i spent about
$300 on one set of six batteries but they pass 100k mah together.
fluffypony: I think I paid like
$700 or so including shipping?
BigBitz: mircea_popescu asking people for
$30K might be a bad thing :P
thestringpuller: Dekker3D: that's cause you aren't chinese and have access to workers who will fab chips for <
$2 / hr
[]bot: Bet placed: 3.42744945 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to drop under
$350 before September"
http://bitbet.us/bet/974/ Odds: 9(Y):91(N) by coin, 9(Y):91(N) by weight. Total bet: 13.72917878 BTC. Current weight: 88,753.
mircea_popescu: punkman: "I've tried to comfort myself with examples of Bitcoin's drops from
$30 to
$1 before but this doesn't mean it's going to happen again especially because of Doge's very different properties" << ahahah.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.9 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to drop under
$350 before September"
http://bitbet.us/bet/974/ Odds: 12(Y):88(N) by coin, 12(Y):88(N) by weight. Total bet: 10.30172933 BTC. Current weight: 89,244.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin volatility to exceed
$300 USD in July"
http://bitbet.us/bet/982/ Odds: 73(Y):27(N) by coin, 70(Y):30(N) by weight. Total bet: 1.62691947 BTC. Current weight: 81,457.
punkman: "I've tried to comfort myself with examples of Bitcoin's drops from
$30 to
$1 before but this doesn't mean it's going to happen again especially because of Doge's very different properties"
dub: because as an OG startup entreprenure, he doesnt have
$30k or a credit card
ninjashogun: Oh, no the bid is on
$30K, what multpile covers your risk (and a timeframe). I can tell you more about both comapnies of course - and feel free to PM.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.11111111 BTC for No on "Iron Ore 62% Fe, CFR China (TSI) Jan 2015 over
$200 at any point in 2014"
http://bitbet.us/bet/775/ Odds: 30(Y):70(N) by coin, 34(Y):66(N) by weight. Total bet: 6.82548116 BTC. Current weight: 57,430.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.11111111 BTC for No on "Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) Jan 2015 over
$200 at any point in 2014"
http://bitbet.us/bet/776/ Odds: 32(Y):68(N) by coin, 37(Y):63(N) by weight. Total bet: 15.59652523 BTC. Current weight: 57,431.
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.23713184 BTC for No on "LTC to
$15USD or above before August 3rd"
http://bitbet.us/bet/855/ Odds: 12(Y):88(N) by coin, 22(Y):78(N) by weight. Total bet: 2.18913185 BTC. Current weight: 33,335.
mircea_popescu: After returning to Washington, the chief investigator wrote a scathing report to State Department officials documenting misconduct by Blackwater employees and warning that lax oversight of the company, which had a contract worth more than
$1 billion to protect American diplomats, had created “an environment full of liability and negligence.”
assbot: goxdox.org: MagicalTux strikes again: Tibanne takes another
$200K USD from mtgox creditor funds
mircea_popescu: e she didn't like the way they looked at her in her skin-tight leather miniskirt, or because she wanted their job for one of her friends, or they blanched at her idea to spend
$80,000 to replace all the florescent lighting in the building because it makes her "look pale". Hell, why not?"
mircea_popescu: "Journalism is a public good, essential to the health of democracy and the growth of society." "I was awarded a partial scholarship but still incurred over
$30,000 in debt that will likely follow me far into the future."
BingoBoingo: Of course, person willing to pay
$10k/hr makes their own holes
assbot: Conference App Bloodhound’s Genius Growth Strategy Attracts
$3M Series A Led By Thiel’s FF Angel | TechCrunch
mike_c: i think i'm paying
$3.50, unfortunately out of my own pocket and not some VC
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin volatility August over
$200 :: 0.19 B (78%) on Yes, 0.06 B (22%) on No | closing in 1 month 2 weeks | weight: 98`203 (100`000 to 1)
BingoBoingo: "they ultimately signed a five-year lease for
$31,667 a month in rent (plus
$564 in fees)—more than six times the amount the arts collective had been previously paying." When you get taken that badly by a LANDLORD in a negotiation, maybe business isn't the right line of work for you. Disgraceful.
mircea_popescu: Bloodhound had everything going for it. TechCrunch once hailed the tradeshow app as "genius" and Peter Thiel lead a
$3 million investment round in the "blowing up" company.
mike_c: i don't think he spent his last
$ on the coins.
Bugpowder: If anyone wants to put
$50-250k+ into a real near field microscopy startup at the angel stage, let me know.
ninjashogun: so I can take bids up to any amount and will consider them, on the
$30K.
jurov: lol how many veecees you connected for 30k
$ ???
ninjashogun: the funding is
$30K within the week, it can be to hard trusted escrower (who does cost control). It's being spent on two startups, one of which has a client but is not yet incorporated, the other has discussed very high valuaitons with (real-world) VC's.
ThickAsThieves: Mike has agreed to release the platform as open source before the end of August. He will be awarded
$40,000 on completion. After the platform is live, I will put an additional
$50,000 towards the first core dev crowdfunding project that gets made on it. This should help them become independent the moment it gets released, and hopefully will start streamlining Bitcoin core development
assbot:
$100,000 bounty winner announcement! : Bitcoin
ThickAsThieves: lol Hearn wins
$100k bounty from reddit for software to replace BTCFundnation
ThickAsThieves: all it takes is GS to sum em up and issue a BUY rating at
$100
fluffypony: well with
$7 billion in assets I suppose they have the money to throw at 30k BTC
punkman: hmm, yahoo only paid
$1 billion for their Alibaba share in 2005
BingoBoingo: Maybe eventually I redeem the LTC at 44 satoshis per agains
$10k BTC
punkman: "potential
$221 billion valuation for Alibaba post-IPO." > so around
$45 billion
punkman: "On September 18, 2012, following years of negotiations, Yahoo agreed to sell a 20% stake back to Alibaba for
$7.6 billion."
punkman: BingoBoingo: I wonder how many people still pay
$299 to be listed in the Yahoo Directory
BingoBoingo: "According to the balance sheets of one company, Mofco Group,
$1.2 million had been spent on “site construction” and
$3.3 million on “other development costs,” and yet the site in Bushnell lay essentially empty. More important, there was only
$65,541 cash on hand; most of the
$15 million-plus that Moffitt had raised was gone. "
bitstein: Well, I got in when it started, so
$7,99. I listen to a lot of music, and I use it on my phone. It's much easier than having to torrent everything.
BingoBoingo: <mp_a_colonia> BingoBoingo: Honestly given enough pawn shop visits the most impressive pieces can be foun for ~
$100-200 (Movados without the retarded Museum dial and others) << you know this could be a great business for you ? << I've considered such things.
mp_a_colonia: BingoBoingo: Honestly given enough pawn shop visits the most impressive pieces can be foun for ~
$100-200 (Movados without the retarded Museum dial and others) << you know this could be a great business for you ?